Mitch Jeserich interviews Professor Richard D Wolff a professor of economics at the New School University in New York City Prof Wolff presents an explanatory theory of how inflation occurs in an economy Briefly profit driven employers raise the price in order to maximize profits of private corporations they own …

2022

Level: leicht

Richard Wolff On Everything You Need to Know About Inflation

Richard D Wolff

Letters and Politics

This MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) discusses Global Workers’ Rights and shows instruments and strategies which can be used to implement them.

Level: leicht

Workers' Rights in a Global Economy

Paul Whitehead; Mark Anner; Mark Anner; Stefanie Lorenzen; Fernando Lopes; Michael Fichter; Frank Hoffer; Victor Hugo Ricco; Camilo Rubiano; Christoph Scherrer; Ben Scully; Beatriz Vacotto; Beatriz Vacotto

Global Labour University

The book is offered, in the first instance, to students who are beginners in economics, but some parts of it may be of wider interest. The three topics, Economic Doctrines, Analysis and Modern Problems, might be the subject of concurrent courses or they may be studied consecutively.

1973

Level: leicht

An Introduction to Modern Economics

Robinson, Joan; Eatwell, John

Maidenhead McGraw-Hill

In this book, the authors, Cinzia Aruzza, Tithi Bhattcahrya, and Nancy Fraser, move away from the myopic view of feminism for a select few to focus on a universal idea of feminism.

2019

Level: leicht

Feminism for the 99 Percent

Cinzia Arruzza, Nancy Fraser, Tithi Bhattacharya

Verso Books

The U.S. economy today is confronted with the prospect of extended stagnation. This book explores why. Thomas I. Palley argues that the Great Recession and destruction of shared prosperity is due to flawed economic policy over the past thirty years.

2012

Level: mittel

From Financial Crisis to Stagnation

Thomas I. Palley

Cambridge University Press

Part I: Basic Economic Problems Is Economics a Science? Is It Useful? (Lawrence Boland, Ian Parker) Is There Such a Thing as a Free Market? (William Watson, Robert Prasch) Part II: Consumers and Firms Is Homo Economicus an Appropriate Representation of Real-World Consumers? (Joseph Persky, Morris Altman) Is the Consumer Sovereign?

2010

Level: mittel

Introducing Microeconomic Analysis

Hassan Bougrine, Mario Seccareccia, Ian C. Parker

Emond Montgomery Publications

It has become a contentious term in- and outside of economic policy: austerity. Allegedly the culprit behind the shortfalls of governments' reaction to the Great Financial Crisis, the policy makes for a spirited debate.

2015

Level: leicht

Austerity

Mark Blyth

Oxford University Press