An examination of women's changing economic roles. Includes an analysis of labour force participation, wage inequality, gender differences in education, intra-household distribution of resources, economics of reproduction, and how technological change affects women. 2015 Level: beginner Women and the Economy Dr. Cristina Echevarria University of Saskatchewan The goal of this course is to explore these differences in economic outcomes observed among women and men, measured by such things as earnings, income, hours of work, poverty, and the allocation of resources within the household. It will evaluate women’s perspectives and experiences in the United States and around the world, emphasizing feminist economics. Level: beginner Economics of Gender Dr. Erin George Hood College This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of work-related gender issues and to enable students to analyze the issues using the tools of economics. 2015 Level: beginner Women, Men, & Work Karen Leppel School of Business Administration at Widener University This course is intended to present some of the main ideas underlying the micro aspects of gender economics. The courses will tackle issues as fertility, marriage, women labor force participation, wage gap, gender inequality, violence against women and women empowerment within her household and within the society where she lives. Level: advanced Gender and Microeconomics Hanan Nazier and Racha Ramadan Cairo University - Faculty of Economics and Political Science This course is an introduction to Development Economics and is concerned with how economists have sought to explain how the process of economic growth occurs, and how – or whether – that delivers improved well-being of people. 2015 Level: advanced Development Economics Sakiko Fukuda-Parr The New School To what extent does gender affect people's patterns of labor force participation, educational preparation for work, occupations, hours of work (paid and unpaid) and earnings? 2014 Level: beginner Sex-Segregated Labor Markets Julie Nelson University of Massachusetts Sabel and Zeitlin present the persistence of small firms in Europe against the rise of mass production and modern enterprises Their article starts by analysing how mass production can be considered a historical necessity for the classical view as it is a highly specialized structure where man and machine can … 1985 Level: advanced Historical Alternatives to Mass Production: Politics, Markets and Technology in Nineteenth-Century Industrialization Charles Sabel and Jonathan Zeitlin Oxford University Press on behalf of The Past and Present Society The podcast discusses how to deal with the rising inflation and presents a comparative perspective between the US and the EMU. Basically the speakers discuss whether we are heading to a stagflation in Europe similar to the 1970s and they compare the macroeconomic dynamics in the United States vs. the EMU. 2022 Level: advanced Taming inflation? What are the implications of prolonged inflation? Maria Demertzis, Grégory Claeys and Megan Greene The Sound of Economics, Bruegel Why did inflation lift of in 2022? Are there differences between the US and the Eurozone and if so, what are they? 2022 Level: expert The Inflation Surge of 2021-22: Scarcity of Goods and Commodities, Strong Labor Markets and Anchored Infl ation Expectations Ángel Ubide ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics/CEPS – Centre for European Policy Studies The author discusses the various dimensions of the recent hike in inflation in the context of the United States and policy dilemmas around high inflation GDP decline and unemployment Servaas Storm Institute for New Economic Thinking 2022 Level: advanced Inflation in a Time of Corona and War Servaas Storm Institute for New Economic Thinking In this famous article Michal Kalecki describes the three main reasons that push business leaders to reject the intervention of the government to ensure full employment i dislike of government interference in the problem of employment as such ii dislike of the direction of government spending public investment and subsidizsing … 1943 Level: beginner Political Aspects of Full Employment Michael Kalecki Political Quarterly From the perspective of mainstream theory the effectiveness of monetary policy in bringing down inflation depends on two very important equations the aggregate demand equation and the infamous Phillips Curve Without these it becomes more difficult or rather impossible for central banks to carry out monetary policy and obtain the … 2022 Level: advanced Monetary Policy and the Phillips Curve Louis-Philippe Rochon Monetary Policy Institute ‘We cannot afford their peace & We cannot bear their wars’: ​​​​​​​Value, Exploitation, Profitability Crises & ‘Rectification’ 2022 Level: beginner Political Economy based on Marx Elena Papagiannaki Summer Academy 2022 for Pluralist Economics 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: beginner Capitalism & Boundaries   Netzwerk Plurale Ökonomik e.V. "Could a cooperative market economy, in which firms are owned and controlled by their workers, be a viable and efficient alternative to capitalism?" Level: beginner Economic Democracy: The Cooperative Alternative Donald A. R. George, Rick Woodward, Juliette Summers, Jelte Harnmeijer, David Erdal The University of Edinburgh 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: advanced Reading Marx’s Capital David Harvey City University of New York This course provides an introduction to the ILO’s Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy (MNE Declaration). The course uses real cases related to labour and employment issues as examples of how the MNE Declaration is used in practice or as guidance. 2019 Level: beginner ILO - An introduction to the MNE Declaration ILO n.a. Planetary Mine rethinks the politics and territoriality of resource extraction, especially as the mining industry becomes reorganized in the form of logistical networks, and East Asian economies emerge as the new pivot of the capitalist world-system. 2020 Level: advanced Planetary Mine Martín Arboleda Verso Books Over the last decade, the world's largest corporations - from The Coca Cola Company to Amazon, Apple to Unilever - have taken up the cause of combatting modern slavery. Yet, by most measures, across many sectors and regions, severe labour exploitation continues to soar. Corporate social responsibility is not working. Why? 2020 Level: beginner Combatting Modern Slavery Genevieve LeBaron Polity Press This fresh and unique textbook provides students and general readers with an introduction to economics from a new and much needed perspective, characterised by its uniquely pluralist, sustainable, progressive and global approach. Unlike traditional textbooks, Introducing a New Economics contains the key concepts of pluralism, sustainability and justice. It provides students with the central questions covered by economics including resources, work, employment, poverty, inequality, power, capital, markets, money, debt and value. 2015 Level: beginner Introducing a New Economics Jack Reardon, Maria Alejandra Caporale Madi, and Molly Scott Cato Pluto Press This book highlights the political economy of wealth and income inequality in Latin America. The author segments his analysis to separately evaluate the economic, social, and political costs of inequality building on country case studies. It draws well-contextualized lessons from the Latin American experience that is important to consider for other regional contexts, especially for social policies of nations within the 'Middle Income Trap'. 2020 Level: beginner The Costs of Inequality in Latin America Diego Sánchez-Ancochea Bloomsbury Academic Adam Smith and Karl Marx recognized that the best way to understand the economy is to study the most advanced practice of production. Today that practice is no longer conventional manufacturing: it is the radically innovative vanguard known as the knowledge economy. 2019 Level: beginner The Knowledge Economy Roberto Mangabeira Unger Verso Books In this book, the author, Intan Suwandi, engages with the question of imperialism through the specific channel of Global Value Chains. 2019 Level: beginner Value Chains Intan Suwandi NYU Press 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 Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People s Economy The leading thinker and most visible public advocate of modern monetary theory the freshest and most important idea about economics in decades delivers a radically different bold new understanding for how to build a just and prosperous society Stephanie … 2020 Level: beginner The Deficit Myth Stephanie Kelton Hachette UK Lean Logic is the late David Fleming’s masterpiece, the product of more than thirty years’ work and a testament to the creative brilliance of one of Britain’s most important intellectuals. A dictionary unlike any other, it leads readers through Fleming’s stimulating exploration of fields as diverse as culture, history, science, art, logic, ethics, myth, economics, and anthropology, being made up of four hundred and four engaging essay-entries covering topics such as Boredom, Community, Debt, Growth, Harmless Lunatics, Land, Lean Thinking, Nanotechnology, Play, Religion, Spirit, Trust, and Utopia. The threads running through every entry are Fleming’s deft and original analysis of how our present market-based economy is destroying the very foundations—ecological, economic, and cultural— on which it depends, and his core focus: a compelling, grounded vision for a cohesive society that might weather the consequences 2020 Level: beginner Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It the late Dr. David Fleming LeanLogic.online This book provides a comprehensive description of this intriguing new area of feminist economics. It includes discussion of what constitutes feminist economics and how feminist economics is different from other approaches 2020 Level: advanced Advanced Introduction to Feminist Economics Joyce P Jacobsen Edward Elgar Source image UMassEconomics Youtbe channel Stephen Resnick UMassEconomics University of Massachusetts Amherst Level: beginner Marxian Economics Lectures Stephen Resnick University of Massachusetts Amherst "The New Classical Macroeconomics "gives an accessible, rigorous, critical account of the central doctrines of the new classical economics, without unnecessarily difficult mathematics. It focuses on four central issues: the foundation of monetary theory; monetary and fiscal policy; labour supply and business cycles; and the attack on econometric models. 1990 Level: advanced The New Classical Macroeconomics Kevin D. Hoover B. Blackwell Why are income inequalities so large and why do they continue to increase in so many countries? What role can minimum wages play in reducing social and economic inequalities? What is a good system of wage bargaining? What constitutes a fair wage? Level: beginner Fair Wage Strategies in a Global Economy Hansjörg Herr, Maité Llanos, Gilad Isaacs, Susan Hayter, Patrick Belser, Mary Bellman, Luis Campos, Frank Hoffer Global Labour University Until the end of the early 1970s, from a history of economic thought perspective, the mainstream in economics was pluralist, but once neoclassical economics became totally dominant it claimed the mainstream as its own. Since then, alternative views and schools of economics increasingly became minorities in the discipline and were considered 'heterodox'. 2016 Level: advanced Reclaiming Pluralism in Economics Jerry Courvisanos, Jamie Doughney, Alex Millmow Routledge 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: advanced The Economics of Worker Cooperatives John H. Pencavel Edward Elgar Publishing Limited