Reclaiming economics for future generations

<p>Today's economies fail to recognise that we are in a rapidly worsening crisis reproducing and often worsening vast and harmful inequalities between people and countries. The current models are unsustainable and at a time when global temperatures are rising and divides are deepening humanity is left in a rapidly worsening situation of its own making the destruction of the living world which will make large parts of the earth uninhabitable.<br><br>Without access to the knowledge skills or tools to build a better future local national and global economies will continue to fail to address the interlinked challenges of systemic racism inequalities faced by women the Covid-19 pandemic and the nature and climate emergency.<br><br>Across the world economics students are coming together under the banner of the student movement Rethinking Economics to create a better economics - one which can help to create a world where all our children can flourish regardless of their gender background or birthplace.<br><br>Drawing on over sixty interviews with students and professionals from identities and backgrounds marginalised in economics and a wide range of global and historical research this book illustrates the ways in which the discipline is currently not fit for purpose and sets out a vision for how it can be diversified decolonised and democratised.<br><br>The struggle to reclaim economics could not be more crucial - our futures depend on it. This book explains how it can be done.<br>This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 8 Decent work and economic growth</p>