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Doughnut Economics

What You Will Learn

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The Third Way Is to Take Into Account Human Nature

The third way is to nurture human nature, which is harder to say than you think. At the heart of the twentieth century economics, it was that weare all self interested, isolated, calculating, fixed in our tastes and dominant over nature. But as we know, human nature is far richer than that. Ar, we're social. We're dependent and independent. We're sort of approximating more so than calculating. We kind of change our mind alot. Fourth, we need to get savy with systems. There's unintended consequences, and there's also unknown unknowns that are part of these systems.

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