The End of Endless Growth: Should We Put the Brakes on Economic Expansion? (Kate Raworth)

About this episode

Kate Raworth discusses the unsustainability of measuring success by GDP growth and presents her ideas for a new economic model focused on nature and wellbeing.

What if growth wasn’t the main goal for economic prosperity? Kate Raworth, the author and economist behind Doughnut Economics, tells Amol why she thinks that measuring success by GDP growth is unsustainable, immoral, and an unfit economic model for the 21st century. Kate’s thesis goes against centuries of economic consensus and has radical ideas for how to overhaul the system by prioritising nature and wellbeing. She argues that real abundance is possible, but only if we learn from nature and live within the planet’s limits. GET IN TOUCH: * WhatsApp: 0330 123 9480 * Email: radical@bbc.co.uk Episodes of Radical with Amol Rajan are released every Thursday and Monday. Amol Rajan presents the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 and hosts University Challenge on BBC One. Before that, Amol was the BBC’s media editor and the editor of The Independent newspaper. Radical with Amol Rajan is a Today Podcast. It was made by Oscar Pearson and Julian Paszkiewicz. Digital production was by Daniel Raza. Technical production was by Mike Regaard. The series producer is Rufus Gray. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.

People in this episode

Host: Amol Rajan

Guest: Kate Raworth

Topics covered

• economic growth
• sustainability
• Doughnut Economics
• wellbeing
• nature

Keywords

• economic prosperity
• GDP growth
• sustainability
• abundance
• economic model

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: BBC Radio 4

Books & works: Doughnut Economics

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