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Measuring What Matters: Inclusive and Sustainable Growth Beyond GDP
Participants came from public and private Universities, think-tanks, and research institutions namely Mulungushi University (MU), the Copperbelt University (CBU), Kwame Nkrumah University (NKU), ZCAS University, Information and Communication University (ICU), Cavendish University Zambia (CUZ), the University of Zambia, Kabwe Institute Of Technology (KIT), Amin Centre for Policy Research, and United Nations Zambia Youth.
Wednesday 7 October 2026
Teaching economics with a gimlet eye: PPE at Goldsmiths
What does it take to rethink how we teach economics? Paul Gunn, convenor of the Economics, Politics and Public Policy BA programme at Goldsmiths, University of London, reflects on how the unrest that followed the financial crash helped inspire a new Politics, Philosophy and Economics […]
Wednesday 7 October 2026
‘Why Should Democracy end at the seminar room door’?: Political Economy Education, Care and Intellectual Promiscuity
What does it take to rethink how we teach economics? John Barry, Professor of Green Political Economy at Queen’s University Belfast, explores what happens when we start by asking students what they want to learn, responding to their needs, and embracing the value of systems […]
Wednesday 7 October 2026
University of Leeds: Rethinking Economics All Over Campus
What does it take to build a new approach to teaching economics? Eric Kemp-Benedict, Associate Professor at the University of Leeds, shares his reflections on the development of the Ecological Economics MSc, his role in shaping and delivering the course, and why collaboration has been […]
Wednesday 7 October 2026
The Economics of Feminism: Beyond Elite Empowerment and Digital Visibility
Any serious observer who reflects on the condition of Egyptian women -socially, culturally, and economically- will inevitably confront an extremely complex landscape, indeed a deeply troubling one, particularly with regard to the absence of genuine representation (according to World Bank reports, women’s participation in the […]
Thursday 1 October 2026
New 5 Year Strategy: Redefining the 21st Century Economist
Classrooms. Workplaces. Media. Communities. Youth everywhere are pushing back against mainstream economics. As we broaden our focus to support them, here is the inside look at how we co-created our new strategy with the movement. This strategy has been years in the making and is […]
Thursday 27 August 2026
The Inequality Engine: How Privilege, Tax Loopholes, and Public Purse Engineered the Trillionaire
For one dizzying moment on 12 June 2026, the man that you just can’t get away from, crossed an unthinkable line. Elon Musk – born to privilege, supercharged by Wall Street and steadied by public investment – became the world’s first trillionaire, if only for […]
Tuesday 18 August 2026
A trillion dollars is not a market signal. It’s a policy choice, repeated for twenty years.
We keep talking about Elon Musk’s wealth as if it fell out of the sky. It didn’t. It was built, piece by piece, by decisions that specific institutions made and could have made differently. If we want to understand extreme wealth concentration, we shouldn’t start […]
Monday 10 August 2026
Time as a Battleground in Brazil: Reflections from the III Desajuste Congress on Work in the Twenty-first Century
Recent reports from international organisations and economic news outlets suggest that Brazil is experiencing a period of sustained economic growth. Unemployment has fallen to historically low levels, GDP is expanding faster than expected, the Brazilian real has strengthened, and inflation remains under control. Yet, after […]
Monday 27 July 2026
Intergenerational equity takes centre stage at the UN’s “Beyond GDP: Rethinking Progress in a Changing World”
With the Secretary-General’s independent High-Level Expert Group on Beyond GDP preparing its recommendations, the 2026 High-Level Forum on Official Statistics became a space not only to refine indicators but also to reflect on who defines progress and for whom. From the outset, the Youth Moving Beyond GDP initiative was recognized as a shaping force in the process.
Friday 20 March 2026
Is the UN’s COP Process the Biggest Greenwash Humanity Has Faced?
A decade after the adoption of The Paris Agreement, we saw 2024 as the hottest year on record. Merja Turpeinen argues our ecosystem is being put under unsustainable pressure.
Friday 13 March 2026
Teaching Economics Through Movements for Justice: Reflections from the Classroom
Sasha High introduces us to the Movements for Economic Justice course at John Jay College and its role in situating students in the political economy of the 21st Century.
Wednesday 11 March 2026
A market for values: how the economy can create community instead of conflict
Marco Senatore from the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance discusses how markets without values weaken democracy.
Tuesday 27 January 2026
Reflections on economic reasoning
What do economists actually do – and why? A first-year module lecturer at Goldsmiths revisits the basics of economic reasoning to reflect on how economists think, what the discipline studies, and what that says about the state of the profession today.
Wednesday 17 December 2025
From Manusmriti to modern labour governance: the caste-blind economics behind India’s 2025 National Labour Policy Draft
India's draft National Labour & Employment Policy 2025 cites the Manusmriti and other (problematic) ancient texts as its moral base – risking a revival of caste hierarchy under the banner of heritage. A social-justice review connects this to evidence of persistent caste gaps in India’s labour market.
Friday 12 December 2025