Doughnut economics : seven ways to think like a 21st-century economist /
By: Raworth, Kate [author.].
Publisher: London : Random House Business Books, 2017Description: viii, 372 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.Content type: text | text | still image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9781847941381; 9781847941381:; 9781847941374; 9781847941398; 1847941397; 1847941370; 1847941389.Subject(s): Economics | Economic forecastingDDC classification: 330Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 330 RAW (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 0082572 |
Includes bibliography (pages 333-350) and index.
Who wants to be an economist? -- Change the goal: from GDP to the doughnut -- See the big picture: from self-contained market to embedded economy -- Nurture human nature: from rational economic man to social adaptable humans -- Get savvy with systems: from mechanical equilibrium to dynamic complexity -- Design to distribute: from "growth will even it up again" to distributive by design -- Create to regenerate: from "growth will clean it up again" to regenerative by design -- Be agnostic about growth: from growth addicted to growth agnostic -- We are all economists now.
Economics is broken. Its theories have created a world where millions of people live in extreme poverty, even as the personal wealth of the super-rich grows year on year. With human activity causing unprecedented degradation of the planet, climate change now poses an existential threat to everyone on Earth. All the while, economists seem unable to explain the financial crises that periodically shake the foundations of our societies - let alone know what we can do to prevent them.Is there another way of running things?