Beyond stimulus versus Austerity: Pluralist capacity building in Macroeconomics

This course introduces students to political economy and the history of economic thought. We will cover the core ideas in various schools of economic thought, positioning them in the historical and institutional context in which they were developed. In particular, we will cover some economic ideas from the ancient world and the middle ages; the enlightenment; the emergence of and main ideas in classical political economy (Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Thomas Malthus, and others); Marx, Mill, and Keynes; European versus American economic thought through history; the rise of mathematical economics; economic theories around state-managed economies versus socialism; Austrian economics; behavioral economics; and the future of economics.

Werbung versucht sich das Streben nach Glück zunutze zu machen. Eine Verteufelung der Werbung als Konsequenz erscheint jedoch nicht sinnvoll, um die aktuellen ökonomischen, ökologischen und sozialen Probleme der Menschheit zu bewältigen. Vielmehr bedarf es eines Paradigmenwechsels beim Konsum und damit einhergehend beim Wirtschaften.

Exploring Economics, an open-access e-learning platform, giving you the opportunity to discover & study a variety of economic theories, topics, and methods.

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.