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Can pluralism in economics be useful to tackle the fight against climate change? How can diversity in methods and ideas allow for a better understanding of the issue of the climate crisis? 2020 Level: leicht Clips on Climate: Behavioral Economics Henrika Meyer Rethinking Economics Can pluralism in economics be useful to tackle the fight against climate change? How can diversity in methods and ideas allow for a better understanding of the issue of the climate crisis? What solutions do different schools of thought offer to overcome the most pressing challenge of the 21st Century? Our Rethinker Henrika Meyer will give you some answers and give you a glimpse of the solutions pluralism offers to tackle the fight against climate change. 2020 Level: leicht Clips on Climate: Complexity Economics Henrika Meyer Rethinking Economics Professor Joseph Aldy from Harvard Kennedy School gives us some insights about how economics can set the balance between policymakers, scientists, employers and citizens. 2020 Level: leicht Can Economics save the Environment? Joseph Aldy New Economic Thinking Ecologcial economics conceptualizes our society as embedded within the environment and our economic system as embedded within society and the environment. 2021 Level: leicht Is ecological economics for rebels? Accounting for natural resources Dr. Anke Schaffartzik Exploring Economics Sporting events can be seen as controlled, real-world, miniature laboratory environments, approaching the idea of “holding other things equal” when exploring the implications of decisions, incentives, and constraints in a competitive setting (Goff and Tollison 1990, Torgler 2009). Thus, a growing number of studies have used sports data to study decision-making questions that have guided behavioral economics literature. 2021 Level: leicht Sport as a Behavioral Economics Lab CHAN, Ho Fai, SAVAGE, David A., and TORGLER, Benno Econstor This book contends that post Keynesian economics has its own methodological and didactic basis, and its realistic analysis is much-needed in the current economic and financial crisis. 2013 Level: leicht Teaching Post Keynesian Economics Jespersen, Jesper; Madsen, Mogens Ove Edward Elgar Publishing In the last half century, economics has taken over from anthropology the role of drawing the powerful conceptual worldviews that organize knowledge and inform policy in both domestic and international contexts. Until now however, the colonial roots of economic theory have remained relatively unstudied. This book changes that. 2004 Level: mittel Postcolonialism Meets Economics S. Charusheela, Eiman O. Zein-Elabdin Psychology Press Economics for Emancipation (E4E) is a seven-module introductory curriculum with interactive and participatory workshops. It offers a deep critical dive into the current political economic system, exploration of alternative economic systems, and dynamic tools to dream and build the economy that centers care, relationship, and liberation. 2023 Level: leicht Economics for Emancipation Center for Economic Democracy, Center for Popular Economics Online Economics is extremely sick. It is so locked in its past that nearly all of its introductory textbooks are modelled on one that appeared in 1948. The discipline cannot continue in its autistic state much longer. 2007 Level: mittel Real World Economics Edward Fullbrook Anthem Press Now in its third edition, this textbook covers all of the standard topics taught in undergraduate International Economics courses. However, the book is unique in that it presents the key orthodox neoclassical models of international trade and investment, whilst supplementing them with a variety of heterodox approaches. 2012 Level: leicht International Economics Hendrik Van den Berg M.E. Sharpe The book is offered, in the first instance, to students who are beginners in economics, but some parts of it may be of wider interest. The three topics, Economic Doctrines, Analysis and Modern Problems, might be the subject of concurrent courses or they may be studied consecutively. 1973 Level: leicht An Introduction to Modern Economics Robinson, Joan; Eatwell, John Maidenhead McGraw-Hill International Economics, 15e continues to combine rigorous economic analysis with attention to the issues of economic policy that are alive and important today in this field. 2011 Level: mittel International Economics Pugel, Thomas A. McGraw Hill Book Co Critique of neoclassical economics is presented and contrasted with the more realistic assumptions made by an complex adaptive systems and evolutionary approach. 2014 Level: leicht Complexity Science: 11 Complexity Economics   Complexity Academy This video provides a brief introduction to post-keynesian economics and how the school of thought would tackle climate change. 2020 Level: leicht Clips on Climate: Postkeynesian Economics Henrika Meyer Rethinking Economics This short video by the Khan Academy presents a classic introduction to economic teaching. Starting with the quote by Adam Smith in "The Wealth of Nations" on the invisible hand, it shows how economics deals with the question of the allocation of scarce resources and shortly presents different questions addressed by microeconomics and macroeconomics. It further makes reference to questions of simplification in mathematical models. 2012 Level: leicht Introduction to economics | Supply, demand, and market equilibrium | Microeconomics   Khan Academy How do we get our dinner? And who cooked Adam Smith's dinner? Starting with Smith's answer on the origin of a dinner, Katrine Marçal problematizes and illustrates how unpaid labour was and is still being ignored by economic theory and how the homo economics represents characteristics perceived as male. 2015 Level: leicht How Economics Forgot about Women Katrine Marçal TEDx Talks Sheila Dow discusses the concept of radical uncertainty and the failure of neoclassical economics to integrate it into its analysis. As to the implications for financial regulation that arise from the presence of radical uncertainty she argues for institutional overhaul, where the banks see themselves as a licensed partner of the central bank and where rules, values, and conventions would be subject to a cultural shift. Also, Sheila Dow advocates for a renewed focus on retail banking. 2015 Level: mittel The Economics of Uncertainty Sheila Dow INET In the interview, Robert Skidelsky discusses the emergence of political influence of a certain school of economic thought and how the success of an economic theory depends on the power relations in the society. He introduces the historical example of Keynesian economics and its replacement by liberal economic theory and policy in the aftermath of the Great Depression, and transfers this historical case to the dominant paradigm of austerity policies in the Europe as response to rising public debts caused by the Financial Crisis. He contrasts austerity policies with a Keynesian approach. Furthermore, he relates the targets of policy to the underlying power structures, for example when not the reduction of unemployment but the protection of financial capital is politically addressed. 2015 Level: mittel Economics and Political Power during the Crisis Robert Skidelsky INET What is innovation, what drives innovation and the process that differentiates firms? What is competition and what kind of dynamics lie behind the differences between firms and their innovative activities? Mariana Mazzucato elaborates on those questions from an evolutionary economics' and Schumpeterian perspective. The slides of her lecture are not visible, hence some visualizations can't be followed. 2014 Level: mittel Economics of Innovation Mariana Mazzucato INET The Heterodox Economics Directory provides a broad variety of links to heterodox journals, books, conferences, study programs, teaching materials and blogs. Some categories are subdivided by schools of thoughts - it's a valuable source for heterodox material on the internet. Level: leicht Heterodox Economics Directory   Jakob Kapeller; Florian Springholz The Lecturer Prof. Francesco Lissoni presents basic concepts of the Economics of Innovation. Firstly, he distinguishes between invention, innovation and diffusion and relates innovation to economic growth. Subsequently, he elucidates learning and network effects. 2012 Level: mittel Economics of Innovation 1/2 Francesco Lissoni Alta Scuola Politecnica Steve Horwitz, professor of economics at St. Lawrence University, gives a concise account of Austrian approach and talks about how it relates to the various current public policy issues. 2013 Level: leicht The Austrian school of economics Steve Horwitz YouTube 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 This blogpost discusses the bias the Economics discipline has towards Africa. It points out how important conferences on issues regarding Africa take place in Western countries at the expense of those based in Africa. 2015 Level: leicht Economics has an Africa Problem Dr. Grieve Chelwa Africa Is A Country This volume focuses on the importance of the history of economic thought as an intellectual discipline. It counters the arguments of some contemporary economists who describe it as studying the mistakes of the past. However, all the great economists - Smith, Ricardo, Marx, Marshall, Keynes and even Milton Friedman - have drawn on the history of economics to find an appropriate pedigree for their own theoretical innovations. 1991 Level: mittel The Historiography of Economics Mark Blaug E. Elgar Pub. John Harvey's accessible book provides a non-technical yet rigorous introduction to various schools of thought in economics. Premised on the idea that economic thinking has been stunted by the almost complete rejection of anything outside the mainstream, the author hopes that this volume will open readers' minds and lead them in new and productive directions. 2016 Level: mittel Contending Perspectives in Economics John T. Harvey Edward Elgar Publishing In reviewing this book in The Economic Journal, S.G. Checkland said that it should be read as a vigorous attempt to relate economics to general thinking and as a challenge to those who are practitioners or elaborators of narrowly prescribed techniques. 2017 Level: leicht Evolutionary Economics Hamilton, David Boyce Routledge This Micro-Masters program on Circular Economy looks at the concept and its application from different angles, covering a very wide variety of topics (From Fossil Fuels to Biomass: A Chemistry Perspective; Circular Economy: An Interdisciplinary Approach; Economics and Policies in a Biobased Economy). It offers a well-rounded, multidisciplinary perspective, using sciences and humanities together for a deeper understanding of the topic. A great start for newbies with Circular Economy! The access to the course is for free, but you can also apply for full-time on-campus graduate-level programs, be it Wageninged or other universities. 2016 Level: mittel Economics and Policies for a Circular Bio-Economy Prof. Dr. Maria Barbosa, Prof. Dr. Jan Vreeburg, Prof. Dr. Jacqueline Bloemhof, et. al. Wageningen University & Research Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapely won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their work on market design back in 2012, but it is a field that is still underrepresented in economics education. All markets have rules, and how these rules are set influence how the market functions. 2021 Level: leicht The economics of legalising cannabis Economy Studies Economy Studies The economics of worker cooperatives is a branch of economic inquiry with a long and esteemed pedigree, dating at least from the work of John Stuart Mill in the mid-nineteenth century. 2013 Level: mittel The Economics of Worker Cooperatives John H. Pencavel Edward Elgar Publishing Limited This self-paced free course by Perry Merhling guides you to his "Money View" approach that integrates the fields of economics and finance. The course can easily be understood by people interested people without technical economic knowledge or training as it is primarily a tool for analysis. Level: leicht Economics of Money and Banking Perry Mehrling Columbia University This book discloses the economic foundations of European fiscal and monetary policies by introducing readers to an array of alternative approaches in economics. It presents various heterodox theories put forward by classical economists, Marx, Sraffa and Keynes, as a coherent challenge to neoclassical theory. 2020 Level: mittel Heterodox Challenges in Economics Sergio Cesaratto Springer International Publishing

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