Doughnut Economics

About Doughnut Economics | DEAL (Doughnut Economics Action Lab)

About Doughnut Economics | DEAL

The Doughnut offers a vision of what it means for humanity to thrive in the 21st century – and Doughnut Economics explores the mindset and ways of thinking needed to get us there.

First published in 2012 in an Oxfam report by Kate Raworth, the concept rapidly gained traction internationally, from the UN General Assembly to the Occupy movement.

A Safe and Just Space for Humanity: Can we live within the doughnut? (oxfam.org)

Kate’s 2017 book, Doughnut Economics: seven ways to think like a 21st century economist, further explored the economic thinking needed to bring humanity into the Doughnut, drawing together insights from diverse economic perspectives in a way that everyone can understand.

The book soon became an international bestseller and has now been published in over 20 languages.

Here’s a summary of the book’s core messages in a 2018 TED talk raworth ted talk – YouTube (15.53 minutes) A healthy economy should be designed to thrive, not grow | Kate Raworth – YouTube  A healthy economy should be designed to thrive, not grow | Kate Raworth – YouTube

What would a sustainable, universally beneficial economy look like?

“Like a doughnut,” says Oxford economist Kate Raworth. In a stellar, eye-opening talk, she explains how we can move countries out of the hole — where people are falling short on life’s essentials — and create regenerative, distributive economies that work within the planet’s ecological limits.