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This article by Rüdiger Bachmann et.al. discusses the economic effects of a potential cut-off of the German economy from Russian energy imports. 2022 Level: advanced What if? The Economic Effects for Germany of a Stop of Energy Imports from Russia Rüdiger Bachmann, David Baqaee, Christian Bayer, Moritz Kuhn, Andreas Löschel, Benjamin Moll, Andreas Peichl, Karen Pittel, Moritz Schularick ECONtribute.de 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 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 book offers the first systematic analysis of economic thought concerning war. 2020 Level: advanced War in Economic Theories over Time Renata Allio Springer Nature 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 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 Are there any limits to government spending? In times of war, particularly? And what about the aftermath of such special times when treasuries seemingly feel unshackled from any rules? And are those times really any special? That is what this paper is about. 2019 Level: advanced Modern Money and the War Treasury Sam Levey Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity In this short essay, Jayati Ghosh gives an overview over the multiple ways in which the economic "fall-out" of the War in Ukraine is hitting economies and societies in the developing world. 2022 Level: beginner Putin’s War Is Damaging the Developing World Jayati Ghosh Project Syndicate This essay draws on several analyses on the gender impact of the recession and of austerity policies, in which authors acknowledge a threat to women’s labour market integration and a potential backlash to traditional gender labour structures. We contribute to that literature by asking whether recession and austerity convey a gender effect on educational attainment. Our aim in this essay is to portray the likely effects of austerity measures on gender equality with a focus on women’s participation in tertiary education and to hypothesize the implications of these scenarios for labour market effects, to be tested in future empirical research. 2017 Level: beginner The impact of Austerity on Gender in Tertiary Education: A Theoretical Analysis Zeynep M. Nettekoven and Izaskun Zuazu Exploring Economics Wheat and oil prices were already rising before the Russian invasion so what might be the effect for people in low income countries of a war far away that may have a secondary impact much closer to home In this short video Rabah Arezki Chief Economist Vice President African Development … 2022 Level: beginner War in Ukraine, impact in Africa. The effect of soaring energy and food prices Rabah Arezki VoxEU - CEPR In analyzing the global competition between Chinese and Indian tea, Andrew B. Liu challenges past economic histories premised on the technical “divergence” between the West and the Rest, arguing instead that seemingly traditional technologies and practices were central to modern capital accumulation across Asia. 2020 Level: advanced Tea War Andrew B. Liu Yale University Press In this article, Hannah Ritchie presents the data we need to understand the scale of their contribution, and which countries are most reliant on Ukraine for their food supplies. 2022 Level: beginner How could the war in Ukraine impact global food supplies? Hannah Ritchie Our World in Data 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 The climate crisis is not primarily a problem of ‘believing science’ or individual ‘carbon footprints’ – it is a class problem rooted in who owns, controls and profits from material production. As such, it will take a class struggle to solve. In this ground breaking class analysis, Matthew T. Huber argues that the carbon-intensive capitalist class must be confronted for producing climate change. 2022 Level: beginner Climate Change as Class War Matthew T. Huber Verso Books 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 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 At the time of his death in 1950, Joseph Schumpeter was working on his monumantal History of Economic Analysis. Unprecedented in scope, the book was to provide a complete history of economic theory from Ancient Greece to the end of the Second World War. A major contribution to the history of ideas as well as to economics, History of Economic Analysis rapidly gained a reputation as a unique and classic work. 1994 Level: advanced History of Economic Analysis Joseph Alois Schumpeter Routledge John K. Galbraith tells the economic history of a couple of economies (mostly UK, US and to a lesser extent Germany) from the end of the first world war until the Bretton Woods conference. He also provides a biography of John M. Keynes and outlines some central ideas of Keynes such as the possibility of an underemployment equilibrium. Galbraith complements the historical remarks by the biographical experiences he made in economic management (and in engaging with Keynes) serving as deputy head of the Office for Price administration during the second world war. 1977 Level: beginner The Age of Uncertainty Episode 7 The Mandarin Revolution John Kenneth Galbraith BBC, CBC, KCET and OECA The effects of the 2020 pandemic on the Latin-American region: a thorough before-after analysis. 2020 Level: beginner COVID-19 and Economic Development in Latin America SOAS Open Economics Forum, SOAS Economics Department, Tobias Franz SOAS University of London This infographic gives a summary of the 2018 Trade Wars. This simple, compiled overview is suitable for those without a strong political or economic background. The infographic explains briefly basic concepts related to trade and provides a short timeline of events. It furthermore checks Trump administration's arguments to launch the the trade war against facts and estimates of how the 2018 trade war can affect the global and North-American economy. 2018 Level: beginner 2018 Trade Wars Infographic Trade Machines Trade Machines The most influential and controversial economist of the twentieth century, John Maynard Keynes was the leading founder of modern macroeconomics, and was also an important historical figure as a critic of the Versailles Peace Treaty after World War I and an architect of the Bretton Woods international monetary system after World War II. 2019 Level: advanced The Elgar Companion to John Maynard Keynes Robert W. Dimand, Harald Hagemann Edward Elgar Publishing The documentary recounts the history of the first World War and gives a biography of Lenin. The concept of imperialism is briefly explored and it is concluded that by the end of world war one the old certainties and old ruling alliances between aristocracy and traditional capitalists were broken up. 1977 Level: beginner The Age of Uncertainty Episode 5 Lenin and The Great Ungluing John Kenneth Galbraith BBC, CBC, KCET and OECA During his life, Keynes was credited with, amongst other things, with helping to save capitalism from the Great Depression, funding the war against the Nazis and building post-war decades of growth and rising prosperity. And when the global crisis struck in 2008, it was his ideas that the world's leaders turned to help avoid another depression. 2012 Level: beginner Masters Of Money | John Maynard Keynes BBC YouTube 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 lecture was held in the context of the a two day conference called Which pluralism for thinking about how to achieve a more sustainable and resilient economy The practices institutions and system logics of today s economy are not suitable for appropriately addressing fundamental human needs The climate crisis … 2021 Level: beginner Real Economic Analysis - A Theoretical and Empirical Alternative to Economic Orthodoxy Anwar Shaikh Conference "Which Pluralism?" This course introduces students to political economy and the history of economic thought. We will cover the core ideas in various schools of economic thought, positioning them in the historical and institutional context in which they were developed. In particular, we will cover some economic ideas from the ancient world and the middle ages; the enlightenment; the emergence of and main ideas in classical political economy (Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Thomas Malthus, and others); Marx, Mill, and Keynes; European versus American economic thought through history; the rise of mathematical economics; economic theories around state-managed economies versus socialism; Austrian economics; behavioral economics; and the future of economics. 2020 Level: beginner Political Economy and the History of Economic Thought Alyssa Schneebaum Vienna University of Economics and Business What’s inflation? Why is it relevant? And is there an agreed theory about its roots and causes, or is it a contentious concept? That’s what this text is all about: We define what inflation actually means before we delve into the theoretical debate with an interdisciplinary and pluralist approach: What gives rise to it, what factors might influence it, and, consequently, what might be done about it? 2021 Level: beginner Inflation in economic theory Alexander Barta, Jorim Gerrard, Jakob Steffen & Frieder Zaspel Exploring Economics With the onset of an economic crisis that has been universally acknowledged since the end of March, two main questions arise: To what extent is the corona pandemic the starting point (or even the cause) of this crisis? And secondly: can the aid programmes that have been adopted prevent a deep and prolonged recession? 2020 Level: beginner Economic crisis only because of the Corona pandemic? Jakob Schäfer Exploring Economics This article outlines the fundamental challenges of democratically planned economies and categorises proposed models into six groups, each of which approaches planning and coordination at different levels of authority and between myriad economic units in a particular way, taking into account efficiency as well as democratic principles and environmental and social sustainability. Through a classification system based on decision-making authority and mediation mechanisms, the article provides a framework for understanding and comparing these models. By examining their different approaches, it offers insights into the complexities and potential paths of democratically planned economies in the 21st century. 2024 Level: beginner Rethinking Democratic Economic Planning: An Overview Jakob Heyer Exploring Economics The module is designed to first present some of the main schools of thought from a historical and methodological perspective. Each week we explore and critically assess the main tenants of each school of thought. In the second part of the module we link history of economic thought and methodology to a specific and contemporary economic question. The second part allows you to engage with current economic issues with an awareness of methodology and methodological differences and with some knowledge of the history of economics. 2019 Level: beginner History of Economic Thought Dr. Jeff Powell University of Greenwich In this podcast 'How Economic Theory and Policy Reinforce Racism' William Spriggs, the AFL-CIO’s chief economist, discusses the inadequacies of the pandemic economic rescue package and the influence of mainstream economic theory. He further explores how mainstream economic theory continues to fail everyone, especially Black communities, by disregarding history. 2020 Level: beginner How Economic Theory and Policy Reinforce Racism William Spriggs INET Economic sociology is an entire subfield and one could write an series on it, so I’m going to stick to probably the most prominent economic sociologist and the founder of ‘new economic sociology’, Mark Granovetter. 2020 Level: beginner Economic Sociology: the Contributions of Mark Granovetter Cahal Moran Rethinking Economics

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