This book was truly mind blowing. It is one I will return to and I hope spreads around.
Raworth is a marvelous communicator, and makes it easy to understand what is fundamentally wrong with the way our society approaches economics. She highlights the problems with this approach that threatens to kill us, while also making us sick and unhappy and keeping resources scarce and unevenly distributed.
She sets out to re write the rules of economics, starting out by the way we illustrate them and reassessing the goals of our economic models.
She suggests abandoning our obsessions with GDP, growth and ever increasing profits, and seeking a growth-agnostic economics, that centers on sustainability and well being. She encourages system-based thinking and urges us to consider the health of our environment as well as our own, and designing a new set of rules to adapt our economies and hopefully thrive into the 21st century... moving past the insatiable greed of capitalism up until this point.
This is one of those books I wish everyone,but particularly people in power and in decision making positions would read.