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The current Great Recession, the worst crisis that capitalism has faced since the Great Depression, has failed, at least so far, to generate a change in the teaching and practice of Macroeconomics. This seems bizarre as if nothing has happened and the economists are just going about doing business as usual. In light of this, the current paper attempts to address how Macroeconomics ought to be taught to students at the advanced intermediate level, which gives them an overall perspective on the subject.
Plurality in Teaching Macroeconomics
This paper surveys the development of the concept of socialism from the French Revolution to the socialist calculation debate. Karl Marx’s politics of revolutionary socialism led by an empowered proletariat nurtured by capital accumulation envisions socialism as a “top-down” system resting on political institutions, despite Marx’s keen appreciation of the long-period analysis of the organization of social production in the classical political economists. Collectivist thinking in the work of Enrico Barone and Wilfredo Pareto paved the way for the discussion of socialism purely in terms of the allocation of resources. The Soviet experiment abandoned the mixed economy model of the New Economic Policy for a political-bureaucratic administration of production only loosely connected to theoretical concepts of socialism. The socialist calculation debate reductively recast the problem of socialism as a problem of allocation of resources, leading to general equilibrium theory. Friedrich Hayek responded to the socialist calculation debate by shifting the ground of discussion from class relations to information revelation
Socialist alternatives to capitalism I: Marx to Hayek
Central banking is anything but clear-cut. As this webinar with Benjamin Braun demonstrates, the standard view of central banks as independent public entities that govern financial markets and "print" money is at least partially misleading.
Central banking, Finance and Power
This report presents the results of the “Financial Mechanisms for Innovative Social and Solidarity Economy Ecosystems” project, designed to foster a better understanding of the different ways in which financial resources can be made available and accessed to support the growth of social and solidarity economy (SSE) organizations and their ecosystems. The project is supported by the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social and Solidarity Economy of the Government of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
Financial Mechanisms for Innovative Social and Solidarity Economy Ecosystems
Rethinking Economics NL explores every month together with a new host the field of economics from a different perspective.
Epistemic Humility and Rethinking Economics
Industrial policy has been a central part of policy prescription by many heterodox schools arguably since mercantilism, but the theories behind it and types of policy advocated for have evolved over time. Recently some neoclassical economists have shown renewed interest in it, but is this mainstream acceptance a step back or a step forward from earlier heterodox ideas?
Industrial policy
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Impact of FDI on economic growth: The role of country income levels and institutional strength
This short video visualizes the destabilizing effects financial markets can have on food prices, based on a paper by Jayati Ghosh. It introduces and explains the idea of future contracts and how those are used to speculate with basic food stuffs. After establishing the concepts, the video sketches out how the increase in those practices resulted in a substantial rise and later collapse of food prices around 2008 with severe consequences for many developing countries and their people.
Food and Finance
The background for the present elaboration is twofold firstly the ongoing debate about whether the Marxian theory of value has been damaged or even destroyed by the alleged impossibility of solving the transformation problem and secondly the fact that almost all of the later economic manuscripts of Marx are now …
A value-theoretic approach to economic dynamics and evolution—synthesizing different Marxian modules in a simulation model
This video explains what a co-operative is, discussing the different types, their history and purposes, before moving on to discuss the current state of the co-operative movement.
What is a Co-op?
Looking for a pithy introduction into John Maynard Keynes's economic thinking? This BBC radio programme may be it.
Keynesianism: The Story Behind This Key Economic Theory
Ecologcial economics conceptualizes our society as embedded within the environment and our economic system as embedded within society and the environment.
Is ecological economics for rebels? Accounting for natural resources
The world is regularly shaken by crises some are bigger others are smaller in scope Local turmoil military conflicts commodity scarcity bank runs health threats the history of mankind can be written as a history of crises Three major global crises occurred in the last fifty years alone the oil …
Understanding Crises - What to take from here for better policy advice in the future?
Teil 1: Adam Smith und der freie Markt
Woher kommt der Kapitalismus? Ist er eine natürliche Folge der gesellschaftlichen Entwicklung? Oder resultiert er aus Theorien, die im Laufe des politischen und technologischen Wandels entstanden sind? Die Serie "Der Kapitalismus" begibt sich weltweit auf die Suche nach Antworten und schreckt nicht davor zurück, alte Idole zu stürzen und Vorurteile auszuräumen. In sechs Folgen werden Menschen aus 22 Ländern befragt, darunter Jäger aus dem Amazonas-Gebiet, die letzten Kommunisten Chinas und Börsenmakler aus New York. Wie sieht die Welt nach der Krise 2008 aus? Mehr als 20 renommierte Wirtschafts-Experten versuchen das herauszufinden und begeben sich auf den Spuren der großen Denker, die die Geschichte des Kapitalismus geprägt haben.
Der Kapitalismus – Adam Smith und der freie Markt (1/6)
Teil 3: David Ricardo und Thomas Malthus, soll das Freiheit sein?Woher kommt der Kapitalismus? Ist er eine natürliche Folge der gesellschaftlichen Entwicklun...
Der Kapitalismus – David Ricardo und Thomas Malthus, soll das Freiheit sein? (3/6)
Mark Carney explains how we have come to esteem financial value over human value and how we have gone from market economies to market societies, how economic theory foundation affect the society as a whole, how we understand our world today and ultimately how this affects our lives.
How We Get What We Value
This paper provides a logical framework for complexity economics Complexity economics builds from the proposition that the economy is not necessarily in equilibrium economic agents firms consumers investors constantly change their actions and strategies in response to the outcome they mutually create This further changes the outcome which requires them …
Complexity Economics : A Different Framework for Economic Thought
Mainstream economic narratives notably the concept of comparative advantage trade theory which assumes the equal balance of power between parties are deployed to support the merits of Global Value Chains that the global integration via trade creates mutual gains for both developed and developing countries This narrative is advanced in …
World Development under Monopoly Capitalism
An der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg findet jedes Jahr das Leuphana-Semester statt, das alle Studierende im ersten Semester durchlaufen, bevor sie im zweiten Semester ins Fachstudium starten. Die Studierenden sollen in Projektseminaren wissenschaftliche Methoden kennen lernen und einüben, an konkreten gesellschaftlichen Problemen erproben und interdisziplinäre Lösungswege aufzeigen
Low-Profit im Kontext der UN-Nachhaltigkeitsziele
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
This panel is about discussing the international development discipline from a critical perspective, exploring how the current practice entangles with Eurocentric/neo-colonial thoughts and how can we move beyond them.
Decolonise Development: Thoughts and Theories
Feminist economics critically analyzes both economic theory and economic life through the lens of gender, and advocates various forms of feminist economic transformation. In this course, we will explore this exciting and self-consciously political and transformative field.
Feminist Economics
The authors analyse the role and effects of the US dollar as factual global reserve currency. They demonstrate that a flight into the dollar creates adverse effects for the global economy as it represents a tightening of financial conditions.
Dollar dominance and the international adjustment to global risk
Western sanctions on Russia after its invasion of Ukraine quickly led the Ruble to lose more than 45 percent of its value. But these days, the Russian currency is back to its pre-war value. Cameron and Adam explain the turnaround and discuss what it means for the war.
How the Russian Ruble Bounced Back
This course is an introduction to Development Economics and is concerned with how economists have sought to explain how the process of economic growth occurs, and how – or whether – that delivers improved well-being of people.
Development Economics
The Atlas of Economic Complexity is an award-winning data visualization tool that allows people to explore global trade flows across markets, track these dynamics over time and discover new growth opportunities for every country.
Atlas of Economic Complexity
The goal of this brief report is to put in one place some of the works that have come out of the movement to reform economics education. True to their training, the student movement for pluralism in economics education has been marked by an impressive amount of research: both on economics education itself and on more topical subjects within economics.
Mapping Pluralist Research - An overview of research within the student movement for pluralism in economics
Der Podcast In der Wirtschaft möchte auf unterhaltsame Art und Weise die Vielfalt der Wirtschaftswissenschaften aufzeigen. Hierfür kommt das Podcast Team mit Expert:innen aus verschiedenen Teildisziplinen sowohl über ihre Forschungsthemen, als auch ihre Perspektive auf aktuelle, gesellschaftlich relevante Themen ins Gespräch.
In der Wirtschaft
Im Rahmen der Veranstaltungsreihe der Initiative "Kritische Nachhaltigkeit in Theorie und Praxis" mit dem Titel "Ökologie, Krise und Kapitalismus – Ist eine andere Welt noch möglich?" stellt Frederick Heussner den Zusammenhang der derzeitigen „Vielfach-Krise” theoretisch wie praktisch dar. Er geht dabei im ersten Teil auf die grundlegenden Mechanismen kapitalistischer Krisenentstehung und -berarbeitung ein, um diese im zweiten Teil im Rahmen eines historischen Überblicks über die Kapitalistische Entwicklung seit dem zweiten Weltkrieg zu veranschaulichen. Dabei wird deutlich, dass aktuelle ökonomische Krisenphänomene nicht isoliert, sondern als Teil der größeren krisenhaften Entwicklung des globalen Kapitalismus zu verstehen sind.
Klima, Krieg und Inflation – Über Zusammenhänge, Widersprüche und Hintergründe
The blog post by Marc Lavoie contrasts what he perceives as the two main interpretations of the current inflationary tendencies (the 'excessive demand inflation' story and the 'profit inflation' story) and contrasts them with a third interpretation. This interpretation acknowledes rising profits but argues in favor of a different mechanism that centers on changes in the relative composition of costs.
Some controversies in the causes of the post-pandemic inflation
In most economics classes we focus on the production and consumption of goods and services, but what happens to the product and its packaging after it’s consumed? Waste disposal is a crucial step in the production process and as the theme of this month’s World Environment Day is #BeatPlasticPollution, we use the example of plastic bottles.
Production and Waste: Plastic Pollution – Economy Studies
Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapely won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their work on market design back in 2012, but it is a field that is still underrepresented in economics education. All markets have rules, and how these rules are set influence how the market functions.
The economics of legalising cannabis
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