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´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 Chang

A 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

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Joe Earle, Cahal Moran and Zach Ward-Perkins are founding members of the Post-Crash Economics Society at the University of Manchester

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A writer, organiser and researcher, Joe Earle is a trustee of Rethinking Economics and its sister organisation Economy ( www.ecnmy.org ). Cahal Moran is studying for a PhD in economics at the University of Manchester, researching applied behavioural economics. Zach Ward-Perkins is a former trustee of Rethinking Economics, and is still an active member of the movement to change economics. He is now a researcher at the University of Sheffield, working with the Local Authority on how to transform the provision of social care in the City.

They are founding members of the Post-Crash Economics Society at the University of Manchester.

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