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This article applies insights from behavioral economics to consider how the general public may make decisions around whether or not to receive a future COVID-19 vaccine in a context of frequent side effects and preexisting mistrust. Three common cognitive biases shown to influence human decision-making under a behavioral economics framework are considered confirmation bias, negativity bias, and optimism bias.
A behavioral economics perspective on the COVID-19 vaccine amid public mistrust.
An essay of the writing workshop on Nigeria’s Readiness for and the Effect of the Fourth Industrial Revolution
The Fourth Industrial Revolution: Economic Impact and Possible Disruptions
An essay of the writing workshop on Nigeria’s Readiness for and the Effect of the Fourth Industrial Revolution
The Role of Women in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
On July 2020 ZOE-Institute published a unique platform for transformative policymaking: Sustainable Prosperity. Building on insights from new economic thinking the platform provides knowledge about ideas, arguments and procedures that support effective promotion of political change. It aims to strengthen change makers in public policy institutions, who are working on an ambitious green and just transition. As such, it provides convincing arguments and policy ideas to overcome the reliance of economic policy on GDP growth
Sustainable Prosperity
Aim of this intensive workshop is 1.) to introduce the participants to the macroeconomic workings of the climate crisis as the background of sustainable finance; 2.) to introduce financial assets with ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) criteria attached to them and their markets and important institutional players; 3.) to provide a critical perspective on the current setup of sustainable finance; 4.) and to work on in-depth case studies illustrating the workings on ESG-finance markets, its emitters and traders as well as their macroeconomic implications.
Sustainable Finance – Hoax or necessity. A global perspective
What made the false assumption that saving the economy at all cost during a pandemic so popular? This paper discusses different pathways through the COVID-19 pandemic at national and international level, and their consequences on the health of citizens and their economies.
How not to save the economy? The interplay of economics and health during the COVID-19 pandemic
Recovery from the Covid-19 crisis provides a chance to implement economic measures that are also beneficial from environmental and social perspectives. While ‘green’ recovery packages are crucial to support economies tracking a low-carbon transition in the short-term, green measures such as carbon pricing are also key to improving welfare in the long-term. This commentary specifies the need for carbon pricing, outlines its implications for our everyday lives, and explains how it works alongside value-based change in the context of climate action and societal well-being.
Carbon Pricing: The Key to Open the Way Toward a Sustainable Recovery and Long-Term Wellbeing
In der Schreibwerkstatt Post-Growth Economics hat Ariane Isidorczyk ein Dossier zum Zusammenhang zwischen der Indusstriellen Revolution und dem Klimawandel verfasst und schlägt eine Lernmethode für Schüler:innen und Studierende vor, die die Simulation und das emotionale Erfassen von globalen Zusammenhängen zwischen Wirtschaft, technischer Entwicklung und dem CO2 -Ausstoß ermöglicht. #postgrowthwritingworkshop
Wie das Wirtschaftswachstum unser Klima veränderte - Die Industrielle Revolution als Klimafeind
Die Erwerbstätigen in Deutschland wollen heute weniger arbeiten als je zuvor. Laut einer Studie des Deutschen Instituts für Wirtschaftsforschung liegt die Wunscharbeitszeit bei 32,8 Stunden pro Woche. Dafür würden die Beschäftigten auch in Kauf nehmen, weniger zu verdienen. Neben diesen individuellen Gründen sprechen auch viele gesellschaftspolitische Faktoren für eine Arbeitszeitverkürzung, argumentiert Lina Andres.
Endlich reden wir wieder über Arbeitszeitverkürzung
This report by the 'Institute for Global Prosperity' explores the hypothesis that strengthening and extending universal services is an effective way of tackling poverty and improving wellbeing for all.
Universal Basic Services: Theory and Practice
For a long time, price controls were considered taboo, as neoliberal economic theory assumes that prices are supposedly formed freely by supply and demand. But especially in times of crisis, the state must intervene and cap prices to protect wage earners from excessive burdens. However, the how matters.
Price Controls Against Inflation
Austrian economics focuses on the economic coordination of individuals in a market economy. Austrian economics emphasises individualism, subjectivism, laissez-faire politics, uncertainty and the role of the entrepreneur, amongst others.
Austrian Economics
Die Bürgerinnen und Bürger werden gegenwärtig mit zahlreichen gesellschaftspolitischen Problemstellungen konfrontiert die mit einer rein ökonomischen politischen oder soziologischen Sichtweise nicht zufriedenstellend zu betrachten sind Der Beitrag stellt auf Basis dessen die Notwendigkeit eines neuen methodischen Settings dar einer neuen Arbeitsweise die diese Anforderungen adressiert Diese Methode die wir Interdisziplinäre …
Interdisziplinäre Problemlösung konkret (IPK): Eine Methode für die sozioökonomische Hochschulbildung
Die Ausgabe der Zeitschrift Luxemburg beschäftigt sich mit der neuen (alten) Debatte um demokratische Wirtschaftsplanung. Angesichts der sich abzeichnenden Herausforderungen, insbesondere der Klimakrise, wird in progressiven Kreisen verstärkt über die Notwendigkeit und Machbarkeit von Planungsmodellen nachgedacht.
Zukunft mit Plan
Marxian Political Economy focuses on the exploitation of labour by capital. The economy is not conceived as consisting of neutral transactions for exchange and cooperation, but instead as having developed historically out of asymmetric distributions of power, ideology and social conflicts.
Marxian Political Economy
In this essay the authors take a look at how welfare could be provided in a degrowth society.
Bidding farewell to growth: How to provide welfare in a degrowth society
Es muss anders werden, damit es besser wird - aber wie wird es anders? Erhard Eppler und Niko Paech kämpfen seit Jahrzehnten für eine ökologische Wende und sind zentrale Vordenker ihrer jeweiligen Generation. Gerade deshalb streiten sie in diesem neuen Gesprächsband vortrefflich und leidenschaftlich über den richtigen Weg: Was kann die globalen Krisen noch stoppen? Ist »grünes Wachstum« Fluch oder Segen?
Was Sie da vorhaben, wäre ja eine Revolution ...
Auf den ersten Blick haben Wasser und Wissen, Erbgut und Atmosphäre nichts gemeinsam. Was sie aber eint, ist, dass sie zum Nötigsten für ein menschliches Leben gehören. Doch sie gehen der Gesellschaft immer mehr verloren, weil sie privatisiert und der allgemeinen Verfügung entzogen, missbraucht oder unbezahlbar werden.
Wem gehört die Welt?
Viele glauben: Die Wirtschaft funktioniert nach den Gesetzen der Logik. Doch das Gegenteil ist der Fall. Die Wirtschaft wird erschüttert von immer neuen Krisen, ihre Akteure – Notenbanker, Manager, Politiker – sind oft getrieben von Wahnvorstellungen und Persönlichkeitsstörungen.
Lilith und die Dämonen des Kapitals
An essay of the writing workshop on contemporary issues in the field of Nigerian economics: In Nigeria, it appears that there is nothing in the constitution, which excludes the participation of women in politics. Yet, when it comes to actual practice, there is extensive discrimination. The under-representation of women in political participation gained root due to the patriarchal practice inherent in our society, much of which were obvious from pre-colonial era till date.
Women Participation – Women Contribution to Economics and Politics
Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is a school of monetary and macroeconomic thought that focuses on the analysis of the monetary and credit system, and in particular on the question of credit creation by the state.
Modern Monetary Theory
The novel coronavirus (Covid-19) is rapidly spreading around the world. The real economy is simultaneously hit by a supply shock and a demand shock by the spread of coronavirus. Such a twin shock is a rare phenomenon in recent economic history.
How to Manage the Economic Fallout of the Coronavirus
It is perhaps fitting that the seriousness of the coronavirus threat hit most of the Western world around the Ides of March, the traditional day of reckoning of outstanding debts in Ancient Rome. After all, problems and imbalances have accumulated in the Western capitalist system over four decades, ostensibly since it took the neoliberal road out of the 1970s crisis and kept going along it, heedless of the crises and problems it led to.
The Unexpected Reckoning: Coronavirus and Capitalism
Die Moderne begann mit Hoffnungen auf eine egalitäre Bürgergesellschaft. Unerkannte Privilegien führten jedoch zur Konzentration von struktureller wirtschaftlicher und politischer Macht. Soziale Ungleichheit, Geschlechterhierarchie, Krisen, koloniale Expansionen, Kriege, Abstürze von Demokratien in Diktaturen sowie Wachstum und Naturzerstörung waren die Folgen.
Marktwirtschaft ohne Kapitalismus. 3 Bände
In 'Wagenknecht - nationale sitten & schicksalsgemeinschaft' von Wolfgang Veiglhuber und Klaus Weder findet sich eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit Sahra Wagenknechts ökonomischem Denken. Dabei wird insbesondere ihre Nähe zu konservativen und reaktionären Gedankenwelten herausgearbeitet.
Wagenknecht - nationale Sitten & Schicksalsgemeinschaft
The core of Georgism is a policy known as the Land Value Tax (LVT), a policy which Georgists claim will solve many of society and the economy’s ills. Georgism is an interesting school of thought because it has the twin properties that (1) despite a cult following, few people in either mainstream or (non-Georgist) heterodox economics pay it much heed; (2) despite not paying it much heed, both mainstream and heterodox economists largely tend to agree with Georgists. I will focus on the potential benefits Georgists argue an LVT will bring and see if they are borne out empirically. But I will begin by giving a nod to the compelling theoretical and ethical dimensions of George’s analysis, which are impossible to ignore.
It’s the Land, Stupid!
Einkommen und Vermögen sind weltweit ungleich verteilt. Ursachen und Folgen ökonomischer Ungleichheit stehen nicht nur im Fokus aktueller politischer Debatten, sondern bilden auch eines der Schwerpunktthemen in Forschung und Lehre am IfSo. Ab sofort bietet ein neuer kostenloser Online-Kurs für jede und jeden die Möglichkeit, erste Einblicke in das Thema zu gewinnen.
Ungleichheit aus sozioökonomicher Perspektive
Marx’s theory of the falling rate of profit is not only empirically borne out, but the theory he proposed seems to describe accurately how that happens. Furthermore, the whole process is useful for understanding the history of contemporary capitalism.
On the Rate of Profit
Environmental catastrophe looms large over politics: from the young person’s climate march to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal, increasing amounts of political space are devoted to the issue. Central to this debate is the question of whether economic growth inevitably leads to environmental issues such as depleted finite resources and increased waste, disruption of natural cycles and ecosystems, and of course climate change. Growth is the focal point of the de-growth and zero-growth movements who charge that despite efficiency gains, increased GDP always results in increased use of energy and emissions. On the other side of the debate, advocates of continued growth (largely mainstream economists) believe that technological progress and policies can ‘decouple’ growth from emissions.
To Grow or Not to Grow?
Economic sociology is an entire subfield and one could write an series on it, so I’m going to stick to probably the most prominent economic sociologist and the founder of ‘new economic sociology’, Mark Granovetter.
Economic Sociology: the Contributions of Mark Granovetter
One method of economic modelling that has become increasingly popular in academia, government and the private sector is Agent Based Models, or ABM. These simulate the actions and interactions of thousands or even millions of people to try to understand the economy – for this reason ABM was once described to me as being “like Sim City without the graphics”. One advantage of ABM is that it is flexible, since you can choose how many agents there are (an agent just means some kind of 'economic decision maker' like a firm, consumer, worker or government); how they behave (do they use complicated or simple rules to make decisions?); as well as the environment they act in, then just run the simulation and see what happens as they interact over time.
Agents, agents everywhere
The general idea of a Job Guarantee (JG) is that the government offers employment to everybody ready, willing and able to work for a living wage in the last instance as an Employer of Last Resort. The concept tackles societal needs that are not satisfied by market forces and the systemic characteristic of unemployment in capitalist societies. Being a central part of the Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), attention for the JG concept rose in recent years.
The Job Guarantee
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