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In the debate about a sustainable and livable future, the critique of work is an essential perspective. In this contribution, Maja Hoffmann explores the tension between the environmentally harmful effects of work on the one hand and the systematic compulsion of work on the other.
How can post-work (critiques of work) enrich the climate debate?
In "Deutsche Schuldenängste und versäumte Investitionen" problematisiert Jakob Steffen die irrationale Ablehnung von Staatsschulden in der deutschen Politik und leistet damit einen wichtigen Beitrag zur aktuellen wirtschaftspolitischen Debatte.
Deutsche Schuldenängste und versäumte Investitionen
In der Kurzexpertise Wohnen macht arm zeigen die Autor:innen, dass bei Berücksichtigung der Wohnkosten, viel mehr Armut in Deutschland besteht als bisher angenommen.
Wohnen macht arm
Wie in den USA nach dem Scheitern der «Bidenomics» droht auch hier die Rückkehr eines aggressiven Neoliberalismus, der durch Einsparungen beim Sozialstaat Steuersenkungen und Subventionen für Unternehmen finanziert. Der Ökonom Samuel Decker analysiert den erneuten marktradikalen Paradigmenwechsel und fragt nach den Möglichkeiten einer Wirtschaftswende von links. Im anstehenden Wahlkampf müssten alle verfügbaren Kräfte auf die wirtschaftspolitische Debatte gelenkt werden, um wenigstens das Schlimmste zu verhindern, so seine Schlussfolgerung.
Wirtschaftswahlkampf: Bewährungsprobe für die Linke
In der Folge des Podcast "Armutszeugnis" beschäftigen sich Eva Völp und Sabine Nuss mit den Hintergründen der aktuellen Wirtschaftsschwäche in Deutschland und was linke Wirtschaftspolitik leisten kann.
Armutszeugnis: Krisenpolitik im Wahlkampf
The goal of this glossary is to help students to understand some of the basics of circular economy.
Glossary Circular Economy
Das Working Paper befasst sich mit den Lücken der Reichtumserfassung in Deutschland.
Milliardenvermögen in Deutschland
Der Kurs zeigt, dass Geld nicht nur ein neutrales Tauschmittel ist, sondern ein sozial und politisch gestaltetes Phänomen mit weitreichenden gesellschaftlichen Auswirkungen.
Grundlagen Geldkurs
An introductory course on Game Theory
Game Theory
Popularized by movies such as A Beautiful Mind game theory is the mathematical modeling of strategic interaction among rational and irrational agents Over four weeks of lectures this advanced course considers how to design interactions between agents in order to achieve good social outcomes Three main topics are covered social …
Game Theory II: Advanced Applications
The world is still feeling reverberations from the financial crisis of 2008 foreseen by neither politicians nor economists The history of capitalism has been punctuated by major crises exposing the fragility of our entire economic system How has capitalism despite these ruptures managed to each time resurface more resilient and …
The Global Financial Crisis
Understanding the financial crisis from four very different economic theories: Social Economics, Institutional Economics, Post Keynesian economics.
Economics from a pluralist perspective
This course is part of the SDG initiative addressing the UN Sustainable Development Goals, specifically for the following SDGs [1, 8, 10 and 16].
Political Economy of Institutions and Development
The objective of this MOOC is to develop an understanding of the problems related to water management. Firstly, this course will define a resource and, more specifically, the resource of water. It will look at how water is used and the activities associated with it as well as any potential conflicts. The course will look at water management in detail through the analysis of the different types of rights and obligations associated with, for example, the development of a multi-sectorial regulation system or a watershed management approach.
Water Resource Management and Policy
This course provides an introduction into the basic concepts of mainstream macroeconomics, including supply and demand in a competitive market, to all the usual introductory macroeconomic topics, and also to both international trade and the Foreign Exchange Market.
AP® Macroeconomics
In this course you will study the different facets of human development in topics such as education health gender the family land relations risk informal and formal norms public policy and institutions While studying each of these topics we will delve into the following questions What determines the decisions of …
Foundations of Development Policy: Advanced Development Economics
This statistics and data analysis course will introduce you to the essential notions of probability and statistics We will cover techniques in modern data analysis estimation regression and econometrics prediction experimental design randomized control trials and A B testing machine learning and data visualization We will illustrate these concepts with …
Data Analysis for Social Scientists
This course teaches basic concepts relevant in political economy. Topics include the contractual nature of the state, public versus private goods, property rights and economic externalities, the logic of collective action and social choice theory. It also refers to the fundamentals of political philosophy, bringing two ideas of liberty into the picture. The relevance and limitations of the economic approach to the study of law and politics are then discussed.
State, Law and the Economy
This Micro-Masters program on Circular Economy looks at the concept and its application from different angles, covering a very wide variety of topics (From Fossil Fuels to Biomass: A Chemistry Perspective; Circular Economy: An Interdisciplinary Approach; Economics and Policies in a Biobased Economy).
It offers a well-rounded, multidisciplinary perspective, using sciences and humanities together for a deeper understanding of the topic. A great start for newbies with Circular Economy!
The access to the course is for free, but you can also apply for full-time on-campus graduate-level programs, be it Wageninged or other universities.
Economics and Policies for a Circular Bio-Economy
This MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) discusses Global Workers’ Rights and shows instruments and strategies which can be used to implement them.
Workers' Rights in a Global Economy
The course approaches migration as a constant phenomenon in human history and examines its main supporting theories It illustrates theories about people s individual decisions to migrate and also the factors of migration as a structural feature of our societies It explains the role social networks and institutions play in …
Why Do People Migrate? Part 2: Theories
How and by whom are International Labour Standards set? How are they supervised, and how can workers’ organisations use the ILO supervisory mechanisms? What are the key principles of Freedom of Association, the right to strike and Collective Bargaining?
International Labour Standards: How to Use Them
Why are income inequalities so large and why do they continue to increase in so many countries? What role can minimum wages play in reducing social and economic inequalities? What is a good system of wage bargaining? What constitutes a fair wage?
Fair Wage Strategies in a Global Economy
Source image New Economic Thinking Youtube channel Some years ago in the aftermath of the great financial crisis GFC of the first decade of the twentieth century Paul Krugman famously remarked that most macroeconomics of the last thirty years was spectacularly useless at best and positively harmful at worst It …
Monetary Macroeconomics
Photo by Kaitlyn Ashley on Unsplash The world is still feeling reverberations from the financial crisis of 2008 foreseen by neither politicians nor economists The history of capitalism has been punctuated by major crises exposing the fragility of our entire economic system How has capitalism despite these ruptures managed to …
The Future of Capitalism
Money is the fantasy that makes the world go round. Where did it come from and what is its future? From the Bank of England to Bitcoin and the Bristol Pound, LSE sociologist Nigel Dodd explores.
The future of money
Photo by Alina Grubnyak on Unsplash Networks are ubiquitous in our modern society The World Wide Web that links us to and enables information flows with the rest of the world is the most visible example It is however only one of many networks within which we are situated Our …
Networks
This course will focus on the emergence and evolution of industrial societies around the world We will begin by comparing the legacies of industry in ancient and early modern Europe and Asia and examining the agricultural and commercial advances that laid the groundwork for the Industrial Revolution of the 18th …
Global Perspectives on Industrialization
Explore the pressing topic of globalisation and how it affects economics, politics and society with this online course.
International Affairs: Globalisation
Anwar Shaikh seeks in his lectures for alternative explanations for empirically observed macro and microeconomic patterns of economic fluctuations, price volatility, and economic development.
Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crisis
Im Kurs lernen die Teilnehmer*innen wie man agentenbasierte Modelle in der Programmiersprache Python entwickelt.
Eine Einführung in Agentenbasierte Modellierung mit Python
Wirtschaftspolitische Verhandlungen im Angesicht der Klimakrise - verschiedene Interessensgruppen mit unterschiedlichem ökonomischen Hintergrund treffen in diesem Planspiel aufeinander! Alle weiteren Informationen findet ihr hier.
Readyfor55 - Wirtschaftspolitik auf dem Weg zur Klimaneutralität
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