Kate Raworth
Autore di Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
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- Data di nascita
- 1970
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Istruzione
- Oxford University
- Attività lavorative
- economist
renegade economist - Organizzazioni
- Club of Rome
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- Voto
- 4.1
- Recensioni
- 18
- ISBN
- 29
- Lingue
- 11
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- 1
Tip for a productive reading: read the original ideas in Chapters 1 and 7. Read the rest following your curiosity.
After reading Less is More, I was feeling depressed. When trying to find a more nuanced and less ideological book, I stumbled upon Doughnut Economics. It fulfilled my need for a clearer and more nuanced understanding of where things are heading. It provides hopeful solutions. Best, it also highlights many initiatives that are already in motion that, unbeknownst to me, were already working towards a new economy.
The freshness comes with the core idea of replacing the obsession of GDP growth with an all-encompassing metric that takes into account, at a minimum, social equity boundaries and at a maximum, our planet’s boundaries.
The author does not accuse or blame anyone. Instead, she contextualizes the problems that our current classic models were trying to address, in their time and place. The author feels credible and trustworthy. It does not read at all like an activist’s manifesto.
I also appreciate how the author gives a few lessons of humility to her peers: economy is not a hard science and is mostly social and conventional, the “rational man” is a cartoon character that does not exist in real life and human activities follow dirty complex patterns rather than elegant mechanistic ones.
The author revives the dignity of “the commons” and the government, without crossing the line of idealism. Market, households, commons and government all have strengths and weaknesses and thus all have a role to play.
On the writing itself, it is accessible, clear and it flows well. I just found that sometimes the author was trying too hard and some literary devices felt a bit tacky. When she compares the economic actors to a play, she pushes the metaphor too far and the book feels slightly gimmicky.
Finally, I am happy that the book has now a few years behind its cover. This hindsight allow us to appreciate its positive influence, as reported in this Times article on the city of Amsterdam’s adoption of the core concepts of the book: https://time.com/5930093/amsterdam-doughnut-economics/
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