Recommended Read: ‘Doughnut Economics’

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

We only need to look around us on a daily basis to see that the current economic system isn’t working – a never-ending cycle of financial crises, growing inequalities, our environment collapsing under unceasing pressure… But what if there’s another way, that enables everyone to thrive and equips us for a sustainable future?

In this urgent and necessary book, Kate Raworth drills down into the reasons why mainstream economics – with its linear thinking fixated on exponential ‘growth’ that rewards the few – has failed, and offers an alternative vision for unshackling us from the old ways that no longer serve and creating together a new paradigm that has regeneration, redistribution and connectedness at its heart. A new model – shaped like a doughnut – that allows everyone to move into the ‘sweet spot’ where the needs of all can be met within the means of our planet.

Insightful, inspiring and ultimately hopeful, with a clear guide to how we achieve change, Doughnut Economics should be compulsory reading for anyone involved in politics. Indeed, compulsory for anyone hoping to make the world a better place.

The Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries (2017), Kate Raworth.