What is the working class under present circumstances and in particular in urban lives? David Harvey explains how the concept of the working class is still suitable for the current organization of work – even if working conditions changed, now being more service-oriented and diffused. Harvey further discusses how this diffused working class can organize via urban neighbourhoods. 2015 Level: leicht The Revolutionary Class Today David Harvey TV Boitempo Anne-Kathrin Krug gibt eine Einführung in die marxistische Analyse der kapitalistischen Produktion und erläutert dabei Begriffe wie Arbeit, Ware oder Wert. Anschließend erläutert sie Marx Krisenzyklustheorie. Dabei stellt sie den Fall der Profitrate als mögliche Erklärung von Krisen dar, zeigt aber auch, dass es gegenläufige Tendenzen gibt. Weiter Themen des Vortrages sind Unterkonsumption und Möglichkeiten von Krisen (Produktions-, Handelskrisen und Geldkrisen). 2015 Level: leicht Marxsche Krisentheorie Anne-Kathrin Krug Netzwerk Plurale Ökonomik First the emergence of the Austrian school is described regarding the historical context and other schools of thought that were presence at its inception. Emphasis is given to the methodological differences and disputes that members of the Austrian schools had with representatives of the German historical school. Then some defining theoretical and methodological features of the Austrian school are explained. Later, Friedrun Quaas gives an overview of the different generations of scholars associated with the school and their theories, research questions and concepts. Against the background of this knowledge the question as to whether the question as to whether the Austrian school is sufficiently homogenous to denote a consistent paradigm is discussed. At the end, some general, philosophy of science oriented, questions concerning pluralism in the social sciences are posed. 2015 Level: mittel Österreichische Schule - Prof.Friedrun Quaas @FU-Berlin Friedrun Quaas Netzwerk Plurale Ökonomik This dossier gives an overview of the functions and the nature of money. The concept of Islamic finance is briefly explored, too. 2015 Level: leicht The Nature of Money Lena Rethel I-PEEL In the inspiring interview on Economics of Care, Nancy Foblre takes a closer look to the consequences of the marketization of caring activities on those activities and on the societal organization of care. Folbre elaborates on how to value care and how this shifts the perspectives on living standards. She points to the fact, that caring activities are undervalued both in the market sphere and within the family and thereby questions the division between those spheres. Lastly, Folbre answers the question how to reteach Economics when accounting for caring activities. 2016 Level: leicht The Economics of Care Nancy Folbre INET Mariana Mazzucato explains how we lost sight of what value means and why we need to rethink our current financial systems so capitalism can be steered toward a bold, innovative and sustainable future that works for all of us. 2019 Level: leicht What is economic value, and who creates it? Mariana Mazzucato TedTalks Source image UMassEconomics Youtbe channel Stephen Resnick UMassEconomics University of Massachusetts Amherst Level: leicht Marxian Economics Lectures Stephen Resnick University of Massachusetts Amherst Source image GC Videography Fellows Youtube channel David Harvey davidharvey org City University of New York Level: mittel Marx and Capital: The Concept, The Book, The History David Harvey City University of New York David Harvey is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York CUNY the Director of Research at the Center for Place Culture and Politics and the author of numerous books He has been teaching Karl Marx s Capital for nearly 50 … Level: mittel Reading Marx’s Capital David Harvey City University of New York Museen, Kunst, Luxusgüter, Immobilien, Tourismus - für die Soziologen Luc Boltanski und Arnaud Esquerre sind dies zentrale Felder einer neuen Ökonomie der Anreicherung, die zunehmend unsere Gesellschaften prägt und vor allem der Bereicherung der Reichen dient. In ihrem brillanten Buch, das seit seinem Erscheinen Furore macht, analysieren sie diesen neuen Kapitalismus. 2018 Level: mittel Bereicherung Luc Boltanski, Christine Pries Suhrkamp As a response to ongoing economic, social and environmental crises, many private actors have enlarged their definition of 'value' to include environmental and social elements. Such practices, however, appear incompatible with the current epistemological structure of academic financial discourse. 2016 Level: mittel Finance Reconsidered Bernard Paranque, Roland Perez Emerald Group Publishing 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