Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist

<p><b>Discover the bestselling book that reveals how mainstream economics has led us astray - and what we can do to fix it, now with a new afterword.<br /><br />*The Sunday Times Bestseller*<br />*A Financial Times and Forbes Book of the Year*<br />*Longlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award*</b><br /><br />Relentless financial crises. Extreme inequalities in wealth. Remorseless pressure on the environment. Anyone can see that our economic system is broken.<br /><br />But can it be fixed?<br /><br />Oxford academic Kate Raworth has identified seven critical ways in which mainstream economics has led us astray - from selling us the myth of 'rational economic man' to obsessing over growth at all costs - and offers an alternative roadmap for bringing humanity into a sweet spot that meets the needs of all, within the means of the planet.<br /><br /><b>Ambitious, radical and provocative, Doughnut Economics offers a new cutting-edge economic model fit for the challenges of the 21st century.</b><br /><br /><br />Praise for <i>Doughnut Economics:</i><br /><br />'Raworth's <b>magnum opus </b>. . . <b>Fascinating.</b>' Books of the Year, <i>Forbes</i><br /><br />'At last - an <b>economic model that won't destroy the planet</b> . . . <b>the John Maynard Keynes of the 21st century.</b>' <i>Guardian</i><br /><br />'This is <b>sharp, significant</b> scholarship . . . <b>Thrilling</b>.' <i>Times Higher Education</i><br /><br />'<b>A book you will need to know about . . . If only 10% of the ideas get implemented, the world will be a much better place</b>.' Dr Duncan Green, Professor in Practice in International Development at LSE<br /><br />'[Raworth's] biggest question . . . is one that <b>terrifies all mainstream economists</b>: is 'growth' endless?' Andrew Marr, <i>Spectator</i><br /><br />'A compelling and timely intervention.' <i>The Ecologist</i></p>

Paperback / softback | 384 pages | Published February 2018