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The Rest Is Politics: Leading

22: Kate Raworth: Doughnut economics and thriving in balance

The Rest Is Politics: Leading

Goalhanger

Government, News, Politics

4.63.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In the 21st century, the impact of financial and environmental crises can be felt by all. But how do we marry the nature of the economy with the ever depleting means of the planet? Rory and Alastair discuss the radical doughnut economic model with economist Kate Raworth to unpick how it could work politically, and how it is already helping cities to thrive in balance. TRIP Plus: Become a member of The Rest Is Politics Plus to support the podcast, enjoy ad-free listening to both TRIP and Leading, benefit from discount book prices on titles mentioned on the pod, join our Discord chatroom, and receive early access to live show tickets and Question Time episodes. Just head to therestispolitics.com to sign up. Instagram: @restispolitics Twitter: @RestIsPolitics Email: restispolitics@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This episode is brought to you by London Business School and it's a business school I'm

0:08.7

very happy to endorse because Shoshana my wife did an MBA at London Business School. She

0:13.1

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1:02.0

Welcome to the rest of this politics leading with me, Anastakambal and with me, Rory Stewart.

1:07.1

And we're interviewing today a woman who is here. I have to say something by popular demand.

1:14.0

We've had quite a lot of people saying why don't you get Kate Rayworth on the podcast and

1:19.6

we'll describe you as a renegade economist. I think that's how you describe yourself.

1:24.0

I'll take that. It's a renegade economist who feels that we have to cure ourselves

1:30.1

of the obsession with growth in our economies, who wants us to think of the economy in a completely

1:37.9

different way. She defines it as doughnut economics on which she wrote a book in 2017.

1:44.4

And it's a theory, but it's also a theory that's being practiced in some parts of the world,

1:50.3

particularly at a local level, but I think she would like to see it happening at an international

1:54.7

level. She's an academic at Oxford and at Amsterdam University and she's previously worked in

2:00.4

overseas development at the overseas development institute for the United Nations Development

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