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Mohsen Javdani and Ha-Joon Changonline examine the effect of ideological bias among economists through a randomised controlled experiment involving 2,425 economists in 19 countries. The analysis provides clear evidence for the existence of ideological bias as well as of authority bias among economists. 2023 Level: expert Who said or what said? Estimating ideological bias in views among economists Mohsen Javdani, Ha-Joon Chang Cambridge Journal of Economics The policy briefing provides a data-rich overview over the budgets planned for public services in the UK and their connection to inflation expectations. It highlights the fact that inflation might lead to "invisible" cuts to public sector budgets. 2023 Level: beginner Austerity by stealth Dominic Caddick, Alfie Stirling New Economics Foundation The Nawi Knowledge Portal is an open access repository that features for multi themed research outputs and knowledge products. They aim to amplify the work of African women working to demystify the space of macroeconomic policy from a Pan African feminist to the widest possible audience. 2023 Level: advanced NAWI Collective - A Pan African Feminist Political Economy Collective Diverse NAWI Collective What is James Tobin's main contribution? What is Arrow's impossibility theorem? Which economists have made the most significant contribution to rational expectations? These and countless other questions are resolved in this eloquently written unique book by Mark Blaug, one of the most prominent historians of economic thought. 1998 Level: advanced Great Economists Since Keynes Mark Blaug Edward Elgar Now in its third edition, this textbook covers all of the standard topics taught in undergraduate International Economics courses. However, the book is unique in that it presents the key orthodox neoclassical models of international trade and investment, whilst supplementing them with a variety of heterodox approaches. 2012 Level: beginner International Economics Hendrik Van den Berg M.E. Sharpe How the brain works, how we learn, and why we sometimes make stupid mistakes. Level: beginner The Science of Thinking   YouTube Balance of payments stability is of paramount importance for developing countries, both to secure the value of their domestic currencies as well as reliable foreign currency inflows. But how is that stability ensured and how important is the growth of exports for stability? 2020 Level: beginner Thirlwalls Law Introduction Jezri Krinsky blobMetropolis In this TED Talk, the behavioral economist Dan Ariely explain how changing our environment could change our behavior and how this connects with how we think about economics, through simple but powerful examples. 2019 Level: beginner How to change your behavior for the better Dan Ariely TED The article discusses the state’s influence on innovation through financial support and provides examples how the state could receive a financial share of successful enterprises in order to keep on driving innovation in the future. 2013 Level: beginner State of innovation: Busting the private-sector myth Mariana Mazzucato https://www.newscientist.com What the heck is the yield curve? And why is it considered a powerful predictor of economic crisis? Here you'll get to know. 2015 Level: beginner Killik Explains: Fixed Income Basics - the yield curve Tim Bennett Killik & Co. This syllabus provides an overview of the contents of the course "Understanding Economic Models" at the University of Helsinki. 2018 Level: beginner Understanding Economic Models N. Emrah Aydinonat, Michiru Nagatsu University of Helsinki ‘We cannot afford their peace & We cannot bear their wars’: ​​​​​​​Value, Exploitation, Profitability Crises & ‘Rectification’ 2022 Level: beginner Political Economy based on Marx Elena Papagiannaki Summer Academy 2022 for Pluralist Economics This syllabus provides an overview of the content of the Philosophy of Economics course at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 2015 Level: beginner Philosophy of Economics Dan Hausman University of Wisconsin-Madison Pluralism includes mainstream economics. Our campaign for pluralism, including this series, have generally focused on ideas outside the mainstream on the basis that it gets plenty of attention already so we want to spend our time exposing people to alternatives. Nevertheless, mainstream ideas deserve some attention. On top of this, a curious feature of modern economics education is that some of the best ideas from mainstream economics are not even taught to undergraduates! During this series I will explore such ideas, starting today with the market construction technique known as ‘matching’. 2020 Level: beginner It's a match! Cahal Moran Rethinking Economics Happy International Women s Day This International Women s Day 2018 is an opportune moment to highlight prominent scholars of Feminist Economics As a subdiscipline of economics Feminist Economics analyzes the interrelationship between gender and the economy often critiquing inequities and injustices perpetuated by mainstream paradigms Work of this nature … Level: beginner Happy International Women’s Day!   Feminist Economics Editor Team Imperialism is not only about military force and political pressure applied by developed capitalist countries on less developed ones for economic gain It also has an everyday dimension Countless acts of production and consumption the current SUV boom being a prominent example draw on exploitation of resources and labour from … 2021 Level: beginner The Imperial Mode of Living Ulrich Brand, Markus Wissen Verso Books Green Growth has been increasingly discussed as a solution to the socio-ecological crisis. But can economic growth be sustainable at all? 2022 Level: beginner Is Green Growth a myth?   Netzwerk Plurale Ökonomik e.V. Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought A new evolutionary explanation of markets and investor behaviorHalf of all Americans have money in the stock market yet economists can t agree on whether investors and markets are rational and efficient as modern financial theory assumes or irrational and inefficient as behavioral … 2017 Level: advanced Adaptive Markets Andrew W. Lo Princeton University Press This is a great book Against the background of the dogmatism of much of modern economics Fullbrook has produced an innovative wide ranging argument for narrative pluralism The timely book is beautifully written accessible to all provocative extraordinarily insightful and extremely compelling Tony Lawson Cambridge University UK This fascinating and … 2016 Level: advanced Narrative Fixation in Economics Edward Fullbrook College Publications From the Dissolution of the Soviet Union to the Conflict in Ukraine The breakup of the Soviet Union led to the creation of new states and territorial conflicts of different levels of intensity Scrutinising the post Soviet period this volume offers explanations for both the frequency and the intensity of … 2021 Level: advanced Crises in the Post-Soviet Space Felix Jaitner, Tina Olteanu, Tobias Spöri (ed.) Taylor & Francis Limited Photo by Alina Grubnyak on Unsplash Networks are ubiquitous in our modern society The World Wide Web that links us to and enables information flows with the rest of the world is the most visible example It is however only one of many networks within which we are situated Our … Level: beginner Networks Daron Acemoglu; Asu Ozdaglar Massachusetts Institute of Technology This edited volume put together by Jimi Adesina based on the proceedings of the Social Policy in African Conference in 2017 provides an overview of social policy in varied country contexts and fields especially in light of decades of the reduction in size and hollowing out of the content of … 2021 Level: advanced Social Policy in the African Context Jimi O. Adesina African Books Collective 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 The book critically engages with various Marxian perspectives on the dynamics on development and social progress It specifically engages with some key words in Marxian theory including Marx s early work on capitalist development and his later works on underdeveloped Russia Lenin s thesis on imperialism as a hurdle for … 2021 Level: advanced Rethinking Development Ronaldo Munck Springer Nature Overview page for the collection of nobel laureateas on Exploring Economics 2020 Level: beginner Nobel memorial prize in economic sciences - A critical overview   Exploring Economics This paper provides a logical framework for complexity economics Complexity economics builds from the proposition that the economy is not necessarily in equilibrium economic agents firms consumers investors constantly change their actions and strategies in response to the outcome they mutually create This further changes the outcome which requires them … 2013 Level: beginner Complexity Economics : A Different Framework for Economic Thought W. Brian Arthur Oxford University Press This syllabus opens a literary overview of must-read papers in the field of development economics. 2022 Level: beginner Development Economics Rukmini Thapa Summer Academy 2022 for Pluralist Economics Why is money more valuable than the paper on which it is printed Monetarists link the value of money to its supply and demand believing the latter depends on the total value of the commodities it circulates According to Prabhat Patnaik this logic is flawed In his view in any … 2009 Level: advanced The Value of Money Prabhat Patnaik Columbia University Press Dr. Katherine Trebeck explains some reasons why we should believe the future of the economy should be a wellbeing economy. 2020 Level: beginner Why the Future Economy has to be a Wellbeing Economy Katherine Trebeck TEDx Talks A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction Climate Change and Pandemics A plan to save the earth and bring the good life to all In this thrilling and capacious book Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass challenge the inertia of capitalism and the left alike and propose a radical plan … 2022 Level: advanced Half-Earth Socialism Troy Vettese, Drew Pendergrass Verso Books Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People s Economy The leading thinker and most visible public advocate of modern monetary theory the freshest and most important idea about economics in decades delivers a radically different bold new understanding for how to build a just and prosperous society Stephanie … 2020 Level: beginner The Deficit Myth Stephanie Kelton Hachette UK From the editor and magazine that started and named the Occupy Wall Street movement Meme Wars The Creative Destruction of Neoclassical Economics is an articulation of what could be the next steps in rethinking and remaking our world that challenges and debunks many of the assumptions of neoclassical economics and … 2013 Level: advanced Meme Wars Kalle Lasn, Adbusters Seven Stories Press

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