Our history

In 2015, Rethinking Economics appeared in Boom Bust Boom, an economic documentary directed by the late Terry Jones (of Monty Python fame). That led to the producers – Cardano Insights – agreeing to provide the seed funding for a new charitable venture with a mission to provide accessible economics on a larger scale. That venture became Economy.

Since then, we’ve grown and evolved into a community of our own.

At the start of 2023 we launched our strategy for the next five years which reiterates our focus on building power among communities experiencing economic injustice. To support this direction, we updated our branding and our name.

We now have eight staff, over fifty trained volunteer facilitators, hundreds of graduates from our courses and workshops, 25 000 monthly readers of ecnmy.org, and many partners across community development, media, policymaking, the new economy movement and academia.