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Donald Trump won in 2016 largely because enough voters in three states, all in the Rustbelt, which had voted for Barack Obama in both 2008 and 2012, switched their electoral votes from Democratic to Republican. 2019 Level: beginner The Rise of Trumpism John Komlos Duke University’s John Hope Franklin Center Professor Jennifer Clapp explains the dynamics of financialization of land and agricultural commodities in Subsaharan Africa. She points to the historical roots of accelerated land speculation and their connection to financial institutions, both generating and reinforcing the process of financialization of African land. Besides talking about roots and dynamics of speculation with land on financial markets, she puts the perspective of scholarly investigation onto the investor's side in discussing guidelines of responsible investment and regulation in the front instead of focussing on the receiving countries. 2013 Level: beginner Land and Financialization: Role of International Financial Actors in Land Deals in Africa Jennifer Clapp The North-South Institute This panel discusses the role of mathematics and history in economics. Lord Robert Skidelsky and Dr. Ha-Joon Chang advocate for a more prominent role of history and a less prominent role of mathematics within economics. Prof. Steve Pisckhe and Prof. Francesco Caselli defend the dominant role of mathematics within economics. Each of the speakers gives a 10-15 minutes talk advocating his position, before the panel is opened up for Q&A. The discussion is moderated by Prof. James Foreman-Peck. 2015 Level: beginner Too much Maths, too little History: The problem of Economics Lord Robert Skidelsky, Dr. Ha-Joon Chang, Prof. Steve Pisckhe and Prof. Francesco Caselli LSE Economic History Departement Prof. Yanis Varoufakis talks in this introductory lecture about the future of our economy and the current state of economics with special regard to pluralism in economics. 2020 Level: beginner Introduction to Pluralism in Economics - From an Economics-without-Capitalism to Markets-without-Capitalism Yanis Varouvakis Universität Tübingen, Rethinking Economics Banner and Pastor debunk granted assumptions of the neoclassical theory, such as self-interested human behavior, the necessity of inequality and growth, to pull the threads between the new possible foundations of our society, "prosperity, security and community". 2020 Level: beginner Solidarity Economics—for the Coronavirus Crisis and Beyond Chris Benner, Manuel Pastor The American Prospect In this short lecture the marxist economic geographer David Harvey explains how his theory of The accumulation of dispossession came about and its central principles The theory builds on Marx law of the centralisation of capital arguing how the accumulation no longer stems from producing rather through trading asset values … 2019 Level: advanced Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: Accumulation by Dispossession David Harvey Democracy at Work Jens Beckert and Richard Bronk, authors of "Uncertain Times", explore the extent to which flaws, blind spots and more importantly bias created by macroeconomics models, based on forecasts and statistical devices, shape crisis and the market economy in which we live. 2018 Level: beginner Economics for Uncertain Times RSA Events, Jens Beckert and Richard Bronk RSA Events In the pluralist showcase series by Rethinking Economics, Cahal Moran explores non-mainstream ideas in economics and how they are useful for explaining, understanding and predicting things in economics. 2020 Level: beginner Pluralist Showcase Cahal Moran Rethinking Economics In this podcast, Laura Basu speaks with a range of expert academics and public speakers – such as Jayati Ghosh, Yanis Varoufakis, Walden Bello, and Ashish Kothari about how the rules of the global economy are fostering the inequality and underdevelopment we see today. 2020 Level: beginner Decolonising the Global Economy Laura Basu, Jayati Ghosh, Yanis Varoufakis, Walden Bello and Ashish Kothar openDemocracy In this short talk 'Measuring the Danger of Segregation' Trevon Logan, Professor of Economics at The Ohio State University, explores the impacts of structural racism on economics and health. 2020 Level: advanced Measuring the Danger of Segregation Trevon Logan Institute for New Economic Thinking Economists claim they are not biased or ideological, but research by economist Mohsen Javdani tells another story. Javdani discovered that 82% of economists claim that statements and arguments should be evaluated on the content only, but the results of the study show the exact opposite. 2020 Level: beginner The Dangerous Ideological Bias of Economists Mohsen Javdani INET - Institute for New Economic Thinking In this interview, the political activist, author and lecturer Dr. Vandana Shiva explains the linkage between ecology, feminism and economics along the lines of current effects and implications of the Corona-Crisis in India and around the world. 2020 Level: beginner Ecology, feminism and economics in times of Covid-19 pandemic Dr. Vandana Shiva Cusanus Hochschule für Gesellschaftsgestaltung Hamilton argues that economics lacks the political economy context in order to understand racism, and demonstrates how racism is embedded in the political economy of America. 2020 Level: beginner How America’s Economy Runs on Racism Lynn Parramore Institute for New Economic Thinking This lecture of the anthropologist David Graeber gives a brief introduction to the thoughts of his 2011 published book Debt: The First 5000 Years. 2012 Level: beginner Debt: The First 5,000 Years David Graeber Talks at Google Could the Brazilian measures of income support carried out during 2020 be considered one way towards UBI? This questions is broadly addressed in the video. 2020 Level: beginner Brazil and Basic Income & Covid Lena Lavinas and Leandro Ferreira Basic Income Earth Network BIEN Fighting Neoliberalism with Keynes & Minsky? Riccardo Bellofiore proposes to revise the insights of Minsky's financial instability hypothesis, combining it with the Keynesian theory of the monetary circuit to answer many questions in modern economy. 2020 Level: advanced Fighting Neoliberalism with Keynes & Minsky? Riccardo Bellofiore New Economic Thinking Have you ever thought about the role of civil society and the evolution of economy in one breath? This one hour long interview of Daron Acemoğlu (MIT) and Martin Wolf (Financial Times) by Rethinking Economy NL gives you much inspiration for it. 2021 Level: beginner Socioeconomics of Disruptive Tech Daron Acemoğlu & Martin Wolf Rethinking Economics NL This collection of videos offers a short introduction to ecological economics and its main differences with respect to environmental economics. 2021 Level: beginner Short lectures on ecological economics Dan O'Neill YouTube This video explains what a co-operative is, discussing the different types, their history and purposes, before moving on to discuss the current state of the co-operative movement. 2019 Level: beginner What is a Co-op? John Atherton Co-operatives UK While many are unsatisfied with capitalism and critique it in highly sophisticated ways, there are few concrete proposals for a socialist mode of production that could replace the capitalist one. Daniel E. Saros has developed such a proposal in his book "Information Technology and Socialist Construction – The End of Capital and the Transition to Socialism" which we discuss at length over the course of two episodes. 2020 Level: advanced Daniel E. Saros on Digital Socialism and the Abolition of Capital Jan Groos, Daniel E. Saros Future Histories Recent events such as the Black Lives Matter protests the the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis US and the toppling of the statue of Edward Colston in Bristol UK have exposed existing racism colonialism and sexism in our society and in Economics While calls to improve diversity in Economics … 2021 Level: beginner Decolonising Economics in Practice Dr. Danielle Guizzo, Dr. Devika Dutt, Dr. Surbhi Kesar, Dr. Amir Lebdioui Exploring Economics After a brief illustration of sovereign green bonds’ features, this paper describes the market evolution and identifies the main benefits and costs for sovereign issuers. The financial performance of these securities is then analysed. 2021 Level: advanced Green Bonds: the Sovereign Issuers’ Perspective Raffaele Doronzo, Vittorio Siracusa and Stefano Antonelli Mercati, infrastrutture, sistemi di pagamento The Nobel laureate Amartya Sen´s text analyzes three main figures in social sciences and the relation between them: the Italian economist Piero Sraffa, the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, and the Italian politician and philosopher Antonio Gramsci. 2003 Level: advanced Sraffa, Wittgenstein, and Gramsci Amartya Sen Journal of Economic Literature This lecture was held in the context of the a two day conference called Which pluralism for thinking about how to achieve a more sustainable and resilient economy The practices institutions and system logics of today s economy are not suitable for appropriately addressing fundamental human needs The climate crisis … 2021 Level: beginner Embracing speculation and liquid identity: The case of the entrepreneur in a post crisis world Wyatt Constantine Conference "Which Pluralism?" This lecture was held in the context of the a two day conference called Which pluralism for thinking about how to achieve a more sustainable and resilient economy The practices institutions and system logics of today s economy are not suitable for appropriately addressing fundamental human needs The climate crisis … 2021 Level: beginner A Methodology of Pluralist Economics Florian Rommel Conference "Which Pluralism?" This lecture was held in the context of the a two day conference called Which pluralism for thinking about how to achieve a more sustainable and resilient economy The practices institutions and system logics of today s economy are not suitable for appropriately addressing fundamental human needs The climate crisis … 2021 Level: beginner Exploring Ergodicity Economics Mark Kirstein Conference "Which Pluralism?" This lecture was held in the context of the a two day conference called Which pluralism for thinking about how to achieve a more sustainable and resilient economy The practices institutions and system logics of today s economy are not suitable for appropriately addressing fundamental human needs The climate crisis … 2021 Level: beginner Beyond indifference - An economics for the future Lukas Bäuerle Conference "Which Pluralism?" This lecture was held in the context of the a two day conference called Which pluralism for thinking about how to achieve a more sustainable and resilient economy The practices institutions and system logics of today s economy are not suitable for appropriately addressing fundamental human needs The climate crisis … 2021 Level: beginner Caring the Care Sector - Contributions of Feminist Macroeconomics to Economics in the Post-COVID Era Izaskun Zuazu Conference "Which Pluralism?" This lecture was held in the context of the a two day conference called Which pluralism for thinking about how to achieve a more sustainable and resilient economy The practices institutions and system logics of today s economy are not suitable for appropriately addressing fundamental human needs The climate crisis … 2025 Level: beginner Pandemic Paradigm Shift Ivan Rubinic Conference "Which Pluralism?" This lecture was held in the context of the a two day conference called Which pluralism for thinking about how to achieve a more sustainable and resilient economy The practices institutions and system logics of today s economy are not suitable for appropriately addressing fundamental human needs The climate crisis … 2021 Level: beginner Revisiting the Carr-Benkler wager - Is the Internet peer-produced or price incentivized? Alex Pazaitis Conference "Which Pluralism?" The New Mulit Purpose Mobility Solution All in on socially responsible ride share and delivery app This lecture was held in the context of the a two day conference called Which pluralism for thinking about how to achieve a more sustainable and resilient economy The practices institutions and system logics … 2021 Level: beginner The New Mulit-Purpose Mobility Solution Dardan Isufi Conference "Which Pluralism?" This lecture was held in the context of the a two day conference called Which pluralism for thinking about how to achieve a more sustainable and resilient economy The practices institutions and system logics of today s economy are not suitable for appropriately addressing fundamental human needs The climate crisis … 2021 Level: beginner Decolonization of Methodology of Economics Bediz Ölmez Conference "Which Pluralism?"

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