Mainstream textbooks present economics as an objective science free from value judgements; that settles disputes by testing hypotheses; that applies a pre-determined body of principles; and contains policy prescriptions supported by a consensus of professional opinion. 2012 Level: leicht The economics anti-textbook Hill, Rod; Myatt, Toni Zed Books The objective of this MOOC is to develop an understanding of the problems related to water management. Firstly, this course will define a resource and, more specifically, the resource of water. It will look at how water is used and the activities associated with it as well as any potential conflicts. The course will look at water management in detail through the analysis of the different types of rights and obligations associated with, for example, the development of a multi-sectorial regulation system or a watershed management approach. Level: mittel Water Resource Management and Policy Prof. Geraldine Pflieger, Dr. Christian Brethaut Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Geneva A previously unpublished collection of Rodney's essays on Marxism, spanning his engagement with of Black Power, Ujamaa Villages, and the everyday people who put an end to a colonial era 2022 Level: leicht Decolonial Marxism Walter Rodney Verso Books This brief but comprehensive account of the Post Keynesian approach to economic theory and policy is ideal for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students in economics, public policy and other social sciences. Clear, non-technical and with a strong policy focus, it will also appeal to all of those who are dissatisfied with mainstream economics and wish to explore the alternatives. 2015 Level: mittel Advanced Introduction to Post Keynesian Economics John Edward King Edward Elgar Publishing Well-rounded insights with essay contributions from various perspectives into what it means to decolonize higher education. 2018 Level: mittel Decolonising the University Gurminder K. Bhambra, Dalia Gebrial, Kerem Nişancıoğlu Pluto Press Ecological economics addresses one of the fundamental flaws in conventional economics--its failure to consider biophysical and social reality in its analyses and equations. Ecological Economics: Principles and Applications is an introductory-level textbook that offers a pedagogically complete examination of this dynamic new field. 2003 Level: leicht Ecological Economics - A Workbook for Problem-Based Learning Daly, Herman E.; Farley, Joshua Island Press The world of economics is changing. Years of turmoil in the global economy mean that nothing will ever be quite the same again. This is the starting point and theme of this radically revised Economist books classic. 2015 Level: mittel The Economist: Economics 4th edition Richard Davies Profile Books Mainstream economic theory has been increasingly questioned following the recent global financial crisis. Marc Lavoie shows how post-Keynesian theory can function as a coherent substitute by focusing on realistic assumptions and integrating the financial and real sides of the economy. 2015 Level: mittel Post-Keynesian Economics Marc Lavoie Edward Elgar Value and Crisis brings together selected essays written by Alfredo Saad-Filho, one of the most prominent Marxist political economists writing today. Divided into two parts, "Essays on the Theory of Value" and "Essays on Contemporary Capitalism," this book examines the labour theory of value from a rich and innovative perspective from which fresh insights are derived. 2020 Level: mittel Value and Crisis Alfredo Saad Filho Haymarket Books The world's leading economist of inequality presents a short but sweeping and surprisingly optimistic history of human progress toward equality despite crises, disasters, and backsliding. 2022 Level: leicht A Brief History of Equality Thomas Piketty Harvard University Press The book is a collection of 51 texts by different scholars and activists, who each adds a dimension/perspective to the topics of degrowth and societal transformation. A societal transformation towards a degrowth society is dependent on a lot of ideas coming together and creating change from various starting points within a society. Therefore, the authors are quite diverse and their contributions vary from being philosophical, natural science based, economic, sociological and so forth. Some are specfiically focused on a concept and others are a more broad critique of e.g., capitalism or growth. 2015 Level: mittel Degrowth Giacomo D'Alisa, Federico Demaria, Giorgos Kallis Routledge The third edition of Political Economy: The Contest of Economic Ideas is a fully updated overview of the political economy and its connection with social concerns. This book investigates the main traditions of economic ideas and provides a 'big picture' overview of the analytical tools and value judgements associated with competing schools of economic thought. 2011 Level: mittel Political Economy Frank Stilwell OUP Australia & New Zealand David Graeber introduces different concepts such as money and debt. He takes a historical and anthropological way of explaining the origin. This breaks with the mainstream explanation, which is used in many Economics textbooks, saying that a barter economy was before money arose. 2014 Level: mittel Debt David Graeber Melville House In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Bombay was beset by crises such as famine and plague. Yet, rather than halting the flow of capital, these crises served to secure it. In colonial Bombay, capitalists and governors, Indian and British alike, used moments of crisis to justify interventions that delimited the city as a distinct object and progressively excluded laborers and migrants from it. 2019 Level: mittel Making the Modern Slum Sheetal Chhabria University of Washington Press In dem Buch beschäftigt sich Hannah Heller anhand der Ernährungswirtschaft mit der Frage, inwiefern unterschiedliche Narrative die Transformation der Wirtschaft prägen und verbindet dabei Erzähltheorie mit Transformationsforschung. 2024 Level: mittel Narrative der sozial-ökologischen Transformation der Wirtschaft am Beispiel der Ernährungswirtschaft Hannah Heller Metropolis Verlag Rethinking Business is a volume of thought-provoking researches that sets out to challenge the paradigm of business along the areas of governance, finance, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability. 2014 Level: mittel Rethinking Business Raymund B. Habaradas and Denver Bingski D. Daradar De La Salle University (DLSU) Publishing House 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 In the debate about a sustainable and livable future, the critique of work is an essential perspective. In this contribution, Maja Hoffmann explores the tension between the environmentally harmful effects of work on the one hand and the systematic compulsion of work on the other. 2024 Level: leicht How can post-work (critiques of work) enrich the climate debate? Maja Hoffmann Economists for Future

Are humans at their core seekers of their own pleasure or cooperative members of society? Paradoxically, they are both. Pleasure-seeking can take place only within the context of what works within a defined community, and central to any community are the evolved codes and principles guiding appropriate behavior, or morality. 2013 Level: mittel From Pleasure Machines to Moral Communities Geoffrey M. Hodgson University of Chicago Press Im Nachgang der 2022er Tagung für Kritische Kommunikationswissenschaften in Wien versammelt"Eigentum, Medien, Öffentlichkeit" nun auf knapp 500 Seiten zahlreiche spannende Beiträge rund um das Thema Eigentum – verfasst von ganz unterschiedlichen Autor*innen aus dem näheren und weiteren Kritische Kommunikationswissenschafts-Universum. 2023 Level: mittel Eigentum, Medien, Öffentlichkeit Selma Güney, Lina Hille, Juliane Pfeiffer, Laura Porak, Hendrik Theine Westend Colonial Global Economy is a module of the Connected Sociologies Curriculum Project and examines the ongoing significance of colonial relations in the structure of the global economy It consists of 7 introductory lectures which range between 17 and 39 minutes of length In addition further readings resources and questions for … 2020 Level: leicht Colonial Global Economy Prof Gurminder K Bhambra n.a. The Great Transformation, 1944 erschienen, geht von der These aus, daß erst die Herausbildung einer liberalen Marktwirtschaft mit ihrem »freien Spiel der Kräfte« zu jener charakteristischen »Herauslösung« und Verselbständigung der Ökonomie gegenüber der Gesellschaft geführt hat, die historisch ein Novum darstellt und die bürgerliche Gesellschaft von allen anderen Gesellschaftsformationen unterscheidet. 1973 Level: mittel The Great Transformation - Politische und ökonomische Ursprünge von Gesellschaften und Wirtschaftssystemen Karl Polanyi Suhrkamp Verlag In 'Wagenknecht - nationale sitten & schicksalsgemeinschaft' von Wolfgang Veiglhuber und Klaus Weder findet sich eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit Sahra Wagenknechts ökonomischem Denken. Dabei wird insbesondere ihre Nähe zu konservativen und reaktionären Gedankenwelten herausgearbeitet. 2022 Level: leicht Wagenknecht - nationale Sitten & Schicksalsgemeinschaft Klaus Weber, Wolfgang Veiglhuber (hg.) Argument Die vorliegende Arbeit bietet einen umfassenden, wissenschaft­lich fundierten Gesamtüberblick der in Deutschland v.a. an Universitäten verwandten Lehrbücher und über die Kernfächer der volks- und wirt­schaftswissenschaftlichen "Grundausbildung". 2017 Level: mittel Einseitig oder plural? Christian Rebhan Metropolis-Verlag Die Podcast Episode des Geschichte der kommenden Welten Podcasts erzählt die Geschichte der Lohn für Hausarbeit Bewegung in den 70er Jahren. Sie rekonstruieren dabei sowohl Theorie als auch Praxis der Lohn für Hausarbeit Kampagne. 2024 Level: leicht Lohn für Hausarbeit Indigo & Sina Geschichte der kommenden Welten This book looks at the anti-capitalist economy and the organization of social relations in the context of the revolution and autonomy of Rojava (Kurdistan-Syria). 2023 Level: leicht Anticapitalist Economy in Rojava Azize Aslan Daraja Press John Maurice Clark’s article “The Changing Basis of Economic Responsibility,“ published in the Journal of Political Economy, is the topical starting point for all scholars interested in economic responsibility and responsible economic action. 2017 Level: mittel Economic Responsibility Michaela Haase Springer Unternehmen sind heute noch immer an engen und anspruchslosen Zielen ausgerichtet, die wenig mit den drängenden Realitäten unserer Welt zu tun haben. Frank Thun entwickelt einen Mix aus betriebswirtschaftlichen Prinzipien und einem neuen Verständnis für ökologische und gesellschaftliche Bedürfnisse - und liefert damit einen praktischen Leitfaden für nachhaltige Unternehmensführung. 2024 Level: leicht Unternehmen in Grün Frank Thun oekom verlag This open access book presents an alternative to capitalism and state socialism through the modelling of a post-market and post-state utopia based on an upscaling of the commons, feminist political economy and democratic and council-based planning approaches. 2022 Level: leicht Make Capitalism History Simon Sutterlütti, Stefan Meretz Springer International Publishing 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 This book is about history of monetary economic thought. From the 18th century with Hume and Smith to the early 20th, the author explains the different schools of thought regarding the monetary theories and policies and specially the central banking theory. 2012 Level: mittel Monetary Theory and Policy from Hume and Smith to Wicksell Arie Arnon Cambridge University Press Free, Fair & Alive is a foundational re-thinking of the commons, the self-organized social systems that human beings have used for millennia to meet their needs. 2019 Level: mittel Free, Fair, and Alive David Bollier, Silke Helfrich New Society Publishers