After decades of rightwing dominance, a transatlantic movement of leftwing economists is building a practical alternative to neoliberalism....
The new leftwing economics wants to see the redistribution of economic power, so that it is held by everyone – just as political power is held by everyone in a healthy democracy…
The new economists’ enormously ambitious project means transforming the relationship between capitalism and the state; between workers and employers; between the local and global economy; and between those with economic assets and those without. “Economic power and control must rest more equally,” declared a report last year by the New Economics Foundation (NEF), a radical London thinktank that has acted as an incubator for many of the new movement’s members and ideas....Addressing asymmetric economic power.
Defend Democracy Press
The new left economics: how a network of thinkers is transforming capitalism
Andy Beckett
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