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An essay of the writing workshop on Nigeria’s Readiness for and the Effect of the Fourth Industrial Revolution 2020 Level: advanced The Role of Women in the Fourth Industrial Revolution Damilola Phebean Owasanoye Exploring Economics The outbreak of COVID-19 has substantially accelerated the digitalization of the economy. Yet, this unprecedented growth of digital technology brought novel challenges to the labour market. Rise in income inequalities and precarious working conditions or polarization of jobs. In this essay, we try to assess what tools to use to counter these trends. 2021 Level: beginner Post-pandemic future of work - How does digitization impact labour? Neha Chauhan, Miguel Corredera, Krystian Lukasik, Filipa Reis Exploring Economics Prof. Robert Guttmann looks at the current transformation of the international world order through the lenses of global money and finance. 2019 Level: advanced Multipolar Capitalism Robert Guttmann Instituto de Economia da Unicamp Could working less make people and the planet better off? Find out in this dossier by exploring the landscape of working time reduction policies and their potential for reimagining, restructuring, and redistributing time as a political resource in the 21st century economy. 2020 Level: beginner Could Working Time Reduction Policies Save People and the Planet? Patrick Léon Gross, Laura Wedemeyer, Caroline Schenck, and Bettina Chlond Exploring Economics The Routledge Handbook of Heterodox Economics presents a comprehensive overview of the latest work on economic theory and policy from a 'pluralistic' heterodox perspective.

Contributions throughout the Handbook explore different theoretical perspectives including: Marxian-radical political economics; Post Keynesian-Sraffian economics; institutionalist-evolutionary economics; feminist economics; social economics. 2019 Level: advanced The Routledge Handbook of Heterodox Economics Tae-Hee Jo, Lynne Chester, Carlo D'Ippoliti Taylor & Francis Limited Complexity economics focuses on interactions and interdependencies between individuals and structures in economic systems. Those are systems of organised complexity. High importance is given to the analysis of networks. Complexity Economics     Behavioural economics deals with observing behaviour and economic decision making behaviour. Behavioral Economics     The chapter by the Centre for Economy Studies introduces interdisciplinary economic subdisciplines and their importance for economics education. 2021 Level: beginner Interdisciplinary Economics Sam de Muijnck and Joris Tieleman Economy Studies After completing the workshop in Post Keynesian Economics participants should be able to describe the main differences and similarities between PKE and other schools of thought. 2021 Level: beginner Post Keynesian Economics Valeria Jimenez Summer Academy for Pluralist Economics This chapter by the Centre for Economy Studies explores how courses on the history of economic thought and methods could look if they were pluralist and interdisciplinary. 2021 Level: beginner Rethinking the History of Economic Thought & Methods Sam de Muijnck and Joris Tieleman Economy Studies This edited volume explores how dependency theories can be adapted and applied to understand limits and possibilities for development in Latin America and Europe It explores core periphery relations across different sets of countries specific mechanisms of dependency as well as the role of race and gender in dependency analysis … 2021 Level: advanced Dependent Capitalisms in Contemporary Latin America and Europe Aldo Madariaga, Stefano Palestini Springer Nature Some economic events are so major and unsettling that they “change everything.” Such is the case with the financial crisis that started in the summer of 2007 and is still a drag on the world economy. Yet enough time has now elapsed for economists to consider questions that run deeper than the usual focus on the immediate causes and consequences of the crisis. 2013 Level: advanced Rethinking the Financial Crisis Alan S. Blinder, Andrew W. Loh, Robert M. Solow Russell Sage Foundation The Privatized State shows how privatization undermines the very reason political institutions exist in the first place, and advocates for a new way of administering public affairs that is more democratic and just. 2020 Level: beginner The Privatized State Chiara Cordelli Princeton University Press 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 In this book, Carlota Perez develops her Neo-Schumpeterian concept of "techno-economic paradigms" which captures the patterns underlying the role of technological revolutions in economic development since the Industrial revolution. 2003 Level: advanced Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital Carlota Perez Edward Elgar This book explores frontier work at the intersection of experimental and environmental economics, with cutting edge research provided by premier scholars in the field.The book begins by focusing on improving benefit-cost analysis, which remains the hallmark of public policy decision-making around the globe. 2006 Level: advanced Using Experimental Methods in Environmental and Resource Economics John A. List Edward Elgar Framing borders as an instrument of capital accumulation imperial domination and labor control Walia argues that what is often described as a migrant crisis in Western nations is the outcome for the actual crisis of capitalism conquest and climate change This book shows the displacement of workers in the global … 2021 Level: advanced Border and Rule Harsha Walia Haymarket Books Written by the Nobel Prize winners in Economics Robert Shiller and George Akerlof, this book shows how deception and manipulation play a big role in the economic behavior of individuals, as well as showing how the assumption of "perfect information" is far away from the truth. Through both quantitative data and stories of how to reduce this noxious phenomenon, the authors paint a pretty different picture of how markets really works in a hyper-communicative scenario like nowadays. 2016 Level: beginner Phishing for Phools George A. Akerlof, Robert J. Shiller Princeton University Press The Philosophy of Economics Foundational Text provides a systematic and well-structured overview over the field of philosophy of economics. 2023 Level: beginner Philosophy of Economics Milena Dehn, Ella Needler and Jessica Palka Exploring Economics In 18th century Europe figures such as Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Friedrich List and Jean Baptiste Colbert developed theories regarding international trade, which either embraced free trade seeing it as a positive sum game or recommended more cautious and strategic approaches to trade seeing it as a potential danger and a rivalry and often as a zero-sum game. What about today? 2016 Level: beginner Free trade in economic theories Exploring Economics Exploring Economics In this essay the authors take a look at how welfare could be provided in a degrowth society. 2019 Level: beginner Bidding farewell to growth: How to provide welfare in a degrowth society Johanna Hopp and Laura Theuer Exploring Economics In the history of the social sciences, few individuals have exerted as much influence as has Jeremy Bentham. His attempt to become “the Newton of morals” has left a marked impression upon the methodology and form of analysis that social sciences like economics and political science have chosen as modus operandi. 2020 Level: advanced Bentham’s Two Sovereign Masters - Examining Bentham’s Influence on the Social Sciences Jerome Warren Exploring Economics As the Covid-19 fueled economic downturn begins to intensify this winter, an extended study of the Italian cooperative sector’s historical resilience in times of crisis can serve as a learning experience for other countries seeking to create policies that foster more stable economies, with job security, care for marginalized communities and adequate counter-cyclical policies. Particularly, the Italian cooperative sector’s contributions to three aspects should be noted in closing. Firstly, the innovative phenomenon of cooperative enterprises has contributed to social inclusion of immigrant communities, the activation of youth, the unemployed and people with disabilities, a true compensation for both a market and state failure. Secondly, they have contributed to a reduction in income and wealth inequalities at a time when the issue of inequality is of global significance. Thirdly, the Italian cooperative movement has helped local communities revitalize in the face of demographic shifts and rendered them more resilient to the ravages of globalization. Each of these in their own right is a remarkable achievement. 2020 Level: beginner How to strengthen the social economy Jerome Warren Exploring Economics From the two premises that (1) economies are complex systems and (2) the accumulation of knowledge about reality is desirable, I derive the conclusion that pluralism with regard to economic research programs is a more viable position to hold than monism. To substantiate this claim an epistemological framework of how scholars study their objects of inquiry and relate their models to reality is discussed. Furthermore, it is argued that given the current institutions of our scientific system, economics self-organizes towards a state of scientific unity. Since such a state is epistemologically inferior to a state of plurality, critical intervention is desirable. 2017 Level: advanced The Complexity of Economies and Pluralism in Economics Claudius Gräbner Johannes Kepler University Linz (ICAE) and University of Duisburg-Essen (IfSO), Journal of Contextual Economics Recovery from the Covid-19 crisis provides a chance to implement economic measures that are also beneficial from environmental and social perspectives. While ‘green’ recovery packages are crucial to support economies tracking a low-carbon transition in the short-term, green measures such as carbon pricing are also key to improving welfare in the long-term. This commentary specifies the need for carbon pricing, outlines its implications for our everyday lives, and explains how it works alongside value-based change in the context of climate action and societal well-being. 2021 Level: beginner Carbon Pricing: The Key to Open the Way Toward a Sustainable Recovery and Long-Term Wellbeing Stefano Vrizzi, Jessica Geraghty, Matilda Saarinen, Beatrice Noun, Olivia de Vesci, Philippine Levy Exploring Economics An Introduction to the Political Theory of John Maynard Keynes. John Maynard Keynes was arguably the greatest economist of the 20th century. He discovered the idea that governments should stimulate demand during economic downturns. 2017 Level: beginner An Introduction to the Political Theory of John Maynard Keynes The School of Life The School of Life Youtube Channel Overview page for the collection of nobel laureateas on Exploring Economics 2020 Level: beginner Nobel memorial prize in economic sciences - A critical overview   Exploring Economics Recording of the Workshop “The collateral supply effect on central banking”, 04.02.2021, part of the "Next Generation Central Banking - Climate Change, Inequality, Financial Instability" conference by the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung 2021 Level: advanced NextGen Central Banking: The collateral supply effect on central banking Finanzwende e.V. & Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Carolyn Sissoko, UWE Bristol; Steffen Murau, Boston University; Michael Peters, Finanzwende Transformative Responses, Heinrich-Böll-Foundation & Finanzwende This panel was part of the conference "Next Generation Gentral Banking - Climate Change, Inequality, Financial Instability" 03. - 05.02.2021. 2021 Level: advanced NextGen Central Banking: How the coronavirus almost brought down the global financial system Finanzwende e.V. & Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Adam Tooze, Annette Vissing-Jørgensen, Sven Giegold, Martin Hellwig Transformative Responses, Heinrich-Böll-Foundation & Finanzwende Exploring Economics, an open-access e-learning platform, giving you the opportunity to discover & study a variety of economic theories, topics, and methods. 2020 Level: advanced Impact of FDI on economic growth: The role of country income levels and institutional strength Tamar Baiashvili, Luca Gattini European Investment Bank The world is regularly shaken by crises some are bigger others are smaller in scope Local turmoil military conflicts commodity scarcity bank runs health threats the history of mankind can be written as a history of crises Three major global crises occurred in the last fifty years alone the oil … 2021 Level: beginner Understanding Crises - What to take from here for better policy advice in the future? Dr. Carolina Alves, Prof. Dr. Ishac Diwan Exploring Economics Mark Carney explains how we have come to esteem financial value over human value and how we have gone from market economies to market societies, how economic theory foundation affect the society as a whole, how we understand our world today and ultimately how this affects our lives. 2020 Level: beginner How We Get What We Value Mark Carney BBC

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