In this book, the author, Intan Suwandi, engages with the question of imperialism through the specific channel of Global Value Chains.

2019

Level: leicht

Value Chains

Intan Suwandi

NYU Press

Warum sind wi beim Anblick eines köstlichen Desserts sofort bereit, unser eisernes Diätgelübde zu brechen? Wieso glauben wir, dass teure Medikamente besser wirken als preiswerte? Und weshalb tun wir uns oft so schwer, uns überhaupt zu entscheiden?

2008

Level: mittel

Denken hilft zwar, nützt aber nichts

Dan Ariely

Droemer

More-is-better ideals such as these have long shaped our vision of rationality. Yet humans and other animals typically rely on simple heuristics to solve adaptive problems, focusing on one or a few important cues and ignoring the rest, and shortcutting computation rather than striving for as much as possible.

2012

Level: mittel

Ecological Rationality

Peter M. Todd, Gerd Gigerenzer, ABC Research Group

Oxford University Press, USA

In a span of around 12 weeks, the course covers a wide range of topics including agent-based modeling, networks, dynamic, chaos, information, fractals, cooperation models and scaling in biology and society. The course acts as a perfect beginner level introduction spanning a wide range of topics in the field of complexity.

Level: leicht

Introduction to Complexity

Melanie Mitchell

Santa Fe Institute

Written by the Nobel Prize winners in Economics Robert Shiller and George Akerlof, this book shows how deception and manipulation play a big role in the economic behavior of individuals, as well as showing how the assumption of "perfect information" is far away from the truth. Through both quantitative data and stories of how to reduce this noxious phenomenon, the authors paint a pretty different picture of how markets really works in a hyper-communicative scenario like nowadays.

2016

Level: leicht

Phishing for Phools

George A. Akerlof, Robert J. Shiller

Princeton University Press

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics

Get ready to change the way you think about economics.

Nobel laureate Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central agents in the economy are humans--predictable, error-prone individuals. Misbehaving is his arresting, frequently hilarious account of the struggle to bring an academic discipline back down to earth--and change the way we think about economics, ourselves, and our world.

2016

Level: mittel

Misbehaving

Richard H. Thaler

W.W. Norton

Economics After the Crisis is an introductory economics textbook, covering key topics in micro and macro economics. However, this book differs from other introductory economics textbooks in the perspective it takes, and it incorporates issues that are presently underserved by existing textbooks on the market. This book offers an introduction to economics that takes into account criticisms of the orthodox approach, and which acknowledges the role that this largely Western approach has played in the current global financial and economic crisis.

2014

Level: mittel

Economics After the Crisis

Irene van Staveren

Routledge

Uncertain Futures considers how economic actors visualize the future and decide how to act in conditions of radical uncertainty. It starts from the premise that dynamic capitalist economies are characterized by relentless innovation and novelty and hence exhibit an indeterminacy that cannot be reduced to measurable risk.

2018

Level: mittel

Uncertain Futures

Beckert, Jens; Bronk, Richard

Oxford University Press

The book deals with the financial instability hypothesis of Hyman P. Minsky and its application to current developments. The first part of the work summarizes the hypothesis and mentions works elaborating the hypothesis. The second part applies the hypothesis to the financial crisis 0f 2008/09.

2014

Level: mittel

The Financial Instability Hypothesis of Hyman P. Minsky

Michal Paulus

LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing

In economics the dominant framework for exploring the structure of market economies is provided by the neoclassical school of thought. This text aims to show how neoclassical theory is used to model market mechanisms, both in particular markets and in the market economy as a whole.

2001

Level: mittel

Microeconomics - Neoclassical and Institutionalist Perspectives on Economic Behaviour

Himmelweit, Susan; Simonetti, Roberto; Trigg, Andrew B.

Cengage Learning

This book is intended as a textbook for a course in behavioural economics for advanced undergraduate and graduate students who have already learned basic economics. The book will also be useful for introducing behavioural economics to researchers. Unlike some general audience books that discuss behavioural economics, this book does not take the position of negating traditional economics completely.

2018

Level: mittel

Behavioral Economics

Ogaki, Masao, Tanaka, Saori C.

Springer