What is the economy for?

Laurence Hall writes about Young Friends and building a new, fairer economy

by Laurence Hall 24th August 2018

Until recently, public discussion on the economy was almost totally dominated by an obsession with a very narrow set of economic measures. The complex labours and lives of millions were turned into a few numbers, in which the moral and spiritual values of those same individuals were unacknowledged and ignored. That is no surprise in an economy where many people are faced with increasing precariousness and powerlessness while a few elites gain ever more wealth and power.