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: advanced

International Political Economy

Miller, Raymond C.

Routledge

Introduces four of the most influential economists you'll never read in a modern economics class - Marx, Veblen, Keynes, and Galbraith.

2016

Level: beginner

Introduction to Political Economy

Charles Sackrey, Geoffrey Schneider, Janet Knoedler

Dollars & Sense

Economics is a broad and diverse discipline, but most economics textbooks only cover one way of thinking about the economy. This book provides an accessible introduction to nine different approaches to economics: from feminist to ecological and Marxist to behavioural.

2017

Level: beginner

Rethinking Economics - An Introduction to Pluralist Economics

Liliann Fischer, Joe Hasell, J. Christopher Proctor, David Uwakwe

Routledge

This course provides a simple introduction to problems that social scientists are working on (e.g. racial disparities, inequality and climate change) in a manner that does not require any prior background in Economics or Statistics.

Level: beginner

Using Big Data to Solve Economic and Social Problems

Raj Chetty and Gregory Bruich

Harvard University

To explain the pronounced instability of the world economy since the 1970s, the book offers an important and systematic theoretical examination of money and finance.

1999

Level: advanced

Political Economy of Money and Finance

Costas Lapavitsas; Makoto Itoh

Palgrave Macmillan

How Covid Shook the World s Economy Deftly weaving finance politics business and the global human experience into one tight narrative a tour de force account of 2020 the year that changed everything from the acclaimed author of Crashed The shocks of 2020 have been great and small disrupting the …

2021

Level: advanced

Shutdown

Adam Tooze

Penguin Publishing Group

This book provides a far-reaching overview of the development of radical ecology and heterodox economics on the issues of sustainability.

2025

Level: beginner

Conceptualising an Alternative Political Economy of Sustainability

Arturo Hermann

Routledge, Chapman & Hall, Incorporated

This brief responds to the criticism that mainstream economics is currently facing due to its heavy reliance on models and narrow range of quantitative research techniques. It takes a broader view, identifying issues that are also relevant for heterodox and pluralist approaches to economics.

2014

Level: advanced

Rethinking Economics

Stuart Birks

Springer