Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations provided the first, most influential and lasting explanation of the workings of modern economics. But with his focus on "the market" as the best mechanism for producing and distributing the necessities of life, Smith's concepts only told part of the story, leading to flawed economic models that devalue activities that fall outside of the market's parameters of buying and selling.

2007

Level: mittel

The Real Wealth of Nations

Riane Tennenhaus Eisler, Samuel Robert Eyre

Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Incorporated

p>Twenty-first-century economists will have to understand and improve a post-Cold War world in which no single economic theory or system holds the key to human betterment. Heterodox economists have much to contribute to this effort, as a wave of pluralism spawns new lines of research and new dialogues among non-mainstream economists.

2008

Level: mittel

Future Directions for Heterodox Economics

John T. Harvey, Robert F. Garnett, Robert F. Garnett, Jr.

University of Michigan Press

Reflecting his own concerns about the contribution economics could make to the betterment of society, Eli Ginzberg published this study of Smith's humanitarian views on commerce, industrialism, and labor. Written for his doctoral degree at Columbia University, and originally published as The House of Adam Smith, the book is divided into two parts.

2002

Level: mittel

Adam Smith and the Founding of Market Economics

Eli Ginzberg

Transaction Publishers, U.S.A.

The volume has been conceived with current and future economics students in mind: they will be the economists of the future. One of the main ideas underlining the book is that "being an economist" in the XXI century requires a radical change in the training of economists and such change requires a global effort.

2014

Level: mittel

The Economics Curriculum

Maria Alejandra Madi, Jack Reardon

College Publications

More than a century after Hartley Withers's "The Meaning of Money" and 80 years after Keynes's "Treatise on Money", the fundamentals of how banks create money still needs explaining and this book meets that need with clear exposition and expert marshalling of the relevant facts.

2014

Level: mittel

Where Does Money Come From?

Josh Ryan-Collins, Tony Greenham, Richard Werner, Andrew Jackson

New Economics Foundation

Despite the Doha declaration of November 2001, the failure to start a new round of global trade negotiations at Seattle in December 1999 and the hostility of protesters to the trade liberalization process and growing global economic and social disparities was a wake-up call for the World Trade Organisation (WTO).

2002

Level: mittel

The WTO, Agriculture and Sustainable Development

Heinrich Wohlmeyer, Theodor Quendler

Greenleaf

After long-time negligence, the Global South and the North-South divide are back on the agenda of development economics again. This book is a neat, accessible introduction into the topic, covering both the current situation and potential remedies from different points of view.

2001

Level: leicht

Readings in the Theory of Economic Development

Dilip Mookherjee, Debraj Ray (ed.)

Wiley

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2019

Level: mittel

Pluriverse

Ashish Kothari, Ariel Salleh, Arturo Escobar, Frederico Demaria, Alberto Acosta

Tulika Books

In this sharp intervention, authors Lucí Cavallero and Verónica Gago defiantly develop a feminist understanding of debt, showing its impact on women and members of the LGBTQ+ community and examining the relationship between debt and social reproduction.

2021

Level: leicht

A Feminist Reading of Debt

Luci Cavallero, Verónica Gago

Pluto Press

Philosophy of Economics: A Contemporary Introduction is the first systematic textbook in the philosophy of economics introduces to the epistemological, metaphysical and ethical problems that arise in economics, and presents detailed discussions of the solutions that have been offered.

2013

Level: mittel

Philosophy of Economics

Julian Reiss

Routledge

Mr Minsky long argued markets were crisis prone His moment has arrived The Wall Street Journal In his seminal work Minsky presents his groundbreaking financial theory of investment one that is startlingly relevant today He explains why the American economy has experienced periods of debilitating inflation rising unemployment and marked …

2008

Level: mittel

Stabilizing an Unstable Economy

Hyman Minsky

McGraw Hill Professional

This open access book presents an alternative to capitalism and state socialism through the modelling of a post-market and post-state utopia based on an upscaling of the commons, feminist political economy and democratic and council-based planning approaches.

2022

Level: leicht

Make Capitalism History

Simon Sutterlütti, Stefan Meretz

Springer International Publishing

This book looks at the anti-capitalist economy and the organization of social relations in the context of the revolution and autonomy of Rojava (Kurdistan-Syria).

2023

Level: leicht

Anticapitalist Economy in Rojava

Azize Aslan

Daraja Press

More Heat Than Light is a history of how physics has drawn some inspiration from economics and also how economics has sought to emulate physics, especially with regard to the theory of value. It traces the development of the energy concept in Western physics and its subsequent effect upon the invention and promulgation of neoclassical economics.

1991

Level: mittel

More Heat Than Light

Philip Mirowski

Cambridge University Press