According to Karl Marx, work should satisfy people and encourage creativity. But the capitalist production, the separation of labour and the exploitation of workers alienates them from their products. 2015 Level: początkujący Karl Marx on Alienation   BBC Radio Capitalism cannot fulfil the promises of the French revolution: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity. Why? Richard Wollf elaborates on Marx's analysis of the distribution and organisation of surplus in society and his conclusion that there is something inherently wrong in capitalist class structure that still causes economic crisis in our modern times. Change requires changing the organisation of the production. This goes far beyond a discussion of 'more-state' vs. 'less-state'. 2011 Level: początkujący Intro To Marxian Economics Richard D Wolff Youtube Keen first compares neoclassical approaches to modelling with heterodox ones. Then he discusses in length the required assumptions and the inconsistencies of the aggregate demand and supply model, which is extrapolated from a micro perspective. At the end some dynamic models with feedback mechanisms are shown. 2016 Level: zaawansowane The Mainstream Obsession with Microfoundations and why it is an intellectual dead-end Steve Keen ProfSteveKeen This multimedia dossier explores the production chain of smartphones. In particular due to the violation of workers' rights and low payments, the author Benjamin Selwyn calls those production structures global poverty chains. In this context, he points to the importance of workers' struggles. 2016 Level: początkujący Production Chain of Smartphones Benjamin Selwyn I-PEEL With this calculator you can assess the ecological backpack of your lifestyle. The ecological backpack visualizes the weight of all natural raw materials that are needed for our private consumption behavior. This includes all products and their production, use, and disposal. Level: początkujący My Ecological Backpack Wuppertal Institut Wuppertal Institut This course seeks to interpret capitalism using ideas from biological evolution. The lectures are foundational on neoclassical economics and economist, as well as their roles in the proliferation of capitalist ideology. However, it is less concerned with the ultimate judgment of capitalism than with the ways it can be shaped to fit more specific objectives. Level: zaawansowane Capitalism: Success, Crisis, and Reform Prof. Douglas W. Rae Yale University This book challenges the mainstream paradigm, based on the inter-temporal optimisation of welfare by individual agents. It introduces a methodology for studying how institutions create flows of income, expenditure and production together with stocks of assets and liabilities, thereby determining how whole economies evolve through time. 2012 Level: zaawansowane Monetary Economics W. Godley, M. Lavoie Palgrave Macmillan UK This book is designed for a one-semester or two-semester course in international economics, primarily targeting non-economics majors and programs in business, international relations, public policy, and development studies. It has been written to make international economics accessible to wide student and professional audiences. 2011 Level: zaawansowane An Introduction to International Economics Kenneth A. Reinert Cambridge University Press The new edition of this classroom classic retains the organizing theme of the original text, presenting the development of thought within the context of economic history. 2015 Level: zaawansowane History of Economic Thought E. K. Hunt, Mark Lautzenheiser Routledge The rise of capitalism to global dominance is still largely associated – by both laypeople and Marxist historians – with the industrial capitalism that made its decisive breakthrough in 18th century Britain. 2020 Level: zaawansowane A Brief History of Commercial Capitalism Jairus Banaji Haymarket Books Adam Smith and Karl Marx recognized that the best way to understand the economy is to study the most advanced practice of production. Today that practice is no longer conventional manufacturing: it is the radically innovative vanguard known as the knowledge economy. 2019 Level: początkujący The Knowledge Economy Roberto Mangabeira Unger Verso Books In this book, distinguished economist Edith Kuiper shows us that the history of economic thought is just that, a his-story, by telling the herstory of economic thought from the perspective of women economic writers and economists. Although some of these women were well known in their time, they were excluded from most of academic economics, and, over the past centuries, their work has been neglected, forgotten, and thus become invisible. 2022 Level: początkujący A Herstory of Economics Edith Kuiper Wiley Some economic events are so major and unsettling that they “change everything.” Such is the case with the financial crisis that started in the summer of 2007 and is still a drag on the world economy. Yet enough time has now elapsed for economists to consider questions that run deeper than the usual focus on the immediate causes and consequences of the crisis. 2013 Level: zaawansowane Rethinking the Financial Crisis Alan S. Blinder, Andrew W. Loh, Robert M. Solow Russell Sage Foundation Foundations of Economics breathes life into the discipline by linking key economic concepts with wider debates and issues. By bringing to light delightful mind-teasers, philosophical questions and intriguing politics in mainstream economics, it promises to enliven an otherwise dry course whilst inspiring students to do well. 1998 Level: początkujący Foundations of Economics Yanis Varoufakis Psychology Press