In this Blog Post on developmenteconomics org Christina C Laskaridis PhD candidate in Economics at SOAS elaborates on the economic fallout of the corona pandemic and especially its impact on the Global South The author focuses in particular on the issue of debt moratoria and debt restructuring and the measures … 2020 Level: leicht Debt Moratoria in the Global South in the Age of Coronavirus Christina C. Laskaridis developingeconomics.org Yanis Varoufakis, former finance minister of Greece and the co-founder of the international DiEM25 platform, discusses the economic and political impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic, in particular with regards to the Eurozone and southern European countries. 2020 Level: leicht Coronavirus Economics and the Eurozone Yanis Varoufakis kpfa.org In this episode of Jacobin radio, James K. Galbraith elaborates on the economic policies for the corona crisis, and Aaron Benanav on the crisis of unemployment. James K Galbraith also discusses why the economy as currently organized has been unable to deal with the challenges of the pandemic. 2020 Level: leicht Jacobin Radio: economic policies for the corona crisis ames K. Galbraith and Aaron Benanav Jacobin Radio The Great Recession 2.0 is unfolding before our very eyes. It is still in its early phase. But dynamics have been set in motion that are not easily stopped, or even slowed. If the virus effect were resolved by early summer—as some politicians wishfully believe—the economic dynamics set in motion would still continue. The US and global economies have been seriously ‘wounded’ and will not recover easily or soon. Those who believe it will be a ‘V-shape’ recovery are deluding themselves. Economists among them should know better but are among the most confused. They only need to look at historical parallels to convince themselves otherwise. 2020 Level: leicht Origins & Emergence of the 2020 Great Recession in the US Economy Dr. Jack Rasmus Exploring Economics The likely global impacts of the economic fallout from the Coronavirus and how we might be better prepared than the 2008 economic crisis to put forward progressive solutions. 2020 Level: leicht The coming global recession: building an internationalist response   Transnational Institute Die Corona Pandemie entwickelt sich zu einer weltweiten Wirtschaftskrise Dadurch droht auch eine neuerliche Eurokrise denn die Eurozone ist heute fragiler als am Beginn der letzten Eurokrise Zum einen wurde die Eurokrise in Südeuropa trotz aller Stabilisierungsversuche bis heute nicht überwunden zum anderen wurden institutionelle Reformen an der Architektur der … 2020 Level: mittel Corona und die nächste Eurokrise Etienne Schneider, Felix Syrovatka PROKLA Steve Keen analyses how mainstream economics fails when confronted with the covid-19-pandemic. Mainstream economics has propagated the dismantling of the state and the globalization of production - both of which make the crisis now so devastating. More fundamentally, mainstream economics deals with market systems, when what is needed to limit the virus’s spread is a command system. 2020 Level: leicht The Coronavirus and the End of Economics Steve Keen Exploring Economics In dieser Folge gibt Ulrike Herrmann, Wirtschaftsjournalistin und Publizistin (taz) einen Impulsvortrag mit Fokus auf die aktuell beschlossenen Maßnahmen, Haushaltsentwicklung und Staatsverschuldung in Zeiten der Krise. 2020 Level: leicht Steuert Europa auf den Crash zu? Aktuelle Krisenmaßnahmen und ihre Folgen Gerhard Schick, Ulrike Herrmann Finanzwende In this virtual teach-in, radical economists David McNally (author of the essential Global Slump) and Hadas Thier (author of the forthcoming A People’s Guide to Capitalism) will try to help activists make sense of the twists, turns, and sudden collapses in the world economy that have been playing out in the background during this global health emergency. 2020 Level: mittel Microbes and Macroeconomics: Understanding the Pandemic and the Global Slump David McNally Haymarket Books This is a new online course at bachelor level. It presents an introduction into macroeconomics with a specific focus on the euro area. The theoretical part provides a critical presentation of the two key macroeconomic models: the (neo)classical approach and the Keynesian approach. This allows a comparative analysis of important macroeconomic topics: unemployment inflation government debt and Modern Monetary Theory banks and financial crises. The policy-oriented part discusses the monetary policy of the ECB and the specific challenges for fiscal policy in the euro area. The course also presents other euro area specific topics: Optimum currency area, euro crises, Next Generation EU and Green New Deal. 2021 Level: mittel European Macroeconomics Peter Bofinger Exploring Economics