David Graeber introduces different concepts such as money and debt. He takes a historical and anthropological way of explaining the origin. This breaks with the mainstream explanation, which is used in many Economics textbooks, saying that a barter economy was before money arose. 2014 Level: adelantado Debt David Graeber Melville House 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 How did Britain's economy become a bastion of inequality? In this landmark book, the author of The New Enclosure provides a forensic examination and sweeping critique of early-twenty-first-century capitalism. Brett Christophers styles this as 'rentier capitalism', in which ownership of key types of scarce assets--such as land, intellectual property, natural resources, or digital platforms--is all-important and dominated by a few unfathomably wealthy companies and individuals: rentiers. 2020 Level: debutante Rentier Capitalism Brett Christophers Verso Books Is or has economics ever been the imperial social science? Could or should it ever be so? These are the central concerns of this book. It involves a critical reflection on the process of how economics became the way it is, in terms of a narrow and intolerant orthodoxy, that has, nonetheless, increasingly directed its attention to appropriating the subject matter of other social sciences through the process termed "economics imperialism". 2009 Level: adelantado From Economics Imperialism to Freakonomics Ben Fine, Dimitris Milonakis Routledge Rethinking Business is a volume of thought-provoking researches that sets out to challenge the paradigm of business along the areas of governance, finance, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability. 2014 Level: adelantado Rethinking Business Raymund B. Habaradas and Denver Bingski D. Daradar De La Salle University (DLSU) Publishing House Work defines who we are It determines our status and dictates how where and with whom we spend most of our time It mediates our self worth and molds our values But are we hard wired to work as hard as we do Did our Stone Age ancestors also live … 2020 Level: debutante Work James Suzman Bloomsbury Circus In the debate about a sustainable and livable future, the critique of work is an essential perspective. In this contribution, Maja Hoffmann explores the tension between the environmentally harmful effects of work on the one hand and the systematic compulsion of work on the other. 2024 Level: debutante How can post-work (critiques of work) enrich the climate debate? Maja Hoffmann Economists for Future Forecasting is required in many situations. Stocking an inventory may require forecasts of demand months in advance. 2018 Level: adelantado Forecasting: principles and practice Rob J Hyndman and George Athanasopoulos OTexts Wealth inequality between Black and white people in the US barely has changed in the last 150 years. In her book "The Color of Money. Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap" Mehrsa Baradaran, analyzes why also Black banks have not successfully changed this and not enabled Black wealth on a broader scale. 2017 Level: adelantado The Color of Money Mehrsa Baradaran Harvard University Press

Are humans at their core seekers of their own pleasure or cooperative members of society? Paradoxically, they are both. Pleasure-seeking can take place only within the context of what works within a defined community, and central to any community are the evolved codes and principles guiding appropriate behavior, or morality. 2013 Level: adelantado From Pleasure Machines to Moral Communities Geoffrey M. Hodgson University of Chicago Press Think Academy Think Academy Level: debutante Emergence Theory Think Academy Think Academy Finance. Climate. Food. Work. How are the crises of the twenty-first century connected?In "Capitalism in the Web of Life", Jason W. Moore argues that the sources of today's global turbulence have a common cause: capitalism as a way of organizing nature, including human nature. 2015 Level: adelantado Capitalism in the Web of Life Jason W. Moore Verso In this course you will study the different facets of human development in topics such as education health gender the family land relations risk informal and formal norms public policy and institutions While studying each of these topics we will delve into the following questions What determines the decisions of … Level: adelantado Foundations of Development Policy: Advanced Development Economics Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, Esther Duflo & Benjamin Olken Massachusetts Institute of Technology Has neoliberalism destroyed gender equality Advocate author and broadcaster Beatrix Campbell examines the emergence of a new model of patriarchy and proposes solutions Beatrix Campbell iai Level: debutante End of Equality Beatrix Campbell iai Macroeconomics 101 by the Pan African Feminist Political Economy Collective NAWI explains in an accessible way, why macroeconomics matters in our daily lives. 2024 Level: debutante Macroeconomics 101 Agazit Abate NAWI Collective This book looks at the anti-capitalist economy and the organization of social relations in the context of the revolution and autonomy of Rojava (Kurdistan-Syria). 2023 Level: debutante Anticapitalist Economy in Rojava Azize Aslan Daraja Press John Maurice Clark’s article “The Changing Basis of Economic Responsibility,“ published in the Journal of Political Economy, is the topical starting point for all scholars interested in economic responsibility and responsible economic action. 2017 Level: adelantado Economic Responsibility Michaela Haase Springer The relationship between race and capitalism is one of the most enduring and controversial historical debates. The concept of racial capitalism offers a way out of this impasse. 2021 Level: debutante Histories of Racial Capitalism Justin Leroy, Destin Jenkins Columbia University Press This open access book presents an alternative to capitalism and state socialism through the modelling of a post-market and post-state utopia based on an upscaling of the commons, feminist political economy and democratic and council-based planning approaches. 2022 Level: debutante Make Capitalism History Simon Sutterlütti, Stefan Meretz Springer International Publishing 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: debutante Climate Change as Class War Matthew T. Huber Verso Books One of the world’s leading economists of inequality, Branko Milanovic presents a bold new account of the dynamics that drive inequality on a global scale. Drawing on vast data sets and cutting-edge research, he explains the benign and malign forces that make inequality rise and fall within and among nations. 2016 Level: adelantado Global Inequality Branko Milanovic Harvard University Press How Covid Shook the World s Economy Deftly weaving finance politics business and the global human experience into one tight narrative a tour de force account of 2020 the year that changed everything from the acclaimed author of Crashed The shocks of 2020 have been great and small disrupting the … 2021 Level: adelantado Shutdown Adam Tooze Penguin Publishing Group Who are the 86 laureates of the economics “Nobel prize”, and what are their scientific contributions? This course will present the major concepts, theories, and results in modern economics, through an overview of the work of a selection of economics “Nobel prize” as well as Leontief prize laureates. 2021 Level: adelantado Economics by its Nobel prizes Adrien Fabre ETH Zurich How did the industrialized nations of North America and Europe come to be seen as the appropriate models for post-World War II societies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America? How did the postwar discourse on development actually create the so-called Third World? And what will happen when development ideology collapses? To answer these questions, Arturo Escobar shows how development policies became mechanisms of control that were just as pervasive and effective as their colonial counterparts. 2012 Level: adelantado Encountering Development Arturo Escobar Princeton University Press Economic theory must distinguish between publicly owned and privately owned property if it is to account for the effect of institutions on the behavior of individuals. Careful study of the theories of Marxists and the real-world experience in the Soviet economy offer important lessons and insight for economic modeling and the ongoing development of theory. In this course, Marxist/Leninist theory and Soviet reality will be studied with an open mind, and with the goal of taking lessons from the case study. To what extent was the Soviet economy an accurate expression of Marxist theory? If Marxism were tried somewhere else would the results be the same? 2014 Level: adelantado Economic History of the Soviet Union Guinevere Liberty Nell University of Warwick This book is about history of monetary economic thought. From the 18th century with Hume and Smith to the early 20th, the author explains the different schools of thought regarding the monetary theories and policies and specially the central banking theory. 2012 Level: adelantado Monetary Theory and Policy from Hume and Smith to Wicksell Arie Arnon Cambridge University Press Free, Fair & Alive is a foundational re-thinking of the commons, the self-organized social systems that human beings have used for millennia to meet their needs. 2019 Level: adelantado Free, Fair, and Alive David Bollier, Silke Helfrich New Society Publishers A systematic comparison of the three major economic theories, showing how they differ and why these differences matter in shaping economic theory and practice.

Contending Economic Theories offers a unique comparative treatment of the three main theories in economics as it is taught today: neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian. Each is developed and discussed in its own chapter, yet also differentiated from and compared to the other two theories. 2012 Level: adelantado Contending Economic Theories Richard D. Wolff, Stephen A. Resnick MIT Press Once in a while the world astonishes itself. Anxious incredulity replaces intellectual torpor and a puzzled public strains its antennae in every possible direction, desperately seeking explanations for the causes and nature of what just hit it. 2008 was such a moment. Not only did the financial system collapse, and send the real economy into a tailspin, but it also revealed the great gulf separating economics from a very real capitalism. 2011 Level: adelantado Modern Political Economics Yanis Varoufakis, Joseph Halevi, Nicholas Theocarakis Routledge In this book, Blakely tells us a story of the class nature of capitalism, in which she centers the role of the financial sector and its rapid growth. 2019 Level: debutante Stolen Grace Blakeley Watkins Media Limited The bestselling classic that examines the history of economic thought from Adam Smith to Karl Marx—“all the economic lore most general readers conceivably could want to know, served up with a flourish” (The New York Times). The Worldly Philosophers not only enables us to see more deeply into our history but helps us better understand our own times. In this seventh edition, Robert L. Heilbroner provides a new theme that connects thinkers as diverse as Adam Smith and Karl Marx. 1999 Level: debutante The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner Touchstone Crecimiento económico. Enfoques y modelos aborda las teorías del crecimiento de las economías de mercado con énfasis en los factores de la oferta. Asimismo, detalla los enfoques que, desde la vertiente Keynesiana, insisten en la importancia decisiva de los factores de demanda. A lo largo del presente volumen, Felix Jimenez ofrece perspectivas históricas y teóricas del desarrollo de los modelos de crecimiento económico y, para facilitar la comprensión del lector, incluye los desarrollos matemáticos de los modelos presentados. 2011 Level: perito Crecimiento económico Jimenez, Felix Fondo Editorial de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú