Complexity Explorables

Der erstarrte Blick - Eine erkenntnistheoretische Kritik der Standardlehrbücher der Volkswirtschaftslehre   Silja Graupe Quelle: van Treeck, Till, and Janina Urban. Wirtschaft neu denken: Blinde Flecken in der Lehrbuchökonomie. iRights Media, 2016. Das Buch kann hier bestellt werden: http://irights-media.de/publikationen/wirtschaft-neu-denken/.   Rezensierte Bücher: Mankiw, N.G. (2001): Principles of Economics, 2. Auflage, Boston: …

Is the Cold War division back with the US-EU on the one and China-Russia on the other side? The article argues that things are more complicated, as each of the country (compounds) has economic and political ties outside of its power bloc. It reads the Chinese reactions to the Russian …

This workshop offers an introduction to Degrowth and Ecological Economics. It starts by surveying the socio-ecological crisis and its pseudo-solutions, and then moves to Ecological Macroeconomics as a relatively recent field of scholarship within Ecological Economics.

This course is intended to present some of the main ideas underlying the micro aspects of gender economics. The courses will tackle issues as fertility, marriage, women labor force participation, wage gap, gender inequality, violence against women and women empowerment within her household and within the society where she lives.

In the history of the social sciences, few individuals have exerted as much influence as has Jeremy Bentham. His attempt to become “the Newton of morals” has left a marked impression upon the methodology and form of analysis that social sciences like economics and political science have chosen as modus operandi.