This multimedia dossier is part of the series „Understanding Finance“ by Finance Watch and presents a description and critical review of financial markets and their functions. It furthermore discusses recent developments, as high frequency trading. 2015 Level: débutant What kind of financial markets do we need?   Finance Watch What is money and how is it used? After answering these questions, Dirk Bezemer analyses how finance can be dysfunctional for the real economy. 2016 Level: débutant When is Finance Bloated and Dysfunctional? Dirk Bezemer Netzwerk Plurale Ökonomik The plumbing of the financial system is coming under strain like never before. On this week’s podcast, we speak with two legendary experts on how the money system works: Zoltan Pozsar of Credit Suisse and Perry Mehrling of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies. They explain the extreme level of stress we’re seeing, what the Fed has done to alleviate, what more needs to be done, and what the post-crisis future may look like. 2020 Level: avancé The Historic Crisis Of Financial Market Plumbing Tracy Alloway, Joe Weisenthal, Zoltan Pozsar and Perry Mehrling Odd Lots Podcast Central banking is anything but clear-cut. As this webinar with Benjamin Braun demonstrates, the standard view of central banks as independent public entities that govern financial markets and "print" money is at least partially misleading. 2020 Level: débutant Central banking, Finance and Power Benjamin Braun crashcourseeconomics.org Aim of this intensive workshop is to understand macroeconomic workings of climate change as as the background of sustainable finance; to analyse financial assets with ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) criteria attached to them and their markets and important institutional players; to develop a critical perspective on the current setup of sustainable finance; and to synthesise this knowledge by applying it on in-depth case studies. 2020 Level: débutant Sustainable Finance Anne Löscher Summer Academy for Pluralist Economics The current global financial system may not withstand the next global financial crisis. In order to promote the resilience and stability of our global financial system against future shocks and crises, a fundamental reconceptualisation of financial regulation is necessary. This reconceptualisation must begin with a deep understanding of how today's financial markets, regulatory initiatives and laws operate and interact at the global level. 2016 Level: avancé Reconceptualising Global Finance and its Regulation Ross P. Buckley, Emilios Avgouleas, Douglas W. Arner Cambridge University Press This book arose from our conviction that the NNS-DSGE approach to the analysis of aggregate market outcomes is fundamentally flawed. The practice of overcoming the SMD result by recurring to a fictitious RA leads to insurmountable methodological problems and lies at the root of DSGE models’ failure to satisfactorily explain real world features. 2011 Level: avancé Macroeconomics from the Bottom-up Domenico Delli Gatti, Saul Desiderio, Edoardo Gaffeo, Pasquale Cirillo, Mauro Gallegati Springer Milan La finance est-elle structurellement instable ? Comment expliquer les crises financières ? Le regard de l'économiste Hyman Minsky. 2016 Level: avancé Stabiliser une économie instable Hyman Minsky Les Petits Matins For intermediate courses in economics. A Unified View of the Latest Macroeconomic Events Macroeconomics, Blanchard presents a unified, global view of macroeconomics, enabling readers to see the connections between goods, financial markets, and labor markets worldwide. 2017 Level: avancé Macroeconomics Olivier J. Blanchard, David R. Johnson Pearson Steve Keen ProfSteveKeen University of Western Sydney Level: avancé Behavioural Finance Lectures Steve Keen University of Western Sydney This book presents recent thought on market efficiency, using a complex systems approach to move past equilibrium models and quantify the actual efficiency of markets. 2005 Level: avancé Beyond Equilibrium and Efficiency J. Doyne Farmer, John Geanakoplos Oxford University Press

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Western capitalism is in crisis. 2016 Level: avancé Rethinking Capitalism Michael Jacobs, Mariana Mazzucato Wiley Three dominant forces worldwide are driving change today in our financial markets: competition, technology and regulation. But their collective impact in reshaping the markets, though they may be viewed individually as desirable or well-intentioned, is producing challenging results that are difficult to predict, hard to control and not easy to understand. 2013 Level: avancé Rethinking Regulatory Structure Robert A. Schwartz, John Aidan Byrne, Gretchen Schnee Springer Rethinking Regulation of International Finance encapsulates the most important aspects of the development and operation of the international financial system. This book questions the fundamental basis of the existing international financial architecture (soft law) and explores the need for a compliance-based model based on legitimacy of regulations and accountability of the regulatory bodies in international financial stability. 2018 Level: avancé Rethinking Regulation of International Finance Uzma Ashraf Barton Kluwer Law International