This paper starts with an evaluation of three common arguments against pluralism in economics: (1) the claim that economics is already pluralist, (2) the argument that if there was the need for greater plurality, it would emerge on its own, and (3) the assertion that pluralism means ‘anything goes’ and is thus unscientific. Pluralist responses to all three arguments are summarized. The third argument is identified to relate to a greater challenge for pluralism: an epistemological trade-off between diversity and consensus that suggests moving from a discussion about ‘pros’ and ‘cons’ towards a discussion about the adequate degree of plurality. We instantiate the trade-off by showing how it originates from two main challenges: the need to derive adequate quality criteria for a pluralist economics, and the necessity to propose strategies that ensure the communication across different research programs. The paper concludes with some strategies to meet these challenges. 2017 Level: leicht Pluralism in economics: its critiques and their lessons Claudius Gräbner, Birte Strunk Journal of Economic Methodology The article pursues the two related questions of how economists pretend to know and why they want to know at all. It is argued that both the economic form of knowledge and the motivation of knowing have undergone a fundamental change during the course of the 20th century. The knowledge of important contemporary economic textbooks has little in common with an objective, decidedly scientifically motivated knowledge. Rather, their contents and forms follow a productive end, aiming at the subjectivity of their readers. 2019 Level: leicht An essay on the putative knowledge of textbook economics Lukas Bäuerle Institute of Economics and Philosophy Cusanus Hochschule The global financial crisis (GFC) led to increasing distrust in economic research and the economics profession, in the process of which the current state of economics and economic education in particular were heavily criticized. Against this background we conducted a study with undergraduate students of economics in order to capture their view of economic education. 2018 Level: leicht What economics education is missing: The real world Stephan Pühringer, Lukas Bäuerle Institute of Economics and Philosophy Cusanus Hochschule “Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses1.” This is how Lionel Robbins came to define economics in the early 1930s and there is a good chance that many of you heard a variant of this definition in your first Economics 101 lecture. 2021 Level: leicht What is “Economics”? Anas Abu Exploring Economics This course provides future change makers in public and private sectors with a comprehensive overview on the structures and actors that shape markets. 2019 Level: leicht The Governance of Markets in Challenging Times: From Classic Authors to New Approaches Lukas Graf Hertie School of Governance Jason Smith takes a stab at blind faith in the efficiency of the price mechanism to provide market information. To do so, he calls upon Information Theory and Generative Adversarial Networks to argue the price mechanism is faulty and skewed towards supply. 2017 Level: leicht Hayek Meets Information Theory. And Fails Jason Smith Evonomics The usual background and distinctions between complexity and neoclassical economics are presented Neoclassical economics deals with perfectly rational representative agents this creates states of equilibrium On the other hand complexity economics relaxes these assumptions to deal with responsive agents in an uncertain dynamic environment this creates states of disequilibrium More … 2021 Level: leicht Foundations of complexity economics William Brian Arthur Nature Review physics In kaum einem anderen Bereich stehen kurzfristige, private Interessen so stark im Konflikt mit langfristigen, gesellschaftlichen Interessen wie in der Autoindustrie. Wie könnte diese Diskrepanz langfristig verringert werden? 2021 Level: leicht Die Autoindustrie demokratisieren? Vincent Janz, Lukas Warning und Max Wilken Economist for Future Is our knowledge of the world essentially rational What does it mean to be burdened with the gift of rationality Philosopher Corine Besson considers the nature of humanity s defining trait Corine Besson iai University of Sussex Level: leicht Knowledge and Rationality Corine Besson University of Sussex Müssen wir wirklich die Natur retten? Natürlich! Heute mehr als gestern – und morgen erst recht. Und dennoch transportiert die Frage ein Problem, welches Ramona Schmidt in diesem kurzen Beitrag diskutieren möchte. Denn die Frage trennt Menschen kategorial von der Natur. Level: leicht Die Umwelt retten: Keine Held*innentat, sondern Selbsterhaltung Ramona Schmidt Netzwerk Plurale Ökonomik This archive contains open access copies of most of the written work, including the books of Karl William Kapp (1910-1976) was one of the forefathers of Ecological Economics. Level: mittel K. William Kapp archive Karl William Kapp Kapp Research Center Florian Kern replies to Zoltan Pozsar's analysis about the effects of the war in Ukraine on the global financial order and refutes the latter's prognosis of the demise of the US dollar as the world's reserve currency 2022 Level: mittel Why the war in Ukraine does not jeopardise the dollar's reserve currency status Florian M. Kern Dezernat Zukunft Ihre Erklärungs- und Deutungslogik hat die Ökonomik in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts selbstbewusst auf nahezu alle gesellschaftlichen Phänomene ausgedehnt. Auch auf Diskriminierung und Rassismus. Leider dreht sich auch bei diesem Thema die Mainstream-Ökonomik um sich selbst, argumentieren Steffen Haag und Elena Goschin. Level: leicht Ökonomie der Diskriminierung Steffen Haag und Elena Goschin Netzwerk Plurale Ökonomik Stellen Sie sich vor, Sie treffen eine außerirdische Gestalt, ein quietsch-grünes Alien, rein zufällig natürlich, auf dem allmorgendlichen Weg zur Arbeit. Es schaut Sie stirnrunzelnd an und fragt: „Was ist die Erde? Was macht euren Planeten aus?“ Was würden Sie antworten? Wären Sie ehrlich? Ein Essay von Sarah Lange. Level: leicht Verantwortung als mitweltorientierte Sorge Sarah Lange Netzwerk Plurale Ökonomik With the collapse of the planned economies of Eastern Europe, the market is extending its reach and at the same time claiming its universal applicability. But this is occurring while paradoxically it is becoming more difficult to define "the market". The authors, all outstanding scholars in the booming field of socio-economics, explore how concrete markets are built up and stabilized. 1998 Level: mittel Laws of the Markets Michel Callon Wiley This syllabus provides an overview of the content of the Philosophy of Economics course at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 2015 Level: leicht Philosophy of Economics Dan Hausman University of Wisconsin-Madison Das Modell des homo oeconomicus erklärt in der Mainstream-Ökonomik das Verhalten des Individuums nach der Logik der Situation. Auch wenn Vertreter*innen des Konzepts betonen, dass es sich um eine wissenschaftliche Abstraktion handelt, fungiert der homo oeconomicus auf der gesellschaftlichen Makroebene jedoch als repräsentativer Akteur und stellt somit eine Reduktion des Menschen dar. Ein Essay von Elena Goschin. Level: leicht Gegen die Logik der Situation Elena Goschin Netzwerk Plurale Ökonomik This syllabus provides an overview of the contents of the course "The Philosophy and Methodology of Economics" at the Duke University 2022 Level: leicht The Philosophy and Methodology of Economics Kevin Hoover Duke University Erstmals werden in einem deutschsprachigen Werk zentrale Theorien sowie theoretische Konzepte der Internationalen Politischen Ökonomie vorgestellt. Der Band gibt einen fundierten Überblick über verschiedene theoretische Perspektiven mit ihren jeweiligen Stärken und Schwächen und verortet diese in der internationalen Diskussion. 2013 Level: leicht Theorien der Internationalen Politischen Ökonomie Joschua Wullweber, Maria Behrens, Antonia Graf Springer VS Marxian Political Economy focuses on the exploitation of labour by capital. The economy is not conceived as consisting of neutral transactions for exchange and cooperation, but instead as having developed historically out of asymmetric distributions of power, ideology and social conflicts. Marxian Political Economy     Popularized by movies such as A Beautiful Mind game theory is the mathematical modeling of strategic interaction among rational and irrational agents Over four weeks of lectures this advanced course considers how to design interactions between agents in order to achieve good social outcomes Three main topics are covered social … Level: mittel Game Theory II: Advanced Applications Matthew O. Jackson; Kevin Leyton-Brown; Yoav Shoham Stanford University, The University of British Columbia Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought A new evolutionary explanation of markets and investor behaviorHalf of all Americans have money in the stock market yet economists can t agree on whether investors and markets are rational and efficient as modern financial theory assumes or irrational and inefficient as behavioral … 2017 Level: mittel Adaptive Markets Andrew W. Lo Princeton University Press This article outlines the fundamental challenges of democratically planned economies and categorises proposed models into six groups, each of which approaches planning and coordination at different levels of authority and between myriad economic units in a particular way, taking into account efficiency as well as democratic principles and environmental and social sustainability. Through a classification system based on decision-making authority and mediation mechanisms, the article provides a framework for understanding and comparing these models. By examining their different approaches, it offers insights into the complexities and potential paths of democratically planned economies in the 21st century. 2024 Level: leicht Rethinking Democratic Economic Planning: An Overview Jakob Heyer Exploring Economics The chapter by the Centre for Economy Studies introduces interdisciplinary economic subdisciplines and their importance for economics education. 2021 Level: leicht Interdisciplinary Economics Sam de Muijnck and Joris Tieleman Economy Studies Das Paradigma der ökologischen Ökonomie (Ecological Economics) stellt einen multidisziplinärern Ansatz dar, um ein ganzheitliches Bild der wachsenden ökologischen Probleme und ihrer Verflechtungen mit der Ökonomie zu erhalten. Sie beschäftigt sich mit Ressourcenknappheit, Umweltverschmutzung, Klimawandel, Nahrungsmittelknappheit oder sozialer Ungleichheit. Hierbei werden wissenschaftliche Disziplinen wie Ökologie, Ökonomie, Physik und zunehmend auch andere Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaften (z.B. Soziologie oder Philosophie) herangezogen, mit dem Ziel, im ökonomischen Denken auch ökologische, ethische, politische, institutionelle und soziale Faktoren zu berücksichtigen. In diesem Zusammenhang werden nichtzuletzt deshalb auch wesentliche Grundannahmen der orthodoxen Ökonomie sehr kritisch betrachtet (Constanza 1989, Ayres 2008, Spash 2010). 2022 Level: leicht Ökologische Ökonomie Aistleitner und Rehberger Exploring Economics One hundred years ago the idea of 'the economy' didn't exist. Now, improving the economy has come to be seen as perhaps the most important task facing modern societies. Politics and policymaking are conducted in the language of economics and economic logic shapes how political issues are thought about and addressed. 2017 Level: mittel The Econocracy Joe Earle, Cahal Moran, Zach Ward-Perkins Manchester University Press An introductory course on Game Theory Level: leicht Game Theory Matthew O. Jackson; Kevin Leyton-Brown; Yoav Shoham Stanford University, The University of British Columbia This chapter by the Centre of Economy Studies provides a map through the complex jungle of economic theories. It provides key insights and ideas for thirteen core topics in economics, organised by selecting the most relevant theoretical approaches per topic and contrasting them with each other. 2021 Level: leicht Pragmatic Pluralism Sam de Muijnck and Joris Tieleman Economy Studies Was ist Inflation? Warum ist sie relevant? Und gibt es eine einheitliche Theorie über ihre Wurzeln und Ursachen, oder ist sie ein umstrittenes Konzept? Genau darum geht es in diesem Text: Wir definieren, was Inflation eigentlich bedeutet, bevor wir uns mit einem interdisziplinären und pluralistischen Ansatz in die theoretische Debatte stürzen: Wie entsteht sie, welche Faktoren können sie beeinflussen, und was kann man dagegen tun? 2022 Level: leicht Inflation Barta, Gerrard, Steffen & Zaspel Exploring Economics Die marxistische Ökonomie stellt eine Wirtschaftstheorie dar, die im Wesentlichen auf Karl Marx Hauptwerk „Das Kapital“ beruht. Aufbauend auf den Ansätzen der klassischen Nationalökonomie werden hierbei die kapitalistischen Produktionsweisen sowie der Grundwiderspruch zwischen Kapital und Arbeit analysiert und kritisiert (vgl. Kirchgässner 1988, S. 128). Ausgehend von der marxistischen Kapitalismuskritik werden insbesondere das Wesen der kapitalistischen Ausbeutung und der Klassenkonflikt zwischen Bourgeoisie und Proletariat behandelt (vgl. Utz 1982, S. 22-23). 2022 Level: leicht Marxistische Ökonomie Nussbaumer, Zwicklhuber Exploring Economics Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics

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Nobel laureate Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central agents in the economy are humans--predictable, error-prone individuals. Misbehaving is his arresting, frequently hilarious account of the struggle to bring an academic discipline back down to earth--and change the way we think about economics, ourselves, and our world. 2016 Level: mittel Misbehaving Richard H. Thaler W.W. Norton 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 … 2011 Level: leicht Gerd Gigerenzer - Bounded Rationality Gerd Gigerenzer. Interview by GoCognitive.net GoCognitive YouTube Channel