dagblog - Comments for "book rec: Doughnut Economics, by Kate Raworth"

Thank you for your (too) kind

AmericanDreamer — Wed, 20 Dec 2017 20:43:54 +0000

In reply to Know when I see you recommend

Thank you for your (too) kind words. I'd been away from dagblog for quite some time and learned to my dismay only on revisiting the site a few weeks ago that you had lost your husband. I'm very sorry. I hope you are doing well, or as well as could be expected, in the aftermath.

Yes, she urges agnosticism on

AmericanDreamer — Wed, 20 Dec 2017 20:40:17 +0000

In reply to like this review and sounds

Yes, she urges agnosticism on the matter of economic growth (at least as we conceive and measure it today). She acknowledges an obvious conundrum: "No country has ever ended human deprivation without a growing economy. And no country has ever ended ecological degradation with one."

like this review and sounds

artappraiser — Wed, 20 Dec 2017 15:13:34 +0000

In reply to Know when I see you recommend

like this review and sounds right up my alley on the "quit with your damn traditional box, let's go outside the box". Especially like this on the hamster wheel we're all on with GDP and "quality of life":

“Today,” she writes, “we have economies that need to grow, whether or not they make us thrive; what we need are economies that make us thrive, whether or not they grow.”

Know when I see you recommend

artappraiser — Wed, 20 Dec 2017 14:47:58 +0000

In reply to book rec: Doughnut Economics, by Kate Raworth

Know when I see you recommend a book that even if I can't find the time to read it, I should watch for mention of it, it's going to be influential. So thanks for taking the time to tell us.

Certainly can't agree enough with overdue to be reinvented for the 21st century, so maybe this is the one I make time to read...