Dialogischer Pluralismus als Polit-Talk – Ein Seminarkonzept zur Vermittlung von Diskurskultur und angewandter Pluraler Ökonomik

Fortgeschrittene Makroökonomie-Lehrbücher mit Tunnelblick Über die Enge der DSGE-Modellwelt Sebastian Dullien 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: Walsh, C.E. (2010): Monetary theory and policy, 3. Auflage, Cambridge: MIT Press, …

Welches Menschenbild für die ökonomische Bildung? Nicht-egoistisches Verhalten und soziale Vergleiche in der Haushaltstheorie

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.

This course will introduce key concepts, theories and methods from socioeconomics. The first part of the course, will deal with the main economic actors and how their interactions are governed. Markets are seen as sets of social institutions. Institutions shape how consumers, firms and other economic actors behave. While it is difficult to understand how novelty emerges, we can study the conditions that are conducive to innovation. We will review how economic performance, social progress and human wellbeing are measured and what progress has been made. In the second part of the course, we will study a specific macroeconomic model that accounts for biophysical boundaries and inequality.