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This unique up-to-date volume not only provides state-of-the-art discussions of the most recent developments in modern macroeconomics but also includes a series of interviews with leading economists that shed new light on the major intellectual and policy issues of the 1990s. The book is at once an invaluable text and a superb overview that will be welcomed by teachers and students alike. 1994 Level: beginner A Modern Guide to Macroeconomics Snowdon, Brian; Vane, Howard R.; Wynarczyk, Peter Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Economics should schematically explain the key elements and main strands of this core part of social life: the actual workings of our economies. This book argues that orthodox, modern neoclassical economics does not fulfil this core task. Standard economics models do not address the real functioning of our market economies, but rather an imagined economy. 2022 Level: beginner Economics and the Real World Joaquim Vergés Ethics International Press Ltd, UK In this course you will learn the basics for developing economically viable climate resilient plans The course starts with a review of the scientific consensus on changes in climate patterns and projections to the future and explains the rationale for countries to develop climate resilient plans that will help them … Level: advanced Economics of Climate-Resilient Development World Bank Group Open Learning Campus Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics

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Nobel laureate Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central agents in the economy are humans--predictable, error-prone individuals. Misbehaving is his arresting, frequently hilarious account of the struggle to bring an academic discipline back down to earth--and change the way we think about economics, ourselves, and our world. 2016 Level: advanced Misbehaving Richard H. Thaler W.W. Norton Well-rounded insights with essay contributions from various perspectives into what it means to decolonize higher education. 2018 Level: advanced Decolonising the University Gurminder K. Bhambra, Dalia Gebrial, Kerem Nişancıoğlu Pluto Press

Are humans at their core seekers of their own pleasure or cooperative members of society? Paradoxically, they are both. Pleasure-seeking can take place only within the context of what works within a defined community, and central to any community are the evolved codes and principles guiding appropriate behavior, or morality. 2013 Level: advanced From Pleasure Machines to Moral Communities Geoffrey M. Hodgson University of Chicago Press To prevent the coronavirus shock to demand precipitating a long-lasting depression, government needs to become short-term payer of last resort. 2020 Level: beginner Introducing the Payer of Last Resort Emmanuel Saez & Gabriel Zucman Social Europe This essay focuses on the sources of government revenue within the Middle East and North African (MENA) region and proposes the implementation of a regional tax reset through increased taxation and tax reforms, deregulation in the private sector and economic diversification to reduce macroeconomic volatilities caused by the hydrocarbon industry. 2018 Level: beginner Taxation in the MENA region Sanchita Shekar Pluralist Economics Fellowship Mainstream inflation theories in economics do little to explain the recent acceleration in price increases. The associated economic policy recommendations further increase the misery of low-income groups. 2023 Level: beginner The inflation conundrum Thomas Sablowski Exploring Economics Whether a black swan or a scapegoat, Covid-19 is an extraordinary event. Declared by the WHO as a pandemic, Covid-19 has given birth to the concept of the economic “sudden stop.” We need extraordinary measures to contain it. 2020 Level: beginner Triggering a Global Financial Crisis: Covid-19 as the Last Straw T Sabri Öncu Counterpunch, Prime Marx’s theory of the falling rate of profit is not only empirically borne out, but the theory he proposed seems to describe accurately how that happens. Furthermore, the whole process is useful for understanding the history of contemporary capitalism. 2020 Level: beginner On the Rate of Profit Cahal Moran Rethinking Economics As the Covid-19 fueled economic downturn begins to intensify this winter, an extended study of the Italian cooperative sector’s historical resilience in times of crisis can serve as a learning experience for other countries seeking to create policies that foster more stable economies, with job security, care for marginalized communities and adequate counter-cyclical policies. Particularly, the Italian cooperative sector’s contributions to three aspects should be noted in closing. Firstly, the innovative phenomenon of cooperative enterprises has contributed to social inclusion of immigrant communities, the activation of youth, the unemployed and people with disabilities, a true compensation for both a market and state failure. Secondly, they have contributed to a reduction in income and wealth inequalities at a time when the issue of inequality is of global significance. Thirdly, the Italian cooperative movement has helped local communities revitalize in the face of demographic shifts and rendered them more resilient to the ravages of globalization. Each of these in their own right is a remarkable achievement. 2020 Level: beginner How to strengthen the social economy Jerome Warren Exploring Economics Adam Smith and Karl Marx recognized that the best way to understand the economy is to study the most advanced practice of production. Today that practice is no longer conventional manufacturing: it is the radically innovative vanguard known as the knowledge economy. 2019 Level: beginner The Knowledge Economy Roberto Mangabeira Unger Verso Books John Maurice Clark’s article “The Changing Basis of Economic Responsibility,“ published in the Journal of Political Economy, is the topical starting point for all scholars interested in economic responsibility and responsible economic action. 2017 Level: advanced Economic Responsibility Michaela Haase Springer

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