As for growth, she says, we should be agnostic about it.įor those staring down the barrel of the crises that capitalism has wrought, Raworth’s proposal likely sounds like a mild one, but at the time of her appearance in Rotterdam - just one stop of a nationwide tour including sold-out speaking engagements in Amsterdam and Tilburg and a speech at the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy - Raworth was the subject of both intense praise and scorn in the Netherlands. Instead, we need a new framework - one that, yes, looks like a doughnut - designed to meet “the needs of all within the means of the planet.” For Raworth, getting global economies “into the doughnut” - the hitherto elusive space between well-being for everyone and ecological overshoot - should be the aim. Raworth was in Rotterdam to speak about the recent translation of her 2017 bestseller, Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a Twenty-First Century Economist, which argues that modern economics isn’t fit for the challenges of the twenty-first century. It was a characteristically ambiguous jab from Raworth, a self-described “renegade economist” at Oxford University who has a bone to pick with her peers in the field. ” she said - according to the Dutch newspaper De Telegraf, a comment made “half-jokingly, half-threateningly.” “Who is an economist or is currently taking an economics course?” she asked the audience. In winter 2018, the British economist Kate Raworth addressed a sold-out hall of 500 people in the Dutch city of Rotterdam.
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