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A healthy economy should be designed to thrive, not grow

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Kate Raworth |

TED2018

• April 2018

What would a sustainable, universally beneficial economy look like? "Like a doughnut," says Oxford economist Kate Raworth. In a stellar, eye-opening talk, she explains how we can move countries out of the hole -- where people are falling short on life's essentials -- and create regenerative, distributive economies that work within the planet's ecological limits.

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What would a sustainable, universally beneficial economy look like? "Like a doughnut," says Oxford economist Kate Raworth. In a stellar, eye-opening talk, she explains how we can move countries out of the hole -- where people are falling short on life's essentials -- and create regenerative, distributive economies that work within the planet's ecological limits.

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Kate Raworth is passionate about making economics fit for the 21st century.

This talk was presented at an official TED conference.

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Kate Raworth: A healthy economy should be designed to thrive, not grow | TED Talk