"Dunkler Kontinent", "Elendsgebiet" oder "Rohstofflager der Welt", noch immer denken und reden wir über Afrika in Stereotypen. Und noch immer ist der Maßstab, mit dem wir den Zustand und die Perspektive des Kontinents beurteilen, das Entwicklungsmodell des Westens, selbst wenn sich dieses weltweit als höchst zerstörerisch erwiesen hat. 2019 Level: mittel Afrotopia Felwine Sarr Matthes & Seitz Verlag One of the most authoritative authors on the intellectual heritage of John Maynard Keynes, Robert Skidelsky draws a sketch of the great man's economic thinking both accessible and insightful. 2010 Level: leicht Keynes: A Very Short Introduction Robert Skidelsky Oxford University Press This book is intended as a textbook for a course in behavioural economics for advanced undergraduate and graduate students who have already learned basic economics. The book will also be useful for introducing behavioural economics to researchers. Unlike some general audience books that discuss behavioural economics, this book does not take the position of negating traditional economics completely. 2018 Level: mittel Behavioral Economics Ogaki, Masao, Tanaka, Saori C. Springer Homo sapiens is now evolving into post economy The New Economy must manage scarcity and affluence a dual problem that is not integrated into the main classical economic theories There will be an important shock between opulence described by the economist John Kenneth Galbraith in The Affluent Society and scarcity … 2017 Level: leicht Shifting Economy Emmanuel Mossay, Michel de Kemmeter Wise Holding - Otherways scrl All leaders are constrained by geography. Their choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. People and ideas are important; but if you don't know geography, you'll never have the full picture. 2016 Level: leicht Prisoners of Geography Tim Marshall Elliott and Thompson Limited 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 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 seinem Buch "Kanaillenkapitalismus" nimmt César Rendueles uns mit auf eine Reise, eine literarische Reise durch die Geschichte des Kapitalismus. Anhand ausgewählter literarischer Werke führt er uns von der Auflösung der Commens in der frühen Neuzeit zum finanzialisierten Kapitalismus der Gegenwart. Dabei zeigt Rendueles sich als begeisterter Reiseführer, der das Nähkästchen parat hat. 2018 Level: mittel Kanaillen-Kapitalismus César Rendueles Suhrkamp Die Makroökonomie ist fester Kernbestandteil der Wirtschaftswissenschaften In der Lehre wird hierbei nicht nur in Deutschland auf sehr wenige Lehrbücher zurückgegriffen Dieser Beitrag geht der Frage nach wie einseitig oder plural die makroökonomischen Lehrbücher sind an denen kein Studierender vorbeikommt Zunächst wird näher bestimmt was den vorherrschenden Mainstream und kontrastierend … 2021 Level: leicht Makroökonomische Lehrbücher: Wissenschaft oder Ideologie Helge Peukert Metropolis-Verlag Die Mikroökonomie ist fester Kernbestandteil der Wirtschaftswissenschaften In der Lehre wird hierbei nicht nur in Deutschland auf sehr wenige Lehrbücher zurückgegriffen Dieses Buch geht der Frage nach wie einseitig oder plural diese Lehrbücher sind an denen kein Studierender vorbeikommt Zunächst wird näher bestimmt was den vorherrschenden Mainstream und kontrastierend eine … 2019 Level: leicht Mikroökonomische Lehrbücher: Wissenschaft oder Ideologie Helge Peukert Metropolis-Verlag hether it's working for free in exchange for 'experience', enduring poor treatment in the name of being 'part of the family', or clocking serious overtime for a good cause, more and more of us are pushed to make sacrifices for the privilege of being able to do work we enjoy. Work Won't Love You Back examines how we all bought into this 'labour of love' myth: the idea that certain work is not really work, and should be done for the sake of passion rather than pay. 2021 Level: leicht Work Won't Love You Back Sarah Jaffe C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd The rise of capitalism to global dominance is still largely associated – by both laypeople and Marxist historians – with the industrial capitalism that made its decisive breakthrough in 18th century Britain. 2020 Level: mittel A Brief History of Commercial Capitalism Jairus Banaji Haymarket Books The volume, released by YSI’s Economic Development Working Group, comprises interviews with 13 scholars from around the world who express a variety of viewpoints on the meaning and relevance of dependency theory in today’s context. 2017 Level: mittel Dialogues on Development Ushehwedu Kufakurinani, Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven, Frutuoso Santanta, Maria Dyveke Styve (ed.) Young Scholar Initiative Wie ist Chinas Aufstieg zur Weltmacht aus wirtschaftssoziologischer Perspektive einzuordnen? Adam Smiths Urschrift der Wirtschaftswissenschaften liefert dazu überraschende Antworten. 2008 Level: mittel Adam Smith in Beijing Giovanni Arrighi, Aus dem Amerikanischen von Britta Dutke VSA-Verlag After long-time negligence, the Global South and the North-South divide are back on the agenda of development economics again. This book is a neat, accessible introduction into the topic, covering both the current situation and potential remedies from different points of view. 2001 Level: leicht Readings in the Theory of Economic Development Dilip Mookherjee, Debraj Ray (ed.) Wiley "Demokratien im inszenierten Standortwettbewerb" diskutiert die Voraussetzungen und Folgen des Standortwettbewerbs von Grund auf. 2021 Level: mittel Demokratien im inszenierten Standortwettbewerb Rolf Klein Tectum Verlag Imperialism is not only about military force and political pressure applied by developed capitalist countries on less developed ones for economic gain It also has an everyday dimension Countless acts of production and consumption the current SUV boom being a prominent example draw on exploitation of resources and labour from … 2021 Level: leicht The Imperial Mode of Living Ulrich Brand, Markus Wissen Verso Books Wege in die solidarische Lebensweise Die globalen Krisen spitzen sich zu Doch wo sind Antworten und Lösungen Das I L A Kollektiv hat sich auf die Suche nach neuen Lebensstilen und Wirtschaftsformen begeben die nicht auf Kosten anderer und der Natur gehen Die zentrale Frage Wie kann ein gutes Leben … 2019 Level: leicht Das gute Leben für Alle Christoph Ambach, Monika Austaller, Hermine Bähr, Christopher Beil, Anton Brokow-Loga, Laima Eicke, Nilda Inkermann, Friederike Hildebrandt, Elisabeth Jeglitzka, Tobias Kalt, Julia Kolbinger, Jonas Lage, Felix Ries, Johanna Ritter, Tobi Rosswog, Chri Oekom . 2019 Level: mittel Pluriverse Ashish Kothari, Ariel Salleh, Arturo Escobar, Frederico Demaria, Alberto Acosta Tulika Books Joscha Wullweber steigt in den Maschinenraum des modernen Kapitalismus hinab diskutiert die neuen Instrumente der Zentralbanken und erklärt auf welch komplexe Weise Staat und Finanzmarkt heute verschränkt sind Dabei nimmt er auch das Schattenbankensystem unter die Lupe von dem die globale Finanzkrise ausging und das dennoch immer bedeutender wird Ein … 2021 Level: mittel Zentralbankkapitalismus Joscha Wullweber Suhrkamp Verlag AG Work defines who we are It determines our status and dictates how where and with whom we spend most of our time It mediates our self worth and molds our values But are we hard wired to work as hard as we do Did our Stone Age ancestors also live … 2020 Level: leicht Work James Suzman Bloomsbury Circus How Covid Shook the World s Economy Deftly weaving finance politics business and the global human experience into one tight narrative a tour de force account of 2020 the year that changed everything from the acclaimed author of Crashed The shocks of 2020 have been great and small disrupting the … 2021 Level: mittel Shutdown Adam Tooze Penguin Publishing Group Colonialism persists in many African countries due to the continuation of imperial monetary policy. This is the little-known account of the CFA Franc and economic imperialism. 2021 Level: leicht Africa's Last Colonial Currency Fanny Pigeaud, Ndongo Samba Sylla Pluto Press The idea of a Green New Deal was launched into popular consciousness by US Congressperson Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in 2018. Evocative of the far-reaching ambitions of its namesake, it has become a watchword in the current era of global climate crisis. But its new ubiquity brings ambiguity: what - and for whom - is the Green New Deal? 2021 Level: leicht A People's Green New Deal Max Ajl Pluto Press How do Airbnb and short-term rentals affect housing and communities? Locating the origins and success of Airbnb in the conditions wrought by the 2008 financial crisis, the authors bring together a diverse body of literature and construct case studies of cities in the US, Australia and Germany to examine the struggles of local authorities to protect their housing and neighborhoods from the increasing professionalization and commercialization of Airbnb. 2020 Level: leicht Airbnb, Short-term Rentals and the Future of Housing Lily M. Hoffman, Barbara Schmitter Heisler Taylor & Francis Group In this sharp intervention, authors Lucí Cavallero and Verónica Gago defiantly develop a feminist understanding of debt, showing its impact on women and members of the LGBTQ+ community and examining the relationship between debt and social reproduction. 2021 Level: leicht A Feminist Reading of Debt Luci Cavallero, Verónica Gago Pluto Press The first book to bring together the key writings and speeches of civil rights activist Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander--the first Black American economist In 1921, Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander became the first Black American to gain a Ph.D. degree in economics. Unable to find employment as an economist because of discrimination, Alexander became a lawyer so that she could press for equal rights for African Americans. 2021 Level: mittel Democracy, Race, and Justice Sadie T. M. Alexander Yale University Press Philosophy of Economics: A Contemporary Introduction is the first systematic textbook in the philosophy of economics introduces to the epistemological, metaphysical and ethical problems that arise in economics, and presents detailed discussions of the solutions that have been offered. 2013 Level: mittel Philosophy of Economics Julian Reiss Routledge Mr Minsky long argued markets were crisis prone His moment has arrived The Wall Street Journal In his seminal work Minsky presents his groundbreaking financial theory of investment one that is startlingly relevant today He explains why the American economy has experienced periods of debilitating inflation rising unemployment and marked … 2008 Level: mittel Stabilizing an Unstable Economy Hyman Minsky McGraw Hill Professional This book investigates the continuing resonances of Atlantic slavery in the cultures and politics of human reproduction that characterize contemporary biocapitalism. 2019 Level: leicht The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery Alys Eve Weinbaum Duke University Press Adam Smith and Karl Marx recognized that the best way to understand the economy is to study the most advanced practice of production. Today that practice is no longer conventional manufacturing: it is the radically innovative vanguard known as the knowledge economy. 2019 Level: leicht The Knowledge Economy Roberto Mangabeira Unger Verso Books 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