How to Think Like a 21st Century Economist
Sustainability Science Centre invites you to a sustainability lecture with Kate Raworth,
author of Doughnut Economics and Professor at Oxford University. The lecture will take place on 19 May 2017.
‘The citizens of 2050 are being taught an economic mindset that is rooted in the textbooks of 1950, which in turn are based on the theories of 1850.’
Kate Raworth argues that it’s time to start thinking like a 21st century economist. Drawing on
insights from emergent schools of thought – including complexity, ecological, feminist, behavioural and institutional economics – she argues that today’s economies are divisive and degenerative by default, and must become distributive and regenerative by design.
It’s time for humanity’s portrait at the heart of economic theory to be drawn anew so that, instead of bringing out the worst in us, it nurtures the best of human nature.
Kate Raworth (‘Ray-worth’) is an economist whose research focuses on the unique social and ecological challenges of the twenty-first century. She teaches at Oxford University’s Environmental
Change Institute, where she is a Senior Visiting Research Associate, and she is a Senior Associate of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. She has been named by
The Guardian as one of the top ten tweeters on economic transformation.
Katherine Richardson, Professor in Biological Oceanography, Leader of Sustainability Science Centre,
will moderate the talk. Henrik Hansen, Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen will respond and there will be time for Q&A from the audience.
Admission is free of charge.
Please make sure to sign up for this event.
WHEN: 19 May 2017, 14:30-16:00
WHERE: CSS 35.01.44., Øster Farimagsgade 5, 1353 København K
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