Have you ever thought about the role of civil society and the evolution of economy in one breath? This one hour long interview of Daron Acemoğlu (MIT) and Martin Wolf (Financial Times) by Rethinking Economy NL gives you much inspiration for it. 2021 Level: debutante Socioeconomics of Disruptive Tech Daron Acemoğlu & Martin Wolf Rethinking Economics NL Ride hailing home sharing meal delivery and other forms of digitally powered task sharing are creating jobs and growth in Europe and significant policy challenges What should be the responsibilities of these new platforms how should workers be classified and how can insurers and others provide services to this new … 2020 Level: adelantado Europe’s Collaborative Economy William Echikson / Jesse Goldberg Centre for European Policy Studies - CEPS The Commentary explains the circular value chain and innovation potential along it. Focusing on Israel, examples on how cross-industry collaboration can help supporting a successful positioning in a (Digital) Circular Economy are presented. 2022 Level: debutante Innovation Potential for a Circular Economy "Made in Israel" Dr. Vered Blass, Dr. Nicole Stein Israel Public Policy Institute Today it feels like everybody is talking about the problems and crises of our times: the climate and resource crisis, Greece's permanent socio-political crisis or the degrading exploitative practices of the textile industry. 2019 Level: debutante At the expense of others? Kopp, Becker, Decker, Eicker, Engelmann, Ia Eradze, Forster, Haller, Heuwieser, Hoffmann, Castelos, Podstawa, Shah, Siemons, Wenzel, Wolfinger I.L.A. Kollektiv Focusing on Kenya’s path-breaking mobile money project M-Pesa, this book examines and critiques the narratives and institutions of digital financial inclusion as a development strategy for gender equality, arguing for a politics of redistribution to guide future digital financial inclusion projects. 2020 Level: adelantado The Exclusionary Politics of Digital Financial Inclusion Serena Natile Routledge The lecturer focuses on his own paper The Economic Limits of Bitcoin and Anonymous Decentralized Trust on the Blockchain analysing the innovation of cryptocurrencies particularly bitcoin and its economic credibility The innovator of cryptocurrency Satoshi Nakamoto incorporated an interesting combination of computer sciences and economics The paper argues the limitations … 2022 Level: debutante The Economics of Cryptocurrencies Eric Budish Economics Department, Oxford University Exploring Economics, an open-access e-learning platform, giving you the opportunity to discover & study a variety of economic theories, topics, and methods. 2021 Level: debutante The Political Economy of Inequalities Jürgen Essletzbichler, Andrea Grisold, Hendrik Theine Exploring Economics In this essay the author elaborates on the EU's perspective on the fast growing sector of the platform economy. 2019 Level: debutante Sharing is Caring? On the EU- Narrative on Platform Economy Laura Porak Exploring Economics The course will teach students to analyze the goals, implementation, and outcomes of economic policy. 2019 Level: adelantado Advanced Economic Policy Alyssa Schneebaum Vienna University of Economics and Business The outbreak of COVID-19 has substantially accelerated the digitalization of the economy. Yet, this unprecedented growth of digital technology brought novel challenges to the labour market. Rise in income inequalities and precarious working conditions or polarization of jobs. In this essay, we try to assess what tools to use to counter these trends. 2021 Level: debutante Post-pandemic future of work - How does digitization impact labour? Neha Chauhan, Miguel Corredera, Krystian Lukasik, Filipa Reis Exploring Economics Planet Money and The Indicator aim to explain current economic events in an easy, fun and accessible manner. 2008 Level: debutante Planet Money Amanda Aronczyk, Mary Childs, Karen Duffin, Jacob Goldstein, Sarah Gonzalez, and Kenny Malone https://www.npr.org/ The documentary features a talk of the US-American writer and economic theorist Jeremy Rifkin summarising the main points of his 2011 book "The Third Industrial Revolution." 2018 Level: debutante The Third Industrial Revolution: A Radical New Sharing Economy Jeremy Rifkin VICE Examine what would happen if we were to deploy blockchain technology at the sovereign level and use it to create a decentralized cashless economy. This book explains how finance and economics work today, and how the convergence of various technologies related to the financial sector can help us find solutions to problems, such as excessive debt creation, banks getting too big to fail, and shadow banking. 2017 Level: adelantado The Blockchain Alternative Bheemaiah, Kariappa Apress Andrew McAfee about the history of human progress and the modern uncoupling of our prosperity from resource consumption. They discuss the pitfalls and hidden virtues of capitalism, technological progress, environmental policy, the future of the developing world, and other topics. 2019 Level: debutante The Great Uncoupling A Conversation with Andrew McAfee Sam Harris, Sam Harris and Andrew McAfee samharris.org In this new book Smith returns to Solow s classic productivity paradox which essentially states that we can see automation everywhere like the spheres of leisure sociality and politics but not in the productivity statistics He examines why labor saving automation in the service age in the Global North has … 2020 Level: adelantado Smart Machines and Service Work Jason E. Smith Reaktion Books Big challenges lie ahead for our society: increased automation of work, and the threat of catastrophic climate change. But so, too, are the huge possibilities presented by new technology and better ways of organising our economy in the wake of neoliberalism's failure. 2018 Level: adelantado Economics for the Many John McDonnell Verso Books This course will expose students to some of the key debates that link digital transformations to economic, social, and political inequalities. Students will be familiarised with a variety of theoretical movements in development studies and internet studies: exploring thinking that frames the internet as a leveller that can bridge divides vs. exploring the internet as an infrastructure that amplifies existing inequalities. 2022 Level: perito Digital Capitalism and its Inequalities Prof. Mark Graham https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/study/courses/digital-capitalism-and-its-inequalities-2/ In this book, the author, Intan Suwandi, engages with the question of imperialism through the specific channel of Global Value Chains. 2019 Level: debutante Value Chains Intan Suwandi NYU Press The course will teach students to analyze the goals, implementation, and outcomes of economic policy. 2018 Level: adelantado Advanced Economic Policy 2 Alyssa Schneebaum Vienna University of Economics and Business 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: debutante Cryptocurrencies and the war in Ukraine Jon Danielsson Centre for Economic Policy Research "A serious reconsideration of the 'economics of science' is long overdue," say Philip Mirowski and Esther-Mirjam Sent in the introduction to Science Bought and Sold. Indeed, it is only recently that one could speak of a field of economics of science at all. 2002 Level: adelantado Science Bought and Sold Philip Mirowski, Esther-Mirjam Sent University of Chicago Press Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski examine the apparent contradiction between the demise of real-existing socialism and the rise of large corporations engaging in planning every day, making a strong argument that these planning efforts should be transformed to now fulfil the needs of the people. 2019 Level: adelantado The People's Republic of Walmart Leigh Phillips; Michal Rozworski Verso Books