What is economics? What can - and can't - it explain about the world? Why does it matter?

2015

Level: beginner

Economics: The User's Guide

Ha-Joon Chang

Bloomsbury USA

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2019

Level: advanced

Pluriverse

Ashish Kothari, Ariel Salleh, Arturo Escobar, Frederico Demaria, Alberto Acosta

Tulika Books

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

Economics for Emancipation (E4E) is a seven-module introductory curriculum with interactive and participatory workshops. It offers a deep critical dive into the current political economic system, exploration of alternative economic systems, and dynamic tools to dream and build the economy that centers care, relationship, and liberation.

2023

Level: beginner

Economics for Emancipation

Center for Economic Democracy, Center for Popular Economics

Online

Diane Perrons and Sigrid Stagl combine feminist and critical environmental economics perspectives to develop a critique of the free market growth model and offer new ideas for a more sustainable gender equitable model of development in the interests of all.

2019

Level: advanced

A Feminist Political Economy for an Inclusive and Sustainable Society

Diane Perrons, Sigrid (Vienna University for Economics and Business) Stagl

Agenda Publishing

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.

2001

Level: beginner

Readings in the Theory of Economic Development

Dilip Mookherjee, Debraj Ray (ed.)

Wiley

How can we establish new institutions and practices in order to use fare-free public transport as a beacon for sustainable mobility and a low-carbon lifestyle? The author of this essay elaborates on how practice theory and institutional economics can help to answer this question.

2018

Level: advanced

Towards a practice of fare-free sustainability

Roxana Erath

Exploring Economics

This course attempts to explain the role and the importance of the financial system in the global economy. Rather than separating off the financial world from the rest of the economy, financial equilibrium is studied as an extension of economic equilibrium. The course also gives a picture of the kind of thinking and analysis done by hedge funds.

2009

Level: beginner

Financial Theory

John Geanakoplos

Yale University