Summary of Kate Raworth's Doughnut Economics

Excerpt from Summary of Kate Raworth's Doughnut Economics



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GDP, or Gross Domestic Product, is a measure of a country’s economic health. But in the current era of climate change, it doesn’t take into account the well-being of the environment or the people in it.



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The earliest known definition of economics was given by James Steuart in 1767, who defined it as the science of domestic policy in free nations.