The age of the contemplative economist-scholar—at home equally in classical languages, economic history, the history of ideas, and mathematical theory—has passed. The history of economics as a subdiscipline has lost touch with the mainstream study of economics. InThe Future of the History of Economics, internationally known scholars from ten countries provide a comparative assessment of the subdiscipline. 2002 Level: mittel The Future of the History of Economics Eliot Roy Weintraub Duke University Press Examine what would happen if we were to deploy blockchain technology at the sovereign level and use it to create a decentralized cashless economy. 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Es beruht auf dem vorbehaltlosen Glauben an den ‚freien Markt‘, an die Selbstregulierung eines blinden Mechanismus und an die segensreichen Wirkungen der Marktkräfte. 2009 Level: mittel Der neoliberale Markt-Diskurs: Ursprünge, Geschichte, Wirkungen Ötsch, Walter; Thomasberger, Claus Metropolis Microeconomics: A Critical Companion offers students a clear and concise exposition of mainstream microeconomics from a heterodox perspective. 2016 Level: leicht Microeconomics - A Critical Companion Ben Fine Pluto Press Macroeconomics is fundamental to our understanding of how the world functions today. But too often our understanding is based on orthodox, dogmatic analysis. 2016 Level: leicht Macroeconomics - A Critical Companion Ben Fine Pluto Press In this classic work of economic history and social theory, Karl Polanyi analyzes the economic and social changes brought about by the "great transformation" of the Industrial Revolution. 2001 Level: mittel The Great Transformation Karl Polanyi Beacon Press This book offers the first systematic analysis of economic thought concerning war. 2020 Level: mittel War in Economic Theories over Time Renata Allio Springer Nature The first book to bring together the key writings and speeches of civil rights activist Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander--the first Black American economist In 1921, Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander became the first Black American to gain a Ph.D. degree in economics. 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Randall Wray, Martin Watts Centre of Full Employment and Equity Contributors attempt to reconcile two major strands of thinking in economic methodology: the rhetoric of economics as advocated by Deirdre McCloskey, and the sociological approach. 1997 Level: mittel Pluralism in Economics Andrea Salanti, Ernesto Screpanti Edward Elgar Eine begriffliche und interdisziplinäre Analyse des Geldes, die im vorliegenden Band dokumentiert ist, lässt in den traditionellen Geldtheorien einen blinden Fleck erkennen. 2016 Level: mittel Geld! Welches Geld? Brodbeck, Karl-Heinz; Graupe, Silja Metropolis In den Jahren seit 2007 stand die Welt vor einer Kernschmelze des Finanzsystems, die nur durch massive Rettungsaktionen der Politik zu Lasten des Steuerzahlers verhindert wurde. 2013 Level: mittel Die große Finanzmarkt- und Staatsschuldenkrise Helge Peukert Metropolis David Graeber introduces different concepts such as money and debt. He takes a historical and anthropological way of explaining the origin. This breaks with the mainstream explanation, which is used in many Economics textbooks, saying that a barter economy was before money arose. 2014 Level: mittel Debt David Graeber Melville House The Great Transformation, 1944 erschienen, geht von der These aus, daß erst die Herausbildung einer liberalen Marktwirtschaft mit ihrem »freien Spiel der Kräfte« zu jener charakteristischen »Herauslösung« und Verselbständigung der Ökonomie gegenüber der Gesellschaft geführt hat, die historisch ein Novum darstellt und die bürgerliche Gesellschaft von allen anderen Gesellschaftsformationen unterscheidet. 1973 Level: mittel The Great Transformation - Politische und ökonomische Ursprünge von Gesellschaften und Wirtschaftssystemen Karl Polanyi Suhrkamp Verlag Economic theory must distinguish between publicly owned and privately owned property if it is to account for the effect of institutions on the behavior of individuals. Careful study of the theories of Marxists and the real-world experience in the Soviet economy offer important lessons and insight for economic modeling and the ongoing development of theory. In this course, Marxist/Leninist theory and Soviet reality will be studied with an open mind, and with the goal of taking lessons from the case study. To what extent was the Soviet economy an accurate expression of Marxist theory? If Marxism were tried somewhere else would the results be the same? 2014 Level: mittel Economic History of the Soviet Union Guinevere Liberty Nell University of Warwick International Economics, 15e continues to combine rigorous economic analysis with attention to the issues of economic policy that are alive and important today in this field. 2011 Level: mittel International Economics Pugel, Thomas A. McGraw Hill Book Co