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Who are the 86 laureates of the economics “Nobel prize”, and what are their scientific contributions? This course will present the major concepts, theories, and results in modern economics, through an overview of the work of a selection of economics “Nobel prize” as well as Leontief prize laureates.
Economics by its Nobel prizes
Colonialism persists in many African countries due to the continuation of imperial monetary policy. This is the little-known account of the CFA Franc and economic imperialism.
Africa's Last Colonial Currency
This Perspective argues that ergodicity — a foundational concept in equilibrium statistical physics — is wrongly assumed in much of the quantitative economics literature. By evaluating the extent to which dynamical problems can be replaced by probabilistic ones, many economics puzzles become resolvable in a natural and empirically testable fashion.
The ergodicity problem in economics
Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) and Feminist Economics make a conjoint statement: The way we see the economic system has nothing to do with human beings nor those who have been surviving outside the market.
Decolonial Feminist Economics: A Necessary View for Strengthening Social and Popular Economy
Exploring Economics, an open-access e-learning platform, giving you the opportunity to discover & study a variety of economic theories, topics, and methods.
Socialist Calculation and Market Socialism
Die meisten Sozialwissenschaften beschäftigen sich mit der Ideengeschichte ihres Faches im Grundstudium. Anders in der Volkswirtschaftslehre. Aber ist nicht der Kontext eines Modells oder einer Theorie, bzw. die jeweilige Entstehungsgeschichte entscheidend, um es in der Tiefe zu verstehen? Ein Essay von Luisa Jentsch.
Vom Nutzen der Historie für die Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Improving Decisions About Health Wealth and Happiness Now available Nudge The Final Edition The original edition of the multimillion copy New York Times bestseller by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics Richard H Thaler and Cass R Sunstein a revelatory look at how we make decisions for fans …
Nudge
Imperialism is not only about military force and political pressure applied by developed capitalist countries on less developed ones for economic gain It also has an everyday dimension Countless acts of production and consumption the current SUV boom being a prominent example draw on exploitation of resources and labour from …
The Imperial Mode of Living
'This Cambridge professor delights in paradox. And myth-busting . . . he does this with charm and a desire to see how things work in the real world' Guardian, 'In Praise of Ha-Joon Chang' In this revelatory book, Ha-Joon Chang destroys the biggest myths of our times and shows us the truth about how the world really works, including- there's no such thing as a free market.
23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism
Forecasting is required in many situations. Stocking an inventory may require forecasts of demand months in advance.
Forecasting: principles and practice
Was ist Utopie? Ist der Markt eine Utopie? Wofür dient der Markt und als was wird er wahrgenommen? Und ist die Wirtschaftswissenschaft eine Glaubenslehre? In diesem Interview wirft der Literaturwissenschaftler Joseph Vogl, Autor des Buches „Das Gespenst des Kapitals“, neue Sichtweisen und Überlegungen auf den Markt abseits von Gleichgewichten und Austauschprozessen auf.
INDES: Joseph Vogl - Die Utopie des Marktes
Renowned scholars elaborate a critique on neoclassical economics and how it was unable to predict and even favoured the financial crisis. They refer to DSGE models, equilibrium theory and rational agents – a brief insight in the critique on neoclassic economics.
Financial Instability Mini-Documentary
Barbara Muraca gibt eine Einführung in das Thema Degrowth, u.a. zu Grenzen das Wachstums - planetarischen aber auch sozialen Grenzen. Dabei spricht sie über Ausbeutung durch eine Verschiebung von Grenzen. Zudem stellt sie dar, wie die Degrowth Perspektive und die Klimagerechtigkeits-Bewegung zusammen passen.
Degrowth – Was steckt hinter der Idee?
Economist and 2020 Balzan Prize winner for Environmental Challenges: Responses from the Social Sciences and Humanities, Joan Martínez Alier, speaks on the importance of ecological economics and its timeliness around the 2007/2008 global financial crisis. He speaks on the importance of building the field of ecological economics “from the ground up” through praxis.
Ecological Economics
Based on a critique on econometric and DSGE models (in particular in the context of the financial crisis), Doyne Farmer presents his current research programme that aims at building an agent-based model of the financial and economic crisis. It models heterogeneous agents and from there simulates the economy, firstly for the housing market. The interview gives a short insight in the research programme.
Macroeconomics From the Bottom Up
Sheila Dow discusses the concept of radical uncertainty and the failure of neoclassical economics to integrate it into its analysis. As to the implications for financial regulation that arise from the presence of radical uncertainty she argues for institutional overhaul, where the banks see themselves as a licensed partner of the central bank and where rules, values, and conventions would be subject to a cultural shift. Also, Sheila Dow advocates for a renewed focus on retail banking.
The Economics of Uncertainty
In the interview, Robert Skidelsky discusses the emergence of political influence of a certain school of economic thought and how the success of an economic theory depends on the power relations in the society. He introduces the historical example of Keynesian economics and its replacement by liberal economic theory and policy in the aftermath of the Great Depression, and transfers this historical case to the dominant paradigm of austerity policies in the Europe as response to rising public debts caused by the Financial Crisis. He contrasts austerity policies with a Keynesian approach. Furthermore, he relates the targets of policy to the underlying power structures, for example when not the reduction of unemployment but the protection of financial capital is politically addressed.
Economics and Political Power during the Crisis
In this keynote speech, Roger Backhouse gives a historical overview of theories on secular stagnation: how it evolved from a description of the economic situation, especially in the U.S. of the 1930s to an analytical tool and then lost importance until its current revival. Backhouse touches upon the contributions of J. A. Hobson, Alvin Hansen, Evsey Domar and Paul Samuelson.
Theories of stagnation in historical perspective
Was sind Finanzmärkte, Hedgefonds und Schattenbanken? Über diese Fragen erläutert Brigitte Young die Funktionen von Finanzmärkten und Hedgefonds, sowie deren Dysfunktionen anhand prominenter Beispiele. Young geht zudem auf die Regulierung von Hedgefonds nach der Finanzkrise und den Zusammenhang zum Schattebankensystem ein. Zuletzt stellt sie die Frage, ob das Finanzsystem einen sozialen Nutzen hat.
Hedgefonds und Schattenbanken - Widerstreitende Interessen auf den Finanzmärkten?
In diesem Vortrag „Von der Neoklassik zum ökonomischen Mainstream“ entwickelt Silja Graupe „kritische Reflexionen zur Entwicklung modernen ökonomischen Denkens“. Was machst die Denkweise der „modernen Lehrbuchökonomie“ aus? Welche Konsequenzen hat diese und wie hat sie sich historisch herausgebildet?
Von der Neoklassik zum ökonomischen Mainstream
What is innovation, what drives innovation and the process that differentiates firms? What is competition and what kind of dynamics lie behind the differences between firms and their innovative activities? Mariana Mazzucato elaborates on those questions from an evolutionary economics' and Schumpeterian perspective. The slides of her lecture are not visible, hence some visualizations can't be followed.
Economics of Innovation
Feminist economist Nancy Folbre presents a historical analysis of the interrelated development of Patriarchy and Capitalism. She describes the role of women in the reproduction of labour, their “specialization” in care and their changing involvement in the labour market. Folbre argues that capitalism weakens patriarchy but at the same time relies on unpaid caring activities.
Women's Work and the Limits of Capitalism
Das Panel erörtert das Konzept einer grünen Wirtschaft, stellt insbesondere Kritiken an der grünen Wirtschaft vor und spricht dabei problematische Aspekte einer grünen Wirtschaft an.
Kritik der Grünen Ökonomie – Welches Wirtschaftsmodell brauchen wir? Diskussion mit Tim Jackson
Even if men were perceived as the main protagonists of the Greek crisis, the crisis had a deep impact on disadvantaged groups, in particular migrant women working as domestic labourers. The debate presents the particular impact on migrant women of the downturn and furthermore discusses how migrant struggles and other emancipatory movements impacted the politics of crisis. The first minutes of the video are in German, but the moderator switches to English.
Invisible women? Crisis, gender and migration in Greece 2015
Die Vereine Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie und Fairbindung e.V. haben gemeinsam mit dem Webportal „Endlich Wachstum! Bildungsmaterialien für eine sozial-ökologische Transformation eine umfassende Methodensammlung aus über 100 Methoden veröffentlicht. Die Methoden regen auf vielfältige Weise dazu an, sich mit Bedingungen unseres derzeitigen Wirtschaftens sowie möglichen Alternativen zu beschäftigen.
Endlich Wachstum! Bildungsmaterialien für eine sozial-ökologische Transformation
„Wirtschaft neu denken“ umfasst 20 Rezensionen aktuell einflussreicher Lehrbücher und zeigt: Viele Standardwerke blenden wissenschaftliche und gesellschaftliche Kontroversen systematisch aus und stellen wirtschaftliche Zusammenhänge, die seit jeher in hohem Maße komplex und umstritten sind, als scheinbar objektive Gesetzmäßigkeiten dar.
Wirtschaft neu denken - Blinde Flecken der Lehrbuchökonomie
What does political economy say about the global sugar production? Take a look at global trade regulations, intercountry inequalities, and the role of marketing.
Global sugar production - regulations, intercountry inequalities, and marketing
In the inspiring interview on Economics of Care, Nancy Foblre takes a closer look to the consequences of the marketization of caring activities on those activities and on the societal organization of care. Folbre elaborates on how to value care and how this shifts the perspectives on living standards. She points to the fact, that caring activities are undervalued both in the market sphere and within the family and thereby questions the division between those spheres. Lastly, Folbre answers the question how to reteach Economics when accounting for caring activities.
The Economics of Care
This historic timeline presents economic events, economic thinkers and schools of thought from the 18th century until the 2007/2008 financial and economic crisis with short texts on the respective event or perspective.
Economics: An Illustrated Timeline
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Economic theory is centuries out of date and that's a disaster for ...
Why it's time for 'Doughnut Economics'
In this lecture, Beatrice Cherrier explains why it is worth to research the history of JEL codes. The changing relationship between theory and application and the rise and death of new economic topics in the XXth century through the successive revisions of the classification system economists use to publish, recruit and navigate their discipline.
Understanding the transformation of Economics through the history of JEL codes
Keynesianische Ökonomen kritisieren die angebotsorientierte Deutung der Krise. Sie argumentieren, dass die Exportdefizite heutiger Krisenländer die Kehrseite einer schwachen Binnennachfrage in einer Reihe von Ländern im "Zentrum" der Eurozone sind.
Die keynesianische Interpretation der Eurokrise | bpb
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