Geographical economics starts from the observation that economic activity is clearly not randomly distributed across space. This revised and updated introduction to geographical economics uses the modern tools of economic theory to explain the who, why and where of the location of economic activity. The text provides an integrated, first-principles introduction to geographical economics for advanced undergraduate students and first-year graduate students, and has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect important developments in the field, including new chapters on alternative core models and policy implications. 2009 Level: mittel The New Introduction to Geographical Economics Steven Brakman, Harry Garretsen, Charles van Marrewijk Cambridge University Press This book introduces 40 critical pointers for those who wish to see the theory in a broader, more realistic context. The material is suitable for introductory and intermediate courses and can be included selectively by students for additional reading or in lectures or tutorials as discussion points. "Students of mainstream economics need a guide like this to help them understand the underlying assumptions, limitations and inbuilt biases of what they are studying. It helps them open their eyes to a broader view of how real economies work." 2016 Level: mittel 40 Critical Pointers for Students of Economics Stuart Birks College Publications This book presents recent thought on market efficiency, using a complex systems approach to move past equilibrium models and quantify the actual efficiency of markets. 2005 Level: mittel Beyond Equilibrium and Efficiency J. Doyne Farmer, John Geanakoplos Oxford University Press Ecological economics explores new ways of thinking about how we manage our lives and our planet to achieve a sustainable, equitable, and prosperous future. Ecological economics extends and integrates the study and management of both "nature's household" and "humankind's household"—An Introduction to Ecological Economics, Second Edition, the first update and expansion of this classic text in 15 years, describes new approaches to achieving a sustainable and desirable human presence on Earth. 2014 Level: mittel An Introduction to Ecological Economics, Second Edition Robert Costanza, John H Cumberland, Herman Daly, Robert Goodland, Richard B Norgaard, Ida Kubiszewski, Carol Franco CRC Press This innovative book offers targeted strategies for effectively and efficiently teaching economics at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. It provides professors and other teachers of economics various techniques to engage and retain the interest of students, and challenges them to apply both knowledge and methodological tools to a range of economic problems. 2014 Level: mittel New Developments in Economic Education Franklin Graves Mixon, Richard J. Cebula Edward Elgar Reflecting his own concerns about the contribution economics could make to the betterment of society, Eli Ginzberg published this study of Smith's humanitarian views on commerce, industrialism, and labor. Written for his doctoral degree at Columbia University, and originally published as The House of Adam Smith, the book is divided into two parts. 2002 Level: mittel Adam Smith and the Founding of Market Economics Eli Ginzberg Transaction Publishers, U.S.A. John Harvey's accessible book provides a non-technical yet rigorous introduction to various schools of thought in economics. Premised on the idea that economic thinking has been stunted by the almost complete rejection of anything outside the mainstream, the author hopes that this volume will open readers' minds and lead them in new and productive directions. 2016 Level: mittel Contending Perspectives in Economics John T. Harvey Edward Elgar Publishing

What do modern academic economists do? What currently is mainstream economics? What is neoclassical economics? And how about heterodox economics? How do the central concerns of modern economists, whatever their associations or allegiances, relate to those traditionally taken up in the discipline? 2015 Level: mittel Essays on the Nature and State of Modern Economics Tony Lawson Routledge The volume has been conceived with current and future economics students in mind: they will be the economists of the future. One of the main ideas underlining the book is that "being an economist" in the XXI century requires a radical change in the training of economists and such change requires a global effort. 2014 Level: mittel The Economics Curriculum Maria Alejandra Madi, Jack Reardon College Publications Contributors attempt to reconcile two major strands of thinking in economic methodology: the rhetoric of economics as advocated by Deirdre McCloskey, and the sociological approach. 1997 Level: mittel Pluralism in Economics Andrea Salanti, Ernesto Screpanti Edward Elgar 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 Now in its third edition, this textbook covers all of the standard topics taught in undergraduate International Economics courses. However, the book is unique in that it presents the key orthodox neoclassical models of international trade and investment, whilst supplementing them with a variety of heterodox approaches. 2012 Level: leicht International Economics Hendrik Van den Berg M.E. Sharpe Once in a while the world astonishes itself. Anxious incredulity replaces intellectual torpor and a puzzled public strains its antennae in every possible direction, desperately seeking explanations for the causes and nature of what just hit it. 2008 was such a moment. Not only did the financial system collapse, and send the real economy into a tailspin, but it also revealed the great gulf separating economics from a very real capitalism. 2011 Level: mittel Modern Political Economics Yanis Varoufakis, Joseph Halevi, Nicholas Theocarakis Routledge This collection of essays, a supplement to History of Political Economy, brings together prominent scholars from economics, sociology, literature, and history to examine the role of biography and autobiography in the history of economics. The first of its kind, this volume looks at the relevance of first-person accounts to narrative histories of economics. 2007 Level: mittel Economists' Lives E. Roy Weintraub, Evelyn L. Forget Duke University Press This book discusses the relationship between pluralist economics and the case study method of teaching, advocating the complimentary use of both to advance economics education. Using a multi-paradigmatic philosophical frame of analysis, the book discusses the philosophical, methodological, and practical aspects of the case study method while drawing comparisons with those of the more commonly used lecture method. 2017 Level: mittel Case Method and Pluralist Economics Ardalan, Kavous Springer-Verlag This book tells the story of the search for disequilibrium micro-foundations for macroeconomic theory, from the disequilibrium theories of Patinkin, Clower and Leijonhufvud to recent dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models with imperfect competition. 2014 Level: schwer Transforming Modern Macroeconomics Backhouse, Roger; Boianovsky, Mauro Cambridge University Press The second edition of International Political Economy continues to be the perfect short introduction to the fundamental theories and issues of international political economy (IPE). 2018 Level: mittel International Political Economy Miller, Raymond C. Routledge 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 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 This classic text offers a broader intellectual foundation than traditional principles textbooks. It introduces students to both traditional economic views and their progressive critique. 2015 Level: mittel Economics Howard J Sherman, E. K. Hunt, Reynold F. Nesiba, Phillip O'Hara, Barbara A. Wiens-Tuers Routledge When Santa Fe Institute Scientists first started working on economics more than thirty years ago, many of their insights, approaches, and tools were considered beyond heterodox. These once-disparaged approaches included network economics, agents of limited rationality, and institutional evolution—all topics that are now increasingly considered mainstream. 2020 Level: schwer Complexity Economics W. Brian Arthur, Eric Beinhocker, and Allison Stanger Santa Fe Institue Press 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 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 With a focus on Chile, Pinochet’s Economic Accomplices: An Unequal Country byForce uses theoretical arguments and empirical studies to argue that focusing onthe behavior of economic actors of the dictatorship is crucial to achieve basic objectivesin terms of justice, memory, reparation, and non-repetition measures. 2021 Level: mittel Pinochet's Economic Accomplices Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky; Karinna Fernández Neira; Sebastián Smart Rowman & Littlefield This book highlights the political economy of wealth and income inequality in Latin America. The author segments his analysis to separately evaluate the economic, social, and political costs of inequality building on country case studies. It draws well-contextualized lessons from the Latin American experience that is important to consider for other regional contexts, especially for social policies of nations within the 'Middle Income Trap'. 2020 Level: leicht The Costs of Inequality in Latin America Diego Sánchez-Ancochea Bloomsbury Academic 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 In this book, the author, Intan Suwandi, engages with the question of imperialism through the specific channel of Global Value Chains. 2019 Level: leicht Value Chains Intan Suwandi NYU Press The book critically engages with various Marxian perspectives on the dynamics on development and social progress It specifically engages with some key words in Marxian theory including Marx s early work on capitalist development and his later works on underdeveloped Russia Lenin s thesis on imperialism as a hurdle for … 2021 Level: mittel Rethinking Development Ronaldo Munck Springer Nature As the world's energy system faces a period of unprecedented change, a global struggle over who controls the sector--and for what purposes--is intensifying. The question of "green capitalism" is now unavoidable, for capitalist planners and anti-capitalist struggles alike. 2010 Level: mittel Sparking a Worldwide Energy Revolution Kolya Abramsky AK Press 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 "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 In this book, distinguished economist Edith Kuiper shows us that the history of economic thought is just that, a his-story, by telling the herstory of economic thought from the perspective of women economic writers and economists. Although some of these women were well known in their time, they were excluded from most of academic economics, and, over the past centuries, their work has been neglected, forgotten, and thus become invisible. 2022 Level: leicht A Herstory of Economics Edith Kuiper Wiley