Adam Smith's concept of the invisible hand and its subsequent perception in economics is illustrated in this short video. 2015 Level: początkujący The invisible hand   BBC Radio Paul Mason presents the main arguments of his book PostCapitalism. First, he argues that capitalism runs out of its capability to adapt to crises and second states that information technology challenges the capitalist system. In a nutshell, he argues that a society which fully exploits information technologies can't include concepts such as intellectual property, free market or private ownership. This has far-reaching consequences for the organisation of wages and work. The talk stops at minute 37.30. 2015 Level: początkujący The Future of Capitalism Paul Mason The RSA In this short video Peter Reich illustrates seven aspects of the state of the US economy. He provides suggestions on how to to get started to move towards a more fair distribution of wealth. 2019 Level: początkujący Everything You Need to Know About the New Economy Robert B. Reich https://robertreich.org Mainstream economics was founded on many strong assumptions. Institutions and politics were treated as irrelevant, government as exogenous, social norms as epiphenomena. As an initial gambit this was fine. But as the horizons of economic inquiry have broadened, these assumptions have becomehindrances rather than aids. 2003 Level: zaawansowane Prelude to Political Economy Kaushik Basu Oxford University Press The Anthropology of Development and Globalization is a collection of readings that provides an unprecedented overview of this field that ranges from the field?s classical origins to today?s debates about the ?magic? of the free market. 2005 Level: zaawansowane The Anthropology of Development and Globalization Marc Edelman, Angelique Haugerud Wiley The second edition of International Political Economy continues to be the perfect short introduction to the fundamental theories and issues of international political economy (IPE). 2018 Level: zaawansowane International Political Economy Miller, Raymond C. Routledge This is a good introduction to Austrian Economics for laypeople. It slowly develops the school's core principles from the thinking of its founders, all the way to key thinkers to integrate both macro and microeconomics into one coherent whole. Level: początkujący Masters Of Austrian Economics   Academic Agent In this refreshingly revisionist history, Erik Reinert shows how rich countries developed through a combination of government intervention, protectionism, and strategic investment, rather than through free trade. 2007 Level: zaawansowane How Rich Countries Got Rich ... and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor Erik Reinert PublicAffairs