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Als Reaktion auf die russische Invasion in die Ukraine haben westliche Staaten eine Reihe beispielloser Sanktionen verhängt. Viele davon treffen das russisch...
This website belongs to PolyluxMarx and provides open access material for use while reading Karl Marx Capital For several years now people have been starting to dust off Marx and return to his analysis of society This is mainly due to the social turmoil in global capitalism weaknesses in prevailing …
Study of the German Council of Economic Experts on the potential economic effects of a comprehensive energy embargo against Russia
Western sanctions on Russia after its invasion of Ukraine quickly led the Ruble to lose more than 45 percent of its value. But these days, the Russian currency is back to its pre-war value. Cameron and Adam explain the turnaround and discuss what it means for the war.
Ist (übermäßiger) Reichtum moralisch verwerflich? Oder ist die Aussicht darauf ein notwendiger wirtschaftlicher Treiber?
An vielen Stellen scheinen die Dinge nicht so zu laufen wie sie laufen sollten die ökonomische Ungleichheit ist groß bloßes Wohnen wird immer teurer öffentliche Güter wie Krankenhäuser oder Universitäten geraten unter einen ökonomischen Erfolgsdruck der ihrer ursprünglichen Funktion nicht gut tut Der renommierte Philosoph Axel Honneth erkennt ein allgemeines …
Der Beitrag "Der neue "woke" Kapitalismus - Eine Mogelpackung" bietet Reflexion und Auseinandersetzung mit dem Phänomen, dass Konzerne die Werte sozialer Bewegungen übernehmen bzw. sich diese aneignen.
By the end of this course, students should understand the basic economic theories of the gender division of labor in the home and at the workplace, and theories of gender differences in compensation and workforce segregation.
To what extent does gender affect people's patterns of labor force participation, educational preparation for work, occupations, hours of work (paid and unpaid) and earnings?
This course is an introduction to Development Economics and is concerned with how economists have sought to explain how the process of economic growth occurs, and how – or whether – that delivers improved well-being of people.
In this interview Gerd Gigerenzer place bounded rationality into the context of a larger development in thinking about what rationality is He touches on unbounded rationality which remains overrepresented and popular in neoclassical economics he explains different interpretations of bounded rationality and concludes with an ecological interpretation of rationality He …
This lecture course, which will be taught in English, will deal with gender issues in developing countries. After providing an overview of the gender differences in various aspects of welfare and economic life, the course will then tackle a number of specific issues.
This graduate-level course examines issues related to women’s paid and unpaid work during a time of rapid integration of world markets. Students will analyze the role of government policy, unions, corporate responsibility, and social movements in raising women's wages, promoting equal opportunity, fighting discrimination in the workplace, and improving working conditions.
What are the debates, feminist and otherwise, surrounding the phenomena of globalization? How does a gendered lens complicate our understandings of neoliberal globalization? How are particular labor regimes integral to global restructuring, and how are these gendered? What are the implications of global restructuring for bodies, identities, relations, and movements?
In this class we will explore how globalization shapes and is shaped by gender norms with a particular focus on questions related to ‘work,’ mobility and well-being.
For many social critics "globalization" is a signpost of “late-capitalism” with the rise of multinational corporations, mass consumption and the multidirectional flows of capital, labor, media, communication, ideologies and social movements across national borders. Feminist analyses of globalization and the gendered and sexualized permutations of these phenomena offer a critical stance for theorizing these processes, and for studying their complex articulations across time and space.
The podcast is an interview of Silvia Federici by David Denvir. It is centred around her book 'Caliban and the Witch - Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation', but they also draw lines to contemporary issues and political struggles. Federici analyses the emergence of capitalism through a radical Feminist-Marxist lens.
The piece describes some of the effects that Nixon's decision to delink the dollar from gold in the 1970s had for the relationship between the IMF and its member states. A focus is on the negative effects of this change on societies in the Global South.
The lecturer focuses on his own paper The Economic Limits of Bitcoin and Anonymous Decentralized Trust on the Blockchain analysing the innovation of cryptocurrencies particularly bitcoin and its economic credibility The innovator of cryptocurrency Satoshi Nakamoto incorporated an interesting combination of computer sciences and economics The paper argues the limitations …
El Buen Vivir wird im westlich geprägten Diskurs der Entwicklungstheorie oft unzureichend mit The Good Living oder dem guten Leben übersetzt. Dies lässt wichtige Elemente des in südamerikanischen Indigenenbewegungen verwurzelten Prinzips vermissen
Asset Management firms control large parts of the global economy Just the three American asset management firms BlackRock Vanguard and State Street manage more than half of the combined value of all shares for companies in the S P 500 Their combined managed assets amount to 22 trillion May 2022 …
Sabel and Zeitlin present the persistence of small firms in Europe against the rise of mass production and modern enterprises Their article starts by analysing how mass production can be considered a historical necessity for the classical view as it is a highly specialized structure where man and machine can …
Mitch Jeserich interviews Professor Richard D Wolff a professor of economics at the New School University in New York City Prof Wolff presents an explanatory theory of how inflation occurs in an economy Briefly profit driven employers raise the price in order to maximize profits of private corporations they own …
Why did inflation lift of in 2022? Are there differences between the US and the Eurozone and if so, what are they?
The Atlas of Economic Complexity is an award-winning data visualization tool that allows people to explore global trade flows across markets, track these dynamics over time and discover new growth opportunities for every country.
What the heck is the yield curve? And why is it considered a powerful predictor of economic crisis? Here you'll get to know.
In diesem Video erklärt der Ökonom Maurice Höfgen das konkrete Verfahren welches vom deutschen Staat genutzt wird um Schulden aufzunehmen Hierfür erläutert er die zwei separaten Kreisläufe unseres Geldsystems in welchem die Geschäftsbanken und die Zentralbank Bundesbank bzw Europäische Zentralbank verortet sind und wie genau der Staat hier Bundeswertpapiere verkaufen …
Das Dezernat Zukunft hatte in diesem Webinar Stefan Eich als Gesprächsgast eingeladen um über dessen druckfrisch erschienenes Buch The Currency of Politics The Political Theory of Money from Aristotle to Keynes Princeton University Press 2022 damit sowohl über die historische Rolle von Geldsystemen als politische Institutionen als auch über die …
This is the second part of the seminar A Hard Currency of Politics The discussion centers on the The Currency of Politics by Stefan Eich and is hosted by the journal European Law Open Stefan Eich s presentation of his argument starts at minute 7 53 The discussion centers on …
This lecture is based on the “Introducing the Economy” chapter from the Economy Studies book, which introduces the first building block in their framework for transforming the economics education. The aim is to give students a feel and
understanding of the economy as part of a bigger whole. Thus, it is aimed to introduce to students before getting into the economics curriculum with theory and models.
The first day of the workshop is intended to initiate students to the foundational concepts of ecological economics. Ecological economics is an ecological critique of economics, applying the energetics of life to the study of the economy. It also investigates the social distribution of environmental costs and benefits. It does so by deconstructing concepts that are taken for granted like “nature” or “the economy”, excavating their ideological origins.
Is capitalism the context where gender inequalities are reproduced, or is capitalism something more than a context? What are the differences among women and how can we place them theoretically and politically. Reproductive work, is it a women’s work? These questions are disscused in a three-session workshop.
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