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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.
The Economics of a World Cup in Qatar
In this video, Clara Mattei investigates the function of austerity in relation the stabilization of capitalism as a form of social order build around private property, wage labor and class relations. In order to develop this argument, she situates austerity in the history of World War 1 and its revolutionary aftermath. Zooming in on the politicization of the economy and the associated threat to class society that emerged in the period, she highlights how austerity was a „tool of reaction“ that was successful in curtailing demands for economic democracy and a society free from class oppression.
The Capital Order - How Economists Invented Austerity & Paved the Way to Fascism
The paper gives a comprehensive overview of challenges facing energy transmission and distribution networks in the UK in the wake of the green transition and makes the case for public ownership.
Grid is Good: The Case for Public Ownership of Transmission and Distribution
This episode of the Future Histories Podcast featuring Moira Weigel sets the development of digital capitalism and the right-ward shift in politics and society in relation to one another. It provides a masterful combination of ideology critique and polit-economic analysis grounded in comprehensive knowledge of the digital economy.
Moira Weigel on Palantir, Tech-Nationalism & Aggression in the Life-World
Is inflation just a number game or does it hold deeper societal implications? Join Isabella Weber (@UMass.Amherst) as she challenges traditional economic stances on inflation and delves into the social dimensions of pricing. Discover how context shapes our reactions to price hikes and why understanding this can be a game-changer.
Sellers Inflation
This guide contains a collection of recommended YouTube channels and YouTube videos in the fields of economics, business and economic policy.
EconTube: The ultimate guide to pluralist economics channels on YouTube
Eco-modernisation’s promise that technological fixes will provide us with the efficiency we need to decouple environmental burdens from economic growth suggests that business-as-usual can continue. Today’s guest Timothée Parrique is the best to explain why this is not happening and why relying solely on technological solutions is like betting on green zero in roulette.
Why will technology not save our souls?
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.
Policy Debate: Climate Reparations - Economy Studies
In recent years issues surrounding tax evasion and avoidance have gotten more attention in public debates and policy making around the world. It poses key questions about how we want to (re)organise our economies, what the rules of the game are, and who benefits from them. Any good economist today should have a basic understanding of this issue as it has implications for public finance and inequality, but market competition and macroeconomic statistics.
An introduction into (not) taxing wealth and profits – Economy Studies
Crises are a key part of the history of the global economy. This lesson by Economy Studies introduces students to the crisis management theories of John Maynard Keyens by presenting them in the historical context of the Great Depression, the Post-War increase in the state in managing the economy, and the Energy Crisis of the 1970s.
How to get away with a crisis? - Economy Studies
Macroeconomics 101 by the Pan African Feminist Political Economy Collective NAWI explains in an accessible way, why macroeconomics matters in our daily lives.
Macroeconomics 101
In this dossier, Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie highlights the need for debt cancellation for countries of the Global South and the payment of reparations for the climate catastrophe caused by the Global North.
Climate Debt and Reparations
In the debate about a sustainable and livable future, the critique of work is an essential perspective. In this contribution, Maja Hoffmann explores the tension between the environmentally harmful effects of work on the one hand and the systematic compulsion of work on the other.
How can post-work (critiques of work) enrich the climate debate?
This lecture by Economy Studies lays out the foundations and current state of the ecological crisis, its main drivers and who is responsible for this. It is crucial for students to develop a deeper understanding of the problem they are likely to encounter in their future careers, before getting into various economic policies or solutions to this pressing issue.
Economic Introduction to the Ecological Crisis - Economy Studies
The goal of this glossary is to help students to understand some of the basics of circular economy.
Glossary Circular Economy
The study gives an overview of approaches, concepts and examples regarding the socio-ecological transformation.
Towards a socio-ecological transformation of the economy
This paper offers an in-depth elaboration of Steven Fazzari's journey in academia within the context of the United States of America.
Interview of Steven Fazzari by Eckhard Hein and Gennaro Zezza
This paper presents an inquiry into the observed results when governments have implemented one or other type of (opposed) economic policy prescribed in economics to reverse the consequences of a global economic crisis.
Fiscal austerity vs. expansionary fiscal policy: on the results of these opposed economic policies applied to fight recessions
The interview states the importance of joining hands in the international trade to get trade justice at multilateral forum such as the WTO. It is mainly in English, the introduction is in Spanish.
International trade and barriers
How do we transform societal structures and pave the way to economic democracy?
Solidarity Economics
Sebastian Dullien plädiert für eine grundlegende Neuausrichtung der Wirtschaftspolitik angesichts der aktuellen Zeitenwende, die von Klimakrise, sozialer Ungleichheit und geopolitischen Umbrüchen geprägt ist.
Wirtschaftspolitik für die Zeitenwende
The keynote argues that traditional macroeconomic models relying on perfectly rational representative agents (e.g., DSGE models) are fundamentally flawed, as they ignore human limitations, behavioral diversity, and aggregation complexities.
Towards Pluralism in Macroeconomics?
Aaron Benanav argues that despite the hype, generative AI is unlikely to spark a revolutionary transformation of the economy.
Is the AI Bubble About to Burst?
As the fossil backlash accelerates, a renewable energy system looks increasingly out of reach.
Does Green Capitalism Have a Future?
This essay argues that the dominant growth economics paradigm anchored in increasing consumption output and the metric of Gross Domestic Product GDP is failing to deliver what matters for both human flourishing and ecological survival The article further contends that growth measured merely by output masks social and environmental costs …
What Counts – Why Growth Economics is Failing Us
In the first installment of a major two-part essay, Aaron Benanav develops a framework for democratic economic planning as an alternative to capitalist markets. He critiques the "single-criterion" logic of capitalism—efficiency and profit—and proposes a multi-criteria economy centered on social and ecological well-being.
Beyond Capitalism I
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.
Economics of Money and Banking
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 …
The Global Financial Crisis
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 …
Why Do People Migrate? Part 2: Theories
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 …
The Power of Microeconomics: Economic Principles in the Real World
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 …
Monetary Macroeconomics
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 …
Global Perspectives on Industrialization
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