The End of Endless Growth: Should We Put the Brakes on Economic Expansion? (Kate Raworth)
6/11/20261 hr 7 min
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.
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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.
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[gentle music] So just before we start, I just wanna let you know that next week I will be speaking to Shiv Malik. He's a journalist who wrote a book called The Jilted Generation, where he argues that stagnant wages, increasingly unaffordable homes, have robbed a generation of Britons of their future. But he's now got a huge and very radical idea about, well, something you could