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The Economics and Geopolitics of Russia Selling Yuan and Gold Reserves It is important for students to understand the workings of international and public finance and that the goal of governments and politicians is not always economic efficiency when making financial decisions. Normative goals other than efficiency can motivate economic decisions. A good economist is able to recognise, clearly name and take into account the values and goals behind economic behaviour, when making sense of the world. 2023 Level: beginner Russia sells foreign reserves   Economy Studies This reports presents empirical findings of research conducted by Michelle Holder, assistant professor of economics at John Jay College, City University of New York, with regard to the impact of what she terms a "double gap"- gender wage gap and ethnic minority wage gap - on the U.S. labour market. 2020 Level: advanced The "Double Gap" and the Bottom Line: African American Women’s Wage Gap and Corporate Profits Michelle Holder Roosevelt Institute Lean Logic is the late David Fleming’s masterpiece, the product of more than thirty years’ work and a testament to the creative brilliance of one of Britain’s most important intellectuals. A dictionary unlike any other, it leads readers through Fleming’s stimulating exploration of fields as diverse as culture, history, science, art, logic, ethics, myth, economics, and anthropology, being made up of four hundred and four engaging essay-entries covering topics such as Boredom, Community, Debt, Growth, Harmless Lunatics, Land, Lean Thinking, Nanotechnology, Play, Religion, Spirit, Trust, and Utopia. The threads running through every entry are Fleming’s deft and original analysis of how our present market-based economy is destroying the very foundations—ecological, economic, and cultural— on which it depends, and his core focus: a compelling, grounded vision for a cohesive society that might weather the consequences 2020 Level: beginner Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It the late Dr. David Fleming LeanLogic.online Professor David Harvey presents a complete visual representation of the flow of capital in all its forms. Similar to the Water Cycle diagrams, Harvey models the economics of production, consumption, human reproduction, labor, private business, and government redistribution. 2017 Level: advanced Visualizing Capital David Harvey School of Geography and the Environment The 2007-2010 economic crisis has profoundly shaken the foundations of mainstream financial economics. The apparent falsification of core concepts such as risk diversification, informational efficiency and valuation efficiency by an unexpected course of events has revealed the need to redefine the objectives and direction of research today. 2010 Level: advanced After the Crisis Thomas Lagoarde-Segot Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated In the course Sociology and Socialism, students engage with classical theories of socialism as well as their applications in a variety of historical and international contexts. Staunchly interdisciplinary, the course utilizes expertise in philosophy, history, economics, sociology, anthropology and political theory. 2020 Level: beginner Socialism and Sociology Collaborative attempt by Andrew Arato and other Faculty members of the New School for Social Research New School for Social Research In most economics classes we focus on the production and consumption of goods and services, but what happens to the product and its packaging after it’s consumed? Waste disposal is a crucial step in the production process and as the theme of this month’s World Environment Day is #BeatPlasticPollution, we use the example of plastic bottles. 2023 Level: beginner Production and Waste: Plastic Pollution – Economy Studies Economy Studies Economy Studies Game theory is the standard quantitative tool for analyzing the interactions of multiple decision makers. Its applications extend to economics, biology, engineering and even cyber security. Level: advanced Game Theory I - Static Games Justin Grana Santa Fe Institute The first book to bring together the key writings and speeches of civil rights activist Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander--the first Black American economist In 1921, Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander became the first Black American to gain a Ph.D. degree in economics. Unable to find employment as an economist because of discrimination, Alexander became a lawyer so that she could press for equal rights for African Americans. 2021 Level: advanced Democracy, Race, and Justice Sadie T. M. Alexander Yale University Press The gender pay gap is a pressing issue that affects individuals and society as a whole, so it is important for economics students to understand it. Despite recent progress, women still earn less than men for the same jobs, leading to economic inequalities and reduced efficiency (see, for example, the recent report released by Moody’s). Understanding the causes and consequences of the gender pay gap is critical in developing policies that promote fairness and equality. 2023 Level: beginner The Gender Pay Gap: Understanding the Economic and Social Causes and Consequences Economy Studies Economy Studies In this clear and accessible book, an eminent political scientist offers a jargon-free introduction to the market system for all readers, with or without a background in economics 2002 Level: advanced The Market System Charles Edward Lindblom Yale University Press Gender Development and Globalization is the leading primer on global feminist economics and development. Gender is a development issue because social considerations are not easily incorporated into institutions such as policies, regulations, markets and organizations. This process is often referred to as the mainstreaming of gender in development institutions. 2018 Level: beginner Gender Development and Globalization Terryl Blackwell ETP Designed for a single-semester undergraduate course, this introductory economics textbook updates traditional macroeconomics to encompass twenty-first century concerns. In contrast to standard texts, the book starts with the question of human well-being, and then examines how economic activities can contribute to or detract from it. 2009 Level: advanced Macroeconomics in Context Neva R. Goodwin, Julie A. Nelson, Jonathan Harris, Brian Roach, James Devine M.E. Sharpe Since their first emergence in the work of Paul David thirty years ago, the dual issues of Path Dependence and Lock-In have become critically important subjects in the fields of economics, sociology, and business strategy. 2014 Level: advanced Path Dependence and Lock-In Liebowitz, Stan J ; Margolis, Stephen E Edward Elgar Publishing Explore the pressing topic of globalisation and how it affects economics, politics and society with this online course. Level: beginner International Affairs: Globalisation Richard Baldwin Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Geneva Developmental economics 2021 Level: beginner The roots of dependency theory João Braga blobMetropolis This article makes a necessary connection between economics as an academic discipline and recent events surrounding sexual harassment in the workplace. To get justice, targets must show measurable harm: economists can help. 2018 Level: beginner $MeToo: The Economic Cost of Sexual Harassment Lynn Parramore Institute for New Economic Thinking In this article, Perry Mehrling, a professor of economics at Barnard College, presents and discusses three theories of banking which are guiding bank regulation. These are credit creation theory, fractional reserve theory and debt intermediation theory. 2016 Level: advanced Central Bank theories of Banking and Money Perry Mehrling www.perrymehrling.com 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 Global Social Theory is a large wiki-like project by Gurminder K Bhambra. Its central aim is decolonising and diversifying universities, production of knowledge, and social thought in general. It represents a large online library divided into three parts: concepts, thinkers, and topics in/of social theory and decolonial thought. Every part comprises of short, introductory articles on an according theme. It may be helpful to give you a general overview (and a list of basic readings) on the most essential areas of social theory: caste, class, and race; civil society; racism; secularism; feminism and many others. It may also allow students whose university curriculum in sociology, economics, or other social sciences lacks diversity to compensate for that. Level: beginner Global Social Theory Multiple academic authors: professors, researchers, and lecturers. globalsocialtheory.org In this short video, John Holmwood problematizes Marxian Economics from a post-colonial perspective. 2021 Level: advanced Marx: Colonialism, Class and Capitalism John Holmwood https://www.connectedsociologies.org/ 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 David Graeber introduces different concepts such as money and debt. He takes a historical and anthropological way of explaining the origin. This breaks with the mainstream explanation, which is used in many Economics textbooks, saying that a barter economy was before money arose. 2014 Level: advanced Debt David Graeber Melville House A review of: [1] Intermediate Microeconomics, H.R. Varian [2] Mikrooekonomie, R.S. Pindyck, D.L. Rubinfeld [3] Grundzuege der mikrooekonomischen Theorie, J. Schumann, U. Meyer, W. Stroebele 2016 Level: beginner The Dichotomy, Inconsistency, and Peculiar Outmodedness of the "Mainstream" Textbook Wolfram Elsner Wirtschaft neu denken: Blinde Flecken in der Lehrbuchökonomie This course focus on the behaviour of individuals from an pluralist economic and an interdisciplinary bevavioural science apprach. 2020 Level: advanced Actors, Behaviours and Decision Processes Sigrid Stagl and Roman Hausmann University of Vienna This module examines current socio-political issues through the lens of pluralism, that is pluralism of theory, pluralism of method and interdisciplinary pluralism 2020 Level: beginner Pluralist Economic Analysis Sophia Kuehnlenz Manchester Metropolitan University ‘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 As opposed to the conventional over-simplified assumption of self-interested individuals, strong evidence points towards the presence of heterogeneous other-regarding preferences in agents. Incorporating social preferences – specifically, trust and reciprocity - and recognizing the non-constancy of these preferences across individuals can help models better represent the reality. 2019 Level: advanced A fresh perspective to economic theory: Social preferences and their impact on gender and policy Sheral Shah Exploring Economics The last 15 years have seen extensive research into ecosystem service valuation (ESV), spurred by the Millenium Ecosystem Assessment in 2005 (Baveye, Baveye & Gowdy, 2016). Ecosystem services are defined as “the benefits people obtain from ecosystems” (Millenium Ecosystem Assessment, p.V). For example, ecosystems provide the service of sequestering carbon which helps regulate the climate. Valuation means giving ecosystems or their services a monetary price, for example researchers have estimated that the carbon sequestration services of the Mediterranean Sea is between 100 and 1500 million euros per year. The idea of ESV was a response to the overuse of natural resources and degradation of ecosystems, allegedly due to their undervaluation and exclusion from the monetary economy. ESV can be used (1) for policy decision-making, for example allocating funding to a reforestation project (2) for setting payments to people who increase ecosystem services, for example a farmer increasing the organic carbon content of their soil, and (3) for determining fees for people who degrade ecosystem services, for example a company that causes deforestation. 2021 Level: beginner A Pluralist Perspective on Ecosystem Service Valuation Introduction Maya Exploring Economics What’s inflation? Why is it relevant? And is there an agreed theory about its roots and causes, or is it a contentious concept? That’s what this text is all about: We define what inflation actually means before we delve into the theoretical debate with an interdisciplinary and pluralist approach: What gives rise to it, what factors might influence it, and, consequently, what might be done about it? 2021 Level: beginner Inflation in economic theory Alexander Barta, Jorim Gerrard, Jakob Steffen & Frieder Zaspel Exploring Economics Getting to the policy discussion table is one of the objectives pursued by feminist scholars and advocates. However, some participants in this process have remarked that “you cannot get to the policy discussion table until you have proven that you can crunch the numbers.” 2006 Level: beginner Statistics for Feminists Yana Rodgers Rutgers University, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies The workshop introduces into the field of critical political economy and tries to identify the role of finacial markets in capitalism, the reason for financial crises and the relevance of Marx in regard to these topics. 2018 Level: beginner Marxian Political Economy Jannis Eicker and Anil Shah 2. Summer Academy for Pluralist Economics

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