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Is Economic Growth the Wrong Goal? (Ep. 429 Update)

Freakonomics Radio

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How Do We Create Ecosystems That Are Compatible With Earth's Capacity to Renew Resources?

Freakonomics Radio explores the hidden side of everything with your host, Steven Dubner. I asked Kate Rayworth how her ideas about a sustainable global economy differ from the standard economic model she learned years ago as a student at Oxford. How do we create economies that are compatible with Earth's capacity to regenerate resources and absorb our wastes? We also hear why, in the middle of the COVID crisis, the city of Amsterdam has aggressively embraced Rayworth's donut model.

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