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The volume, released by YSI’s Economic Development Working Group, comprises interviews with 13 scholars from around the world who express a variety of viewpoints on the meaning and relevance of dependency theory in today’s context. 2017 Level: advanced Dialogues on Development Ushehwedu Kufakurinani, Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven, Frutuoso Santanta, Maria Dyveke Styve (ed.) Young Scholar Initiative "The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life" by Paul Seabright is an engaging and informative book that explores the complex relationship between economic behavior and human instincts. Seabright uses real-world examples to present complex ideas in a clear and accessible way. The author argues that the market is not only a place for exchanging goods and services but also relies on trust, cooperation, and social norms. 2010 Level: beginner The Company of Strangers Paul Seabright Princeton University Press The idea of a Green New Deal was launched into popular consciousness by US Congressperson Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in 2018. Evocative of the far-reaching ambitions of its namesake, it has become a watchword in the current era of global climate crisis. But its new ubiquity brings ambiguity: what - and for whom - is the Green New Deal? 2021 Level: beginner A People's Green New Deal Max Ajl Pluto Press Critique of neoclassical economics is presented and contrasted with the more realistic assumptions made by an complex adaptive systems and evolutionary approach. 2014 Level: beginner Complexity Science: 11 Complexity Economics   Complexity Academy How can we establish new institutions and practices in order to use fare-free public transport as a beacon for sustainable mobility and a low-carbon lifestyle? The author of this essay elaborates on how practice theory and institutional economics can help to answer this question. 2018 Level: advanced Towards a practice of fare-free sustainability Roxana Erath Exploring Economics Markets are the focus in modern economics: when they work, when they don’t and what we can or can’t do about it. There are many ways to study markets and how we do so will inevitably affect our conclusions about them, including policy recommendations which can influence governments and other major organisations. Pluralism can be a vital corrective to enacting real policies based on only one perspective and a plethora of approaches provide alternatives to the canonical view. Although they have differing implications, these approaches share the idea that we should take a historical approach, analysing markets on a case-by-case basis; and they share a faith in the power of both individuals and collectives to overcome the problems encountered when organising economic activity. 2020 Level: beginner Markets, How Do They Work? Cahal Moran Rethinking Economics How the brain works, how we learn, and why we sometimes make stupid mistakes. Level: beginner The Science of Thinking   YouTube Feminist economics is a key component of the movement for pluralism in economics and one that has, to some extent, been acknowledged by the mainstream of the profession. It seeks to highlight issues which affect women because (it claims) they have not traditionally been recognised in a field dominated by men. On top of this, it seeks to carve out a space for women in the discipline, both for intrinsic reasons of fairness and diversity and because it means that women’s issues are more likely to be highlighted going forward. 2020 Level: beginner Why Feminist Economics is Necessary Cahal Moran Rethinking Economics After completing the module, participants should be able to have general overview on the theory of commons. They can differentiate between neoclassical, new institutional and social/critical commons theory and can use these theories to assess real life common-pool resource management and commoning pratices. 2021 Level: beginner Future of Commons Simon Sutterlütti und Stefan Meretz Summer Academy for Pluralist Economics The age of the contemplative economist-scholar—at home equally in classical languages, economic history, the history of ideas, and mathematical theory—has passed. The history of economics as a subdiscipline has lost touch with the mainstream study of economics. InThe Future of the History of Economics, internationally known scholars from ten countries provide a comparative assessment of the subdiscipline. 2002 Level: advanced The Future of the History of Economics Eliot Roy Weintraub Duke University Press 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: beginner The coming global recession: building an internationalist response   Transnational Institute What is economics? What can - and can't - it explain about the world? Why does it matter? 2015 Level: beginner Economics: The User's Guide Ha-Joon Chang Bloomsbury USA A previously unpublished collection of Rodney's essays on Marxism, spanning his engagement with of Black Power, Ujamaa Villages, and the everyday people who put an end to a colonial era 2022 Level: beginner Decolonial Marxism Walter Rodney Verso Books Identify the historical and cultural systems driving globalization and changing societies around the world. Level: beginner Age of Globalization John Hoberman University of Texas at Austin This article is the first of a series that offers a new paradigm for economics, the “multilevel paradigm,” using generalized Darwinism as its theoretical framework. Generalized Darwinism refers to all processes that combine the ingredients of variation, selection, and replication – not just genetic evolution – making it relevant to the cultural evolution of economic systems that are embedded in political, social, and environmental systems. 2024 Level: advanced Rethinking the Theoretical Foundation of Economics I: The Multilevel Paradigm David Sloan Wilson and Dennis J. Snower De Gruyter Open Access / Zeitschrift Economics, Band 18, Heft 1 What data is used in the economic models of the IPCC? How problematic is it, that tipping points are often ignored? A very interesting presentation by Steve Keen during the OECD Conference "Averting Systemic Collapse". 2019 Level: beginner Averting Systemic Collapse Steve Keen ZOE. Institute for future-fit economies This book makes the case that economies are complex systems and in response to this, develops a unique dynamic nonequilibrium process analysis of macroeconomics. 2006 Level: advanced Shaking the Invisible Hand B. Moore Palgrave Macmillan UK A systematic comparison of the three major economic theories, showing how they differ and why these differences matter in shaping economic theory and practice.

Contending Economic Theories offers a unique comparative treatment of the three main theories in economics as it is taught today: neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian. Each is developed and discussed in its own chapter, yet also differentiated from and compared to the other two theories. 2012 Level: advanced Contending Economic Theories Richard D. Wolff, Stephen A. Resnick MIT Press At the 2013 Climate, Mind, & Behavior Symposium, Rebecca Adamson of First Peoples Worldwide illustrates alternative economic systems modeled after indigenous worldviews and the power they have in pushing us towards a more sustainable existence. 2013 Level: beginner Rebecca Adamson: Enoughness - Restoring Balance to the Economy Rebecca Adamson YouTube In this video, Rajan Raghuram highlights ‘A hereditary Meritocracy’. He identifies the “limitations” with the current economic systems of democracy and markets. 2019 Level: beginner A Hereditary Meritocracy Raghuram Rajan New Economic Thinking In this podcast, Professor Darrick Hamilton critically discusses how current neoliberal economic models uphold a systemically racially unjust structure of economies. 2020 Level: beginner EQUALS: Racism, Rebellions and the Economy Professor Darrick Hamilton EQUALS In this short podcast, Naomi Fowler, the Tax Justice Network's creative strategist, discusses how the laws made by those who profited from slavery and the empire and, the extractive business models of the major financial sector continue to impoverish some of the poorest nations. 2020 Level: beginner Systemic racism, reparations and tax justice Naomi Fowler, John Christensen, David Sorenson, Cortney Sanders, Michael Leachman Tax Justice Network This Perspective argues that ergodicity — a foundational concept in equilibrium statistical physics — is wrongly assumed in much of the quantitative economics literature. By evaluating the extent to which dynamical problems can be replaced by probabilistic ones, many economics puzzles become resolvable in a natural and empirically testable fashion. Level: expert The ergodicity problem in economics Ole Peters Nature Physics Exploring Economics, an open-access e-learning platform, giving you the opportunity to discover & study a variety of economic theories, topics, and methods. 2017 Level: advanced Socialist alternatives to capitalism II: Vienna to Santa Fe Duncan Foley New School for Social Research, Department of Economics The goal of the class is to acquire familiarity with recently-published research in alternative macroeconomics with a focus on the distribution of income and wealth, cyclical growth models, and technical change. 2021 Level: beginner Theory Seminar Macro-Distribution Daniele Tavani Exploring Economics This study offers a unique evolutionary economics perspective on energy and innovation policies in the wider context of the transition to sustainable development. The authors include: - an analysis of the environmental policy implications of evolutionary economics - a critical examination of current Dutch environmental and innovation policies and policy documents - systematic evaluation of three specific energy technologies, namely fuel cells, nuclear fusion and photovoltaic cells, within the evolutionary-economic framework. 2007 Level: advanced Evolutionary Economics and Environmental Policy Jeroen C. J. M. van den Bergh, Albert Faber, Annemarth M. Idenburg, Frans H. Oosterhuis Edward Elgar In its first edition, this book helped to define the emerging field of ecological economics. This new edition surveys the field today. It incorporates all of the latest research findings and grounds economic inquiry in a more robust understanding of human needs and behavior. 2010 Level: beginner Ecological Economics - Principles and Applications Herman E. Daly, Joshua Farley Island Press When Santa Fe Institute Scientists first started working on economics more than thirty years ago, many of their insights, approaches, and tools were considered beyond heterodox. These once-disparaged approaches included network economics, agents of limited rationality, and institutional evolution—all topics that are now increasingly considered mainstream. 2020 Level: expert Complexity Economics W. Brian Arthur, Eric Beinhocker, and Allison Stanger Santa Fe Institue 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: advanced Philosophy of Economics Julian Reiss Routledge This book provides important insights into agrarian history and the economic and cultural meanings associated with land. 2019 Level: beginner The Cultural Economy of Land Suhita Sinha Roy Tulika Books This book offers the first systematic analysis of economic thought concerning war. 2020 Level: advanced War in Economic Theories over Time Renata Allio Springer Nature This book is an original, systematic, and radical attempt at decolonizing critical theory. Drawing on linguistic concepts from 16 languages from Asia, Africa, the Arab world, and South America, the essays in the volume explore the entailments of words while discussing their conceptual implications for the humanities and the social sciences everywhere. 2022 Level: beginner Changing Theory Dilip M. Menon Routledge

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