Zen and the Art of Doughnut Economics: When Limits are Strangely Liberating

Authors

Peter Doran, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK

DOI

10.24972/ijts.2023.42.2.121

Abstract

Kate Raworth's celebrated book, Doughnut Economics: Seven ways to think like a 21st century economist, calls for a reconciliation of our design principles for society and the economy with the rhythms and tolerances of ecological systems. It will demand something akin to a new axial revolution that will have to be experienced as much in the body and in the intimacies of a renewed care and appreciation for our relational and ecological selves as in the collective re-design of our societies, democratic decision-making and collective provisioning. Buddhist scholarship offers a distinctive contribution to this conversation invoked in a book that has sparked a global movement.

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Recommended Citation

Doran, P. (2023). Zen and the art of doughnut economics: When limits are strangely liberating. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 42 (2). https://doi.org/10.24972/ijts.2023.42.2.121