Is Economic Growth the Wrong Goal?

<p>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 <em>Doughnut Economics</em>. It has found an audience among reformers, and now the city of Amsterdam is going whole doughnut.</p>