Jakob Nitschke

This short video visualizes the destabilizing effects financial markets can have on food prices, based on a paper by Jayati Ghosh. It introduces and explains the idea of future contracts and how those are used to speculate with basic food stuffs. After establishing the concepts, the video sketches out how the increase in those practices resulted in a substantial rise and later collapse of food prices around 2008 with severe consequences for many developing countries and their people. 2021 Level: leicht Food and Finance Jezri Krinsky blobMetropolis Unser Wirtschaftssystem hat sich unsichtbar gemacht und entzieht sich dem Verständnis. In den letzten Jahren hatten wir oft nicht mehr als ein diffuses und unbefriedigendes Gefühl, dass etwas schief läuft. Aber was? Der Dokumentarfilm OECONOMIA deckt die Spielregeln des Kapitalismus auf und macht in einer episodischen Erzählstruktur sichtbar, dass die Wirtschaft paradoxerweise nur wächst, wenn wir uns verschulden, dass Gewinne nur möglich sind, wenn wir uns verschulden. 2020 Level: leicht Oeconomia Carmen Losmann Petrolio Film GmbH / Deckert Distribution GmbH The Money View Symposium was hosted by YSI on 5-7 February, 2021. The Symposium showcased the work of scholars and practitioners that make use of the so-called Money View, ranging from economists to lawyers, politicians and social scientists at large. The symposium aims to illuminate the main tenets of the Money View and to demonstrate its juxtaposition to the mainstream. 2021 Level: mittel Money View Symposium 2021 various Young Scholars Initiative Central banking is anything but clear-cut. As this webinar with Benjamin Braun demonstrates, the standard view of central banks as independent public entities that govern financial markets and "print" money is at least partially misleading. 2020 Level: leicht Central banking, Finance and Power Benjamin Braun crashcourseeconomics.org Nathan Tankus created this series to introduce people outside of the inner financial circles of professionals, journalists and policymakers to the basic mechanisms and dynamics of monetary policy. 2020 Level: mittel Monetary Policy 101 Nathan Tankus https://nathantankus.substack.com Shadow banking became one of the main features of modern market based financial capitalism and financial globalisation. Daniel Gabor locates this development in a Super-Cycle framework and sketches out opportunities to launch a new cycle that is green and just through financial regulation and publicly organised sustainable finance. 2019 Level: mittel Shadow banking and financial market regulation FFM Conference 2019, Daniela Gabor Hans-Böckler-Stiftung Economists claim they are not biased or ideological, but research by economist Mohsen Javdani tells another story. Javdani discovered that 82% of economists claim that statements and arguments should be evaluated on the content only, but the results of the study show the exact opposite. 2020 Level: leicht The Dangerous Ideological Bias of Economists Mohsen Javdani INET - Institute for New Economic Thinking In the fifth part of the Economics of COVID-19 Webinar by SOAS, Jo Michell sketches out the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the wider macroeconomy and warns against a resurgence of austerity politics. 2020 Level: mittel Will Coronavirus Mean the End of Austerity? The Macroeconomics of the COVID-19 Crisis SOAS Open Economics Forum, SOAS Economics Department, Jo Michell SOAS University of London Die internationale makrofinanzielle Architektur erlitt im März 2020 einen Schock: Nachdem globale Lieferketten geschlossen wurden, froren Offshore Geldmärkte ein. Die wichtigen Zentralbanken reagierten schnell und beliehen sich gegenseitig mit Währung. 2020 Level: leicht Zentralbankkooperation funktioniert – für manche Mathis Richtmann Dezernat Zukunft This Forum in the Boston Review deals with the role of economics in modern policymaking and presents a wide set of perspectives on the topic. The opening text by Suresh Naidu, Dani Rodrik and Gabriel Zucman aims to answer a range of common criticisms against the modern, neoclassical science of economics and its influence on public discussions. 2019 Level: leicht Economics After Neoliberalism Suresh Naidu, Dani Rodrik, Gabriel Zucman Boston Review Banner and Pastor debunk granted assumptions of the neoclassical theory, such as self-interested human behavior, the necessity of inequality and growth, to pull the threads between the new possible foundations of our society, "prosperity, security and community". 2020 Level: leicht Solidarity Economics—for the Coronavirus Crisis and Beyond Chris Benner, Manuel Pastor The American Prospect In dieser Folge gibt Ulrike Herrmann, Wirtschaftsjournalistin und Publizistin (taz) einen Impulsvortrag mit Fokus auf die aktuell beschlossenen Maßnahmen, Haushaltsentwicklung und Staatsverschuldung in Zeiten der Krise. 2020 Level: leicht Steuert Europa auf den Crash zu? Aktuelle Krisenmaßnahmen und ihre Folgen Gerhard Schick, Ulrike Herrmann Finanzwende 2008 Level: mittel Stabilizing an Unstable Economy Hyman Minsky McGraw Hill Professional In this revealing book, Katharina Pistor argues that the law selectively “codes” certain assets, endowing them with the capacity to protect and produce private wealth. With the right legal coding, any object, claim, or idea can be turned into capital—and lawyers are the keepers of the code. 2019 Level: mittel The Code of Capital Katharina Pistor Princeton University Press Trade disputes are usually understood as conflicts between countries with competing national interests, but as Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis show in this book, they are often the unexpected result of domestic political choices to serve the interests of the rich at the expense of workers and ordinary retirees. 2020 Level: mittel Trade Wars Are Class Wars Matthew C. Klein & Michael Pettis Yale University Press Game theory is the standard quantitative tool for analyzing the interactions of multiple decision makers. Its applications extend to economics, biology, engineering and even cyber security. Level: mittel Game Theory I - Static Games Justin Grana Santa Fe Institute In this course you'll learn about the tools used by scientists to understand complex systems. The topics you'll learn about include dynamics, chaos, fractals, information theory, self-organization, agent-based modeling, and networks. Level: mittel Introduction to Complexity Melanie Mitchel, Santiago Guisasola Santa Fe Institute