Sabel and Zeitlin present the persistence of small firms in Europe against the rise of mass production and modern enterprises Their article starts by analysing how mass production can be considered a historical necessity for the classical view as it is a highly specialized structure where man and machine can … 1985 Level: mittel Historical Alternatives to Mass Production: Politics, Markets and Technology in Nineteenth-Century Industrialization Charles Sabel and Jonathan Zeitlin Oxford University Press on behalf of The Past and Present Society Why did inflation lift of in 2022? Are there differences between the US and the Eurozone and if so, what are they? 2022 Level: schwer The Inflation Surge of 2021-22: Scarcity of Goods and Commodities, Strong Labor Markets and Anchored Infl ation Expectations Ángel Ubide ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics/CEPS – Centre for European Policy Studies The workshop deals with the contribution of Plural Economics to the urgently  needed change of the economic system towards sustainability and global  responsibility.  After completing the module, participants should be able to demarcate and  explain different economic approaches to sustainability. They should be able to  evaluate the respective concepts based on their contribution to the ecological  transformation of the economic system. 2022 Level: leicht Pluralist Economics for a Sustainable Economic Future Sarah Lange Summer Academy 2022 for Pluralist Economics Designed for both undergraduates and MBA students taking their first course in business economics, this text focuses on introducing students to economics as a framework for understanding business. It is structured around problems that decision-makers face, such as rejuvenating the firm in the face of declining demand. 2004 Level: mittel Business Economics Peter Earl, Tim Wakeley McGraw-Hill Education Why do we think that sovereign debt must be repaid--even after a major regime change--in order to maintain country creditworthiness? In a fascinating and highly original book, Odette Lienau argues that this conventional wisdom is overly simplistic and in some respects entirely wrong. 2014 Level: leicht Rethinking Sovereign Debt Lienau, Odette Harvard University Press From Marketisation to Armed Conflict Since 1991 nominally independent Ukraine has been in turmoil with the Orange Revolution and the Maidan protests marking its most critical moments Now its borders are threatened and the civil unrest and armed conflict continue to destabilise the country In order to understand these dramatic … 2018 Level: mittel Ukraine and the Empire of Capital Yuliya Yurchenko Pluto Press From the mercantile monopolies of seventeenth-century empires to the modern-day authority of the WTO, IMF, and World Bank, the nations of the world have struggled to effectively harness globalization's promise. The economic narratives that underpinned these eras the gold standard, the Bretton Woods regime, the "Washington Consensus" brought great success and great failure. 2011 Level: mittel The Globalization Paradox Dani Rodrik W. W. Norton & Company In dem Papier wird erläutert, wie es zu den starken Monopolisierungstendenzen auf digitalen Märkten kommt und welche Auswirkungen diese auf Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft und Politik haben. Im Anschluss wird auf den aktuellen Regulierungsversuch der Europäischen Union eingegangen und in Auseinandersetzung damit, die Frage behandelt, wie eine wirksame Regulierung von Digitalkonzernen gestaltet werden könnte. 2023 Level: mittel Monopolisierungstendenzen in digitalen Märkten: Remeduren, Ursachen, Auswirkungen Louis Kesse Teo Mayer Zentrum für Ökonomische und Soziologische Studien Traditionally, economists have attributed consistency and rational calculation to the action of ‘economic man’. In a powerful challenge to orthodox thinking, Geoffrey Hodgson maintains that social institutions play a central and essential role in molding preferences and guiding action: institutions are regarded as enabling action rather than merely providing constraints. 1991 Level: mittel Economics and Institutions Geoffrey M. Hodgson Wiley Potts (economics, University of Queensland) proposes evolutionary microeconomics as a synthesis of the collective schools of heterodox economic thought with complex systems theory and graph theory. 2000 Level: mittel The New Evolutionary Microeconomics Jason Potts Edward Elgar Foundations of Economics breathes life into the discipline by linking key economic concepts with wider debates and issues. By bringing to light delightful mind-teasers, philosophical questions and intriguing politics in mainstream economics, it promises to enliven an otherwise dry course whilst inspiring students to do well. 1998 Level: leicht Foundations of Economics Yanis Varoufakis Psychology Press

Following an unprecedented economic boom fed by foreign investment, the Russian Revolution triggered the worst sovereign default in history. Bankers and Bolsheviks tells the dramatic story of this boom and bust, chronicling the forgotten experiences of leading financiers of the age.

2018 Level: mittel Bankers and Bolsheviks Hassan Malik Princeton University Press The goal of this teaching pack by Economy Studies is to make students familiar with different visions for how the economy could be organised and enable them to critically reflect on such ideas. As future economic experts, it is important that they become aware of prominent proposals for reorganising the economy and practise how to deal with them. 2022 Level: leicht (Some) Visions for the economy - Economy Studies   Economy Studies The Learning Economy and the Economics of Hope' brings together the most important contributions by an expert on policies, management and economics of innovation and knowledge. It offers original insights in processes of innovation and learning and it draws implications for economic theory and public policy. It introduces the reader to important concepts such as innovation systems and the learning economy. 2016 Level: mittel The Learning Economy and the Economics of Hope Bengt-Åke Lundvall Anthem Press Since their first emergence in the work of Paul David thirty years ago, the dual issues of Path Dependence and Lock-In have become critically important subjects in the fields of economics, sociology, and business strategy. 2014 Level: mittel Path Dependence and Lock-In Liebowitz, Stan J ; Margolis, Stephen E Edward Elgar Publishing Those who control the world’s commanding economic heights, buttressed by the theories of mainstream economists, presume that capitalism is a self-contained and self-generating system. 2021 Level: leicht Capital and Imperialism Utsa Patnaik, Prabhat Patnaik NYU Press An introductory course on Game Theory Level: leicht Game Theory Matthew O. Jackson; Kevin Leyton-Brown; Yoav Shoham Stanford University, The University of British Columbia Economic theory must distinguish between publicly owned and privately owned property if it is to account for the effect of institutions on the behavior of individuals. Careful study of the theories of Marxists and the real-world experience in the Soviet economy offer important lessons and insight for economic modeling and the ongoing development of theory. In this course, Marxist/Leninist theory and Soviet reality will be studied with an open mind, and with the goal of taking lessons from the case study. To what extent was the Soviet economy an accurate expression of Marxist theory? If Marxism were tried somewhere else would the results be the same? 2014 Level: mittel Economic History of the Soviet Union Guinevere Liberty Nell University of Warwick