📚 Weekend reads with the RE #Blog #Saturday Who is Homo Economicus? Rethink the “rational maximiser” and centre care & interdependence. 👉 bit.ly/3JnQciH #Sunday The Secret History of David Ricardo: Beyond Econ 101 myths about trade. 👉 bit.ly/4oJj6tS

Join @positivemoneyuk.bsky.social and @greencb.bsky.social for the launch of our East and Southeast Asia Green Central Banking Scorecard 👇 📅Weds 10th September ⏰ 9am-10:30am BST / 4pm-5:30pm MYT / 5pm-6:30pm JST 🖥️ Zoom ➡️Find out more and register:

The climate, biodiversity & social crises share the same root: our current economy. 🌍 Join us at Next Economies Summit 2025 (12–14 Sept, Istanbul) to co-create just & regenerative futures. 🔗 Register: bit.ly/3JlzCzV #NextEconomies2025

📚 Weekend Reads with the RE Blog 👉 Saturday: The decline of History of Economic Thought (HET) in economics classrooms—and why it matters. bit.ly/45LSD6j 👉 Sunday: What would advertising look like if aligned with degrowth, sufficiency & sustainability? bit.ly/41QVPfB

Tired of vague climate talk with no economic backup? 🌀 Join our Economics for Climate Action workshop! 📅 June 18 | 🕔 5–8PM 📍 London ⚫Sign up: bit.ly/4mzDPiQ... 📩 [email protected] #ClimateJustice #EcologicalEconomics #EconForClimate #RethinkEconomics

We need a new system. To get there, we need new narratives for how we talk about the system. Narratives that link economic policies to people's lived experiences. That's one of the reasons Rethinking Economics exists! Join us: www.rethinkeconomics.org/get-involved/

The environment as an externality? That's exactly how is works under an extractivist system.

Here's our brief explainer on the situation in Eastern DRC ⬇️

Join our next webinar to help you bring doughnut econ into your teaching - tomorrow!

In Jan, Rethinking Economics hosted a @eeb.org workshop to discuss the EU's latest buzzword. Here are some key things that came out of it. Read more in our latest blog post: bit.ly/42g6BNi

Our next webinar to support you to get doughnut econ into your teaching is coming up next Thursday! 📅 Thursday 17th April - 9-10.30am BST Sign up here: actionnetwork.org/events/dough...

The wellbeing economy is built on ideas from the degrowth movement but there's actually quite a bit of difference between the two movements.

Our financial system is broken - we can all agree So how do we create a sustainable system for people & planet? Join this webinar with @roberthockett.bsky.social, @maxjerneck.bsky.social & Ellen Brown, Public Banking Institute 📅 Wednesday 23 April (7-8.30pm CEST) ▶️ monreform.org/webinar-hock...

capitalism frames sustainability as a "personal choice" while fossil fuel companies collect $7 million in subsidies every minute. this isn't about your choice of straw — it's about power.

Get the chance to join the International Conference on Financing for Development ⬇️ @unyouthaffairs.bsky.social will support five 18-35-year-old's from: Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, State of Palestine, Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia to join! Deadline: Thursday 10th April Apply: bit.ly/3RB0b54

Got a great idea for an event, campaign, or activity? Apply for our activity fund! Deadline: 30th April Apply: bit.ly/47VDwHT

The climate crisis is here and it connects all struggles against inequality. But the majority of UK econ courses fail to give it the space and teaching it requires. Read more in our report: www.rethinkeconomics.org/resources/ed...

Today! ⬇️ Are you an academic keen to include doughnut econ in your teaching? With @doughnuteconomics.bsky.social we're running a webinar to support this emerging academic community of practice. ⏰ 31st March (6-7.30pm CET) Register: bit.ly/4hLSp2Q (There'll be a second if you can't make today's)

Learn essential campaigning skills with our Local Group Training! 🗓️ Wednesdays (from 16th April) 📍On Zoom 🚨Deadline: March 31st, 7am UTC Sign up: www.rethinkeconomics.org/resources/tr...

Applying for an Econ Degree? Read this first! Choose the econ degree that's right for you and the planet 🌎 👀 Take a look: www.rethinkeconomics.org/edu-material...

Is LSE Economics Education Fit for the 21st Century? “Wealth and inequality are covered by 6/19 modules, but critical questions of historical slavery, colonialism and neocolonialism are only discussed in 1 module. The environment is covered in 3 modules, where 1 includes ecological economics.”

They'll be discussing everything from ending austerity to a just transition at the Scotonomics Festival of Economics. 📍 Dundee 📅 21st-22nd March Grab your spot: scotonomics.scot/event/festiv...

Neoliberalism doesn't just impact econ education - it tries to impact how we think about changing it too. But that's one of the reasons why RE exists! To support students and academics in joining their collective power to fight for change.

A great UK opportunity from Students Organising For Sustainability ⬇️ Deadline: Sunday 16th March ⏰ Apply: sos-uk.org/jobs

Ready to debunk everything you thought you knew about development? Join our event 'Institutionalized Confusion: Development Theory Meets Consultancy Practices' 🕰️ Friday 14th March, 4pm CET Sign up: bit.ly/4aVmbk6

We're already seeing wins 🌟 Here's how Rethinking Economics IFRO, as part of RE Denmark, secured a new professor in Ecological Economics. Read the full piece on our website: bit.ly/41I5g1m

Interested in #DoughnutEconomics? Tune in for this workshop! ⬇️

Want to know how a green transition could be funded? If you're based in Manchester join this event! ⬇️

🚀 #SOAS #Economics has been named by @rethinkecon.bsky.social as one of the UK’s top two institutions for 21st-century economics education! 🏆 🔗 Read more about the new report, and how we’re shaping the future of #economics! 🌍 www.soas.ac.uk/about/news/n...

Ready to bring #doughnuteconomics to your department? Join the campaign! As a student: bit.ly/4hFZbYy As an academic: bit.ly/3YTCHwB

A hub for hetereodox econ! This hugely exciting project just launched - we're excited to see what the future holds. Find out more: bit.ly/40Ugz57

The production function is a cornerstone of mainstream econ. But its limitations impact the world beyond our lecture halls. Here three rethinkers - Dennis Venter RE Australia, Arpitha Verma REIN, and Romain Desgraz RE Geneva - offer a pluralist, accessible critique of it: bit.ly/4hOaQEE

From an econ dictionary to a new book club... ...here's what @ReAnatolia achieved last year! 🎉 Take a look at their website: bit.ly/415dQXI

Have you tried #Degrowthuary? Learn more about #degrowth & take the challenge: growingoutofgrowth.org/degrowthuary...

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Ready to bring doughnut economics to your department? Sign up to the campaign: bit.ly/4hFZbYy We'll provide the info & resources you need to run it 🔥

Here's what challenging the mainstream looked like last year in Uganda 🔥

A new name for the same system means the same inequalities. For ideas beyond business-as-usual read our interview series looking at how economics has failed: bit.ly/3WASRcD

Change is long overdue. Join the movement. Get involved with your local RE group or start your own: bit.ly/4g9Alim

We're here! 🤸‍♂️ Making the economics discipline serve people & planet? Let's get started...