Kick it over is the latest campaign from subversive Canadian design movement Adbusters. It is, essentially, a challenge to economics students to reclaim their subject from their professors. As long as it is dominated by free market orthodoxy, it is a bankrupt pseudo-science, incapable of fixing the multiple disasters it has already created. It’s up to economists-in-training to demand something more from their degrees, to ask provocative questions and venture outside the reading lists.
I’m familiar with this. I studied International Relations at university and did several modules of economics, none of which taught me anything useful for an age of climate change, resource depletion and gross inequality.
Adbusters have dedicated an issue of their magazine to resisting the ‘thought control’ of economics. The issue is free to all economics students, and there are downloadable posters to stick up on the walls of lecture halls and corridors. There’s a collection of interesting articles there too.
The Earthbound Report 