Rethinking Economics

20/08/2026

Last year, Rethinking Economics York University used our Action Fund to run an incredible Model COP26 event! 🌍

Students stepped into the shoes of different countries, tackling global energy challenges through negotiations and resolutions.

Have an idea for an event you want to bring to life?

✨ Our Action Fund is open to members twice a year! Join us and apply for funding to run your own event.
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18/08/2026

How should we talk about Elon Musk's wealth? Hint: we shouldn't start with personality. We should start with the machinery behind him.

Rethinking Economics International member Ack Kabamba, shares his perspective in our latest blog post.

👀 Read more on our blog

https://rethinkeconomics.org/blog/2026/08/10/a-trillion-dollars-is-not-a-market-signal-its-a-policy-choice-repeated-for-twenty-years/?_thumbnail_id=2177

We keep talking about Elon Musk’s wealth as if it fell out of the sky. It didn’t. It was built, piece by piece, by decisions that specific institutions made and could have made differently. If we want to understand extreme wealth concentration, we shouldn’t start […]

12/08/2026

What is the story behind the story? 🇮🇳

Right now, student protests in India are all over the news. But mainstream coverage is missing a crucial piece: the history of where this movement actually started.

Why do these students call themselves protestors? And what have they achieved so far?

We worked directly with our REI members in India to bring you the real story.

Swipe through to see how this campaign unfolded. 👉

11/08/2026

It’s happened. The world has its first trillionaire, and frankly, it made our stomachs turn.

The next Rethinking Economics newsletter drops this week with our take—and what other Rethinkers are saying about it.

Don't miss out. Scroll down to the bottom of this page to sign up rethinkeconomics.org.

Rethinking Economics is a global movement of students and organisers fighting for a new way of teaching and practising economics.

10/08/2026

Would you like to establish a RE chapter at your university?
Gain insights on key organising skills?
Want to know how to uncover where power really lies in your institution?

Join REI University Group Training, a 4-session training running on Wednesdays and starting on September 2nd.

We'll cover the steps of setting up a chapter, how to grow your group, power mapping your institution and much more.

Register by August 16th via the Members Hub.

08/08/2026

Coming to your feed soon... the New Economy Influencers.

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06/08/2026

We went to the UK Economy's Movement Gathering and picked up a thing or two about organising.

Change starts with coming together, listening, belonging, and imagining an economy that puts people and planet at its core.

What lesson could you add from your country's movement experience?

30/07/2026

Repensando a Economia UFMG in Brazil has been sparking debate in Latin America!

They organised a two-day event on ‘Latin American Economic Thought: Reflections on the Circulation of Ideas and Economic Thought’.

The event brought together six speakers and 60 participants to explore the roots of neoliberalism in Latin America and new economic thinking.

With shared understanding strengthened, we’re excited to see where this collaboration between academics and students could go in the future.

28/07/2026

Tomorrow, we're hosting an online conversation with Dr. Devika Dutt.

Dr. Devika Dutt is a lecturer in development economics at King's College London and co-author of Decolonising Economics.

This is a chance to talk about the state of economics, what it means to decolonise the discipline and what a better future could look like with a fantastic thinker.

1300 UTC // 1400 BST 29th July

Book your place through the Members Hub.

28/07/2026

Will Lula’s new legislation let Brazilian workers reclaim their time from work?

As Brazil’s six-day workweek comes up for political discussion, Georgia Gadotti dos Anjos shares the inside scoop on the debate, reporting directly from the III Desajuste Congress, held in Rio in early June.

👀 Read more on our blog
https://rethinkeconomics.org/blog/2026/07/27/time-as-a-battleground-in-brazil-reflections-from-the-iii-desajuste-congress-on-work-in-the-twenty-first-century/