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: beginner

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

Today it feels like everybody is talking about the problems and crises of our times: the climate and resource crisis, Greece's permanent socio-political crisis or the degrading exploitative practices of the textile industry.

2019

Level: beginner

At the expense of others?

Kopp, Becker, Decker, Eicker, Engelmann, Ia Eradze, Forster, Haller, Heuwieser, Hoffmann, Castelos, Podstawa, Shah, Siemons, Wenzel, Wolfinger

I.L.A. Kollektiv

It has become a contentious term in- and outside of economic policy: austerity. Allegedly the culprit behind the shortfalls of governments' reaction to the Great Financial Crisis, the policy makes for a spirited debate.

2015

Level: beginner

Austerity

Mark Blyth

Oxford University Press

From Marketisation to Armed Conflict Since 1991 nominally independent Ukraine has been in turmoil with the Orange Revolution and the Maidan protests marking its most critical moments Now its borders are threatened and the civil unrest and armed conflict continue to destabilise the country In order to understand these dramatic …

2018

Level: advanced

Ukraine and the Empire of Capital

Yuliya Yurchenko

Pluto Press

Wealth inequality between Black and white people in the US barely has changed in the last 150 years. In her book "The Color of Money. Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap" Mehrsa Baradaran, analyzes why also Black banks have not successfully changed this and not enabled Black wealth on a broader scale.

2017

Level: advanced

The Color of Money

Mehrsa Baradaran

Harvard University Press

Why are income inequalities so large and why do they continue to increase in so many countries? What role can minimum wages play in reducing social and economic inequalities? What is a good system of wage bargaining? What constitutes a fair wage?

Level: beginner

Fair Wage Strategies in a Global Economy

Hansjörg Herr, Maité Llanos, Gilad Isaacs, Susan Hayter, Patrick Belser, Mary Bellman, Luis Campos, Frank Hoffer

Global Labour University

Regression Analysis: A Constructive Critique identifies a wide variety of problems with regression analysis as it is commonly used and then provides a number of ways in which practice could be improved.

2004

Level: advanced

Regression Analysis

Richard A. Berk

SAGE

Money is the fantasy that makes the world go round. Where did it come from and what is its future? From the Bank of England to Bitcoin and the Bristol Pound, LSE sociologist Nigel Dodd explores.

Level: beginner

The future of money

Nigel Dodd

LSE