Julie Richardson
I am an economist that has practiced in mainstream and alternative traditions for over 40 years. This has taken me to extraordinary places around the world, across four continents, where I have worked for the UN, national governments, NGO’s and academia. Recently, I completed my PhD with the University of Plymouth and was awarded the Schumacher Society Fellowship. This research tracks my work and life as a practicing economist, to inquire into why the practice of mainstream and many alternative branches of economics leads to experiences of detachment from the everyday world in which ordinary people experience and live their economic lives. I go on to develop a new ‘entangled’ approach to economic thinking and practice that is more responsive to what is happening in everyday economic life and that opens up new pathways to ‘perform’ or bring in to being different types of wellbeing economies.
