


And so I was on a very eager game of catch-up in university to learn everything that many of my peers had already studied for two years. In your education, as you came to the discipline of economics, where were the first places in which you began to notice problems or inconsistencies in the things you were being taught that produced the kinds of frustrations that eventually led to your work in developing these alternatives? Raworth You try to think about new ideas we can use to replace our problematic economic concepts. In your book, you show how the prevailing concepts of mainstream economics are limited, and, in fact, destructive if followed rigidly.

Robinson about how we can think more clearly about the economy, which should be “ designed to thrive, not grow.” This interview has been edited and condensed for grammar and clarity. Raworth came on the Current Affairs podcast to talk with editor-in-chief Nathan J. The book is a radical attempt to rethink foundational concepts of economics and to create a new framework for a sustainable economy that doesn’t depend on “infinite growth.” Prof. Kate Raworth is a self-described renegade economist and the author of Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist, which has been translated into over 20 languages.
