Wie werden demokratische Übergänge zu einem Leben und Wirtschaften möglich, deren Qualität und Stabilität nicht vom permanenten ökonomischen Wachstum abhängen? Reicht dafür eine Bottom-up-Strategie? Reichen all die Non-profit-Unternehmen, Tauschläden und Kulturen des Selbermachens als Keime einer im Entstehen begriffenen Postwachstumsökonomie und -gesellschaft? 2017 Level: mittel Postwachstumspolitiken Frank Adler, Ulrich Schachtschneider Oekom Wir sind in einem Zeitalter angekommen, in dem der Mensch verschwinden könnte - und mit ihm die Welt, die er so gnadenlos ausbeutet. Denn was ist heute für uns nicht billig und schnell zu haben - auf Kosten der vielen Menschen, die weniger privilegiert sind als wir? 2018 Level: mittel Entwertung Raj Patel, Jason W. Moore Rowohlt Berlin Planetary Mine rethinks the politics and territoriality of resource extraction, especially as the mining industry becomes reorganized in the form of logistical networks, and East Asian economies emerge as the new pivot of the capitalist world-system. 2020 Level: mittel Planetary Mine Martín Arboleda Verso Books Over the last decade, the world's largest corporations - from The Coca Cola Company to Amazon, Apple to Unilever - have taken up the cause of combatting modern slavery. Yet, by most measures, across many sectors and regions, severe labour exploitation continues to soar. Corporate social responsibility is not working. Why? 2020 Level: leicht Combatting Modern Slavery Genevieve LeBaron Polity Press This fresh and unique textbook provides students and general readers with an introduction to economics from a new and much needed perspective, characterised by its uniquely pluralist, sustainable, progressive and global approach. Unlike traditional textbooks, Introducing a New Economics contains the key concepts of pluralism, sustainability and justice. It provides students with the central questions covered by economics including resources, work, employment, poverty, inequality, power, capital, markets, money, debt and value. 2015 Level: leicht Introducing a New Economics Jack Reardon, Maria Alejandra Caporale Madi, and Molly Scott Cato Pluto Press This book highlights the political economy of wealth and income inequality in Latin America. The author segments his analysis to separately evaluate the economic, social, and political costs of inequality building on country case studies. It draws well-contextualized lessons from the Latin American experience that is important to consider for other regional contexts, especially for social policies of nations within the 'Middle Income Trap'. 2020 Level: leicht The Costs of Inequality in Latin America Diego Sánchez-Ancochea Bloomsbury Academic Adam Smith and Karl Marx recognized that the best way to understand the economy is to study the most advanced practice of production. Today that practice is no longer conventional manufacturing: it is the radically innovative vanguard known as the knowledge economy. 2019 Level: leicht The Knowledge Economy Roberto Mangabeira Unger Verso Books In this book, the author, Intan Suwandi, engages with the question of imperialism through the specific channel of Global Value Chains. 2019 Level: leicht Value Chains Intan Suwandi NYU Press This book provides important insights into agrarian history and the economic and cultural meanings associated with land. 2019 Level: leicht The Cultural Economy of Land Suhita Sinha Roy Tulika Books Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People s Economy The leading thinker and most visible public advocate of modern monetary theory the freshest and most important idea about economics in decades delivers a radically different bold new understanding for how to build a just and prosperous society Stephanie … 2020 Level: leicht The Deficit Myth Stephanie Kelton Hachette UK Die finale Krise der Weltwirtschaft Haben sie sich in der Dauerkrise des kapitalistischen Weltsystems schon häuslich eingerichtet Können sie noch den Überblick behalten über all die Schuldenberge die gerade zusammenbrechen Wie sortieren sich für sie Klima Wirtschafts Schulden Euro Öko und Flüchtlingskrise Wo fängt die eine an wo hört die … 2016 Level: mittel Kapitalkollaps Tomasz Konicz KVV Konkret Warum wir niemals nicht arbeiten und immer weniger davon leben können: Mitreissend beschreiben Mareile Pfannebecker und James A. Smith, wie sich Arbeit in den letzten Jahrzehnten transformiert hat. 2022 Level: mittel Alles ist Arbeit Mareile Pfannebecker, James A. Smith Edition Nautilus wie wir anders arbeiten nachhaltig wirtschaften und besser leben Der frei verfügbare Sammelband Zeitwohlstand wie wir anders arbeiten nachhaltig wirtschaften und besser leben enthält Beiträge u a vom Friederike Habermann Figga Haug Hartmut Rosa und Nico Paech zum Umgang mit Zeit im Kontext von Entfremdung Beschleunigung Effizienz und Wohlstandsstreben Dabei … 2013 Level: leicht Zeitwohlstand Lena Kirschenmann Oekom Verlag GmbH Lean Logic is the late David Fleming’s masterpiece, the product of more than thirty years’ work and a testament to the creative brilliance of one of Britain’s most important intellectuals. A dictionary unlike any other, it leads readers through Fleming’s stimulating exploration of fields as diverse as culture, history, science, art, logic, ethics, myth, economics, and anthropology, being made up of four hundred and four engaging essay-entries covering topics such as Boredom, Community, Debt, Growth, Harmless Lunatics, Land, Lean Thinking, Nanotechnology, Play, Religion, Spirit, Trust, and Utopia. The threads running through every entry are Fleming’s deft and original analysis of how our present market-based economy is destroying the very foundations—ecological, economic, and cultural— on which it depends, and his core focus: a compelling, grounded vision for a cohesive society that might weather the consequences 2020 Level: leicht Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It the late Dr. David Fleming LeanLogic.online This book provides a comprehensive description of this intriguing new area of feminist economics. It includes discussion of what constitutes feminist economics and how feminist economics is different from other approaches 2020 Level: mittel Advanced Introduction to Feminist Economics Joyce P Jacobsen Edward Elgar Source image UMassEconomics Youtbe channel Stephen Resnick UMassEconomics University of Massachusetts Amherst Level: leicht Marxian Economics Lectures Stephen Resnick University of Massachusetts Amherst "The New Classical Macroeconomics "gives an accessible, rigorous, critical account of the central doctrines of the new classical economics, without unnecessarily difficult mathematics. It focuses on four central issues: the foundation of monetary theory; monetary and fiscal policy; labour supply and business cycles; and the attack on econometric models. 1990 Level: mittel The New Classical Macroeconomics Kevin D. Hoover B. Blackwell Wenn wir die ökologische Krise verstehen wollen, müssen wir die Arbeitswelt verstehen, sagt Simon Schaupp und plädiert für eine kämpferische Stoffwechselpolitik. 2024 Level: leicht Simon Schaupp zu Stoffwechselpolitik | Future Histories Podcast Simon Schaupp und Jan Groos Future Histories Podcast Why are income inequalities so large and why do they continue to increase in so many countries? What role can minimum wages play in reducing social and economic inequalities? What is a good system of wage bargaining? What constitutes a fair wage? Level: leicht Fair Wage Strategies in a Global Economy Hansjörg Herr, Maité Llanos, Gilad Isaacs, Susan Hayter, Patrick Belser, Mary Bellman, Luis Campos, Frank Hoffer Global Labour University Until the end of the early 1970s, from a history of economic thought perspective, the mainstream in economics was pluralist, but once neoclassical economics became totally dominant it claimed the mainstream as its own. Since then, alternative views and schools of economics increasingly became minorities in the discipline and were considered 'heterodox'. 2016 Level: mittel Reclaiming Pluralism in Economics Jerry Courvisanos, Jamie Doughney, Alex Millmow Routledge The economics of worker cooperatives is a branch of economic inquiry with a long and esteemed pedigree, dating at least from the work of John Stuart Mill in the mid-nineteenth century. 2013 Level: mittel The Economics of Worker Cooperatives John H. Pencavel Edward Elgar Publishing Limited hether it's working for free in exchange for 'experience', enduring poor treatment in the name of being 'part of the family', or clocking serious overtime for a good cause, more and more of us are pushed to make sacrifices for the privilege of being able to do work we enjoy. Work Won't Love You Back examines how we all bought into this 'labour of love' myth: the idea that certain work is not really work, and should be done for the sake of passion rather than pay. 2021 Level: leicht Work Won't Love You Back Sarah Jaffe C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd Anders als der Mainstream der Ökonomie nimmt die Feministische Ökonomik das Ganze des Wirtschaftens in den Blick: die ein Drittel der bezahlten und die zwei Drittel der unbezahlten Arbeiten, die das Fundament unserer Wirtschaft bilden. 2024 Level: leicht Feministische Ökonomie und Bildung Daniela Gottschlich AG kritische ökonomische Bildung As the world's energy system faces a period of unprecedented change, a global struggle over who controls the sector--and for what purposes--is intensifying. The question of "green capitalism" is now unavoidable, for capitalist planners and anti-capitalist struggles alike. 2010 Level: mittel Sparking a Worldwide Energy Revolution Kolya Abramsky AK Press This edited volume presents a collection of articles that engage with various concepts from Marx’s Capital and Marxian theory in general, from a ‘Southern’ perspective. The book engages with four specific themes: “Reception of Capital in the East; Value, Commodity, Surplus Value and Capitalism; Population and Rent in Capital; and Issues Beyond Capital”. 2019 Level: leicht ‘Capital’ in the East Achin Chakraborty, Anjan Chakrabarti, Byasdeb Dasgupta, Samita Sen Springer Nature Source image GC Videography Fellows Youtube channel David Harvey davidharvey org City University of New York Level: mittel Marx and Capital: The Concept, The Book, The History David Harvey City University of New York In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Bombay was beset by crises such as famine and plague. Yet, rather than halting the flow of capital, these crises served to secure it. In colonial Bombay, capitalists and governors, Indian and British alike, used moments of crisis to justify interventions that delimited the city as a distinct object and progressively excluded laborers and migrants from it. 2019 Level: mittel Making the Modern Slum Sheetal Chhabria University of Washington Press How did Britain's economy become a bastion of inequality? In this landmark book, the author of The New Enclosure provides a forensic examination and sweeping critique of early-twenty-first-century capitalism. Brett Christophers styles this as 'rentier capitalism', in which ownership of key types of scarce assets--such as land, intellectual property, natural resources, or digital platforms--is all-important and dominated by a few unfathomably wealthy companies and individuals: rentiers. 2020 Level: leicht Rentier Capitalism Brett Christophers Verso Books Work defines who we are It determines our status and dictates how where and with whom we spend most of our time It mediates our self worth and molds our values But are we hard wired to work as hard as we do Did our Stone Age ancestors also live … 2020 Level: leicht Work James Suzman Bloomsbury Circus 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 Has neoliberalism destroyed gender equality Advocate author and broadcaster Beatrix Campbell examines the emergence of a new model of patriarchy and proposes solutions Beatrix Campbell iai Level: leicht End of Equality Beatrix Campbell iai A Theory From bestselling writer David Graeber a master of opening up thought and stimulating debate Slate a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless unfulfilling jobs and their consequences Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world In the spring of 2013 David Graeber asked this question … 2019 Level: leicht Bullshit Jobs David Graeber Simon and Schuster