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This guide contains a collection of recommended YouTube channels and YouTube videos in the fields of economics, business and economic policy.
2024
Level: beginner
EconTube: The ultimate guide to pluralist economics channels on YouTube
Crises are a key part of the history of the global economy. This lesson by Economy Studies introduces students to the crisis management theories of John Maynard Keyens by presenting them in the historical context of the Great Depression, the Post-War increase in the state in managing the economy, and the Energy Crisis of the 1970s.
2022
Level: beginner
How to get away with a crisis? - Economy Studies
Teaching economics students about climate reparations enriches their educational experience by providing real-world relevance, promoting critical thinking, fostering interdisciplinary learning, and equipping them with valuable skills for both academic and practical applications. It also encourages ethical awareness, global perspective, and civic engagement, aligning with the broader goals of education in preparing students to address complex global challenges.
2022
Level: beginner
Policy Debate: Climate Reparations - Economy Studies
Macroeconomics 101 by the Pan African Feminist Political Economy Collective NAWI explains in an accessible way, why macroeconomics matters in our daily lives.
2024
Level: beginner
Macroeconomics 101
In this dossier, Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie highlights the need for debt cancellation for countries of the Global South and the payment of reparations for the climate catastrophe caused by the Global North.
2024
Level: beginner
Climate Debt and Reparations
This lecture by Economy Studies lays out the foundations and current state of the ecological crisis, its main drivers and who is responsible for this. It is crucial for students to develop a deeper understanding of the problem they are likely to encounter in their future careers, before getting into various economic policies or solutions to this pressing issue.
2022
Level: beginner
Economic Introduction to the Ecological Crisis - Economy Studies
In the debate about a sustainable and livable future, the critique of work is an essential perspective. In this contribution, Maja Hoffmann explores the tension between the environmentally harmful effects of work on the one hand and the systematic compulsion of work on the other.
2024
Level: beginner
How can post-work (critiques of work) enrich the climate debate?
The goal of this glossary is to help students to understand some of the basics of circular economy.
2025
Level: beginner
Glossary Circular Economy
The study gives an overview of approaches, concepts and examples regarding the socio-ecological transformation.
2025
Level: beginner
Towards a socio-ecological transformation of the economy
This paper offers an in-depth elaboration of Steven Fazzari's journey in academia within the context of the United States of America.
2023
Level: beginner
Interview of Steven Fazzari by Eckhard Hein and Gennaro Zezza
This paper presents an inquiry into the observed results when governments have implemented one or other type of (opposed) economic policy prescribed in economics to reverse the consequences of a global economic crisis.
2023
Level: beginner
Fiscal austerity vs. expansionary fiscal policy: on the results of these opposed economic policies applied to fight recessions
The interview states the importance of joining hands in the international trade to get trade justice at multilateral forum such as the WTO. It is mainly in English, the introduction is in Spanish.
2024
Level: advanced
International trade and barriers
How do we transform societal structures and pave the way to economic democracy?
Level: beginner
Solidarity Economics
Sebastian Dullien plädiert für eine grundlegende Neuausrichtung der Wirtschaftspolitik angesichts der aktuellen Zeitenwende, die von Klimakrise, sozialer Ungleichheit und geopolitischen Umbrüchen geprägt ist.
2025
Level: beginner
Wirtschaftspolitik für die Zeitenwende
The keynote argues that traditional macroeconomic models relying on perfectly rational representative agents (e.g., DSGE models) are fundamentally flawed, as they ignore human limitations, behavioral diversity, and aggregation complexities.
2025
Level: advanced
Towards Pluralism in Macroeconomics?
Aaron Benanav argues that despite the hype, generative AI is unlikely to spark a revolutionary transformation of the economy.
2025
Level: beginner
Is the AI Bubble About to Burst?
As the fossil backlash accelerates, a renewable energy system looks increasingly out of reach.
2025
Level: advanced
Does Green Capitalism Have a Future?
This essay argues that the dominant growth economics paradigm anchored in increasing consumption output and the metric of Gross Domestic Product GDP is failing to deliver what matters for both human flourishing and ecological survival The article further contends that growth measured merely by output masks social and environmental costs …
2012
Level: advanced
What Counts – Why Growth Economics is Failing Us
In the first installment of a major two-part essay, Aaron Benanav develops a framework for democratic economic planning as an alternative to capitalist markets. He critiques the "single-criterion" logic of capitalism—efficiency and profit—and proposes a multi-criteria economy centered on social and ecological well-being.
2025
Level: advanced
Beyond Capitalism I
An introductory course on Game Theory
Level: beginner
Game Theory
The world is still feeling reverberations from the financial crisis of 2008 foreseen by neither politicians nor economists The history of capitalism has been punctuated by major crises exposing the fragility of our entire economic system How has capitalism despite these ruptures managed to each time resurface more resilient and …
Level: beginner
The Global Financial Crisis
The course approaches migration as a constant phenomenon in human history and examines its main supporting theories It illustrates theories about people s individual decisions to migrate and also the factors of migration as a structural feature of our societies It explains the role social networks and institutions play in …
Level: beginner
Why Do People Migrate? Part 2: Theories
Photo by Anne Nygård on Unsplash In this course you will learn all of the major principles of microeconomics normally taught in a quarter or semester course to college undergraduates or MBA students Perhaps more importantly you will also learn how to apply these principles to a wide variety of …
Level: advanced
The Power of Microeconomics: Economic Principles in the Real World
This statistics and data analysis course will introduce you to the essential notions of probability and statistics We will cover techniques in modern data analysis estimation regression and econometrics prediction experimental design randomized control trials and A B testing machine learning and data visualization We will illustrate these concepts with …
Level: advanced
Data Analysis for Social Scientists
Money is the fantasy that makes the world go round. Where did it come from and what is its future? From the Bank of England to Bitcoin and the Bristol Pound, LSE sociologist Nigel Dodd explores.
Level: beginner
The future of money
Understanding the financial crisis from four very different economic theories: Social Economics, Institutional Economics, Post Keynesian economics.
Level: beginner
Economics from a pluralist perspective
"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
This course seeks to interpret capitalism using ideas from biological evolution. The lectures are foundational on neoclassical economics and economist, as well as their roles in the proliferation of capitalist ideology. However, it is less concerned with the ultimate judgment of capitalism than with the ways it can be shaped to fit more specific objectives.
Level: advanced
Capitalism: Success, Crisis, and Reform
In a span of around 12 weeks, the course covers a wide range of topics including agent-based modeling, networks, dynamic, chaos, information, fractals, cooperation models and scaling in biology and society. The course acts as a perfect beginner level introduction spanning a wide range of topics in the field of complexity.
Level: beginner
Introduction to Complexity
A short course introducing co-operative firms, in the context of the Candian economy where various forms of co-operative make up a significant sector of the economy. The course offers foundational knowledge about co-operatives, explaining what they are and how they operate.
Level: beginner
Coops 101
This is an introductory course into economics that navigates the intellectual history of political economy in a self-contained and non-technical manner. The course centres on the classical concept of political economy by emphasizing the moral and ethical problems that markets solve or may not solve.
2016
Level: beginner
Capitalism & Political Economy
In this course you'll learn about the tools used by scientists to understand complex systems. The topics you'll learn about include dynamics, chaos, fractals, information theory, self-organization, agent-based modeling, and networks.
Level: advanced
Introduction to Complexity

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