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We collect selected high quality working papers from the leading international universities and research institutes in the field of plural and heterodox economics. The working papers in our selection present economic schools of thought and debates in a first-class way and give an insight into the latest research. 2021 Level: beginner Exploring Economics Working Paper Selection   Exploring Economics In this webinar, Dr. Grieve Chelwa, Dr. Cecilia Lanata Briones and Professor Jayati Ghosh discuss what is meant by “Decolonising Economics”. 2020 Level: beginner What Do We Mean By "Decolonising Economics" Dr. Grieve Chelwa, Dr. Cecilia Lanata Briones and Professor Jayati Ghosh Rethinking Economics Aim: to work out jointly with students a systematic perception of how the gender factor can impact on economic and demographic development. This course is pioneering: it is the first time that such a course has been introduced into the curriculum of a Russian higher educational institution with a focus on economics. Level: advanced Gender Economics I. E. Kalabikhina Lomonosov Moscow State University Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, there has been an unprecedented move towards 'rethinking economics' due to the damages generated by the global financial crisis that burst in 2007-2008. Almost a decade after this crisis, policy is still unable to provide all citizens greater wellbeing or at least an encouraging economic future. 2017 Level: advanced A Modern Guide to Rethinking Economics Louis-Philippe Rochon, Sergio Rossi Edward Elgar Publishing This is a good introduction to Austrian Economics for laypeople. It slowly develops the school's core principles from the thinking of its founders, all the way to key thinkers to integrate both macro and microeconomics into one coherent whole. Level: beginner Masters Of Austrian Economics   Academic Agent This book demonstrates the continuing relevance of economics for understanding the world, through a restatement of the importance of plurality and heterodox ideas for teaching and research. 2017 Level: advanced Post-Crash Economics Feraboli, Omar; Morelli, Carlo J. (eds.) Palgrave Macmillan Once in a while the world astonishes itself. Anxious incredulity replaces intellectual torpor and a puzzled public strains its antennae in every possible direction, desperately seeking explanations for the causes and nature of what just hit it. 2008 was such a moment. Not only did the financial system collapse, and send the real economy into a tailspin, but it also revealed the great gulf separating economics from a very real capitalism. 2011 Level: advanced Modern Political Economics Yanis Varoufakis, Joseph Halevi, Nicholas Theocarakis Routledge 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 Contributors attempt to reconcile two major strands of thinking in economic methodology: the rhetoric of economics as advocated by Deirdre McCloskey, and the sociological approach. 1997 Level: advanced Pluralism in Economics Andrea Salanti, Ernesto Screpanti Edward Elgar This book explores frontier work at the intersection of experimental and environmental economics, with cutting edge research provided by premier scholars in the field.The book begins by focusing on improving benefit-cost analysis, which remains the hallmark of public policy decision-making around the globe. 2006 Level: advanced Using Experimental Methods in Environmental and Resource Economics John A. List Edward Elgar In this video, the most famed biographer of John Maynard Keynes, Robert Skidelsky, explores the foundations of Keynesian economics 2010 Level: beginner Keynesian Economics - It's All About Spending Robert Skidelsky EconStories The book is offered, in the first instance, to students who are beginners in economics, but some parts of it may be of wider interest. The three topics, Economic Doctrines, Analysis and Modern Problems, might be the subject of concurrent courses or they may be studied consecutively. 1973 Level: beginner An Introduction to Modern Economics Robinson, Joan; Eatwell, John Maidenhead McGraw-Hill Trickle Down Economics - an old topic, but still present in our lives. The idea consists of deregulation of the economy and of lower tax for the top in order to increase the "size of the pie" so everybody would have a bigger piece, even with a smaller share. 2015 Level: beginner A critique to Trickle-down economics Joseph Stiglitz Intelligence Squared In this talk Robert Skidelsky analyses how sociology did and could enrich economic analyses, but also how critical sociological insights have been colonised by mainstream economics. 2019 Level: beginner How Can Sociology Help Economics? Robert Skidelsky Institute for New Economic Thinking As part of the 2019/2020 Exploring Economics Experience, one of our supporters Prof. Steve Keen gave a presentation to our editorial team. Read more 2020 Level: expert The foundations of monetary macroeconomics - Steve Keen | Exploring Economics Global Lecture Steve Keen Exploring Economics Can pluralism in economics be useful to tackle the fight against climate change? How can a diversity in methods and ideas allow for a better understanding of the issue of the climate crisis? What solutions do different schools of thought offer to overcome the most pressing challenge of the 21st Century? Our Rethinker Henrika Meyer will give you some answers and give you a glimpse of the solutions pluralism offers to tackle the fight against climate change. 2020 Level: beginner Climate Economics Henrika Meyer Rethinking Economics Can pluralism in economics be useful to tackle the fight against climate change? How can diversity in methods and ideas allow for a better understanding of the issue of the climate crisis? 2020 Level: beginner Clips on Climate: Behavioral Economics Henrika Meyer Rethinking Economics Can pluralism in economics be useful to tackle the fight against climate change? How can diversity in methods and ideas allow for a better understanding of the issue of the climate crisis? What solutions do different schools of thought offer to overcome the most pressing challenge of the 21st Century? Our Rethinker Henrika Meyer will give you some answers and give you a glimpse of the solutions pluralism offers to tackle the fight against climate change. 2020 Level: beginner Clips on Climate: Complexity Economics Henrika Meyer Rethinking Economics Professor Joseph Aldy from Harvard Kennedy School gives us some insights about how economics can set the balance between policymakers, scientists, employers and citizens. 2020 Level: beginner Can Economics save the Environment? Joseph Aldy New Economic Thinking Sporting events can be seen as controlled, real-world, miniature laboratory environments, approaching the idea of “holding other things equal” when exploring the implications of decisions, incentives, and constraints in a competitive setting (Goff and Tollison 1990, Torgler 2009). Thus, a growing number of studies have used sports data to study decision-making questions that have guided behavioral economics literature. 2021 Level: beginner Sport as a Behavioral Economics Lab CHAN, Ho Fai, SAVAGE, David A., and TORGLER, Benno Econstor This book contends that post Keynesian economics has its own methodological and didactic basis, and its realistic analysis is much-needed in the current economic and financial crisis. 2013 Level: beginner Teaching Post Keynesian Economics Jespersen, Jesper; Madsen, Mogens Ove Edward Elgar Publishing In the last half century, economics has taken over from anthropology the role of drawing the powerful conceptual worldviews that organize knowledge and inform policy in both domestic and international contexts. Until now however, the colonial roots of economic theory have remained relatively unstudied. This book changes that. 2004 Level: advanced Postcolonialism Meets Economics S. Charusheela, Eiman O. Zein-Elabdin Psychology Press 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 Economics is extremely sick. It is so locked in its past that nearly all of its introductory textbooks are modelled on one that appeared in 1948. The discipline cannot continue in its autistic state much longer. 2007 Level: advanced Real World Economics Edward Fullbrook Anthem Press 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 International Economics, 15e continues to combine rigorous economic analysis with attention to the issues of economic policy that are alive and important today in this field. 2011 Level: advanced International Economics Pugel, Thomas A. McGraw Hill Book Co Critique of neoclassical economics is presented and contrasted with the more realistic assumptions made by an complex adaptive systems and evolutionary approach. 2014 Level: beginner Complexity Science: 11 Complexity Economics   Complexity Academy This video provides a brief introduction to post-keynesian economics and how the school of thought would tackle climate change. 2020 Level: beginner Clips on Climate: Postkeynesian Economics Henrika Meyer Rethinking Economics The economics of worker cooperatives is a branch of economic inquiry with a long and esteemed pedigree, dating at least from the work of John Stuart Mill in the mid-nineteenth century. 2013 Level: advanced The Economics of Worker Cooperatives John H. Pencavel Edward Elgar Publishing Limited This short video by the Khan Academy presents a classic introduction to economic teaching. Starting with the quote by Adam Smith in "The Wealth of Nations" on the invisible hand, it shows how economics deals with the question of the allocation of scarce resources and shortly presents different questions addressed by microeconomics and macroeconomics. It further makes reference to questions of simplification in mathematical models. 2012 Level: beginner Introduction to economics | Supply, demand, and market equilibrium | Microeconomics   Khan Academy How do we get our dinner? And who cooked Adam Smith's dinner? Starting with Smith's answer on the origin of a dinner, Katrine Marçal problematizes and illustrates how unpaid labour was and is still being ignored by economic theory and how the homo economics represents characteristics perceived as male. 2015 Level: beginner How Economics Forgot about Women Katrine Marçal TEDx Talks Sheila Dow discusses the concept of radical uncertainty and the failure of neoclassical economics to integrate it into its analysis. As to the implications for financial regulation that arise from the presence of radical uncertainty she argues for institutional overhaul, where the banks see themselves as a licensed partner of the central bank and where rules, values, and conventions would be subject to a cultural shift. Also, Sheila Dow advocates for a renewed focus on retail banking. 2015 Level: advanced The Economics of Uncertainty Sheila Dow INET

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