In this interview, Daron Acemoğlu provides a definition of institutions as rules that govern how individuals interact and speaks about social, political and economic institutions. He furthermore presents his view on bad or good institutions and the importance of the latter. The video is part of a larger interview, where he elaborates his perspective on differing prosperities of states and the relation between growth and democracy. 2009 Level: początkujący Institutional Economics - Rethinking the Wealth of Nations Daron Acemoğlu Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei In this short talk, Nicole Pepperell discusses Albert Hirschman's book "Rival Views of Market Society and Other Recent Essays". Among others, he discusses different conceptions of the characteristics and dynamics of capitalist societies. 2014 Level: zaawansowane Nicole Pepperell on Albert Hirschman - Rival Interpretations of Market Society Speaker: Nicole Pepperell; Albert Hirschman YouTube 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 James Robinson gives in this talk a short introduction into the theory and ideas of his popular book "Why Nations Fail" which was published together with D. Acemoglu in 2012. With many real-life examples he gives a lively description on the fundamentals for economic success from an institutionalist view. According to Robinson, the nature of institutions is a crucial factor for economic success. Whether institutions are inclusive (such as in prosperous economies) or extractive (poor economies) stems from the nation's political process and the distribution of political power. 2014 Level: początkujący Why Nations Fail James Robinson TEDx Talks This course provides future change makers in public and private sectors with a comprehensive overview on the structures and actors that shape markets. 2019 Level: początkujący The Governance of Markets in Challenging Times: From Classic Authors to New Approaches Lukas Graf Hertie School of Governance Is or has economics ever been the imperial social science? Could or should it ever be so? These are the central concerns of this book. It involves a critical reflection on the process of how economics became the way it is, in terms of a narrow and intolerant orthodoxy, that has, nonetheless, increasingly directed its attention to appropriating the subject matter of other social sciences through the process termed "economics imperialism". 2009 Level: zaawansowane From Economics Imperialism to Freakonomics Ben Fine, Dimitris Milonakis Routledge