429. Is Economic Growth the Wrong Goal?
429. Is Economic Growth the Wrong Goal?  
Podcast: Freakonomics Radio
Published On: Thu Aug 13 2020
Description: The endless pursuit of G.D.P., argues the economist Kate Raworth, shortchanges too many people and also trashes the planet. Economic theory, she says, “needs to be rewritten” — and Raworth has tried, in a book called Doughnut Economics. It has found an audience among reformers, and now the city of Amsterdam is going whole doughnut.