'Our democracy has gone profoundly wrong. Economists have failed us. Politicians have lied to
us. Things must change. This fearless new book will help make it happen' Owen Jones'An
explosive call for change ... packed with original research ... a case study for the question
we should all be asking since the crash: how have the elites - in Westminster in the City in
economics - stayed in charge?' Aditya Chakrabortty Guardian'Utterly compelling and sobering'
Ha-Joon ChangA century ago the idea of 'the economy' didn't exist. Now economics is the
supreme ideology of our time with its own rules and language. The trouble is most of us can't
speak it.This is damaging democracy. Dangerous agendas are hidden inside mathematical wrappers
controversial policies are presented as 'proven' by the models of economic 'science'.
Government is being turned over to a publicly unaccountable technocratic elite.The Econocracy
reveals that economics is too important to be left to the economists - and shows us what we can
do about it.'A rousing wake-up call from a collective of dissident graduate students ...
technically assured well-argued and informative' Robert Skidelsky'If war is too important to
be left to the generals so is the economy too important to be left to narrowly trained
economists ... thought-provoking' Martin Wolf'An interesting and highly pertinent book' Noam
Chomsky
