In the fifth part of the Economics of COVID-19 Webinar by SOAS, Jo Michell sketches out the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the wider macroeconomy and warns against a resurgence of austerity politics. 2020 Level: adelantado Will Coronavirus Mean the End of Austerity? The Macroeconomics of the COVID-19 Crisis SOAS Open Economics Forum, SOAS Economics Department, Jo Michell SOAS University of London This course introduces students to the relevance of gender relations in economics as a discipline and in economic processes and outcomes. The course covers three main components of gender in economics and the economy: (1) the gendered nature of the construction and reproduction of economic theory and thought; (2) the relevance and role of gender in economic decision-making; and (3) differences in economic outcomes based on gender. We will touch on the relevance of gender and gender relations in at least each of the following topics: economic theory; the history of economic thought; human capital accumulation; labor market discrimination; macroeconomic policy, including gender budgeting; household economics; basic econometrics; economic history; and economic crises. 2019 Level: debutante Feminist Economics Alyssa Schneebaum University of Vienna 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: debutante History of Economic Thought Dr. Jeff Powell University of Greenwich This module examines current socio-political issues through the lens of pluralism, that is pluralism of theory, pluralism of method and interdisciplinary pluralism 2020 Level: debutante Pluralist Economic Analysis Sophia Kuehnlenz Manchester Metropolitan University South Africa’s taxi industry was established by black people in the 1930s and has faced numerous challenges, including those posed by decades of apartheid laws. Covid-19 has highlighted contemporary challenges facing the industry and has also raised questions about how it can keep ‘driving forward’. This podcast explores questions such as what changes need to be made, and who can be the ‘drivers’ of such change. 2021 Level: adelantado Driving Forward Social and Solidarity Economy: The Case of South Africa's Taxi Industry Maria Fustic, Georgia Pagiavla, Paloma Chuquín Alarcón, Jing-Syuan Wong, Georgia Pagiavla, Paloma Chuquín Alarcón, Jing-Syuan Wong Exploring Economics How exactly are persisting social inequalities and the operations of modern finance connected? Adam Tooze provides a detailed answer to a still relevant problem by focusing on the Great Financial Crisis and the role of the finance industry in the USA. 2019 Level: adelantado Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World Adam Tooze Paris School of 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: debutante How We Get What We Value Mark Carney BBC This article briefly examines Marx s profound contribution in the political economic thought It provides the historical foundations of Marxian economic thought based on the contemporary situation as well as the state of economic thought at that time Lastly it discusses the volumes of Marx s contribution as well as … 2017 Level: debutante Marxian economics John E. King Originally published: History of Economic Thought by J. E. King (September 1, 2017 ) - Posted Nov 04, 2017 Nancy Fraser starts out by introducing the multidmiensional cirises of the 21st century Three dimensions are especially alarming to her the ecological the financial and social aspects of the crisis Fraser then revives the ideas of Karl Polanyi which he first presented in his 1944 book The great transformation She … 2013 Level: adelantado Can societies be commodities all the way down? Nancy Fraser Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki 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: adelantado Dollar dominance and the international adjustment to global risk Georgios Georgiadis, Gernot Müller, Ben Schumann Centre for Economic Policy Research Photo by Kaitlyn Ashley on Unsplash The world is still feeling reverberations from the financial crisis of 2008 foreseen by neither politicians nor economists The history of capitalism has been punctuated by major crises exposing the fragility of our entire economic system How has capitalism despite these ruptures managed to … 2012 Level: debutante The Future of Capitalism Anatole Kaletsky n.a. In Trouble in Paradise, Slavoj Žižek, one of our most famous, most combative philosophers, explains how by drawing on the ideas of communism, we can find a way out of the crisis of capitalism. 2015 Level: adelantado Trouble in Paradise Slavoj Žižek Penguin Books, Limited In his 2010 published book “The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism” multi-talented US geographer, anthropologist and Marxist economist David Harvey aims to analyse the capitalist system that has shaped western society and the globalized world of today. 2011 Level: adelantado The Enigma of Capital David Harvey Profile Books The human imprint on the biosphere has become so pronounced in recent years that there has been talk of a new geological era, the 'Anthropocene'. 2012 Level: adelantado Towards an Integrated Paradigm in Heterodox Economics Julien-Francois Gerber, Rolf Steppacher Palgrave Macmillan UK Este libro aborda el estudio de las transformaciones de la economía mundial desde una aproximación estructuralista. 2021 Level: debutante Las transformaciones de la economía mundial Angeles Sanchez Diez Libro digital de libre disposición, que entre otros sitios está en el repositorio de laUniversidad Autónomade Madrid y la web del Grupo de Estudio de las Transformaciones de la Economía Mundi From the Dissolution of the Soviet Union to the Conflict in Ukraine The breakup of the Soviet Union led to the creation of new states and territorial conflicts of different levels of intensity Scrutinising the post Soviet period this volume offers explanations for both the frequency and the intensity of … 2021 Level: adelantado Crises in the Post-Soviet Space Felix Jaitner, Tina Olteanu, Tobias Spöri (ed.) Taylor & Francis Limited "Leveraged" provides an authoritative guide to the new economics of our crisis-filled century with a focus on financial crises and financial economics. 2022 Level: perito Leveraged Moritz Schularick University of Chicago Press In this video, Clara Mattei investigates the function of austerity in relation the stabilization of capitalism as a form of social order build around private property, wage labor and class relations. In order to develop this argument, she situates austerity in the history of World War 1 and its revolutionary aftermath. Zooming in on the politicization of the economy and the associated threat to class society that emerged in the period, she highlights how austerity was a „tool of reaction“ that was successful in curtailing demands for economic democracy and a society free from class oppression. 2022 Level: debutante The Capital Order - How Economists Invented Austerity & Paved the Way to Fascism Clara Mattei Institute for New Economic Thinking Anwar Shaikh seeks in his lectures for alternative explanations for empirically observed macro and microeconomic patterns of economic fluctuations, price volatility, and economic development. Level: adelantado Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crisis Anwar Shaikh The New School The 2007–08 credit crisis and the long recession that followed brutally exposed the economic and social costs of financialization. Understanding what lay behind these events, the rise of “fictitious capital” and its opaque logic, is crucial to grasping the social and political conditions under which we live. Yet, for most people, the operations of the financial system remain shrouded in mystery. 2017 Level: adelantado Fictitious Capital Cedric Durand Verso

Best-selling books such as Freakonomics and The Undercover Economist have paved the way for the flourishing economics-made-fun genre. While books like these present economics as a strong and explanatory science, the ongoing economic crisis has exposed the shortcomings of economics to the general public. 2015 Level: adelantado Economics Made Fun N. Emrah Aydinonat, Jack J. Vromen Routledge The recent financial meltdown and the resulting global recession have rekindled debates regarding the nature of contemporary capitalism. 2013 Level: adelantado A Political Economy of Contemporary Capitalism and its Crisis Sotiropoulos, Dimitris P.; Milios, John; Lapatsioras, Spyros Routledge Steve Keen provides an alternative view on Macroeconomics before and after the crisis and outlines different macroeconomic fallacies. Level: adelantado Advanced Political Economy Lectures Steve Keen University of Western Sydney Value and Crisis brings together selected essays written by Alfredo Saad-Filho, one of the most prominent Marxist political economists writing today. Divided into two parts, "Essays on the Theory of Value" and "Essays on Contemporary Capitalism," this book examines the labour theory of value from a rich and innovative perspective from which fresh insights are derived. 2020 Level: adelantado Value and Crisis Alfredo Saad Filho Haymarket Books In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Bombay was beset by crises such as famine and plague. Yet, rather than halting the flow of capital, these crises served to secure it. In colonial Bombay, capitalists and governors, Indian and British alike, used moments of crisis to justify interventions that delimited the city as a distinct object and progressively excluded laborers and migrants from it. 2019 Level: adelantado Making the Modern Slum Sheetal Chhabria University of Washington Press In parallel to rising inflation numbers, the concept of profit inflation has clearly risen to prominence in recent years. But what is it exactly? This dossier aims not only to collect the most important publications on profit inflation but also intends to map out the development of the discourse and the different positions within the debate. 2024 Level: adelantado Profit Inflation: Mapping the debate Theresa Walter Exploring Economics Gerald Friedman UMassEconomics University of Massachusetts at Amherst Level: debutante Great Recession Lectures Gerald Friedman University of Massachusetts at Amherst