Finance. Climate. Food. Work. How are the crises of the twenty-first century connected?In "Capitalism in the Web of Life", Jason W. Moore argues that the sources of today's global turbulence have a common cause: capitalism as a way of organizing nature, including human nature. 2015 Level: mittel Capitalism in the Web of Life Jason W. Moore Verso The climate crisis is not primarily a problem of ‘believing science’ or individual ‘carbon footprints’ – it is a class problem rooted in who owns, controls and profits from material production. As such, it will take a class struggle to solve. In this ground breaking class analysis, Matthew T. Huber argues that the carbon-intensive capitalist class must be confronted for producing climate change. 2022 Level: leicht Climate Change as Class War Matthew T. Huber Verso Books One of the world’s leading economists of inequality, Branko Milanovic presents a bold new account of the dynamics that drive inequality on a global scale. Drawing on vast data sets and cutting-edge research, he explains the benign and malign forces that make inequality rise and fall within and among nations. 2016 Level: mittel Global Inequality Branko Milanovic Harvard University Press How did the industrialized nations of North America and Europe come to be seen as the appropriate models for post-World War II societies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America? How did the postwar discourse on development actually create the so-called Third World? And what will happen when development ideology collapses? To answer these questions, Arturo Escobar shows how development policies became mechanisms of control that were just as pervasive and effective as their colonial counterparts. 2012 Level: mittel Encountering Development Arturo Escobar Princeton University Press 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 Was ist Utopie? Ist der Markt eine Utopie? Wofür dient der Markt und als was wird er wahrgenommen? Und ist die Wirtschaftswissenschaft eine Glaubenslehre? In diesem Interview wirft der Literaturwissenschaftler Joseph Vogl, Autor des Buches „Das Gespenst des Kapitals“, neue Sichtweisen und Überlegungen auf den Markt abseits von Gleichgewichten und Austauschprozessen auf. 2012 Level: leicht INDES: Joseph Vogl - Die Utopie des Marktes Joseph Vogl Göttinger Institut für Demokratieforschung Renowned scholars elaborate a critique on neoclassical economics and how it was unable to predict and even favoured the financial crisis. They refer to DSGE models, equilibrium theory and rational agents – a brief insight in the critique on neoclassic economics. 2012 Level: leicht Financial Instability Mini-Documentary Joseph Stiglitz, Gillian Tett, David Tuckett, Stephen Kinsella, John Kay, David Weinstein, Steve Keen and Dirk Bezemer INET Barbara Muraca gibt eine Einführung in das Thema Degrowth, u.a. zu Grenzen das Wachstums - planetarischen aber auch sozialen Grenzen. Dabei spricht sie über Ausbeutung durch eine Verschiebung von Grenzen. Zudem stellt sie dar, wie die Degrowth Perspektive und die Klimagerechtigkeits-Bewegung zusammen passen. 2015 Level: leicht Degrowth – Was steckt hinter der Idee? Barbara Muraca ecapio Economist and 2020 Balzan Prize winner for Environmental Challenges: Responses from the Social Sciences and Humanities, Joan Martínez Alier, speaks on the importance of ecological economics and its timeliness around the 2007/2008 global financial crisis. He speaks on the importance of building the field of ecological economics “from the ground up” through praxis. 2012 Level: leicht Ecological Economics Joan Martinez Alier Extraenvironmentalist Based on a critique on econometric and DSGE models (in particular in the context of the financial crisis), Doyne Farmer presents his current research programme that aims at building an agent-based model of the financial and economic crisis. It models heterogeneous agents and from there simulates the economy, firstly for the housing market. The interview gives a short insight in the research programme. 2011 Level: leicht Macroeconomics From the Bottom Up Doyne Farmer INET Sheila Dow discusses the concept of radical uncertainty and the failure of neoclassical economics to integrate it into its analysis. As to the implications for financial regulation that arise from the presence of radical uncertainty she argues for institutional overhaul, where the banks see themselves as a licensed partner of the central bank and where rules, values, and conventions would be subject to a cultural shift. Also, Sheila Dow advocates for a renewed focus on retail banking. 2015 Level: mittel The Economics of Uncertainty Sheila Dow INET In the interview, Robert Skidelsky discusses the emergence of political influence of a certain school of economic thought and how the success of an economic theory depends on the power relations in the society. He introduces the historical example of Keynesian economics and its replacement by liberal economic theory and policy in the aftermath of the Great Depression, and transfers this historical case to the dominant paradigm of austerity policies in the Europe as response to rising public debts caused by the Financial Crisis. He contrasts austerity policies with a Keynesian approach. Furthermore, he relates the targets of policy to the underlying power structures, for example when not the reduction of unemployment but the protection of financial capital is politically addressed. 2015 Level: mittel Economics and Political Power during the Crisis Robert Skidelsky INET In this keynote speech, Roger Backhouse gives a historical overview of theories on secular stagnation: how it evolved from a description of the economic situation, especially in the U.S. of the 1930s to an analytical tool and then lost importance until its current revival. Backhouse touches upon the contributions of J. A. Hobson, Alvin Hansen, Evsey Domar and Paul Samuelson. 2015 Level: mittel Theories of stagnation in historical perspective Roger Backhouse IMK Was sind Finanzmärkte, Hedgefonds und Schattenbanken? Über diese Fragen erläutert Brigitte Young die Funktionen von Finanzmärkten und Hedgefonds, sowie deren Dysfunktionen anhand prominenter Beispiele. Young geht zudem auf die Regulierung von Hedgefonds nach der Finanzkrise und den Zusammenhang zum Schattebankensystem ein. Zuletzt stellt sie die Frage, ob das Finanzsystem einen sozialen Nutzen hat. 2015 Level: leicht Hedgefonds und Schattenbanken - Widerstreitende Interessen auf den Finanzmärkten? Brigitte Young Netzwerk Plurale Ökonomik In diesem Vortrag „Von der Neoklassik zum ökonomischen Mainstream“ entwickelt Silja Graupe „kritische Reflexionen zur Entwicklung modernen ökonomischen Denkens“. Was machst die Denkweise der „modernen Lehrbuchökonomie“ aus? Welche Konsequenzen hat diese und wie hat sie sich historisch herausgebildet? 2015 Level: mittel Von der Neoklassik zum ökonomischen Mainstream Silja Graupe Netzwerk Plurale Ökonomik What is innovation, what drives innovation and the process that differentiates firms? What is competition and what kind of dynamics lie behind the differences between firms and their innovative activities? Mariana Mazzucato elaborates on those questions from an evolutionary economics' and Schumpeterian perspective. The slides of her lecture are not visible, hence some visualizations can't be followed. 2014 Level: mittel Economics of Innovation Mariana Mazzucato INET Feminist economist Nancy Folbre presents a historical analysis of the interrelated development of Patriarchy and Capitalism. She describes the role of women in the reproduction of labour, their “specialization” in care and their changing involvement in the labour market. Folbre argues that capitalism weakens patriarchy but at the same time relies on unpaid caring activities. 2010 Level: leicht Women's Work and the Limits of Capitalism Nancy Folbre The New School Das Panel erörtert das Konzept einer grünen Wirtschaft, stellt insbesondere Kritiken an der grünen Wirtschaft vor und spricht dabei problematische Aspekte einer grünen Wirtschaft an. 2016 Level: leicht Kritik der Grünen Ökonomie – Welches Wirtschaftsmodell brauchen wir? Diskussion mit Tim Jackson Tim Jackson; Gerhard Schick; Barbara Unmüßig; Lili Fuhr; Thomas Fatheuer Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Even if men were perceived as the main protagonists of the Greek crisis, the crisis had a deep impact on disadvantaged groups, in particular migrant women working as domestic labourers. The debate presents the particular impact on migrant women of the downturn and furthermore discusses how migrant struggles and other emancipatory movements impacted the politics of crisis. The first minutes of the video are in German, but the moderator switches to English. 2015 Level: leicht Invisible women? Crisis, gender and migration in Greece 2015 Nelli Kampouri; Debbie Carlos-Valencia Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Die Vereine Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie und Fairbindung e.V. haben gemeinsam mit dem Webportal „Endlich Wachstum! Bildungsmaterialien für eine sozial-ökologische Transformation eine umfassende Methodensammlung aus über 100 Methoden veröffentlicht. Die Methoden regen auf vielfältige Weise dazu an, sich mit Bedingungen unseres derzeitigen Wirtschaftens sowie möglichen Alternativen zu beschäftigen. 2016 Level: leicht Endlich Wachstum! Bildungsmaterialien für eine sozial-ökologische Transformation FairBindung; Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie FairBindung; Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie „Wirtschaft neu denken“ umfasst 20 Rezensionen aktuell einflussreicher Lehrbücher und zeigt: Viele Standardwerke blenden wissenschaftliche und gesellschaftliche Kontroversen systematisch aus und stellen wirtschaftliche Zusammenhänge, die seit jeher in hohem Maße komplex und umstritten sind, als scheinbar objektive Gesetzmäßigkeiten dar. 2016 Level: leicht Wirtschaft neu denken - Blinde Flecken der Lehrbuchökonomie Till van Treeck; Janina Urban Forschungsinstitut für gesellschaftliche Weiterentwicklung What does political economy say about the global sugar production? Take a look at global trade regulations, intercountry inequalities, and the role of marketing. 2015 Level: leicht Global sugar production - regulations, intercountry inequalities, and marketing Ben Richardson I-PEEL In the inspiring interview on Economics of Care, Nancy Foblre takes a closer look to the consequences of the marketization of caring activities on those activities and on the societal organization of care. Folbre elaborates on how to value care and how this shifts the perspectives on living standards. She points to the fact, that caring activities are undervalued both in the market sphere and within the family and thereby questions the division between those spheres. Lastly, Folbre answers the question how to reteach Economics when accounting for caring activities. 2016 Level: leicht The Economics of Care Nancy Folbre INET This historic timeline presents economic events, economic thinkers and schools of thought from the 18th century until the 2007/2008 financial and economic crisis with short texts on the respective event or perspective. 2017 Level: leicht Economics: An Illustrated Timeline Heske van Doornen theminsky.org This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Economic theory is centuries out of date and that's a disaster for ... 2014 Level: leicht Why it's time for 'Doughnut Economics' Kate Raworth TEDx In this lecture, Beatrice Cherrier explains why it is worth to research the history of JEL codes. The changing relationship between theory and application and the rise and death of new economic topics in the XXth century through the successive revisions of the classification system economists use to publish, recruit and navigate their discipline. 2017 Level: leicht Understanding the transformation of Economics through the history of JEL codes Beatrice Cherrier Lecture series at the Ruhr-University Bochum Keynesianische Ökonomen kritisieren die angebotsorientierte Deutung der Krise. Sie argumentieren, dass die Exportdefizite heutiger Krisenländer die Kehrseite einer schwachen Binnennachfrage in einer Reihe von Ländern im "Zentrum" der Eurozone sind. 2017 Level: leicht Die keynesianische Interpretation der Eurokrise | bpb Till van Treeck Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung Diese Vorlesung gibt einen ersten Einblick in die Komplexitätsökonomie. 2017 Level: leicht Komplexitätsökonomik – Geschichte, Theorie und Methodik Claudius Gräbner Ringvorlesung an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum im SoSe17 This article makes a necessary connection between economics as an academic discipline and recent events surrounding sexual harassment in the workplace. To get justice, targets must show measurable harm: economists can help. 2018 Level: leicht $MeToo: The Economic Cost of Sexual Harassment Lynn Parramore Institute for New Economic Thinking On this episode of the Hayek Program Podcast, Professor Roger Koppl talks with Hayek Program Research Fellow Solomon Stein about his research on experts, evolution, and the dynamics of epistemics, his career, and in what future direction(s) he thinks Austrian economics will go. 2018 Level: mittel Austrian Epistemics Roger Koppl and Solomon Stein Mercatus Center: F. A. Hayek Program, GMU Snow removal, ambulance transport, and school performance -the film aims at illustrating the principles of gender mainstreaming through concrete examples. 2014 Level: leicht Sustainable Gender Equality - a film about gender mainstreaming in practice Sveriges Kommuner och Landsting YouTube - UN Women In this short talk, Nicole Pepperell discusses Albert Hirschman's book "Rival Views of Market Society and Other Recent Essays". Among others, he discusses different conceptions of the characteristics and dynamics of capitalist societies. 2014 Level: mittel Nicole Pepperell on Albert Hirschman - Rival Interpretations of Market Society Speaker: Nicole Pepperell; Albert Hirschman YouTube