Capitalism is dissolving boundaries - not only in the sense of ever-expanding global trade flows, but also in the concrete everyday working lives of individuals. What implications does this have for our understanding of freedom, work and borders? Level: leicht Capitalism & Boundaries   Netzwerk Plurale Ökonomik e.V. Austrian economics focuses on the economic coordination of individuals in a market economy. Austrian economics emphasises individualism, subjectivism, laissez-faire politics, uncertainty and the role of the entrepreneur, amongst others. Austrian Economics     Behavioural economics deals with observing behaviour and economic decision making behaviour. Behavioral Economics     Der Fokus der Verhaltensökonomik liegt auf dem beobachtbaren Verhalten von Menschen und deren Entscheidungen. Verhaltensökonomik     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 How exactly are persisting social inequalities and the operations of modern finance connected? Adam Tooze provides a detailed answer to a still relevant problem by focusing on the Great Financial Crisis and the role of the finance industry in the USA. 2019 Level: mittel Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World Adam Tooze Paris School of Economics The goal of the course is to deepen students’ understanding of the Latin American development experience by viewing it through a gender lens. 2014 Level: mittel Gender in Latin American Development Prof. Carmen Diana Deere University of Florida 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 Latin America and Europe can both learn from their respective experiences on crisis response and the distributive and democratic implications at national and regional level Democratic and distributive aspects of crisis response monetary financial economic policies and institutional reforms are key but have not been adequately addressed in the literature … 2020 Level: mittel Financial Crisis Management and Democracy Bettina De Souza Guilherme, Christian Ghymers, Stephany Griffith-Jones, Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann Springer Nature The 2007–08 credit crisis and the long recession that followed brutally exposed the economic and social costs of financialization. Understanding what lay behind these events, the rise of “fictitious capital” and its opaque logic, is crucial to grasping the social and political conditions under which we live. Yet, for most people, the operations of the financial system remain shrouded in mystery. 2017 Level: mittel Fictitious Capital Cedric Durand Verso This course will fundamentally ask whether we can, or even should use the word ‘decolonising’ in our pursuit of a better economics? 2022 Level: leicht Decolonising Economics? Michelle Meixieira Groenewald Summer Academy 2022 for Pluralist Economics Neoclassical economics focuses on the allocation of scarce resources. Economic analysis is mainly concerned with determining the efficient allocation of resources in order to increase welfare. Neoclassical Economics     In der Volkswirtschaftslehre (VWL) hat sich seit Mitte der 1970er Jahre mit der Neoklassik ein dominierendes theoretisches Paradigma etabliert, welches das ökonomische Denken im Wesentlichen bis heute prägt. Dieser Zustand, der insbesondere seit der Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise 2008 nicht nur in der akademischen Fachwelt durchaus kontrovers diskutiert wird, hat sowohl weitreichende Auswirkungen auf die innerdisziplinären Machtverhältnisse (z. B. Einseitigkeit in Forschung und Lehre, hierarchische Strukturierung, geringe Beachtung sozial- wissenschaftlicher Forschung und interdisziplinärer Ansätze) als auch auf gesellschafts- und wirtschaftspolitische Entwicklungen (z. B. Ökonomisierung sozialer und politischer Bereiche, einseitige Einflussnahme durch Expertengremien und Think Tanks). 2016 Level: leicht Zum Profil der deutschsprachigen Volkswirtschaftslehre Christian Grimm, Jakob Kapeller, Stephan Pühringer Forschungsinstitut für gesellschaftliche Weiterentwicklung (FGW) How countries achieve long-term GDP growth is up there with the most important topics in economics. As Nobel Laureate Robert Lucas put it “the consequences for human welfare involved in questions like these are simply staggering: once one starts to think about them, it is hard to think about anything else.” Ricardo Hausmann et al take a refreshing approach to this question in their Atlas of Economic Complexity. They argue a country’s growth depends on the complexity of its economy: it must have a diverse economy which produces a wide variety of products, including ones that cannot be produced much elsewhere. The Atlas goes into detail on exactly what complexity means, how it fits the data, and what this implies for development. Below I will offer a summary of their arguments, including some cool data visualisations. 2020 Level: leicht GDP Growth: It’s Complicated Cahal Moran Rethinking Economics One method of economic modelling that has become increasingly popular in academia, government and the private sector is Agent Based Models, or ABM. These simulate the actions and interactions of thousands or even millions of people to try to understand the economy – for this reason ABM was once described to me as being “like Sim City without the graphics”. One advantage of ABM is that it is flexible, since you can choose how many agents there are (an agent just means some kind of 'economic decision maker' like a firm, consumer, worker or government); how they behave (do they use complicated or simple rules to make decisions?); as well as the environment they act in, then just run the simulation and see what happens as they interact over time. 2020 Level: leicht Agents, agents everywhere Cahal Moran Rethinking Economics Die Wirtschaftswissenschaft steht heute im neoklassischen Paradigma, sie kann aber viel mehr als die meisten wissen. Im Laufe der Wirtschaftsgeschichte musste sich die ökonomische Theorie immer wieder neuen Herausforderungen stellen, neue Fragestellungen beantworten, ihre Zielsetzung und Wertkataloge hinterfragen und anpassen. 2021 Level: leicht Wirtschaft im Umbruch. Plurale Perspektiven auf ökonomische Theorie Saskia Podzimek & Jonas Plattner Impuls. Plurale Ökonomik Erfurt & Universität Erfurt This syllabus provides an overview of the contents of the course "Understanding Economic Models" at the University of Helsinki. 2018 Level: leicht Understanding Economic Models N. Emrah Aydinonat, Michiru Nagatsu University of Helsinki Seit Jahrzehnten wird über ökologische Grenzen des Wachstums und nachhaltige Entwicklung diskutiert. Die Ökonomik ist jedoch auf dem »Materialauge« weitgehend blind und setzt einfach darauf, dass ressourcenschonendes Wachstum möglich ist, frei nach dem Motto: was sich denken lässt, lässt sich auch umsetzen. Ein Essay von Oliver Richters und Andreas Siemonei. Level: leicht Auf dem »Materialauge« blind Oliver Richters und Andreas Siemoneit ZOE. Institut für zukunftsfähige Ökonomien Caring activities are one central element of feminist economists' analysis – also since in particular unremunerated work is a blind spot in mainstream economics and most other economic paradigms. Those focus on the market sphere: activities are considered as productive and as real labour if they are remunerated and market-intermediated. Goods and services are considered as labour if they create a value which can be traded on the market. Feminist Economics remarks that this perspective creates certain dichotomies and consequent devaluations: unproductive – productive; private – public; unpaid – remunerated OR paid less – well paid; female – male; soft work – hard work; caring – rationality. 2016 Level: leicht Reproductive Labour and Care Exploring Economics Exploring Economics As the world's energy system faces a period of unprecedented change, a global struggle over who controls the sector--and for what purposes--is intensifying. The question of "green capitalism" is now unavoidable, for capitalist planners and anti-capitalist struggles alike. 2010 Level: mittel Sparking a Worldwide Energy Revolution Kolya Abramsky AK Press This syllabus provides an overview of the content of the Philosophy and Economics course at the University of Waterloo. 2019 Level: leicht Philosophy and Economics Patricia Marino University of Waterloo Department of Philosophy This historic timeline presents economic events, economic thinkers and schools of thought from the 18th century until the 2007/2008 financial and economic crisis with short texts on the respective event or perspective. 2017 Level: leicht Economics: An Illustrated Timeline Heske van Doornen theminsky.org Andreas Siemoneit zu den Möglichkeiten und Grenzen einer sozialen Utopie. „Man kann Marktwirtschaft und Kapitalismus deutlich voneinander abgrenzen und Marktwirtschaft als eine noch nicht realisierte soziale Utopie betrachten…“ 2018 Level: leicht Kapitalistische Wachstumszwänge mit Marktwirtschaft überwinden – Zu den Möglichkeiten und Grenzen einer sozialen Utopie Andreas Siemoneit & Oliver Richters Ringvorlesung zur Postwachstumsökonomie und Werkstatt Zukunft In this interview, the political activist, author and lecturer Dr. Vandana Shiva explains the linkage between ecology, feminism and economics along the lines of current effects and implications of the Corona-Crisis in India and around the world. 2020 Level: leicht Ecology, feminism and economics in times of Covid-19 pandemic Dr. Vandana Shiva Cusanus Hochschule für Gesellschaftsgestaltung Could working less make people and the planet better off? Find out in this dossier by exploring the landscape of working time reduction policies and their potential for reimagining, restructuring, and redistributing time as a political resource in the 21st century economy. 2020 Level: leicht Could Working Time Reduction Policies Save People and the Planet? Patrick Léon Gross, Laura Wedemeyer, Caroline Schenck, and Bettina Chlond Exploring Economics Exploring Economics Dossier on the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic and the structural crisis of globalization. COVID-19 encounters a structural crisis of globalization and the economic system that drives it, with an uncertain outcome. We asked economists worldwide to share with us their analysis of current events, long-term perspectives and political responses. The dossier will be continuously expanded. 2020 Level: leicht The Next Great Recession? Exploring Economics Dossier   Exploring Economics Das vorliegende Dossier stellt die grundverschiedenen Ansätze des "Degrowth" sowie des "Green Growth" gegenüber, wägt ihre Vor- und Nachteile ab und versucht einen Mittelweg zu finden. 2020 Level: leicht Spielarten von Postwachstum - Die Vorsorgeorientierte Postwachstumsposition - Ein Mittelweg Henriette Schubert-Zunder, Jasmin Rizk, Jonas Becker, Paula Walk, Pescheng Salih Exploring Economics Foto von Markus Spiske Dieses Dossier ist im Rahmen der Schreibwerkstatt Ecological Economics einer Kooperation zwischen der TU Berlin und Exploring Economics entstanden Weitere Informationen und Dossiers zu der Thematik findet Ihr hier Neue Allianzen für Nachhaltigkeitspolitik Autor innen Lisa Leonhardt Greta Lenk Felix Englisch Vera Huwe Review Gerrit von … 2020 Level: leicht Neue Allianzen für Nachhaltigkeitspolitik Lisa Leonhardt, Greta Lenk, Felix Englisch, Vera Huwe Exploring Economics Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Dieses Dossier ist im Rahmen der Schreibwerkstatt Ecological Economics einer Kooperation zwischen der TU Berlin und Exploring Economics entstanden Weitere Informationen und Dossiers zu der Thematik findet Ihr hier Ein Zeitumkehrer in der Klimaökonomik Was die Zeitpräferenzrate mit Generationengerechtigkeit zu tun hat Autorin Sarah … 2020 Level: leicht Ein Zeitumkehrer in der Klimaökonomik - Was die Zeitpräferenzrate mit Generationengerechtigkeit zu tun hat Sarah Johannes Exploring Economics This is an introductory level core course in macroeconomics for those expecting to take further courses in economics. It provides a theoretical and applied approach of introductory macroeconomics, with an international perspective and applications to account for the growing importance of the global economy and the rising openness of economies. 2021 Level: mittel Introduction to Macroeconomics Jeff Powell Exploring Economics This course introduces students to political economy and the history of economic thought. We will cover the core ideas in various schools of economic thought, positioning them in the historical and institutional context in which they were developed. In particular, we will cover some economic ideas from the ancient world and the middle ages; the enlightenment; the emergence of and main ideas in classical political economy (Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Thomas Malthus, and others); Marx, Mill, and Keynes; European versus American economic thought through history; the rise of mathematical economics; economic theories around state-managed economies versus socialism; Austrian economics; behavioral economics; and the future of economics. 2020 Level: leicht Political Economy and the History of Economic Thought Alyssa Schneebaum Vienna University of Economics and Business Marx Reloaded is a cultural documentary that examines the relevance of German socialist and philosopher Karl Marx s ideas for understanding the global economic and financial crisis of 2008 09 The crisis triggered the deepest global recession in 70 years and prompted the US government to spend more than 1 … 2011 Level: leicht Marx Reloaded Jason Barker YouTube (ARTE)