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Basic guide to social over business economics. Raworth makes the odd statement that she read economics in the hope that it would get better, I belong to the school of regarding economists are pseudo scientists of not outright quacks. Economics is a guessing game at best and generally relies upon those involved all following the same rules. There is not set principle that works but if everyone does the same thing, it gives the lie of working, much as a traffic system gives the lie that mass commuting works.

Fun read and raises the right sort of questions for our day, more pertinent now than when it was written because our financial structures must change but it does not offer solutions, that is up to us
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Basic guide to social over business economics. Raworth makes the odd statement that she read economics in the hope that it would get better, I belong to the school of regarding economists are pseudo scientists of not outright quacks. Economics is a guessing game at best and generally relies upon those involved all following the same rules. There is not set principle that works but if everyone does the same thing, it gives the lie of working, much as a traffic system gives the lie that mass commuting works.

Fun read and raises the right sort of questions for our day, more pertinent now than when it was written because our financial structures must change but it does not offer solutions, that is up to us

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Didn't really mesh with this book. So many pages are taken up by Raworth providing detailed background on economic principles/history so it ends up feeling like the radical "Doughnut Economics" thinking is relegated to the later chapters (as well as making the book unnecessarily dense to read). I wanted more case studies in support of Raworth's ideas--she would often drop a really interesting example randomly in a paragraph without expanding on it. Due to her background working in developing countries, I wanted to learn more about her specific experiences that could fall within the "doughnut".
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