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KATE
RAWORTH
Economist
The most powerful tool in economics is not money, nor even algebra. It is a pencil. Because with a pencil you can redraw the world.
Even if you have only the most glancing interest in economics, you are likely to have heard of Kate Raworth and her doughnut. Her idea was first presented in a paper written for Oxfam in 2009 called ‘A Safe and Just Space for Humanity’ and, in 2017, became the basis for a bestselling book, Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist.
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