<p><a href="http://www.cresc.ac.uk/people/prof-michael-moran">Mick Moran</a> is a researcher at the <a href="http://www.cresc.ac.uk/">Centre for Socio-cultural Change</a>, University of Manchester.</p
The financial crisis demonstrated extraordinary failures on the part of policy elites and economic experts. And yet we remain governed by technocrats. We need to re-politicise economic policy-making, or else repeat the mistakes of the past.