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2015
Level: beginner
The invisible hand
Adam Smith's concept of the invisible hand and its subsequent perception in economics is illustrated in this short video.
 
BBC Radio
2015
Level: beginner
The Revolutionary Class Today
What is the working class under present circumstances and in particular in urban lives? David Harvey explains how the concept of the working class is still suitable for the current organization of work – even if working conditions changed, now being more service-oriented and diffused. Harvey further discusses how this diffused working class can organize via urban neighbourhoods.
David Harvey
TV Boitempo
2013
Level: beginner
DEBT episode 1: Debt, a great invention
How was money actually invented? Where does it come from? In this first episode of a video lecture, Dirk Bezemer from the University of Groningen presents the origins of money and how it's related to debt. It's a basic historical review and you can get an idea of how money is created and how banks work. The following episodes aim at giving an overview of the last debt crisis.
Dirk Bezemer
University of Groningen
2010
Level: beginner
RSA ANIMATE: Crises of Capitalism
David Harvey illustrates the five most common narratives on why the financial and economic crisis took place – from human frailty to policy failure.
David Harvey; Abi Stephenson
RSA ANIMATE
2013
Level: beginner
Government - investor, risk-taker, innovator
In this Ted Talk, Mariana Mazzucato argues against the juxtaposition of the state and entrepreneurial activities. By presenting examples of her research on the relation between innovation and (inclusive) growth, she shows how many innovations were led by states' initiatives. Mazzucato confronts the liberal narrative of the a state that merely provides the frame for the market.
Mariana Mazzucato
Ted Talks
2014
Level: beginner
Ha-Joon Chang on Economics
In this short talk „On Economics“ Ha-Joon Chang, author of the book „Economics: The User's Guide“, gives a critical wrap-up on the economic discipline – on what is perceived as economics, what are dominant paradigms, the role of numbers and economics in public life. He further elaborates on the importance of heterodox schools of thought.
Ha-Joon Chang
The RSA
2010
Level: beginner
Women's Work and the Limits of Capitalism
Feminist economist Nancy Folbre presents a historical analysis of the interrelated development of Patriarchy and Capitalism. She describes the role of women in the reproduction of labour, their “specialization” in care and their changing involvement in the labour market. Folbre argues that capitalism weakens patriarchy but at the same time relies on unpaid caring activities.
Nancy Folbre
The New School
2015
Level: beginner
The Nature of Money
This dossier gives an overview of the functions and the nature of money. The concept of Islamic finance is briefly explored, too.
Lena Rethel
I-PEEL
2015
Level: beginner
Care – I-PEEL.org
The dossier explores the nature of care work and the gendered constructions and dichotomies that are associated with it. Drawing from feminist analysis the double burden, the undervaluation of feminised labour, the commodification of affective labour and the remittance economy are inquired into. Moreover, it is discussed how welfare regimes rely on the different organization of care work.
Juanita Elias
I-PEEL
Level: beginner
Promises, Promises: A history of debt
In this radio program, the anthropologist David Graeber, explores the history of debt in (currently) 12 episodes. The program is based on his book Debt: The First 5000 Years. First, Graeber asks the questions of how debt and money are characterized, which meaning and roles they had in different historic episodes and how they were interrelated. In the most recent episodes, Graeber elaborates on how debt shaped society. He argues that debt had a different moral status in different times of history, one session analyses the current financial and economic crisis and the role of credit in this historical context.
David Graeber
BBC Radio 4
2017
Level: beginner
Economics: An Illustrated Timeline
This historic timeline presents economic events, economic thinkers and schools of thought from the 18th century until the 2007/2008 financial and economic crisis with short texts on the respective event or perspective.
Heske van Doornen
theminsky.org
2017
Level: beginner
Who cares? A convergence of feminist economics and degrowth
This essay suggests to bring together two aspects of economic thought which so far have developed largely separately: degrowth and feminist economics. In this strive, the concept of care work and its role in feminist economics will be introduced and the downsides of the commodification of care work will be discussed. Subsequently, contributions to the discussion on the (re)valuation of care work will be taken into account.
Jannis Eicker, Katharina Keil
Exploring Economics
2017
Level: advanced
Dialogues on Development
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.
Ushehwedu Kufakurinani, Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven, Frutuoso Santanta, Maria Dyveke Styve
Young Scholar Initiative
2017
Level: beginner
The impact of Austerity on Gender in Tertiary Education: A Theoretical Analysis
This essay draws on several analyses on the gender impact of the recession and of austerity policies, in which authors acknowledge a threat to women’s labour market integration and a potential backlash to traditional gender labour structures. We contribute to that literature by asking whether recession and austerity convey a gender effect on educational attainment. Our aim in this essay is to portray the likely effects of austerity measures on gender equality with a focus on women’s participation in tertiary education and to hypothesize the implications of these scenarios for labour market effects, to be tested in future empirical research.
Zeynep M. Nettekoven and Izaskun Zuazu
Exploring Economics
2017
Level: beginner
Saving
How has financialisation changed saving? What are its implications on a macro-economic level and from a welfare state perspective?
Craig Berry
I-PEEL
2017
Level: beginner
The effect of austerity on unpaid work and gender relations in Europe
Due to the economic crisis of 2008/2009, households faced drastic decreases in their incomes, the availability of jobs. Additionally, the structure of the labour market changed, while austerity measures and public spending cuts left households with less support and safeguards provided by the state. How have these developments affected the burden of unpaid labour and what influence did this have on gender relations?
Lotte Maaßen
Exploring Economics

Books

New and recommended books

2015
Level: beginner
Economics: The User's Guide
What is economics? What can - and can't - it explain about the world? Why does it matter?
Ha-Joon Chang
Bloomsbury USA
2020
Level: advanced
Nine Lives of Neoliberalism
Neoliberalism is dead. Again. After the election of Trump and the victory of Brexit in 2016, many diagnosed the demise of the ideology of Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, Augusto Pinochet, and the WTO. Yet the philosophy of the free market and the strong state has an uncanny capacity to survive and even thrive in crisis.
Dieter Plehwe
Verso Books
2017
Level: beginner
Doughnut Economics
That’s why it is time, says renegade economist Kate Raworth, to revise our economic thinking for the 21st century. In Doughnut Economics, she sets out seven key ways to fundamentally reframe our understanding of what economics is and does.
Kate Raworth
Chelsea Green Publishing
2001
Level: advanced
The Great Transformation
In this classic work of economic history and social theory, Karl Polanyi analyzes the economic and social changes brought about by the "great transformation" of the Industrial Revolution.
Karl Polanyi
Beacon Press
2020
Level: advanced
Planetary Mine
Planetary Mine rethinks the politics and territoriality of resource extraction, especially as the mining industry becomes reorganized in the form of logistical networks, and East Asian economies emerge as the new pivot of the capitalist world-system.
Martín Arboleda
Verso Books
2020
Level: advanced
Empire, Political Economy, and the Diffusion of Chocolate in the Atlantic World
This book analyzes the transition of chocolate from an exotic curiosity to an Atlantic commodity. It shows how local, inter-regional, and Atlantic markets interacted with one another and with imperial political economies. It explains how these interactions, intertwined with the resilience of local artisanal production, promoted the partial democratization of chocolate consumption as well as economic growth.
Irene Fattacciu
Routledge
2020
Level: advanced
Tea War
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.
Andrew B. Liu
Yale University Press
2020
Level: advanced
From Here to Equality
Racism and discrimination have choked economic opportunity for African Americans at nearly every turn. In From Here to Equality, William Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen confront these injustices head-on and make the most comprehensive case to date for economic reparations for U.S. descendants of slavery.
William A. Darity Jr., A. Kirsten Mullen
The University of North Carolina Press
2001
Level: beginner
Readings in the Theory of Economic Development
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.
Dilip Mookherjee, Debraj Ray (ed.)
Wiley
2021
Level: advanced
Shutdown
Adam Tooze
Penguin Publishing Group
2019
Level: beginner
Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary
Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary contains over one hundred essays on transformative initiatives and alternatives to the currently dominant processes of globalized development, including its structural roots in modernity, capitalism, state domination, and masculinist values.
Ashish Kothari, Ariel Salleh, Arturo Escobar, Alberto Acosta, Federico Demaria
Tulika Books and Authorsupfront
2021
Level: beginner
Economy Studies
Based on a clear conceptual framework and ten flexible building blocks, this handbook offers refreshing ideas and practical suggestions to stimulate student engagement and critical thinking across a wide range of courses. Drawing on decades of ideas on how to improve economics education and a growing number of available alternative …
Sam de Muijnck and Joris Tieleman
Amsterdam University Press
2020
Level: advanced
War in Economic Theories over Time
This book offers the first systematic analysis of economic thought concerning war.
Renata Allio
Springer Nature
2021
Level: advanced
Crises in the Post-Soviet Space
Felix Jaitner, Tina Olteanu, Tobias Spöri (ed.)
Taylor & Francis Limited

Study

New and recommended courses

Level: beginner
Game Theory
An introductory course on Game Theory
Matthew O. Jackson; Kevin Leyton-Brown; Yoav Shoham
Stanford University, The University of British Columbia
Level: advanced
Game Theory II: Advanced Applications
Popularized by movies such as "A Beautiful Mind", game theory is the mathematical modeling of strategic interaction among rational (and irrational) agents. Over four weeks of lectures, this advanced course considers how to design interactions between agents in order to achieve good social outcomes. Three main topics are covered: social …
Matthew O. Jackson; Kevin Leyton-Brown; Yoav Shoham
Stanford University, The University of British Columbia
Level: beginner
Economics of Money and Banking
This self-paced free course by Perry Merhling guides you to his "Money View" approach that integrates the fields of economics and finance. The course can easily be understood by people interested people without technical economic knowledge or training as it is primarily a tool for analysis.
Perry Mehrling
Columbia University
Level: beginner
The Global Financial Crisis
The world is still feeling reverberations from the financial crisis of 2008, foreseen by neither politicians nor economists. The history of capitalism has been punctuated by major crises, exposing the fragility of our entire economic system. How has capitalism, despite these ruptures, managed to each time resurface more resilient and …
Timothy Geithner; Andrew Metrick
Yale University
Level: beginner
Greening the Economy: Sustainable Cities
How can we shape urban development towards sustainable and prosperous futures? This course will explore sustainable cities as engines for greening the economy. We place cities in the context of sustainable urban transformation and climate change. Sustainable urban transformation refers to structural transformation processes – multi-dimensional and radical change – …
Kes McCormick; Lena Neij; James Evans; Harriet Bulkeley
Lund University
Level: beginner
Workers' Rights in a Global Economy
This MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) discusses Global Workers’ Rights and shows instruments and strategies which can be used to implement them.
Paul Whitehead; Mark Anner; Mark Anner; Stefanie Lorenzen; Fernando Lopes; Michael Fichter; Frank Hoffer; Victor Hugo Ricco; Camilo Rubiano; Christoph Scherrer; Ben Scully; Beatriz Vacotto; Beatriz Vacotto
Global Labour University
Level: beginner
Why Do People Migrate? Part 2: Theories
The course approaches migration as a constant phenomenon in human history and examines its main supporting theories. It illustrates theories about people's individual decisions to migrate and also the factors of migration as a structural feature of our societies. It explains the role social networks and institutions play in making …
Sabrina Marchetti; Anna Triandafyllidou
European University Institute
Level: beginner
Thinking Complexity
This is a hands-on four chapter course to learn how to better understand and act when faced with complex situations. By the end of the course students will be able to take a story from the news, describe what makes the situation complex and identify opportunities for effective action or …
Cameron Guthrie
Toulouse Business School
Level: advanced
The Power of Microeconomics: Economic Principles in the Real World
Photo by Anne Nygård on Unsplash In this course, you will learn all of the major principles of microeconomics normally taught in a quarter or semester course to college undergraduates or MBA students. Perhaps more importantly, you will also learn how to apply these principles to a wide variety of …
Peter Navarro
University of California, Irvine
Level: advanced
Monetary Macroeconomics
Source image: New Economic Thinking Youtube channel Some years ago, in the aftermath of the “great financial crisis” (GFC) of the first decade of the twentieth century, Paul Krugman famously remarked that “most macroeconomics of the last thirty years was spectacularly useless at best and positively harmful at worst”. It …
Fredrick Zhou; John Smithin
INET
2012
Level: beginner
The Future of Capitalism
  Photo by Kaitlyn Ashley on Unsplash The world is still feeling reverberations from the financial crisis of 2008, foreseen by neither politicians nor economists. The history of capitalism has been punctuated by major crises, exposing the fragility of our entire economic system. How has capitalism, despite these ruptures, managed …
Anatole Kaletsky
n.a.
Level: beginner
Networks
Photo by Alina Grubnyak on Unsplash Networks are ubiquitous in our modern society. The World Wide Web that links us to and enables information flows with the rest of the world is the most visible example. It is, however, only one of many networks within which we are situated. Our …
Daron Acemoglu; Asu Ozdaglar
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Level: beginner
Financial Crises
This course is an introduction to the economic theories of financial crises. It focuses on amplification mechanisms that exacerbate crises, such as leverage, fire sales, bank runs, interconnections, and complexity. It also analyzes the different perspectives on the origins of crises, such as mistaken beliefs and moral hazard, and discusses …
Alp Simsek
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Level: advanced
Advanced Political Economy Lectures
Steve Keen provides an alternative view on Macroeconomics before and after the crisis and outlines different macroeconomic fallacies.
Steve Keen
University of Western Sydney
Level: advanced
Behavioural Finance Lectures
Steve Keen
University of Western Sydney
Level: beginner
Age of Globalization
Identify the historical and cultural systems driving globalization and changing societies around the world.
John Hoberman
University of Texas at Austin

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