Contents
Who Wants to be an Economist?
1. Change the Goal
from GDP to the Doughnut
2. See the Big Picture
from self-contained market to embedded economy
3. Nurture Human Nature from rational economic man to social adaptable humans
4. Get Savvy with Systems from mechanical equilibrium to dynamic complexity
5. Design to Distribute
from 'growth will even it up again' to distributive by design
6. Create to Regenerate
from 'growth will clean it up again' to regenerative by design
7. Be Agnostic about Growth from growth addicted to growth agnostic

Relentless financial crises. Extreme inequalities in wealth. Remorseless pressure on the environment. Anyone can see that our economic system is broken. But can it be fixed? In doughnut Economics, Oxford academic Kate Raworth identifies the seven critical ways in which mainstream economics has led us astray - from selling us the myth of 'rational economic man' to obsessing over growth at all costs - and offers instead an alternative roadmap for bringing humanity into a sweet spot that meets the needs of all within the means of the planet. Ambitious and transformative, this new economic model is now being put into practice in neighbourhoods, cities and nations worldwide. (Source: Back cover)