Esther Duflo discusses the fact that in social policy one cannot check the big questions, i.e. whether development assistance as an aggregate is helpful, because there is no counterfactual. She then suggests to focus on smaller questions such as what prevents or incentiveses people from immunizing their kids or whether mosquito bednets should be distributed for free. These questions can be answered by using randomized control trials as in the medical sciences. Thus, she argues, by bringing the experimental method to social policy analysis better decisions as to where allocate funds can be made. 2010 Level: debutante Social experiments to fight poverty Esther Duflo TED Talks Ha Joon Chang exposes the main ideas of his book Bad Samaritans, namely that historically states have developed and industrialized by making policy interventions related to industry protection, tariffs and subsidies and not by opening their markets to free trade. Chang elaborates on the examples of Japan, the US, Singapore and Germany amongst others to show that an interventionist path to development has been the regularity and not an anomaly. In the end of the lecture, he argues that they idea of a level playing field should be replaced by a trade order that accounts for differences in power and economic capacities of different countries. The last 20 minutes are questions and answers. 2008 Level: debutante Ha-Joon Chang - Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism Ha Joon-Chang New America Foundation What does political economy say about the global sugar production? Take a look at global trade regulations, intercountry inequalities, and the role of marketing. 2015 Level: debutante Global sugar production - regulations, intercountry inequalities, and marketing Ben Richardson I-PEEL Irene van Staveren, professor of pluralist development economics, presents her pluralist teaching method for the introductory level. Based on her textbook “Economics After the Crisis: An Introduction to Economics from a Pluralist and Global Perspective” she suggests to focus on real-world problems and pari passu apply economic theories such as Social economics, Institutional economics, Post-Keynesian economics as well as Neoclassical economics without wasting time to single out the latter. Besides pointing out advantages of such a pluralist method Irene illustrates her approach based on interesting topics such as growth or feminist economics. 2016 Level: debutante Beyond stimulus versus Austerity: Pluralist capacity building in Macroeconomics Irene van Staveren IMK "Why information grows" by Cesar Hidalgo and the atlas of economic complexity. César visits the RSA to present a new view of the relationship between the individual and collective knowledge, linking information theory, economics and biology... 2015 Level: adelantado Why information grows and the atlas of economic complexity. César Hidalgo The RSA The podcast explores the psychosocial implications of poverty in the society. Keetie Roelen investigates how the emotion of shame and policy-making are intertwined. 2017 Level: debutante The Psychosocial Side of Poverty Keetie Roelen PS - Project Syndicate As seen with the United Nations significant promotion of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the past few years, the issue of global development is of growing concern to many international organizations. As humanity continues to become more interconnected through globalization, the inequalities and injustices experienced by inhabitants of impacted countries becomes increasingly clear. While this issue can be observed in the papers of different types (e.g., different schools of thought) of economists throughout the world, the work of behavioral and complexity economists offer a unique, collaborative perspective on how to frame decisions for individuals in a way that can positively reverberate throughout society and throughout time. 2018 Level: debutante Behavioural vs Complexity Economics: Approaches to Development Erika Sloan Pluralist Economics Fellowship A rethinking of the way to fight global poverty and winners of the Swedish Bank Prize for Economics. 2019 Level: adelantado Social Experiments to Alleviate Poverty Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer Exploring Economics Professor Jennifer Clapp explains the dynamics of financialization of land and agricultural commodities in Subsaharan Africa. She points to the historical roots of accelerated land speculation and their connection to financial institutions, both generating and reinforcing the process of financialization of African land. Besides talking about roots and dynamics of speculation with land on financial markets, she puts the perspective of scholarly investigation onto the investor's side in discussing guidelines of responsible investment and regulation in the front instead of focussing on the receiving countries. 2013 Level: debutante Land and Financialization: Role of International Financial Actors in Land Deals in Africa Jennifer Clapp The North-South Institute James Robinson gives in this talk a short introduction into the theory and ideas of his popular book "Why Nations Fail" which was published together with D. Acemoglu in 2012. With many real-life examples he gives a lively description on the fundamentals for economic success from an institutionalist view. According to Robinson, the nature of institutions is a crucial factor for economic success. Whether institutions are inclusive (such as in prosperous economies) or extractive (poor economies) stems from the nation's political process and the distribution of political power. 2014 Level: debutante Why Nations Fail James Robinson TEDx Talks A central question in development economics literature is, “Why do countries stay poor?” The key disagreements are whether the lack of economic growth stems from institutions or from geography (Nunn 2009). From an institutional perspective, hostile tariff regimes and commodity price dependencies form a barrier to a sectoral shift that would otherwise lead to economic development in developing countries (Blink and Dorton 2011) (Stiglitz 2006).[i] 2020 Level: debutante Trade Barriers to Development explored through various lenses Johannes M. Halkenhaeusser Pluralist Economics Fellowship In this episode of the Planet Money podcast the Caribbean island of Barbuda is used as an example to explore the notion of property rights Until the island was struck by Hurricane Irma in November 2017 the island belonged to all Barbudans First there is a brief historic background given … 2020 Level: debutante "The Island No One Owns" - Property Rights in Barbuda   www.npr.org The article discusses the state’s influence on innovation through financial support and provides examples how the state could receive a financial share of successful enterprises in order to keep on driving innovation in the future. 2013 Level: debutante State of innovation: Busting the private-sector myth Mariana Mazzucato https://www.newscientist.com Dani Rodrik, Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, is teaching in this online session about the global rules under which the modern (free trade-focused) type of globalization operates and why, under such institutions, international community fails to deal with the climate change and pandemics. 2020 Level: debutante Pandemics, Climate Change, and Global Economics: Where Did We Go Wrong in Globalization? Dani Rodrik Harvard Kennedy School Currency hierarchy and policy space: A research agenda for development economics Barbara Fritz 2017 Level: adelantado Currency hierarchy and policy space Barbara Fritz FMM For some days, global financial markets are in turmoil. Central banks and governments are dealing with the unfolding crisis on a daily basis with seemingly u... 2020 Level: debutante Replay of the financial crisis of 2008? What is different today, and what to expect? Adam Tooze & Gerhard Schick Finanzwende In this Blog Post on developmenteconomics org Christina C Laskaridis PhD candidate in Economics at SOAS elaborates on the economic fallout of the corona pandemic and especially its impact on the Global South The author focuses in particular on the issue of debt moratoria and debt restructuring and the measures … 2020 Level: debutante Debt Moratoria in the Global South in the Age of Coronavirus Christina C. Laskaridis developingeconomics.org This talk is an exploration of a feminist centred world, where women's labour, women's energy, women's contributions to the economy are not a side event but the main event. 2020 Level: debutante Feminist economics is everything. The revolution is now! Lebohang Pheko TedTalks In this short lecture the marxist economic geographer David Harvey explains how his theory of The accumulation of dispossession came about and its central principles The theory builds on Marx law of the centralisation of capital arguing how the accumulation no longer stems from producing rather through trading asset values … 2019 Level: adelantado Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: Accumulation by Dispossession David Harvey Democracy at Work In this Ted Talk, Oxford economist Kate Raworth argues that instead of prioritizing the growth of nations, the world should rather prioritize meeting the needs of all people living on the planet within ecological limits. 2018 Level: debutante A healthy economy should be designed to thrive, not grow Kate Raworth TED This is webinar series organized by the SOAS Open Economic Forum and the SOAS Economics Department with speakers from the same department as well as other academic figures. 2020 Level: debutante The Economics of Covid-19 | SOAS University of London SOAS Open Economics Forum, SOAS Economics Department, Various SOAS Open Economics Forum The effects of the 2020 pandemic on the Latin-American region: a thorough before-after analysis. 2020 Level: debutante COVID-19 and Economic Development in Latin America SOAS Open Economics Forum, SOAS Economics Department, Tobias Franz SOAS University of London In this series of webinars, several researchers face different topics related to Degrowth. Money, health, Green New Deal, Anarchism, and many more. 2020 Level: debutante Degrowth Talks Various UK Degrowth Summer School In this podcast, Laura Basu speaks with a range of expert academics and public speakers – such as Jayati Ghosh, Yanis Varoufakis, Walden Bello, and Ashish Kothari about how the rules of the global economy are fostering the inequality and underdevelopment we see today. 2020 Level: debutante Decolonising the Global Economy Laura Basu, Jayati Ghosh, Yanis Varoufakis, Walden Bello and Ashish Kothar openDemocracy In this short podcast, Naomi Fowler, the Tax Justice Network's creative strategist, discusses how the laws made by those who profited from slavery and the empire and, the extractive business models of the major financial sector continue to impoverish some of the poorest nations. 2020 Level: debutante Systemic racism, reparations and tax justice Naomi Fowler, John Christensen, David Sorenson, Cortney Sanders, Michael Leachman Tax Justice Network An essay of the writing workshop on Nigeria’s Readiness for and the Effect of the Fourth Industrial Revolution 2020 Level: adelantado The Fourth Industrial Revolution: Economic Impact and Possible Disruptions Emmanuel Obijole Exploring Economics An essay of the writing workshop on Nigeria’s Readiness for and the Effect of the Fourth Industrial Revolution 2020 Level: adelantado The Role of Women in the Fourth Industrial Revolution Damilola Phebean Owasanoye Exploring Economics La crisis del modelo de desarrollo ha dado una nueva vigencia a organizaciones que no pertenecen ni al sector privado tradicional ni al sector público. Estas organizaciones reciben diferentes apelaciones, tercer sector, economía solidaria, economía social, economía popular, organizaciones de desarrollo social, etc. Este trabajo se propone analizar los contextos de utilización de algunos de estos términos que designan las actividades que escapan a la lógica capitalista y a la lógica de la administración pública. La nueva constitución venezolana de 2000 incluye en su artículo 184 un término nuevo en el país, el de economía social. Se trata de un término que data del siglo XIX, cuando era utilizado sobre todo en el mundo francófono. La crisis del modelo de desarrollo fordista ha llevado a su reactualización a partir de los años 1980. Las definiciones que tiene varían según los países. Este trabajo tiene como propósito precisar el significado de este término, y de otros que le son afines. Luego, se definen algunos criterios para la delimitación de un sector de economía social en Venezuela. 2001 Level: adelantado Economía social y economía solidaria: Intento de definición Oscar Bastidas Delgado, Madeleine Richer Sistema de Información Científica Redalyc: Red de Revistas Científicas Dos amigos universitarios realizan un recorrido por seis países de América Latina conociendo iniciativas que buscan construir una nueva economía. 2017 Level: debutante América Latina en Movimiento Jacobo Castellanos, Alejandro Medina De América Soy El curso Estado Política y Democracia en América Latina es una iniciativa destinada a militantes y activistas sociales y toda persona interesada en los desafíos de la democracia en América Latina y el Caribe Está organizado por el Grupo de Puebla el Programa Latinoamericano de Extensión y Cultura de la … 2020 Level: debutante Curso Estado, Política y Democracia en América Latina Grupo de Puebla, Dilma Rousseff, ex presidenta de Brasil; Claudia Sheinbaum, alcaldesa de la Ciudad de México; Elizabeth Gómez Alcorta, ministra de las Mujeres, Géneros y Diversidad de la Argentina; José Luís Rodríguez Zapatero, ex presidente del gob https://americalatina.global/ Professor Joseph Aldy from Harvard Kennedy School gives us some insights about how economics can set the balance between policymakers, scientists, employers and citizens. 2020 Level: debutante Can Economics save the Environment? Joseph Aldy New Economic Thinking The COVID-19 pandemic has had far-reaching implications across the African continent. This discussion brings to light the role of African think tanks, such as the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET) in rethinking the continent’s development models, especially, in light of the unprecedented crisis. 2020 Level: debutante Growth with 'DEPTH' should guide economic transformation in Africa   Institute for New Economic Thinking