Jamie Robertson

Represents the field of economics as just the flawed models of the past centuries and doesn't deal with the actual difficult issues that prevent global collaboration. For decades development economists have known gdp isn't a good metric of progress and have delt with it in much clearer detail than this book recognises. It's not entirely clear how individual economies fit into the global donut model. It's entirely possible for global growth to slow and individual economies to grow faster and leaders of these economies know it. Still if it persuades people to care less about economic growth and more on other important issues then it has a good impact in my mind. The idea of focusing on pictures not maths made me a little sick. A good model should be explainable in maths and there are models that take into account energy and the environment that the book even mentions briefly. Overall a book for policy makers and actual development economists will not learn much.