Reclaiming Economics for Future Generations

Economies fail to recognize the rapidly worsening crisis, reproducing and often worsening inequalities between people and countries. The student movement, Rethinking Economics, is creating a better economics to create a world where all children can flourish regardless of their gender, background, or birthplace. It illustrates how the discipline is not fit for purpose and sets out a vision for how it can be diversified, decolonized, and democratized. The struggle to reclaim economics is crucial for our futures.

Format: Hardback
Length: 392 pages
Publication date: 08 March 2022
Publisher: Manchester University Press

The current economic models fail to recognize the rapidly worsening crisis that we are facing, perpetuating and often exacerbating vast and detrimental inequalities between individuals and countries. These models are unsustainable, particularly at a time when global temperatures are rising and divisions are deepening, leaving humanity in a rapidly deteriorating situation of its own creation. The destruction of the living world, which will render large parts of the earth uninhabitable, is imminent.

Without access to the knowledge, skills, or tools necessary to build a better future, local, national, and global economies will continue to struggle to address the interconnected challenges of systemic racism, gender inequalities, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the nature and climate emergency.

Across the world, economics students are uniting under the banner of the student movement, Rethinking Economics, to create a better economics that can help create a world where all children can thrive regardless of their gender, background, or birthplace.

Drawing on over sixty interviews with students and professionals from marginalized identities and backgrounds in economics, as well as a wide range of global and historical research, this book showcases the ways in which the discipline is currently inadequate and outlines a vision for how it can be diversified, decolonized, and democratized.

The struggle to reclaim economics is crucial, as our futures depend on it. This book provides a comprehensive guide on how to achieve this goal. It is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 8, which aims to promote decent work and economic growth.

Dimension: 203 x 127 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781526165299