Comprendre l’économie : Léon Walras - Le fondateur de l'économie néoclassique

How does high school affect our values in life? Professor Rober Akerlof provides an explanation and discusses recent developments in Behavioral Economics in this video. Scheduled: 08.07.2021

Diese Publikation der Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung erläutert grundlegende Zusammenhänge der Staatsfinanzierung und -verschuldung sowie der Zentralbankpolitik und räumt dabei euch mit Mythen der Mainstream-Ökonomik auf.

Steven G. Medema is a Research Professor at Duke University. His research focuses on the History of Economic Thought, having published extensively on the issue of social costs of production (conceptualized as externalities in neoclassical economics). In this recorded seminar, he exposes his working paper on the history of the concept of externalities in economic literature, starting from Pigou’s “The Economics of Welfare” (1920), where Pigou makes the case for governmental intervention in the market where there is a divergence between private and social costs or benefits of a productive activity. T

Cet interview donne la parole à Jean-François Ponsot, l'un des coordinateurs de l'ouvrage "L'économie post-keynésienne. Histoire, théories et politiques" (Seuil, 2018), première synthèse en français sur le post-keynésianisme. Jean-François Ponsot revient d'abord sur les apports des post-keynésiens, notamment sur leur conception du chômage et de la relance économique. Il analyse ensuite la difficulté pour les théories hétérodoxes à s'installer dans le paysage théorique malgré la crise financière de 2007. Enfin, il explique en quoi les fondements du post-keynésianisme sont plus progressistes que populistes.

Mainstream economic narratives — notably the concept of comparative advantage trade theory which assumes the equal balance of power between parties — are deployed to support the merits of Global Value Chains that the global integration via trade creates mutual gains for both developed and developing countries. This narrative is …