{"id":322,"date":"2018-03-04T15:00:56","date_gmt":"2018-03-04T22:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jenleighfischer\/?page_id=322"},"modified":"2018-03-04T15:00:56","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T22:00:56","slug":"doughnut-economics-kate-raworth","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jenleighfischer\/doughnut-economics-kate-raworth\/","title":{"rendered":"Doughnut Economics, Kate Raworth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-324 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jenleighfischer\/files\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-04-at-1.59.38-PM-197x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jenleighfischer\/files\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-04-at-1.59.38-PM-197x300.png 197w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jenleighfischer\/files\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-04-at-1.59.38-PM.png 262w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/>Kate Raworth\u2019s book <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vs9NKdGrmdA\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Doughnut Economics <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">offers us an alternative paradigm for economics, one that includes a social foundation of: \u00a0food, health, education, health &amp; work, peace &amp; justice, political voice, social equity, gender equality, housing, networks, energy, and water. Further outlining ecological celling out economics: climate change, ocean acidification, chemical pollution, nitrogen &amp; phosphorus loading, freshwater withdraws, land conservation, biodiversity loss, air pollution, and ozone layer depletion. Raworth\u2019s webpage provides videos, podcasts, and even a blog to explore alternative ways to approach economics.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-323 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jenleighfischer\/files\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-04-at-1.59.50-PM-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jenleighfischer\/files\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-04-at-1.59.50-PM-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jenleighfischer\/files\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-04-at-1.59.50-PM-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jenleighfischer\/files\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-04-at-1.59.50-PM.png 339w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\" \/> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Investigating our values may be a place to start. However, that is one piece to a larger change that needs to occur in order to bring our planet back to homeostasis.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Redistribution of land ownership\/ <\/span><b>securing land ownership<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (p. 151)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0<\/span> <b>Time provisioning-<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> St. Gallen, Swiss city. Every citizen over 60 can earn care-time credits by helping a local elderly resident (p.158)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0<\/span> <b>Blockchain<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; a digital peer-to-peer decentralised platform for tracking all kinds of value exchanged between people. It is enabling electricity microgrids to set up peer-to-peer trading in renewable energy. You can sell surplus or energy in a micogrid (p.159\/162)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Veritable <\/span><b>ecosystem enterprises:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> innovative entrepreneurs and lawyers teaming up to write new kinds of corporate charter and company articles of association (p.161). Raworth says, we need to \u201cinvest in human ingenuity by teaching social entrepreneurship problem-solving and collaboration in schools and universities worldwide\u201d (p.167)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0<\/span> <b>Robot dividend:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Every person should have a stake in owning the robot technology itself. Millions of jobs will be lost to robots- \u201canalysts predict that five million jobs across 15 major economies could be lost to automation by 2020.\u201d Raworth suggests that since we invest in these technologies that we should also benefit from them financially (p.163-165). She says, \u201cGiven the extreme disruption to work, and hence incomes, that is anticipated by the rise of the robots, more such innovation proposals are needed to ensure that the wealth generated by their productively is widely distributed\u201d (p.165)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0<\/span> <b>Distributive design:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> switch from taxing labour to taxing the use of non-renewable resources: \u201cit would help to erode the unfair tax advantage currently given to firms investing in machines (a tax-deductible expense) rather than I human beings (a payroll expense) (p.164).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00b7 \u00a0<\/span> <b>Open source networks: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Patents keep the rich, rich! Instead we need to be sharing our inventions\/ technology and pathways to make and fix stuff! For example, Global Village Construction Set: Show you how to build from scratch 50 universally useful machines, from tractors, to 3D printers! (p. 166). Similarly, Open Building Institute aims to \u201cmake open-source designs for ecological, off grid affordable housing available to all.\u201d (p.166)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kate Raworth\u2019s book Doughnut Economics offers us an alternative paradigm for economics, one that includes a social foundation of: \u00a0food, health, education, health &amp; work, peace &amp; justice, political voice, social equity, gender equality, housing, networks, energy, and water. Further outlining ecological celling out economics: climate change, ocean acidification, chemical pollution, nitrogen &amp; phosphorus loading, freshwater withdraws, land conservation, biodiversity loss, air pollution, and ozone layer depletion. Raworth\u2019s webpage provides videos, podcasts, and even a blog to explore alternative ways to approach economics. Investigating our values may be a place&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jenleighfischer\/doughnut-economics-kate-raworth\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44259,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-322","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","et-no-image","et-bg-layout-dark","et-white-bg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jenleighfischer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jenleighfischer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jenleighfischer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jenleighfischer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44259"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jenleighfischer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jenleighfischer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jenleighfischer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/322\/revisions\/325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jenleighfischer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}