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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
Three steps to decolonise climate finance
New directions are needed for a climate finance that serves people in the Global South
Monday 1 December 2025
Climate finance for people in the South or for profit in the North?
Climate investments are flowing from the Global North to the South, but they often leave recipients exposed while benefitting financiers.
Tuesday 25 November 2025
The Youth Network on Beyond GDP’s Policy Recommendations
As part of the "Youth Moving Beyond GDP" initiative, we are pleased to present the Youth Network on Beyond GDP’s recommendations, co-developed through a global, youth-led process to redefine how progress is measured. These recommendations place people and planet, across current and future generations, at the heart of economic systems and reflect the insights, expertise, and lived experiences of young people worldwide.
Monday 17 November 2025
A new economic settlement – the progressive pillar of the economy
Individuals do not have equal status in our economic system and states do not represent humanity; they govern it. States are too arbitrary in their action and the private sector is regressive. We get lost in complex theory when economics and rights are often simple and linear. Change may be on the way once we see beyond the current framework of our binary economic model, to a plural one reflecting our human diversity.
Thursday 13 November 2025
Curriculum Health Check update: University of Leeds
University of Leeds is an undergraduate course that Rethinking Economics UK argues fits many of the principles that we want to see from an economics education.
Tuesday 4 November 2025
Worldwide protests prove the need to adopt decolonial and ecological economics
A call to deploy decolonial and ecological economics and join Rethinking Economics for Africa!
Monday 15 September 2025
To fight pension cuts, we need an alternative society project
What are the inherent limits of public pensions and the redistribution of goods and services in a society?
Wednesday 10 September 2025
Whose history of which economic thought?
Economics students have called for more attention to be paid to the History of Economic Thought (HET). Despite this recent support for HET, there has been a decades-long decline in both interest among academic economists in HET and in university provision of HET as part of economics degree programmes. Two module leaders and Professors reflect.
Monday 18 August 2025
What Trump’s tariffs mean for Brazil
We’ve translated a sharp piece from Desajuste, Brazil’s network of progressive economists, on how Trump’s tariffs hit Brazil hard.
Tuesday 5 August 2025