The invisible hand

Galbraith gives an overview of economic history from the 18th century until the end of the 19th century covering issues such as the industrial revolution, the enclosure of the Scottish highlands, the Irish famine and the colonization of North America. Additionally, the ideas of economists such as Smith, Ricardo, Malthus, …

An overview of the last century economic theories asking what makes a heterodox economist. This lecture focuses on the evolution of the various academic traditions in economics. Lavoie presents his own typology for categorising seminal work within the post-Keynesian tradition while leaving space to acknowledge that categories are not binary, but can be used to help understand the different traditions, and how they have developed over the last decades.

The present working paper is dedicated to fill a void in the degrowth literature related to the aspect of planning to achieve post-growth models of societies. The authors propose a new framework that focuses on non-market forms of planning and propose multi-level planning institutions to mediate the local level with society-wide and global institutions.

Ist der Markt für ökonomische Ideen ein perfekt funktionierender Selektionsmechanismus? Heinz Kurzs Antwort auf diese Frage ist nein und somit leitet er den Rekurs auf Klassiker des Ökonomischen Denkens ein. Zunächst stellt er Charakteristika des klassischen und neoklassischen Denkens vor und vergleicht deren Grundannahmen. In Abgrenzung zur Klassik problematisiert Kurz Grundannahmen der Neoklassik, u.a. an partiellen Gleichgewichten. Im zweiten Teil des Vortrages erläutert Kurz den surplustheoretischen Ansatz der Klassik.