Course goals Learn about women men and work in the labor market and the household Learn to apply the tools of economic analysis to these topics and deepen understanding of these tools Develop the skills to think critically about gender issues including policy interventions Enhance understanding of how to analyze … 2016 Level: leicht Women in the Economy Professor Francine D. Blau International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) The goal of this course is to explore these differences in economic outcomes observed among women and men, measured by such things as earnings, income, hours of work, poverty, and the allocation of resources within the household. It will evaluate women’s perspectives and experiences in the United States and around the world, emphasizing feminist economics. Level: leicht Economics of Gender Dr. Erin George Hood College Wheat and oil prices were already rising before the Russian invasion so what might be the effect for people in low income countries of a war far away that may have a secondary impact much closer to home In this short video Rabah Arezki Chief Economist Vice President African Development … 2022 Level: leicht War in Ukraine, impact in Africa. The effect of soaring energy and food prices Rabah Arezki VoxEU - CEPR This article by Rüdiger Bachmann et.al. discusses the economic effects of a potential cut-off of the German economy from Russian energy imports. 2022 Level: mittel What if? The Economic Effects for Germany of a Stop of Energy Imports from Russia Rüdiger Bachmann, David Baqaee, Christian Bayer, Moritz Kuhn, Andreas Löschel, Benjamin Moll, Andreas Peichl, Karen Pittel, Moritz Schularick ECONtribute.de This course is intended to present some of the main ideas underlying the micro aspects of gender economics. The courses will tackle issues as fertility, marriage, women labor force participation, wage gap, gender inequality, violence against women and women empowerment within her household and within the society where she lives. Level: mittel Gender and Microeconomics Hanan Nazier and Racha Ramadan Cairo University - Faculty of Economics and Political Science 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 The Atlas of Economic Complexity is an award-winning data visualization tool that allows people to explore global trade flows across markets, track these dynamics over time and discover new growth opportunities for every country. 2013 Level: leicht Atlas of Economic Complexity Ricardo Hausmann and the whole Harvard Growth Lab team Harvard Growth Lab What the heck is the yield curve? And why is it considered a powerful predictor of economic crisis? Here you'll get to know. 2015 Level: leicht Killik Explains: Fixed Income Basics - the yield curve Tim Bennett Killik & Co. This is the second part of the seminar A Hard Currency of Politics The discussion centers on the The Currency of Politics by Stefan Eich and is hosted by the journal European Law Open Stefan Eich s presentation of his argument starts at minute 7 53 The discussion centers on … 2022 Level: leicht European Law Open discussion of "The Currency of Politics" by Stefan Eich Stefan Eich Cambridge University Press This syllabus provides an overview of the content of the Philosophy of Economics course at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 2015 Level: leicht Philosophy of Economics Dan Hausman University of Wisconsin-Madison This syllabus provides an overview of the contents of the course "The Philosophy and Methodology of Economics" at the Duke University 2022 Level: leicht The Philosophy and Methodology of Economics Kevin Hoover Duke University Economic development is a process of continuous technological innovation and structural transformation. Development thinking is inherently tied to the quest for sustainable growth strategies. This book provides a neoclassical approach for studying the determinants of economic structure and its transformation and draws new insights for development policy. 2012 Level: mittel New Structural Economics Justin Yifu Lin World Bank Publications In "The Money Problem, "Morgan Ricks argues for a reform of the American monetary system. Taking up foundational questions of monetary policy, he asks: how would we construct a monetary system if we were starting from scratch? What are the characteristics of a monetary instrument? 2016 Level: mittel The Money Problem Morgan Ricks University of Chicago Press More than a century after Hartley Withers's "The Meaning of Money" and 80 years after Keynes's "Treatise on Money", the fundamentals of how banks create money still needs explaining and this book meets that need with clear exposition and expert marshalling of the relevant facts. 2014 Level: mittel Where Does Money Come From? Josh Ryan-Collins, Tony Greenham, Richard Werner, Andrew Jackson New Economics Foundation A systematic comparison of the three major economic theories, showing how they differ and why these differences matter in shaping economic theory and practice.

Contending Economic Theories offers a unique comparative treatment of the three main theories in economics as it is taught today: neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian. Each is developed and discussed in its own chapter, yet also differentiated from and compared to the other two theories. 2012 Level: mittel Contending Economic Theories Richard D. Wolff, Stephen A. Resnick MIT Press 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 Racism and discrimination have choked economic opportunity for African Americans at nearly every turn. In From Here to Equality, William Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen confront these injustices head-on and make the most comprehensive case to date for economic reparations for U.S. descendants of slavery. 2020 Level: mittel From Here to Equality William A. Darity Jr., A. Kirsten Mullen The University of North Carolina Press Over the last decade, the world's largest corporations - from The Coca Cola Company to Amazon, Apple to Unilever - have taken up the cause of combatting modern slavery. Yet, by most measures, across many sectors and regions, severe labour exploitation continues to soar. Corporate social responsibility is not working. Why? 2020 Level: leicht Combatting Modern Slavery Genevieve LeBaron Polity Press Within the heterodox field one of the most active topics is related to the theory of economic growth and distribution This is a textbook for advance undergraduate and graduate students Throughout its 18 chapters Classical Neoclassical and post Keynesian models are developed Each chapter contains study problems and suggested readings … 2019 Level: schwer Growth and Distribution Duncan K. Foley, Thomas R. Michl, Daniele Tavani Harvard University 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 "Leveraged" provides an authoritative guide to the new economics of our crisis-filled century with a focus on financial crises and financial economics. 2022 Level: schwer Leveraged Moritz Schularick University of Chicago Press This book is a collection of articles on topics and individuals within the history of heterodox economic thought, approached from a heterodox perspective. The principal topics are the nature and scope of economics as an intellectual venture. 1992 Level: mittel Essays in the History of Heterodox Political Economy Warren J. Samuels NYU Press Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapely won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their work on market design back in 2012, but it is a field that is still underrepresented in economics education. All markets have rules, and how these rules are set influence how the market functions. 2021 Level: leicht The economics of legalising cannabis Economy Studies Economy Studies In this clear and accessible book, an eminent political scientist offers a jargon-free introduction to the market system for all readers, with or without a background in economics 2002 Level: mittel The Market System Charles Edward Lindblom Yale University Press The economics of worker cooperatives is a branch of economic inquiry with a long and esteemed pedigree, dating at least from the work of John Stuart Mill in the mid-nineteenth century. 2013 Level: mittel The Economics of Worker Cooperatives John H. Pencavel Edward Elgar Publishing Limited Some economic events are so major and unsettling that they “change everything.” Such is the case with the financial crisis that started in the summer of 2007 and is still a drag on the world economy. Yet enough time has now elapsed for economists to consider questions that run deeper than the usual focus on the immediate causes and consequences of the crisis. 2013 Level: mittel Rethinking the Financial Crisis Alan S. Blinder, Andrew W. Loh, Robert M. Solow Russell Sage Foundation 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 For many, Thomas Carlyle's put-down of economics as "the dismal science" rings true--especially in the aftermath of the crash of 2008. But Diane Coyle argues that economics today is more soulful than dismal, a more practical and human science than ever before. The Soulful Science describes the remarkable creative renaissance in economics, how economic thinking is being applied to the paradoxes of everyday life. 2009 Level: mittel The Soulful Science Diane Coyle Princeton University Press In China's Gilded Age, Yuen Yuen Ang maintains that all corruption is harmful, but not all types of corruption hurt growth. Ang unbundles corruption into four varieties: petty theft, grand theft, speed money, and access money. 2020 Level: leicht China's Gilded Age Yuen Yuen Ang Cambridge University Press Modern Monetary Theory and Practice: An Introductory Text is an introductory textbook for university-level macroeconomics students. It is based on the principles of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). 2016 Level: mittel Modern Monetary Theory and Practice: an Introductory Text William Mitchell, L. Randall Wray, Martin Watts Centre of Full Employment and Equity Finance at the Threshold offers a unique perspective from an English economic and monetary historian. In it the author asks: Why did the banks stop lending to one another, and why now? Was it merely a matter of over-loose credit due to the relaxation of traditional prudence, or did global finance find itself at its limits? 2016 Level: mittel Finance at the Threshold Budd, Christopher Houghton Routledge Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century is the most widely discussed work of economics in recent history, selling millions of copies in dozens of languages. But are its analyses of inequality and economic growth on target? Where should researchers go from here in exploring the ideas Piketty pushed to the forefront of global conversation? A cast of economists and other social scientists tackle these questions in dialogue with Piketty, in what is sure to be a much-debated book in its own right. 2019 Level: mittel After Piketty Marshall Steinbaum, J. Bradford DeLong, Heather Boushey Harvard University Press