Joe Earle is Chief Executive of Economy. He is a founding member of the international student movement Rethinking Economics and a co-author of The Econocracy: on the perils of leaving economics to the experts. He is part of the Foundational Economy Collective.

The Foundational Economy
Privatisation, market choice, outsourcing: these are the watchwords that have shaped policy in numerous democratic states in the last generation. These were claimed to provide more efficient services so we