Here’s what troubles me about degrowth: I just can’t bring myself to use the word. And with the help of smoke bombs, elephants and lighthouses, I can explain why. Check out the five reasons why I think degrowth needs a new name in my guest post on Duncan Green’s Poverty to Power blog. Giorgos Kallis, one of … Read more
The mission of the Doughnut Economics Video Club is to celebrate the smorgasbord of great online videos that feed (however circuitously) into rethinking economics. Last week featured four fab films on capitalism. This week, it’s time for planetary thinking. As Earth system scientist Will Steffen recently told me, if you really want to understand how … Read more
The RSA have just put out a really nicely produced video of a talk I gave there recently on why we need a new paradigm for economic thinking in the 21st century – or why we need Doughnut Economics. It is just 15 minutes so gives a handy overview of the concepts of planetary and … Read more
There’s no doubt that this planet is under pressure – but where is that pressure coming from? Who or what has driven three planetary boundaries to be breached, and caused the stress to be rising on many others? This 9 minute video dives into the extraordinary inequalities of resource use – within and between countries … Read more
I recently ruined an economist’s morning lie-in, and for that much I am sorry. Over at aidthoughts.org, Matt Collin read my blogpost on vandalizing economics textbooks and he got very annoyed. Why? Because I shared the view of many leading economic thinkers and critiqued this diagram, central to macroeconomics, for ignoring the environment, the unpaid … Read more
Get ready to join the world’s first guerrilla campaign to rewrite economics. The only weapon you need is a pencil…here’s why. When I studied economics at university twenty years ago, the concept of The Circular Flow of Money and Goods was the gateway to understanding macroeconomics – and it still is. It shows how households … Read more