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

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.