We set up this group because we felt that traditional market economics does not provide many of the answers and solutions that the world needs to solve its very urgent problems. We therefore do not want to restrict our discussion to traditional market economics but explore what is often termed ‘new economics’, which we think provides interesting and relevant alternatives. All members share a wealth of opinions, questions and a diversity of ideas that we all benefit from and would not normally have come into contact with. We all suggest topics, which may be a talk on YouTube, an online article or we might follow a series of lectures.