How to Thrive in the Doughnut

The Brian Lehrer Show | May 3, 2017

The ideas that shape mainstream economic thought are out of date. Kate Raworth, senior visiting research associate and advisory board member at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute and author of Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist  (Chelsea Green, 2017), sets out to move beyond the way economics is currently taught and reliance on measurements like GDP.

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