Doughnut Economics: How to Think Like a 21st Century Economist
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Economics – literally ‘the art of household management’ – could not be more relevant this century: we urgently need a new generation of economists who are ready to manage our planetary home in the interests of all its inhabitants. But the economic theories still taught in universities and used by policymakers worldwide are dangerously out of date. From climate change and the rise of the 1% to repeated financial crises, last-century’s theories are simply not up to tackling the central economic challenges of our times. Drawing on insights from diverse schools of thought – including complexity, ecological, feminist, behavioural and institutional economics – Kate Raworth argues that it’s time to rethink economics to make it fit for the 21st century.
Kate Raworth is a renegade economist focused on exploring the economic mindset needed to address the 21st century’s social and ecological challenges, and is the creator of the Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries. She is a Senior Visiting Research Associate at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute, where she teaches on the Masters in Environmental Change and Management. She is also a Senior Associate at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.
Date:
11 October 2017, 16:15 (Wednesday, 1st week, Michaelmas 2017)
Venue:
Dyson Perrins Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QY
Speaker:
Kate Raworth (Environmental Change Institute)
Organising department:
Environmental Change Institute
Organisers:
Jane Applegarth (University of Oxford, Oxford University Centre for the Environment),
Dr Friederike Otto (University of Oxford Environmental Change Institute)
Organiser contact email address:
jane.applegarth@eci.ox.ac.uk
Host:
Dr Friederike Otto (University of Oxford Environmental Change Institute)
Part of:
ECI Big Ideas Seminar
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Booking required?:
Required
Booking url:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/big-ideas-seminar-series-doughnut-economics-how-to-think-like-a-21st-century-economist-tickets-38489656599?aff=es2
Cost:
Free
Audience:
Public
Editors:
Donna Palfreman,
Helen Morley,
Jane Applegarth,
Chris White
