The page "Positive Money" gathers text and short videos which explain how money is created by banks by giving loans. It furthermore presents the consequences of this process on housing prices, inequality and the environment and its role in the financial crisis. The dossier is provided by the campaign "Positive Money" which aims at a democratic control over money creation. Besides texts by the campaign, the page makes available links to journal and conference articles on the topic. The page focuses on the banking system of the UK. Level: beginner Positive Money   Positive Money Maria Nikolaidi on how Minsky’s theory has been modelled over past decades and how one can use these models in order to analyse contemporary issues such as financial fragility and financial instability caused by climate change. 2016 Level: advanced Minsky's theory about financial fragility and financial instability Maria Nikolaidi IMK This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Economic theory is centuries out of date and that's a disaster for ... 2014 Level: beginner Why it's time for 'Doughnut Economics' Kate Raworth TEDx Robert Costanza briefly present various methods of environmental valuation, and talks about the changes in the global value of ecosystem services. He then introduces the major ecosystem services, and how different methods of valuation affect the preferred policies to address environmental issues. 2014 Level: advanced Robert Costanza: Ecosystem Service Valuation Robert Costanza ELD (the economics of land degradation) In this essay the author outlines the basis for embracing a post-work agenda, rooted in an emancipatory potential from the domination of waged work, which could help answer both feminist and ecological concerns with work. 2018 Level: beginner Towards a post-work future: a necessary agenda to reconcile feminist & ecological concerns with work Emilie Tricarico Exploring Economics The Trialogue is a podcast about combining historic ideas of the high-culture of the Inca and modern problems. The three authors each put their own perspectives of the topic and show insights into their actual view of economics. 2020 Level: beginner Trialogue Of Taking Socialistic Hints From The Inca For A Better Modern Society Zaire Arradaza ( PUP, Philippines) Christian Brückner ( EHD, Germany) Giovanni Villavicencio (CIDE, Mexico) - The British historian, Adam Tooze, highlights how the climate crisis is not just an environmental or ecological problem but also a political economy challenge. 2021 Level: beginner Climate, carbon and class Adam Tooze Chartbook Substack Newsletter Sustainable Development has become dominant in policy debates in the last two decades. Standard models in neoclassical economics as taught in undergraduate classes fail to capture the complex relationships between the economy and the environment. 2021 Level: beginner Using Academic Travel to Teach Sustainable Economic Development Poulomi Dasgupta VS Springer Information and skills required to make more sustainable choices every day. Level: beginner Sustainability in Everyday Life Anna Nyström Claesson; Matty Janssen Chalmers University of Technology This brief views the environment through diverse lenses – those of standard economics, institutional economics, political science, environmental science and ecology. 2013 Level: advanced The Environment in Economics and Development Vikram Dayal Springer Science & Business Media The Anthropology of Development and Globalization is a collection of readings that provides an unprecedented overview of this field that ranges from the field?s classical origins to today?s debates about the ?magic? of the free market. 2005 Level: advanced The Anthropology of Development and Globalization Marc Edelman, Angelique Haugerud Wiley That’s why it is time, says renegade economist Kate Raworth, to revise our economic thinking for the 21st century. In Doughnut Economics, she sets out seven key ways to fundamentally reframe our understanding of what economics is and does. 2017 Level: beginner Doughnut Economics Kate Raworth Chelsea Green Publishing Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, there has been an unprecedented move towards 'rethinking economics' due to the damages generated by the global financial crisis that burst in 2007-2008. Almost a decade after this crisis, policy is still unable to provide all citizens greater wellbeing or at least an encouraging economic future. 2017 Level: advanced A Modern Guide to Rethinking Economics Louis-Philippe Rochon, Sergio Rossi Edward Elgar Publishing This book argues that mainstream economics, with its present methodological approach, is limited in its ability to analyze and develop adequate public policy to deal with environmental problems and sustainable development. Each chapter provides major insights into many of today’s environmental problems such as global warming and sustainable growth. 2009 Level: advanced Post Keynesian and Ecological Economics Richard P. F. Holt, Steven Pressman, Clive L. Spash Edward Elgar Publishing Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. Edited by the Sustainability Institute's Diana Wright, this essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world, showing readers how to develop the systems-thinking skills that thought leaders across the globe consider critical for 21st-century life. 2015 Level: advanced Thinking in Systems Donella H. Meadows Chelsea Green Publishing Co Nature and communities in the global south is being overwhelmed at a shocking rate. In many places this is due to ventures such as large-scale open-pit mining, oil extraction in tropical areas, and the spread of monocultures. These and other such forms of natural resource appropriation are usually known as extractivisms. 2021 Level: beginner Extractivisms Eduardo Gudynas Fernwood Publishing Karl William Kapp (1910-1976) was one of the forefathers of Ecological Economics. Influenced namely by the Frankfurt School, Institutionalist Economics and Pragmatist Philosophy, he contributed to debates on the social costs of production, economic planning, sustainable development and epistemology. I 2000 Level: advanced The Social Costs of Business Enterprise Karl William Kapp Spokesman Research on consumption from an environmental perspective has exploded since the late 1990s. This important new volume cuts across disciplines to present the latest research in the field. The book is divided into three parts, the first of which addresses the problems of consumption both as a concept and as an economic and social force with high environmental impact. 2004 Level: advanced The Ecological Economics of Consumption Inge Rpke E. Elgar This course provides a simple introduction to problems that social scientists are working on (e.g. racial disparities, inequality and climate change) in a manner that does not require any prior background in Economics or Statistics. Level: beginner Using Big Data to Solve Economic and Social Problems Raj Chetty and Gregory Bruich Harvard University "Learn why cities are key in resolving global urbanization and sustainability challenges and how you can engineer tomorrow’s cities today." Level: beginner Sustainable Urban Development Arjan van Timmeren, Huub H.M. Rijnaarts, Mariette Overschie, Marc Spiller, Koen Wetser Delft University of Technology

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Western capitalism is in crisis. 2016 Level: advanced Rethinking Capitalism Michael Jacobs, Mariana Mazzucato Wiley Environmental cost-benefit analysis was developed by economists in the belief that monetary valuation of the environmental repercussions of economic activity is essential if the "environment " stands any chance of being included in government and business decisions. 2006 Level: advanced Alternatives for Environmental Valuation Michael Getzner, Clive Spash, Sigrid Stagl Routledge "his course introduces the complex, but critical, concepts of sustainability and resilience and examines your impact on our environment." Level: beginner Sustainability, Resilience, and Society Dr. Stevan Harrell University of Washington