This section includes selected content from Post-Colonialisms Today - a research and advocacy project recovering insights from the immediate post-independence period in Africa, and mobilizing them through a feminist lens to address contemporary challenges. You will find additional content at postcolonialisms.regionsrefocus.org. 2022 Level: leicht Contributions from Post-Colonialisms Today   Post-Colonialisms Today Drawing on Gramsci s Marxist Political Economy Mike Davis situates the War in Ukraine within the general condition of a crisis of capitalist hegemony The key argument is that the pathological and violent situation that we are finding ourselves in today is an expression of the inability of both global … 2022 Level: leicht Thanatos Triumphant Mike Davis New Left Review - Sidecar This website belongs to PolyluxMarx and provides open access material for use while reading Karl Marx Capital For several years now people have been starting to dust off Marx and return to his analysis of society This is mainly due to the social turmoil in global capitalism weaknesses in prevailing … 2013 Level: leicht PolyluxMarx - A Capital Workbook in Slides Valeria Bruschi, Antonelle Muzzupappa, Sabine Nuss, Anne Stecker & Ingo Stütze Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Aim: to work out jointly with students a systematic perception of how the gender factor can impact on economic and demographic development. This course is pioneering: it is the first time that such a course has been introduced into the curriculum of a Russian higher educational institution with a focus on economics. Level: mittel Gender Economics I. E. Kalabikhina Lomonosov Moscow State University In this class we will explore how globalization shapes and is shaped by gender norms with a particular focus on questions related to ‘work,’ mobility and well-being. 2015 Level: leicht Gender and Globalization Prof. Jennifer Olmsted Drew University - Dept. of Economics Education policy seeks to ensure equality in access, equality within the classroom and in teaching- learning processes, and equality in outcomes. This course encourages students to assess and evaluate the extent to which these objectives are met in practice and the ways in which educational outcomes are shaped by, as well as alter, gendered social norms. Level: leicht Education, Gender and Development Ratna Sudarshan National University of National Planning and Administration, New Delhi Asset Management firms control large parts of the global economy Just the three American asset management firms BlackRock Vanguard and State Street manage more than half of the combined value of all shares for companies in the S P 500 Their combined managed assets amount to 22 trillion May 2022 … 2022 Level: mittel Asset Manager Capitalism Mark Blyth Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs In order to address discrimination, we must understand and address its fundamental basis of systemic oppression. Stratification economics goes beyond myopic mainstream conceptualisations of discrimination and recognises the historical, institutional, and structural factors that create and maintain socioeconomic disparities and hierarchies. To critically approach the economics of discrimination, this workshop will focus on stratification economics, a systematic and empirically grounded approach to addressing intergroup inequality (Darity, 2005). Focusing on racial discrimination, we will discuss the core elements of stratification economics, critically evaluate its relevance, and apply these understandings to construct case studies and solutions for change. In our discussions, we will consider an array of topics, including intersecting oppressions, reparative justice, and the role of knowledge production in overcoming injustice and creating a better world. 2022 Level: leicht Economics of Discrimination Tanita Lewis Summer Academy 2022 for Pluralist Economics The World Inequality Lab gathers social scientists committed to helping everyone understand the drivers of inequality worldwide through evidence based research The World Inequality Lab hosts the World Inequality Database the most extensive public database on global inequality dynamics Their main missions are The extension of the World Inequality Database … Level: leicht WORLD INEQUALITY LAB   https://inequalitylab.world/en/ Identify the historical and cultural systems driving globalization and changing societies around the world. Level: leicht Age of Globalization John Hoberman University of Texas at Austin Information and skills required to make more sustainable choices every day. Level: leicht Sustainability in Everyday Life Anna Nyström Claesson; Matty Janssen Chalmers University of Technology 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 … 2012 Level: leicht The Future of Capitalism Anatole Kaletsky n.a. 'Impressive... provides a very good compendium of what are usually classified as "heterodox" development economics... an excellent volume.' Journal of International Development This important new collection tackles the failure of neoliberal reform to generate longterm growth and reduce poverty in many developing and transition economies. 2003 Level: mittel Rethinking Development Economics Ha-Joon Chang Anthem Press '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. 2011 Level: mittel 23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism Ha-Joon Chang Penguin Taking as its starting point the interdependence of the economy and the natural environment, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to the emerging field of ecological economics. 2005 Level: leicht Ecological Economics Michael Common, Sigrid Stagl Cambridge University Press This brief views the environment through diverse lenses – those of standard economics, institutional economics, political science, environmental science and ecology. 2013 Level: mittel The Environment in Economics and Development Vikram Dayal Springer Science & Business Media Designed to give second-year undergraduates an intuitive understanding of basic mathematical techniques, and when and why they are applicable. Building on the traditional framework of calculus, the notion of a concave function is used to link the new algebraic methods with the more familiar graphical approachoand to introduce the modern use of duality in economic analysis. 1984 Level: mittel Mathematics for Modern Economics Chris Birchenhall, Paul Grout P. Allan This invaluable volume brings together seminal articles with a significant behavioural content on various areas in macroeconomics. 2012 Level: mittel Behavioural Macroeconomics Ian Martin McDonald Edward Elgar This Encyclopedia is a very first fully refereed A-Z compendium of the main principles, concepts, problems, institutions, schools and policies associated with political economy. Part 1 of a 2-volume set comprises entries from A-K. 1999 Level: mittel Encyclopedia of Political Economy: A-K Phillip Anthony O'Hara Psychology Press That’s why it is time, says renegade economist Kate Raworth, to revise our economic thinking for the 21st century. In Doughnut Economics, she sets out seven key ways to fundamentally reframe our understanding of what economics is and does. 2017 Level: leicht Doughnut Economics Kate Raworth Chelsea Green Publishing Modern mission theory is guided largely by the three self paradigm that suggests indigenous churches can only be healthy if they are self-governing, self-propagating, and self-supporting. Consequently, Western missionaries, their churches, and their agencies have been increasingly indisposed to giving generously. We must rethink the interplay of dollars dependency and what it means to do the right thing with our money as we pursue twenty-first century missions. 2007 Level: mittel To Give Or Not to Give John Rowell InterVarsity Press Immanuel Wallerstein provides a concise and accessible introduction to the comprehensive approach that he pioneered thirty years ago to understanding the history and development of the modern world. 2004 Level: mittel World-systems Analysis Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein, Senior Researcher Immanuel Wallerstein Duke University Press Transition from central planning to a market economy, involving large-scale institutional change and reforms at all levels, is often described as the greatest social science experiment in modern times. 2013 Level: mittel Handbook of the Economics and Political Economy of Transition Paul Hare, Gerard Turley Routledge Focusing on Kenya’s path-breaking mobile money project M-Pesa, this book examines and critiques the narratives and institutions of digital financial inclusion as a development strategy for gender equality, arguing for a politics of redistribution to guide future digital financial inclusion projects. 2020 Level: mittel The Exclusionary Politics of Digital Financial Inclusion Serena Natile Routledge 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 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 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 Introduces four of the most influential economists you'll never read in a modern economics class - Marx, Veblen, Keynes, and Galbraith. 2016 Level: leicht Introduction to Political Economy Charles Sackrey, Geoffrey Schneider, Janet Knoedler Dollars & Sense In this book, Kalyan Sanyal reviews the traditional notion of capitalism and propounds an original theory of capitalist development in the post-colonial context. In order to substantiate his theory, concepts such as primitive accumulation, governmentality and post-colonial capitalist formation are discussed in detail. 2013 Level: leicht Rethinking Capitalist Development Kalyan Sanyal Routledge International Economics, 15e continues to combine rigorous economic analysis with attention to the issues of economic policy that are alive and important today in this field. 2011 Level: mittel International Economics Pugel, Thomas A. McGraw Hill Book Co The 2007-2010 economic crisis has profoundly shaken the foundations of mainstream financial economics. The apparent falsification of core concepts such as risk diversification, informational efficiency and valuation efficiency by an unexpected course of events has revealed the need to redefine the objectives and direction of research today. 2010 Level: mittel After the Crisis Thomas Lagoarde-Segot Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated 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