“Economic Education Must Be for the Good of the People and the Planet.” Interview with Sonal Raghuvanshi, Economists for Future

Abstract

In August 2018, a series of climate strikes were organized across schools under the banner of Fridays for Future. Later, this sense of urgency was supported by the academic and scientific communities at large, which called upon governments around the world to reduce global carbon emissions (the Scientists for Future movement). Within the economics discipline, a network of students and scholars from several countries joined forces–advocating for change and aiming to mobilize economists and the influence they have, to help arrest the planetary emergency and giving rise to Economists for Future, a movement that believes the economics community must become a driving force toward a just and equitable post-carbon world.