![]() ![]() In a revealing tweet on 15 April, Kate replied to an(other) admirer: ‘I set out to write the book I that I wish I could have read as an undergraduate’. ![]() The scars of her early, and apparently unsatisfying education in economics are deep. Kate’s target is no less than the hegemony of economics: the narrowness of its goals, the limitations of its theory, the poverty of its method, and its failure to reach out to other ways of thinking. The new book is more than a simple presentation of the doughnut - of the socially just and environmentally safe space between, on the one hand, planetary boundaries, and, on the other, social and economic minima (Figure 1). High quality analysis and communication are both in evidence in this book. For the record, though, I have been a fan of the doughnut since Kate first launched the idea in an Oxfam Discussion Paper in 2012 and also a fan of her writing and communication skills. ![]() ![]() She doesn’t need a further encomium from me. Kate Raworth’s book on doughnut economics has received ecstatic reviews – George Monbiot in the Guardian even describes her as the J.M. Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think like a twenty-First Century Economist ![]()
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