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) In this course we will critically analyze both economic theory and economic life through the lens of gender. Topics covered include: a critical examination of gender patterns and trends in the household, labor market, and the firm; issues concerning gender inequalities in the economy. 2014 Level: leicht Gender and the Economy Şemsa Özar Boğaziçi University 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 This course is an introduction to Development Economics and is concerned with how economists have sought to explain how the process of economic growth occurs, and how – or whether – that delivers improved well-being of people. 2015 Level: mittel Development Economics Sakiko Fukuda-Parr The New School To what extent does gender affect people's patterns of labor force participation, educational preparation for work, occupations, hours of work (paid and unpaid) and earnings? 2014 Level: leicht Sex-Segregated Labor Markets Julie Nelson University of Massachusetts 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 Getting to the policy discussion table is one of the objectives pursued by feminist scholars and advocates. However, some participants in this process have remarked that “you cannot get to the policy discussion table until you have proven that you can crunch the numbers.” 2006 Level: leicht Statistics for Feminists Yana Rodgers Rutgers University, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies This graduate-level course examines issues related to women’s paid and unpaid work during a time of rapid integration of world markets. Students will analyze the role of government policy, unions, corporate responsibility, and social movements in raising women's wages, promoting equal opportunity, fighting discrimination in the workplace, and improving working conditions. Level: mittel Women and Work Yana Rodgers Rutgers University - School of Management and Labor Relations The piece describes some of the effects that Nixon's decision to delink the dollar from gold in the 1970s had for the relationship between the IMF and its member states. A focus is on the negative effects of this change on societies in the Global South. 2021 Level: leicht Nixon’s decision to delink the dollar from gold still hounds the IMF, South Africa and Africa Danny Bradlow The Conversation From religious leaders to heads of state, everyone is talking about economic inequality. What form can such inequality take in different countries? What impact does it have on society? And why should it matter to you? Level: leicht Challenging Wealth and Income Inequality Jerome De Henau; Jonqil Lowe Open University 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 Green Growth has been increasingly discussed as a solution to the socio-ecological crisis. But can economic growth be sustainable at all? 2022 Level: leicht Is Green Growth a myth?   Netzwerk Plurale Ökonomik e.V. Part I: Basic Economic Problems Is Economics a Science? Is It Useful? (Lawrence Boland, Ian Parker) Is There Such a Thing as a Free Market? (William Watson, Robert Prasch) Part II: Consumers and Firms Is Homo Economicus an Appropriate Representation of Real-World Consumers? (Joseph Persky, Morris Altman) Is the Consumer Sovereign? 2010 Level: mittel Introducing Microeconomic Analysis Hassan Bougrine, Mario Seccareccia, Ian C. Parker Emond Montgomery Publications

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The recent financial crisis laid bare many of the assumptions behind market liberalism—the theory that market-based solutions are always best, regardless of the problem. For decades, their advocates dominated mainstream economics, and their influence created a system where an unthinking faith in markets led many to view speculative investments as fundamentally safe. 2012 Level: leicht Zombie Economics John Quiggin Princeton University Press In a changing world that has been shaken by economic, social, financial, and ecological crises, it becomes increasingly clear that new approaches to economics are needed for both theoretical and empirical research; for applied economics as well as policy advice. 2018 Level: mittel Policy Implications of Recent Advances in Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Claudius Grabner, Torsten Heinrich, Henning Schwardt Routledge Foundational economy is the most important concept you have never heard of. The foundational encompasses material utilities like water, gas and electricity and providential services like education, health and care. Taken together, these services matter economically and politically because they are the collectively consumed infrastructure of everyday life, the basis of civilization and should be citizen rights. 2018 Level: leicht Foundational Economy Karel Williams, Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, Michael Moran, Angelo Salento, Davide Arcidiacono, Filippo Barbera, Andrew Bowman, John Buchanan, Sandra Busso, Joselle Dagnes, Joe Earle, Ewald Engelen, Peter Folkman, Colin Haslam, Ian Jones, Darlo Minerv Manchester 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 This edited volume put together by Jimi Adesina based on the proceedings of the Social Policy in African Conference in 2017 provides an overview of social policy in varied country contexts and fields especially in light of decades of the reduction in size and hollowing out of the content of … 2021 Level: mittel Social Policy in the African Context Jimi O. Adesina African Books Collective In this searing and insightful critique, Adrienne Buller examines the fatal biases that have shaped the response of our governing institutions to climate and environmental breakdown, and asks: are the 'solutions' being proposed really solutions? Tracing the intricate connections between financial power, economic injustice and ecological crisis, she exposes the myopic economism and market-centric thinking presently undermining a future where all life can flourish. 2022 Level: leicht The Value of a Whale Adrienne Buller Manchester University Press 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 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 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 Why are income inequalities so large and why do they continue to increase in so many countries? What role can minimum wages play in reducing social and economic inequalities? What is a good system of wage bargaining? What constitutes a fair wage? Level: leicht Fair Wage Strategies in a Global Economy Hansjörg Herr, Maité Llanos, Gilad Isaacs, Susan Hayter, Patrick Belser, Mary Bellman, Luis Campos, Frank Hoffer Global Labour University In this refreshingly revisionist history, Erik Reinert shows how rich countries developed through a combination of government intervention, protectionism, and strategic investment, rather than through free trade. 2007 Level: mittel How Rich Countries Got Rich ... and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor Erik Reinert PublicAffairs This course provides a simple introduction to problems that social scientists are working on (e.g. racial disparities, inequality and climate change) in a manner that does not require any prior background in Economics or Statistics. Level: leicht Using Big Data to Solve Economic and Social Problems Raj Chetty and Gregory Bruich Harvard University Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations provided the first, most influential and lasting explanation of the workings of modern economics. But with his focus on "the market" as the best mechanism for producing and distributing the necessities of life, Smith's concepts only told part of the story, leading to flawed economic models that devalue activities that fall outside of the market's parameters of buying and selling. 2007 Level: mittel The Real Wealth of Nations Riane Tennenhaus Eisler, Samuel Robert Eyre Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Incorporated If a country’s Gross Domestic Product increases each year, but so does the percentage of its people deprived of basic education, health care, and other opportunities, is that country really making progress? If we rely on conventional economic indicators, can we ever grasp how the world’s billions of individuals are really managing? 2011 Level: mittel Creating Capabilities Martha Craven Nussbaum Belknap Press of Harvard University Press Teaching economics students about climate reparations enriches their educational experience by providing real-world relevance, promoting critical thinking, fostering interdisciplinary learning, and equipping them with valuable skills for both academic and practical applications. It also encourages ethical awareness, global perspective, and civic engagement, aligning with the broader goals of education in preparing students to address complex global challenges. 2022 Level: leicht Policy Debate: Climate Reparations - Economy Studies   Economy Studies Gender, Development, and Globalization is the leading primer on global feminist economics and development. Lourdes Benería, a pioneer in the field of feminist economics, is joined in this second edition by Gunseli Berik and Maria Floro to update the text to reflect the major theoretical, empirical, and methodological contributions and global developments in the last decade. 2015 Level: mittel Gender, Development, and Globalization Lourdes Benería, Günseli Berik, Maria Floro Routledge "Stabilise, liberalise and privatise" has, since the debt crisis of the early 1980s, been the mantra chanted at developing countries by international financial institutions, donor countries and newspaper columnists with quasi-religious conviction. 2007 Level: mittel The Resistible Rise of Market Fundamentalism Richard Kozul-Wright, Paul Rayment Zed Books This book sets out to encourage a debate about the role that economic theory and philosophy of economics can play. A good part of economics consists of theoretical developments which describe completely imaginary worlds and have no connections to actual market economies 2016 Level: mittel A Philosophical Framework for Rethinking Theoretical Economics and Philosophy of Economics Gustavo Marqués College Publications This book explores frontier work at the intersection of experimental and environmental economics, with cutting edge research provided by premier scholars in the field.The book begins by focusing on improving benefit-cost analysis, which remains the hallmark of public policy decision-making around the globe. 2006 Level: mittel Using Experimental Methods in Environmental and Resource Economics John A. List Edward Elgar