The book critically engages with various Marxian perspectives on the dynamics on development and social progress It specifically engages with some key words in Marxian theory including Marx s early work on capitalist development and his later works on underdeveloped Russia Lenin s thesis on imperialism as a hurdle for …

How did the industrialized nations of North America and Europe come to be seen as the appropriate models for post-World War II societies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America? How did the postwar discourse on development actually create the so-called Third World? And what will happen when development ideology collapses? To answer these questions, Arturo Escobar shows how development policies became mechanisms of control that were just as pervasive and effective as their colonial counterparts.

The U.S. economy today is confronted with the prospect of extended stagnation. This book explores why. Thomas I. Palley argues that the Great Recession and destruction of shared prosperity is due to flawed economic policy over the past thirty years.

This course is part of the SDG initiative addressing the UN Sustainable Development Goals, specifically for the following SDGs [1, 8, 10 and 16].

In this classic work of economic history and social theory, Karl Polanyi analyzes the economic and social changes brought about by the "great transformation" of the Industrial Revolution.

This book analyzes the transition of chocolate from an exotic curiosity to an Atlantic commodity. It shows how local, inter-regional, and Atlantic markets interacted with one another and with imperial political economies. It explains how these interactions, intertwined with the resilience of local artisanal production, promoted the partial democratization of chocolate consumption as well as economic growth.

Die vorliegende 5. Auflage setzt sich ausführlich mit den Lehren und Entscheidungen aus der Finanzkrise auseinander. Es beleuchtet mit anschaulichen Beispielen umfassend die dahinterstehenden Mechanismen.

Das Buch geht zunächst auf den Begriff der imperialen Lebensweise ein und erläutert deren historische Entwicklung. Daran anschließend fragen sich die Autor*innen, wie ihr begegnet werden kann und wie ein gutes Leben für alle erreicht werden kann, aber auch, welchen Herausforderungen dabei zu begegnen ist. In den einzelnen Kapiteln werden diese Fragen für die folgenden Lebensbereiche gestellt: Sorge, Digitalisierung, Geld und Finanzen, Bildung und Wissen, Ernährung und Landwirtschaft sowie Mobilität ab.