A Theory From bestselling writer David Graeber a master of opening up thought and stimulating debate Slate a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless unfulfilling jobs and their consequences Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world In the spring of 2013 David Graeber asked this question … 2019 Level: beginner Bullshit Jobs David Graeber Simon and Schuster More-is-better ideals such as these have long shaped our vision of rationality. Yet humans and other animals typically rely on simple heuristics to solve adaptive problems, focusing on one or a few important cues and ignoring the rest, and shortcutting computation rather than striving for as much as possible. 2012 Level: advanced Ecological Rationality Peter M. Todd, Gerd Gigerenzer, ABC Research Group Oxford University Press, USA 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 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 Esther Duflo & Sarah Fisher Ellison Massachusetts Institute of Technology What are the challenges and opportunities for achieving decent work in global supply chains How do transnational corporations and their global supply chains operate How can they be more effectively governed Mark Anner Esther Busser Michael Fichter Tandiwe Gross Frank Hoffer Jenny Holdcroft Praveen Jha Maité Llanos Adam Lee Victor … Level: beginner Decent Work in Global Supply Chains Mark Anner, Esther Busser, Michael Fichter, Tandiwe Gross, Frank Hoffer, Jenny Holdcroft, Praveen Jha, Maité Llanos, Adam Lee, Victor Hugo Ricco, Christoph Scherrer Iversity How and by whom are International Labour Standards set? How are they supervised, and how can workers’ organisations use the ILO supervisory mechanisms? What are the key principles of Freedom of Association, the right to strike and Collective Bargaining? Level: beginner International Labour Standards: How to Use Them Beatriz Vacotto, Jeffrey Vogt, Paul Whitehead, Stefanie Lorenzen, Tandiwe Gross, and Maité Llanos Iversity Gerald Friedman UMassEconomics University of Massachusetts at Amherst Level: beginner Great Recession Lectures Gerald Friedman University of Massachusetts at Amherst Explore the pressing topic of globalisation and how it affects economics, politics and society with this online course. Level: beginner International Affairs: Globalisation Richard Baldwin Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Geneva 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 Dr. Michael Munger Duke University Photo by timJ on Unsplash Do you wish to know how to analyze and solve business and economic questions with data analysis tools Then Econometrics by Erasmus University Rotterdam is the right course for you as you learn how to translate data into models to make forecasts and to support … Level: advanced Econometrics: Methods and Applications Philip Hans Franses, Prof. Dr.; Christiaan Heij, Dr.; Michel van der Wel, Dr.; Dennis Fok, Prof. Dr.; Richard Paap, Prof. Dr.; Dick van Dijk , Prof. Dr.; Erik Kole, Dr. ; Francine Gresnigt, PhD candidate; Myrthe van Dieijen, PhD candidate Erasmus University Rotterdam Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics

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Nobel laureate Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central agents in the economy are humans--predictable, error-prone individuals. Misbehaving is his arresting, frequently hilarious account of the struggle to bring an academic discipline back down to earth--and change the way we think about economics, ourselves, and our world. 2016 Level: advanced Misbehaving Richard H. Thaler W.W. Norton For many, Thomas Carlyle's put-down of economics as "the dismal science" rings true--especially in the aftermath of the crash of 2008. But Diane Coyle argues that economics today is more soulful than dismal, a more practical and human science than ever before. The Soulful Science describes the remarkable creative renaissance in economics, how economic thinking is being applied to the paradoxes of everyday life. 2009 Level: advanced The Soulful Science Diane Coyle Princeton University Press In reviewing this book in The Economic Journal, S.G. Checkland said that it should be read as a vigorous attempt to relate economics to general thinking and as a challenge to those who are practitioners or elaborators of narrowly prescribed techniques. 2017 Level: beginner Evolutionary Economics Hamilton, David Boyce Routledge Rethinking Regulation of International Finance encapsulates the most important aspects of the development and operation of the international financial system. This book questions the fundamental basis of the existing international financial architecture (soft law) and explores the need for a compliance-based model based on legitimacy of regulations and accountability of the regulatory bodies in international financial stability. 2018 Level: advanced Rethinking Regulation of International Finance Uzma Ashraf Barton Kluwer Law International Fabian Georgi analyses how migration and borders are connected to capitalism. 2024 Level: beginner Recruiting skilled labour, while closing borders? The connection between migration, border regimes and capitalism Fabian Georgi Exploring Economics How did the rich countries really become rich? In this provocative study, Ha-Joon Chang examines the great pressure on developing countries from the developed world to adopt certain 'good policies' and 'good institutions', seen today as necessary for economic development. 2002 Level: advanced Kicking Away the Ladder Ha-Joon Chang Anthem Press "Specialise!" is the advice often given by career advisers, school teachers and the like. David Epstein takes the opposite position: In an ever more specialised, highly complex world, it pays to have good old-fashioned broad common knowledge in as many areas as you take interest in, both in terms of intellectual curiosity and professional success. To have a decent grasp of various aspects of life means to be able to discern the links between them, thus developing a better understanding of how our world works and what drives events as they unfold. 2020 Level: beginner Range David Epstein Penguin LCC US Neoliberalism is dead. Again. After the election of Trump and the victory of Brexit in 2016, many diagnosed the demise of the ideology of Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, Augusto Pinochet, and the WTO. Yet the philosophy of the free market and the strong state has an uncanny capacity to survive and even thrive in crisis. 2020 Level: advanced Nine Lives of Neoliberalism Dieter Plehwe Verso Books In Colonial Debts Rocío Zambrana develops the concept of neoliberal coloniality in light of Puerto Rico's debt crisis. Drawing on decolonial thought and praxis, Zambrana shows how debt functions as an apparatus of predation that transforms how neoliberalism operates. 2021 Level: advanced Colonial Debts Rocío Zambrana Duke University Press Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski examine the apparent contradiction between the demise of real-existing socialism and the rise of large corporations engaging in planning every day, making a strong argument that these planning efforts should be transformed to now fulfil the needs of the people. 2019 Level: advanced The People's Republic of Walmart Leigh Phillips; Michal Rozworski Verso Books The volume has been conceived with current and future economics students in mind: they will be the economists of the future. One of the main ideas underlining the book is that "being an economist" in the XXI century requires a radical change in the training of economists and such change requires a global effort. 2014 Level: advanced The Economics Curriculum Maria Alejandra Madi, Jack Reardon College Publications Economics After the Crisis is an introductory economics textbook, covering key topics in micro and macro economics. However, this book differs from other introductory economics textbooks in the perspective it takes, and it incorporates issues that are presently underserved by existing textbooks on the market. This book offers an introduction to economics that takes into account criticisms of the orthodox approach, and which acknowledges the role that this largely Western approach has played in the current global financial and economic crisis. 2014 Level: advanced Economics After the Crisis Irene van Staveren Routledge "Energy issues have always been important in international relations, but in recent years may have become even more important than in the past due to the widespread awareness of existing limits to energy sources and negative climate impacts. The course discusses global trends in energy consumption and production, various available scenarios for potential developments in the coming decades, the availability of oil reserves and the evolution of the oil industry. It then discusses natural gas and highlights the differences between oil and gas. It will also discuss renewable energy sources, nuclear energy and EU energy policy. The course aims at providing students whose main interest is in international relations a background on energy resources, technology and economic realities to allow them to correctly interpret the political impact of current developments. It also aims at providing students, who already have a technical background in energy science or engineering, with the broad global view of energy issues that will allow them to better understand the social, economic and political impact of their technical knowledge." Level: beginner Politics and Economics of International Energy Giacomo Luciani n.a. Uncertain Futures considers how economic actors visualize the future and decide how to act in conditions of radical uncertainty. It starts from the premise that dynamic capitalist economies are characterized by relentless innovation and novelty and hence exhibit an indeterminacy that cannot be reduced to measurable risk. 2018 Level: advanced Uncertain Futures Beckert, Jens; Bronk, Richard Oxford University Press A comprehensive account of how government deficits and debt drive inflation 2023 Level: advanced The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level John Cochrane Princeton University Press Feminist Political Economy - A Global Perspective Level: advanced Feminist Political Economy - A Global Perspective Sara Cantillon, Odile Mackett, Sara Stevano Certificate Project