[1] It grew out of the broader International Student Initiative for Pluralist Economics and has groups in the United Kingdom, Italy, the Netherlands, India, Bangladesh, the US, Norway and many more countries.
In The Econocracy, a team of students links the dominance of neoclassical economics to an erosion of a wider democratic discussion about how the economy should be seen and organized.
[4] It includes chapters on several heterodox schools of thought written by leading academics in the field.
The Dutch branch of the organization has conducted an extensive curriculum review of undergraduate economics degrees in the Netherlands.
[11] Chief economics commentator of the Financial Times Martin Wolf wrote the foreword to the book and welcomed the initiative.