Mainstream economics was founded on many strong assumptions. Institutions and politics were treated as irrelevant, government as exogenous, social norms as epiphenomena. As an initial gambit this was fine. But as the horizons of economic inquiry have broadened, these assumptions have becomehindrances rather than aids.

2003

Level: mittel

Prelude to Political Economy

Kaushik Basu

Oxford University Press

Once in a while the world astonishes itself. Anxious incredulity replaces intellectual torpor and a puzzled public strains its antennae in every possible direction, desperately seeking explanations for the causes and nature of what just hit it. 2008 was such a moment. Not only did the financial system collapse, and send the real economy into a tailspin, but it also revealed the great gulf separating economics from a very real capitalism.

2011

Level: mittel

Modern Political Economics

Yanis Varoufakis, Joseph Halevi, Nicholas Theocarakis

Routledge

To explain the pronounced instability of the world economy since the 1970s, the book offers an important and systematic theoretical examination of money and finance.

1999

Level: mittel

Political Economy of Money and Finance

Costas Lapavitsas; Makoto Itoh

Palgrave Macmillan

Feministische Ökonomie gibt einen grundlegenden Einblick in feministische Kritiken an ökonomischen Theorien sowie in die wichtigsten Ansätze feministischer Theoriebildung. Es stellt ihre Entstehung und ihre Kern­themen dar.

2016

Level: leicht

Feministische Ökonomie

Haidinger, Bettina; Knittler, Käthe;

Mandelbaum

Dieser Band führt umfassend in die feministische Diskussion zur politischen Ökonomie ein. Internationale Wissenschaftlerinnen aus den Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften stellen hier eine systematische Kritik von Theorien und Modellen des traditionellen ökonomischen Denkens dar. Ausgehend von zentralen ökonomischen Kategorien wie Geld, Tausch und Rationalität werden alternative Perspektiven auf Handels-, Sozial- und Wirtschaftspolitik entwickelt.

2010

Level: mittel

Gender and Economics

Christine Bauhardt, Gülay Caglar

Springer-Verlag

A Study of Capitalist Rule This book aims at presenting and assessing imperialism as a theoretical concept It aims to provide a comprehensive evaluation focusing specifically on the tension between Marx s theoretical system of the Critique of Political Economy and the theories of capitalist expansion and domination For over …

2009

Level: mittel

Rethinking Imperialism

J. Milios, D. Sotiropoulos

Springer

Seit Beginn der globalen Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise 2007 steht auch die akademische Disziplin der Ökonomie in der Kritik. Dabei ist die Ökonomie nicht nur mit dem Vorwurf konfrontiert, man hätte die Entstehung der Krise sowie die ihr zugrunde liegenden mittel- bis langfristigen Entwicklungen nicht ausreichend beachtet und antizipiert.

2016

Level: leicht

Ökonomie! Welche Ökonomie?

Kapeller, Jakob; Pühringer, Stephan; Hirte, Katrin; Ötsch, Walter

Metropolis

Understanding Capitalism: Competition, Command, and Change is an introduction to economics that explains how capitalism works, why it sometimes fails, and how it undergoes and brings about change. It discusses both the conventional economic model and the role of power in economic interactions.

2017

Level: leicht

Understanding Capitalism

Samuel Bowles, Frank Roosevelt, Richard Edwards, and Mehrene Larudee

Oxford University Press

Readers of economic and political theory as well as students of economic planning will appreciate this classic, now available for the first time in English. Written eighty years ago, when Sorel became disillusioned with the official socialism of the German and French Marxist parties, this new translation presents Sorel's analysis of the rise and fall of the two great modern ideologies: socialism and liberal capitalism.

2017

Level: mittel

Social Foundations of Contemporary Economics

Georges Sorel

Routledge

Mainstream economics almost completely ignores the role power plays in determining economic outcomes, which means it can only provide partial explanations of the distribution of wealth and income, and of the problems associated with inequality and poverty.

2016

Level: mittel

Power and Neoclassical Economics

Ozanne, Adam

Palgrave Pivot

Dieses Buch entwickelt eine kritische Theorie der Wirtschaft, die zum Ausgangspunkt nimmt, dass Wirtschaftswissenschaft nicht nur ihren Gegenstand beschreibt und analysiert, sondern sozialontologisch konstituiert. Im Mittelpunkt steht das Konzept der Performativität.

2018

Level: schwer

Grundlegung einer kritischen Theorie der Wirtschaft

Herrmann-Pillath, Carsten

Metropolis