Margaret Legum studied economics at Rhodes University and Cambridge. She and her late husband, Colin, were banned from their home country, South Africa, in 1962 for speaking out against apartheid. Now based in the UK and South Africa as a lecturer and journalist, she views current macroeconomic theory, based on the sovereignty of global market forces, as a threat to freedom in both developed and developing countries alike.

• Old economics: what went wrong; The dearth of purchasing power; Alternative sources of government revenue; Taming the tiger: bringing capital down to earth; Localising globally; The road to New Economics; The heart and soul of economics

Margaret Legum studied economics at Rhodes University and Cambridge. She and her late husband, Colin, were banned from their home country, South Africa, in 1962 for speaking out against apartheid. Now based in the UK and South Africa as a lecturer and journalist, she views current macroeconomic theory, based on the sovereignty of global market forces, as a threat to freedom in both developed and developing countries alike.

• Old economics: what went wrong; The dearth of purchasing power; Alternative sources of government revenue; Taming the tiger: bringing capital down to earth; Localising globally; The road to New Economics; The heart and soul of economics

Margaret Legum studied economics at Rhodes University and Cambridge. She and her late husband, Colin, were banned from their home country, South Africa, in 1962 for speaking out against apartheid. Now based in the UK and South Africa as a lecturer and journalist, she views current macroeconomic theory, based on the sovereignty of global market forces, as a threat to freedom in both developed and developing countries alike.

• Old economics: what went wrong; The dearth of purchasing power; Alternative sources of government revenue; Taming the tiger: bringing capital down to earth; Localising globally; The road to New Economics; The heart and soul of economics