The dossier explores the nature of care work and the gendered constructions and dichotomies that are associated with it. Drawing from feminist analysis the double burden, the undervaluation of feminised labour, the commodification of affective labour and the remittance economy are inquired into. Moreover, it is discussed how welfare regimes rely on the different organization of care work. 2015 Level: leicht Care – I-PEEL.org Juanita Elias I-PEEL This video animates part of the talk “On Economics” by Ha-Joon Chang in which he states that economics is not a science for experts but for everyone. Chang further argues why it is important to take into account different perspectives on economics – he identifies at least nine school of thoughts which all have their strengths and weaknesses and presents examples on free trade and well-being. Chang further elaborates on the difficulties of changing the economic status quo. 2016 Level: leicht Economics Is For Everyone! 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He argues that good economics is the mainline tradition of "squaring rational choice with the invisible hand theorem through institutional analysis". 2015 Level: leicht The Austrian Tradition in Economics Pete Boettke YouTube During his life, Keynes was credited with, amongst other things, with helping to save capitalism from the Great Depression, funding the war against the Nazis and building post-war decades of growth and rising prosperity. And when the global crisis struck in 2008, it was his ideas that the world's leaders turned to help avoid another depression. 2012 Level: leicht Masters Of Money | John Maynard Keynes BBC YouTube This infographic gives a summary of the 2018 Trade Wars. This simple, compiled overview is suitable for those without a strong political or economic background. The infographic explains briefly basic concepts related to trade and provides a short timeline of events. It furthermore checks Trump administration's arguments to launch the the trade war against facts and estimates of how the 2018 trade war can affect the global and North-American economy. 2018 Level: leicht 2018 Trade Wars Infographic Trade Machines Trade Machines In this post, Rethinking Economics sets out what it means to decolonise economics education and how we can do that. The article first breaks decolonising down into a "mind-set" and a "process", then applies this process to economics education. It finishes with a reading list and some suggested actions to get you started decolonising economics today. 2019 Level: leicht Let's Decolonise Economics Education! Ali Al-Jamri Rethinking Economics Happiness economics is a branch in behavioral economics, where it explores the economics factors and consequences of happy humans. What makes people happier, and what benefits do we get when people are happier? 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Randall Palgrave Macmillan This episode of the Future Histories Podcast featuring Moira Weigel sets the development of digital capitalism and the right-ward shift in politics and society in relation to one another. It provides a masterful combination of ideology critique and polit-economic analysis grounded in comprehensive knowledge of the digital economy. 2020 Level: mittel Moira Weigel on Palantir, Tech-Nationalism & Aggression in the Life-World Moira Weigel, Jan Groos Future Histories Podcast Helps students succeed in the principles of economics course. This title offers trademark colloquial approach that focuses on modern economics, institutions, history, and modeling, and is organized around learning objectives to make it easier for students to understand the material and for instructors to build assignments within Connect Plus. 2013 Level: leicht Economics Colander, David C. 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It includes discussion of what constitutes feminist economics and how feminist economics is different from other approaches 2020 Level: mittel Advanced Introduction to Feminist Economics Joyce P Jacobsen Edward Elgar In Colonial Debts Rocío Zambrana develops the concept of neoliberal coloniality in light of Puerto Rico's debt crisis. Drawing on decolonial thought and praxis, Zambrana shows how debt functions as an apparatus of predation that transforms how neoliberalism operates. 2021 Level: mittel Colonial Debts Rocío Zambrana Duke University Press Designed for a single-semester undergraduate course, this introductory economics textbook updates traditional macroeconomics to encompass twenty-first century concerns. In contrast to standard texts, the book starts with the question of human well-being, and then examines how economic activities can contribute to or detract from it. 2009 Level: mittel Macroeconomics in Context Neva R. Goodwin, Julie A. Nelson, Jonathan Harris, Brian Roach, James Devine M.E. Sharpe Although sometimes used as synonyms, economic growth and economic development refer to different processes. While economic growth refers to an increase in real national income and output (i.e., GDP growth rate), economic development refers to an improvement in the quality of life and living standards (i.e., life expectancy). 2018 Level: leicht Could gender equality help the economy? Ximena Perez Pluralist Economics Fellowship Exploring Economics, an open-access e-learning platform, giving you the opportunity to discover & study a variety of economic theories, topics, and methods. 2019 Level: mittel Marx's approach to economics: a claim for subjective praxis Clara Mattei New School for Social Research, Department of Economics Experimental economists are leaving the reservation. They are recruiting subjects in the field rather than in the classroom, using field goods rather than induced valuations, and using field context rather than abstract terminology in instructions. 2004 Level: leicht Field Experiments in Economics Harrison, Glenn W.; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; List, John A. Emerald Group Introduces four of the most influential economists you'll never read in a modern economics class - Marx, Veblen, Keynes, and Galbraith. 2016 Level: leicht Introduction to Political Economy Charles Sackrey, Geoffrey Schneider, Janet Knoedler Dollars & Sense The Austrian tradition in economic thought had a profound influence on the development of post-war economics including neoclassical orthodoxy, game theory, public choice, behavioral economics, experimental economics and complexity economics. 2008 Level: mittel Explorations in Austrian Economics Roger Koppl Emerald Group Publishing Regression Analysis: A Constructive Critique identifies a wide variety of problems with regression analysis as it is commonly used and then provides a number of ways in which practice could be improved. 2004 Level: mittel Regression Analysis Richard A. Berk SAGE This article makes a necessary connection between economics as an academic discipline and recent events surrounding sexual harassment in the workplace. To get justice, targets must show measurable harm: economists can help. 2018 Level: leicht $MeToo: The Economic Cost of Sexual Harassment Lynn Parramore Institute for New Economic Thinking Anwar Shaikh explores alternative economic explanations, emphasizing 'real competition' theory and the role of imperfections in economic patterns. 2017 Level: mittel Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crisis Anwar Shaikh The New School for Social Research Exploring Economics, an open-access e-learning platform, giving you the opportunity to discover & study a variety of economic theories, topics, and methods. 1997 Level: mittel Time to Ditch the NAIRU James K. 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Heilbroner Touchstone Donald Trump won in 2016 largely because enough voters in three states, all in the Rustbelt, which had voted for Barack Obama in both 2008 and 2012, switched their electoral votes from Democratic to Republican. 2019 Level: leicht The Rise of Trumpism John Komlos Duke University’s John Hope Franklin Center 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. 2019 Level: leicht What is a Co-op? John Atherton Co-operatives UK