V good long read on efforts to make the case for “an economy that suits society, rather than – as we have at present – a society subordinated to the economy.” [#economics](/economics/new/economics)

We’re stripping economics back to basics,” she says. “We want economics to ask: ‘Who owns these resources? Who has power in this company?’ Conventional economic discourse obfuscates these questions, to the benefit of those with power.”

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. (...) The result, the new economists claim, will be an economy that suits society, rather than – as we have at present – a society subordinated to the economy.