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The Econocracy: the perils of leaving economics to the experts is a 2017 book by Joe Earle, and that argues that the United Kingdom has become an econocracy, a society in which improving the economy has become the main purpose of politics. They demonstrate how this undermines democracy, in turn increasing the power and authority of economists. The authors see this as societally damaging because of the problematic state of the discipline of economics.

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  • The Econocracy: the perils of leaving economics to the experts is a 2017 book by Joe Earle, and that argues that the United Kingdom has become an econocracy, a society in which improving the economy has become the main purpose of politics. They demonstrate how this undermines democracy, in turn increasing the power and authority of economists. The authors see this as societally damaging because of the problematic state of the discipline of economics. The book includes interviews with student organisers and a curriculum review of university economics education at seven universities across the UK. The authors are part of the globally active International Student Initiative for Pluralist Economics, which became Rethinking Economics in the UK. The movement campaigns for pluralism in economics and seeks to democratise economics. (en)
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  • The Econocracy: the perils of leaving economics to the experts is a 2017 book by Joe Earle, and that argues that the United Kingdom has become an econocracy, a society in which improving the economy has become the main purpose of politics. They demonstrate how this undermines democracy, in turn increasing the power and authority of economists. The authors see this as societally damaging because of the problematic state of the discipline of economics. (en)
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