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The authors analyse the role and effects of the US dollar as factual global reserve currency. They demonstrate that a flight into the dollar creates adverse effects for the global economy as it represents a tightening of financial conditions. 2021 Level: advanced Dollar dominance and the international adjustment to global risk Georgios Georgiadis, Gernot Müller, Ben Schumann Centre for Economic Policy Research The article summarizes the effects that the war in Ukraine, the resulting economic sanctions as well as associated financial turbulences have for cryptocurrencies and their role in the global financial system. 2022 Level: beginner Cryptocurrencies and the war in Ukraine Jon Danielsson Centre for Economic Policy Research This episode from Odd Lost podcast with financial analyst Zoltan Pozsar features a discussion on the potential long-term financial effects of the Ukraine-Crisis on dollar and the global currency system centered around it. 2022 Level: advanced Zoltan Pozsar on Russia, Gold, and a Turning Point for the U.S. Dollar Zoltan Pozsar, Tracy Alloway, Joe Weisenthal Bloomberg Florian Kern replies to Zoltan Pozsar's analysis about the effects of the war in Ukraine on the global financial order and refutes the latter's prognosis of the demise of the US dollar as the world's reserve currency 2022 Level: advanced Why the war in Ukraine does not jeopardise the dollar's reserve currency status Florian M. Kern Dezernat Zukunft The article discusses whether the turning point in EU's Russia policy with sanctions aimed directly at Putin's war chest of foreign reserves will change the landscape of countries' foreign assets. 2022 Level: beginner The Monetary Consequences of Vladimir Putin Barry Eichengreen Project Syndicate The article by the European Council of Foreign Relations argues that Europe s economic actions in response to the Russian invasion into Urkaine have been decisive different from the EU s external image but that this response should yet be better institutionalized The author Hackenbroich proposes an Anti Coercion Instrument … 2022 Level: beginner The EU’s geo-economic revolution Jonathan Hackenbroich European Council of Foreign Relations Is the Cold War division back with the US EU on the one and China Russia on the other side The article argues that things are more complicated as each of the country compounds has economic and political ties outside of its power bloc It reads the Chinese reactions to … 2022 Level: beginner Putin Is Creating the Multipolar World He (Thought He) Wanted Bart Dessein, Jasper Roctus, Sven Biscop Egmont Royal Institute for International Relations In this interview Ilya Matveev discusses the social, political, economic, and ideological foundations of the Russian regime, to provide additional context about Russia’s geopolitical goals. 2022 Level: beginner The Putin Regime Is Straining Under Its Own Contradictions Interview with Ilya Matveev by Rafael Khachaturian Jacobin Magazine The article reviews the effects that the War in Ukraine will have for the global economy. 2022 Level: beginner The Ukraine War's Multifaceted Economic Fallout Mohamed A. El-Erian Project Syndicate This section includes selected content from Post-Colonialisms Today - a research and advocacy project recovering insights from the immediate post-independence period in Africa, and mobilizing them through a feminist lens to address contemporary challenges. You will find additional content at postcolonialisms.regionsrefocus.org. 2022 Level: beginner Contributions from Post-Colonialisms Today   Post-Colonialisms Today This website belongs to PolyluxMarx and provides open access material for use while reading Karl Marx Capital For several years now people have been starting to dust off Marx and return to his analysis of society This is mainly due to the social turmoil in global capitalism weaknesses in prevailing … 2013 Level: beginner PolyluxMarx - A Capital Workbook in Slides Valeria Bruschi, Antonelle Muzzupappa, Sabine Nuss, Anne Stecker & Ingo Stütze Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Study of the German Council of Economic Experts on the potential economic effects of a comprehensive energy embargo against Russia 2022 Level: advanced A potential sudden stop of energy imports from Russia: Effects on energy security and economic output in Germany and the EU Eva Berger, Sylwia Bialek, Niklas Garnadt, Veronika Grimm, Lars Other, Leonard Salzmann, Monika Schnitzer, Achim Truger, Volker Wieland Sachverständigenrat für Wirtschaft Western sanctions on Russia after its invasion of Ukraine quickly led the Ruble to lose more than 45 percent of its value. But these days, the Russian currency is back to its pre-war value. Cameron and Adam explain the turnaround and discuss what it means for the war. 2022 Level: beginner How the Russian Ruble Bounced Back Adam Tooze interviewed by Cameron Abadi Foreign Policy This course introduces students to the relevance of gender relations in economics as a discipline and in economic processes and outcomes. 2015 Level: beginner Gender relations and Economics Alyssa Schneebaum Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien By the end of this course, students should understand the basic economic theories of the gender division of labor in the home and at the workplace, and theories of gender differences in compensation and workforce segregation. 2014 Level: beginner Economics of Gender (Woman in the U.S: Economy) Prof. Elaine McCrate University of Vermont 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 In this interview Gerd Gigerenzer place bounded rationality into the context of a larger development in thinking about what rationality is He touches on unbounded rationality which remains overrepresented and popular in neoclassical economics he explains different interpretations of bounded rationality and concludes with an ecological interpretation of rationality He … 2011 Level: beginner Gerd Gigerenzer - Bounded Rationality Gerd Gigerenzer. Interview by GoCognitive.net GoCognitive YouTube Channel This lecture course, which will be taught in English, will deal with gender issues in developing countries. After providing an overview of the gender differences in various aspects of welfare and economic life, the course will then tackle a number of specific issues. Level: advanced Gender and Development Stephan Klasen and Teaching Assistants Bumi Camara and Merle Kreibaum Department of Economics University of Göttingen Aim: to work out jointly with students a systematic perception of how the gender factor can impact on economic and demographic development. This course is pioneering: it is the first time that such a course has been introduced into the curriculum of a Russian higher educational institution with a focus on economics. Level: advanced Gender Economics I. E. Kalabikhina Lomonosov Moscow State University Education policy seeks to ensure equality in access, equality within the classroom and in teaching- learning processes, and equality in outcomes. This course encourages students to assess and evaluate the extent to which these objectives are met in practice and the ways in which educational outcomes are shaped by, as well as alter, gendered social norms. Level: beginner Education, Gender and Development Ratna Sudarshan National University of National Planning and Administration, New Delhi Getting to the policy discussion table is one of the objectives pursued by feminist scholars and advocates. However, some participants in this process have remarked that “you cannot get to the policy discussion table until you have proven that you can crunch the numbers.” 2006 Level: beginner Statistics for Feminists Yana Rodgers Rutgers University, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies What are the debates, feminist and otherwise, surrounding the phenomena of globalization? How does a gendered lens complicate our understandings of neoliberal globalization? How are particular labor regimes integral to global restructuring, and how are these gendered? What are the implications of global restructuring for bodies, identities, relations, and movements? 2014 Level: beginner The Gender and Labor of Globalization Clara Freeman Emory University In this class we will explore how globalization shapes and is shaped by gender norms with a particular focus on questions related to ‘work,’ mobility and well-being. 2015 Level: beginner Gender and Globalization Prof. Jennifer Olmsted Drew University - Dept. of Economics The goal of the course is to deepen students’ understanding of the Latin American development experience by viewing it through a gender lens. 2014 Level: advanced Gender in Latin American Development Prof. Carmen Diana Deere University of Florida For many social critics "globalization" is a signpost of “late-capitalism” with the rise of multinational corporations, mass consumption and the multidirectional flows of capital, labor, media, communication, ideologies and social movements across national borders. Feminist analyses of globalization and the gendered and sexualized permutations of these phenomena offer a critical stance for theorizing these processes, and for studying their complex articulations across time and space. Level: advanced Feminist Inroads in Epistemology, Method, and Theory Carla Freeman Emory University The podcast is an interview of Silvia Federici by David Denvir. It is centred around her book 'Caliban and the Witch - Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation', but they also draw lines to contemporary issues and political struggles. Federici analyses the emergence of capitalism through a radical Feminist-Marxist lens. 2019 Level: advanced Silvia Federici on Women and Capitalism Silvia Federici interviewed by Daniel Denvir The Dig The piece describes some of the effects that Nixon's decision to delink the dollar from gold in the 1970s had for the relationship between the IMF and its member states. A focus is on the negative effects of this change on societies in the Global South. 2021 Level: beginner Nixon’s decision to delink the dollar from gold still hounds the IMF, South Africa and Africa Danny Bradlow The Conversation The lecturer focuses on his own paper The Economic Limits of Bitcoin and Anonymous Decentralized Trust on the Blockchain analysing the innovation of cryptocurrencies particularly bitcoin and its economic credibility The innovator of cryptocurrency Satoshi Nakamoto incorporated an interesting combination of computer sciences and economics The paper argues the limitations … 2022 Level: beginner The Economics of Cryptocurrencies Eric Budish Economics Department, Oxford University Asset Management firms control large parts of the global economy Just the three American asset management firms BlackRock Vanguard and State Street manage more than half of the combined value of all shares for companies in the S P 500 Their combined managed assets amount to 22 trillion May 2022 … 2022 Level: advanced Asset Manager Capitalism Mark Blyth Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs 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 Mitch Jeserich interviews Professor Richard D Wolff a professor of economics at the New School University in New York City Prof Wolff presents an explanatory theory of how inflation occurs in an economy Briefly profit driven employers raise the price in order to maximize profits of private corporations they own … 2022 Level: beginner Richard Wolff On Everything You Need to Know About Inflation Richard D Wolff Letters and Politics Complexity economics and institutional economics are complementary approaches to studying the economy. They can pool their methods and foundational theories to explain the mechanisms that underlie economies. 2017 Level: beginner The complimentary relationship between institutional and complexity economics Claudius Gräbner Munich personal RePEc archive https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de

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