Modern Monetary Theory and Practice: An Introductory Text is an introductory textbook for university-level macroeconomics students. It is based on the principles of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). 2016 Level: mittel Modern Monetary Theory and Practice: an Introductory Text William Mitchell, L. Randall Wray, Martin Watts Centre of Full Employment and Equity The volume, released by YSI’s Economic Development Working Group, comprises interviews with 13 scholars from around the world who express a variety of viewpoints on the meaning and relevance of dependency theory in today’s context. 2017 Level: mittel Dialogues on Development Ushehwedu Kufakurinani, Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven, Frutuoso Santanta, Maria Dyveke Styve (ed.) Young Scholar Initiative Those who control the world’s commanding economic heights, buttressed by the theories of mainstream economists, presume that capitalism is a self-contained and self-generating system. 2021 Level: leicht Capital and Imperialism Utsa Patnaik, Prabhat Patnaik NYU Press 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 The recent financial meltdown and the resulting global recession have rekindled debates regarding the nature of contemporary capitalism. 2013 Level: mittel A Political Economy of Contemporary Capitalism and its Crisis Sotiropoulos, Dimitris P.; Milios, John; Lapatsioras, Spyros Routledge Having dissected what's supposedly wrong with contemporary macroeconomics, Steve Keen, on the leading critics of the mainstream of our times and distinguished economist himself, goes on to present his idea of a New Economics: What premises it should build on, what methods it should use, and yes, what purpose it should serve. 2022 Level: leicht The New Economics Steve Keen Wiley Value and Crisis brings together selected essays written by Alfredo Saad-Filho, one of the most prominent Marxist political economists writing today. Divided into two parts, "Essays on the Theory of Value" and "Essays on Contemporary Capitalism," this book examines the labour theory of value from a rich and innovative perspective from which fresh insights are derived. 2020 Level: mittel Value and Crisis Alfredo Saad Filho Haymarket Books The third edition of Political Economy: The Contest of Economic Ideas is a fully updated overview of the political economy and its connection with social concerns. This book investigates the main traditions of economic ideas and provides a 'big picture' overview of the analytical tools and value judgements associated with competing schools of economic thought. 2011 Level: mittel Political Economy Frank Stilwell OUP Australia & New Zealand 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 Is or has economics ever been the imperial social science? Could or should it ever be so? These are the central concerns of this book. It involves a critical reflection on the process of how economics became the way it is, in terms of a narrow and intolerant orthodoxy, that has, nonetheless, increasingly directed its attention to appropriating the subject matter of other social sciences through the process termed "economics imperialism". 2009 Level: mittel From Economics Imperialism to Freakonomics Ben Fine, Dimitris Milonakis Routledge 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 relationship between race and capitalism is one of the most enduring and controversial historical debates. The concept of racial capitalism offers a way out of this impasse. 2021 Level: leicht Histories of Racial Capitalism Justin Leroy, Destin Jenkins Columbia 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 In this book, Blakely tells us a story of the class nature of capitalism, in which she centers the role of the financial sector and its rapid growth. 2019 Level: leicht Stolen Grace Blakeley Watkins Media Limited This is an introductory course into economics that navigates the intellectual history of political economy in a self-contained and non-technical manner. The course centres on the classical concept of political economy by emphasizing the moral and ethical problems that markets solve or may not solve. 2016 Level: leicht Capitalism & Political Economy Dr. Michael Munger Duke University Fabian Georgi analyses how migration and borders are connected to capitalism. 2024 Level: leicht Recruiting skilled labour, while closing borders? The connection between migration, border regimes and capitalism Fabian Georgi Exploring Economics Nahezu alle Bereiche unseres Lebens sind vom Wachstums- und Beschleunigungsdenken geprägt. Die Grundannahme des ewig andauernden Wirtschaftswachstums ist dabei an das Versprechen von Wohlstand und Reichtum geknüpft. 2018 Level: leicht Anders wachsen Becker, Maximilian; Reinicke, Mathilda oekom Verlag Viele glauben: Die Wirtschaft funktioniert nach den Gesetzen der Logik. Doch das Gegenteil ist der Fall. Die Wirtschaft wird erschüttert von immer neuen Krisen, ihre Akteure – Notenbanker, Manager, Politiker – sind oft getrieben von Wahnvorstellungen und Persönlichkeitsstörungen. 2015 Level: leicht Lilith und die Dämonen des Kapitals Sedláček, Tomáš; Tanzer, Oliver Carl Hanser Verlag GmbH & Co. KG Seit mehr als 15 Jahren ist „Globalisierung“ ein weithin bekannter, vielseitig zu diskutierender Begriff. Im angelsächsischen Raum beschäftigt sich vor allem die Forschungsdisziplin der Internationalen Politischen Ökonomie (IPÖ) mit den einhergehenden Strukturveränderungen des Kapitalismus. 2009 Level: mittel Globalisierung, Macht und Hegemonie Eva Hartmann, Caren Kunze, Ulrich Brand Westfälisches Dampfboot