Nicole Pepperell on Albert Hirschman - Rival Interpretations of Market Society

This course will introduce key concepts, theories and methods from socioeconomics. The first part of the course, will deal with the main economic actors and how their interactions are governed. Markets are seen as sets of social institutions. Institutions shape how consumers, firms and other economic actors behave. While it is difficult to understand how novelty emerges, we can study the conditions that are conducive to innovation. We will review how economic performance, social progress and human wellbeing are measured and what progress has been made. In the second part of the course, we will study a specific macroeconomic model that accounts for biophysical boundaries and inequality.

Mark Carney explains how we have come to esteem financial value over human value and how we have gone from market economies to market societies, how economic theory foundation affect the society as a whole, how we understand our world today and ultimately how this affects our lives.

In der Folge des Podcast "Armutszeugnis" beschäftigen sich Eva Völp und Sabine Nuss mit den Hintergründen der aktuellen Wirtschaftsschwäche in Deutschland und was linke Wirtschaftspolitik leisten kann.

Dr. Katherine Trebeck explains some reasons why we should believe the future of the economy should be a wellbeing economy.