Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. Edited by the Sustainability Institute's Diana Wright, this essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world, showing readers how to develop the systems-thinking skills that thought leaders across the globe consider critical for 21st-century life. 2015 Level: mittel Thinking in Systems Donella H. Meadows Chelsea Green Publishing Co 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 Nature and communities in the global south is being overwhelmed at a shocking rate. In many places this is due to ventures such as large-scale open-pit mining, oil extraction in tropical areas, and the spread of monocultures. These and other such forms of natural resource appropriation are usually known as extractivisms. 2021 Level: leicht Extractivisms Eduardo Gudynas Fernwood Publishing Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People s Economy The leading thinker and most visible public advocate of modern monetary theory the freshest and most important idea about economics in decades delivers a radically different bold new understanding for how to build a just and prosperous society Stephanie … 2020 Level: leicht The Deficit Myth Stephanie Kelton Hachette UK 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 This book offers the first systematic analysis of economic thought concerning war. 2020 Level: mittel War in Economic Theories over Time Renata Allio Springer Nature 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 An ideal type of a pluralistic book. Instead of arguing for one specific interpretation of a complex phenomenon, the authors present six different views on globalisation. Roberts and Lamp carefully balance the different perspectives, presenting the merits of each. 2021 Level: mittel Six Faces of Globalization Anthea Roberts, Nicolas Lamp Harvard University Press This report to the DEFRA summarizes the main approaches, opportunities and difficulties that come with individual carbon trading. 2006 Level: mittel A Rough Guide To Individual Carbon Trading Simon Roberts and Joshua Thumim, for the Centre for Sustainable Energy Departement for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) This course will focus on the emergence and evolution of industrial societies around the world We will begin by comparing the legacies of industry in ancient and early modern Europe and Asia and examining the agricultural and commercial advances that laid the groundwork for the Industrial Revolution of the 18th … Level: leicht Global Perspectives on Industrialization Jonathan Robins; Andrew Ramey Michigan Technological University Human Rights Economics strives for an economic system that is just for people and respectful of the planet that promotes social and economic justice that integrates a plurality of views and traditions and that is human rights consistent in both its processes and outcomes It posits that economics is blind … 2022 Level: leicht What is Human Rights Economics? Caroline Dommen www.humanrightseconomics.ch Why is it that some countries become rich while others remain poor? Do markets require regulation to function efficiently? If markets offer an efficient way of exchanging goods, why do individuals even create firms? 2019 Level: leicht Institutional Economics - An Introduction Voigt, Stefan Cambridge University Press In analyzing the global competition between Chinese and Indian tea, Andrew B. Liu challenges past economic histories premised on the technical “divergence” between the West and the Rest, arguing instead that seemingly traditional technologies and practices were central to modern capital accumulation across Asia. 2020 Level: mittel Tea War Andrew B. Liu Yale University Press 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 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 The 2022 FIFA World Cup (including the construction work required for it) provides a clear example of economic activity that has taken place despite the financial costs to the Qatari state being an order of magnitude larger than the financial benefits it will receive. Whilst this is a fairly extreme case in terms of how many different costs and benefits are involved and how unequally they have been spread, many economic decisions are more complicated than mere financial calculations and it is therefore vital for students to be able to think about multiple dimensions involved in economic decisions. 2023 Level: leicht The Economics of a World Cup in Qatar Economy Studies Economy Studies 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 This course covers recent advances in behavioral economics by reviewing some of the assumptions made in mainstream economic models, and by discussing how human behavior systematically departs from these assumptions. 2020 Level: mittel Psychology and Economics Prof. Frank Schilbach Massachusetts Institute of Technology This lecture offers a general and introductory overview of the theory of racial capitalism, focusing on the origins of racial capitalism and some of the debates it has generated. 2021 Level: leicht Introduction to Racial Capitalism Alana Lentin n.a. Economiefeministe sammelt, systematisiert, diskutiert, vermittelt und schafft ökonomisches Wissen aus feministischer Perspektive. Level: leicht Economiefeministe – Plattform für feministische Ökonomie Economiefeministe Plattform für feministische Ökonomie Bildungsmaterial von Attac für Schulen und außerschulische Bildungsarbeit zum Thema Kryptowährungen 2023 Level: leicht Krypto – Der Traum vom schnellen Geld Julia Bär, Torben Beyer, Catherine Gotschy, Roland Jourdan, Niklas Kullick, Holger Oppenhäuser, Franca Ratz, Andreas David Schmidt, Tobias Weißer Attac Bildung The bestselling classic that examines the history of economic thought from Adam Smith to Karl Marx—“all the economic lore most general readers conceivably could want to know, served up with a flourish” (The New York Times). The Worldly Philosophers not only enables us to see more deeply into our history but helps us better understand our own times. In this seventh edition, Robert L. Heilbroner provides a new theme that connects thinkers as diverse as Adam Smith and Karl Marx. 1999 Level: leicht The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner Touchstone Identity politics is everywhere, polarising discourse from the campaign trail to the classroom and amplifying antagonisms in the media. But the compulsively referenced phrase bears little resemblance to the concept as first introduced by the radical Black feminist Combahee River Collective. 2022 Level: leicht Elite Capture Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò Pluto Press More-is-better ideals such as these have long shaped our vision of rationality. Yet humans and other animals typically rely on simple heuristics to solve adaptive problems, focusing on one or a few important cues and ignoring the rest, and shortcutting computation rather than striving for as much as possible. 2012 Level: mittel Ecological Rationality Peter M. Todd, Gerd Gigerenzer, ABC Research Group Oxford University Press, USA The Elgar Companion to Feminist Economics is the first comprehensive reference work introducing readers to the field of feminist economics. It includes 99 entries by 88 authors. 1999 Level: mittel The Elgar Companion to Feminist Economics Janice Peterson, Margaret Lewis Edward Elgar 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 In economics the dominant framework for exploring the structure of market economies is provided by the neoclassical school of thought. This text aims to show how neoclassical theory is used to model market mechanisms, both in particular markets and in the market economy as a whole. 2001 Level: mittel Microeconomics - Neoclassical and Institutionalist Perspectives on Economic Behaviour Himmelweit, Susan; Simonetti, Roberto; Trigg, Andrew B. Cengage Learning Austerity has been at the center of political controversy following the 2008 financial crisis, invoked by politicians and academics across the political spectrum as the answer to, or cause of, our post-crash economic malaise. 2019 Level: leicht Austerity Konzelmann, Suzanne J. Polity Economic theory is currently at a crossroads, where many leading mainstream economists are calling for a more realistic and practical orientation for economic science. Indeed, many are suggesting that economics should be reconstructed on evolutionary lines.
This book is about the application to economics of evolutionary ideas from biology. 1996 Level: mittel Economics and Evolution Geoffrey Martin Hodgson University of Michigan Press In Colonial Debts Rocío Zambrana develops the concept of neoliberal coloniality in light of Puerto Rico's debt crisis. Drawing on decolonial thought and praxis, Zambrana shows how debt functions as an apparatus of predation that transforms how neoliberalism operates. 2021 Level: mittel Colonial Debts Rocío Zambrana Duke University Press Das Bildungsmaterial behandelt kooperatives Wirtschaften in Regionen des Globalen Südens und Nordens. 2024 Level: leicht Wirtschaften geht auch Kooperativ! Karin Walther Bewegungsakademie e.V. In a span of around 12 weeks, the course covers a wide range of topics including agent-based modeling, networks, dynamic, chaos, information, fractals, cooperation models and scaling in biology and society. The course acts as a perfect beginner level introduction spanning a wide range of topics in the field of complexity. Level: leicht Introduction to Complexity Melanie Mitchell Santa Fe Institute