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Caring activities are one central element of feminist economists' analysis – also since in particular unremunerated work is a blind spot in mainstream economics and most other economic paradigms. Those focus on the market sphere: activities are considered as productive and as real labour if they are remunerated and market-intermediated. Goods and services are considered as labour if they create a value which can be traded on the market. Feminist Economics remarks that this perspective creates certain dichotomies and consequent devaluations: unproductive – productive; private – public; unpaid – remunerated OR paid less – well paid; female – male; soft work – hard work; caring – rationality. 2016 Level: beginner Reproductive Labour and Care Exploring Economics Exploring Economics Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is a school of monetary and macroeconomic thought that focuses on the analysis of the monetary and credit system, and in particular on the question of credit creation by the state. 2020 Level: beginner Modern Monetary Theory Nathalie Freitag Exploring Economics This article investigates the set up of the CFA franc zones, its ties to French neocolonialism and its ability to further breed dependency in the former colonies. 2018 Level: beginner The CFA Franc Zones: Neocolonialism and Dependency Mariamawit Tadesse Economic Questions How does fiscal policy work and which dimensions have to be considered? In this short text, you can learn about the difficulty of juggling different dimensions and which optimal rules exist at the micro and macro level. 2019 Level: beginner Why is fiscal policy so difficult?   Dezernat Zukunft Economics has long been the domain of the ivory tower, where specialized language and opaque theorems make it inaccessible to most people. That’s a problem. 2019 Level: beginner Economics for People Ha-Joon Chang Institute for New Economic Thinking 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 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 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 Exploring Economics, an open-source e-learning platform, giving you the opportunity to discover & study a variety of economic theories, topics, and methods. 2019 Level: advanced Karl Marx: An early post-Keynesian? Eckhart Hein Institute for International Political Economy Berlin Exploring Economics, an open-source e-learning platform, giving you the opportunity to discover & study a variety of economic theories, topics, and methods. 2017 Level: beginner Reclaiming the university: Transforming economics as a discipline Arne Heise Zentrum für Ökonomische und Soziologische Studien, Universität Hamburg 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 Exploring Economics, an open-access e-learning platform, giving you the opportunity to discover & study a variety of economic theories, topics, and methods. 2019 Level: expert Monetary sovereignty is a spectrum: modern monetary theory and developing countries Bruno Bonizzi, Annina Kaltenbrunner, Jo Michell Post-Autistic Economics Network The world is regularly shaken by crises some are bigger others are smaller in scope Local turmoil military conflicts commodity scarcity bank runs health threats the history of mankind can be written as a history of crises Three major global crises occurred in the last fifty years alone the oil … 2021 Level: beginner Understanding Crises - What to take from here for better policy advice in the future? Dr. Carolina Alves, Prof. Dr. Ishac Diwan Exploring Economics Marx Reloaded is a cultural documentary that examines the relevance of German socialist and philosopher Karl Marx s ideas for understanding the global economic and financial crisis of 2008 09 The crisis triggered the deepest global recession in 70 years and prompted the US government to spend more than 1 … 2011 Level: beginner Marx Reloaded Jason Barker YouTube (ARTE) This film looks at the role economic growth has had in bringing about this crisis, and explores alternatives to it, offering a vision of hope for the future and a better life for all within planetary boundaries. 2020 Level: beginner Fairytales of Growth Pierre Smith Khanna Fairy Tales of Growth The world has seen the emergence of a rather different system of international lender of last resort organized as a network of central bank liquidity swap lines largely limited to the core countries of the Global North In this system central banks swap their own currency for dollars which they … 2021 Level: expert “Where’s My Swap Line?”: A Money View of International Lender of Last Resort Perry Mehrling Boston University Global Development Policy Center The article reviews the effects that the War in Ukraine will have for the global economy. 2022 Level: beginner The Ukraine War's Multifaceted Economic Fallout Mohamed A. El-Erian Project Syndicate After completing the module, participants should have gained a basic understanding of the economic school of thought referred to as "Modern Monetary Theory" and should be able to analyze the monetary processes at play in the economy and evaluate fiscal and monetary policy decisions from an MMT-perspective. 2021 Level: beginner Introduction to Modern Monetary Theory Maurice Höfgen Summer Academy for Pluralist Economics Completing the Economics of Discrimination module, the students should have acquired knowledge and understanding of the existing similarities and differences of the definition and analysis of discrimination across economic theory and cultural theory. 2021 Level: beginner Economics of discrimination Dr. Mary Wrenn und Dr. Hans Dietrich Summer Academy for Pluralist Economics In this short essay, Jayati Ghosh gives an overview over the multiple ways in which the economic "fall-out" of the War in Ukraine is hitting economies and societies in the developing world. 2022 Level: beginner Putin’s War Is Damaging the Developing World Jayati Ghosh Project Syndicate Education policy seeks to ensure equality in access, equality within the classroom and in teaching- learning processes, and equality in outcomes. This course encourages students to assess and evaluate the extent to which these objectives are met in practice and the ways in which educational outcomes are shaped by, as well as alter, gendered social norms. Level: beginner Education, Gender and Development Ratna Sudarshan National University of National Planning and Administration, New Delhi In this class we will explore how globalization shapes and is shaped by gender norms with a particular focus on questions related to ‘work,’ mobility and well-being. 2015 Level: beginner Gender and Globalization Prof. Jennifer Olmsted Drew University - Dept. of Economics 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. This teaching pack focuses on the practice and real-world activities of central banks. It assumes students have a grasp of basic macroeconomic concepts already, and is therefore most suitable to be used at the end of introductory macro courses, or in more advanced macro or monetary economics courses. 2022 Level: beginner The Practice of Central Banking   Economy Studies In his 2010 published book “The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism” multi-talented US geographer, anthropologist and Marxist economist David Harvey aims to analyse the capitalist system that has shaped western society and the globalized world of today. 2011 Level: advanced The Enigma of Capital David Harvey Profile Books 'This Cambridge professor delights in paradox. And myth-busting . . . he does this with charm and a desire to see how things work in the real world' Guardian, 'In Praise of Ha-Joon Chang' In this revelatory book, Ha-Joon Chang destroys the biggest myths of our times and shows us the truth about how the world really works, including- there's no such thing as a free market. 2011 Level: advanced 23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism Ha-Joon Chang Penguin This book arose from our conviction that the NNS-DSGE approach to the analysis of aggregate market outcomes is fundamentally flawed. The practice of overcoming the SMD result by recurring to a fictitious RA leads to insurmountable methodological problems and lies at the root of DSGE models’ failure to satisfactorily explain real world features. 2011 Level: advanced Macroeconomics from the Bottom-up Domenico Delli Gatti, Saul Desiderio, Edoardo Gaffeo, Pasquale Cirillo, Mauro Gallegati Springer Milan This book provides a new methodological approach to money and macroeconomics. Realizing that the abstract equilibrium models lacked descriptions of fundamental issues of a modern monetary economy, the focus of this book lies on the (stylized) balance sheets of the main actors. Money, after all, is born on the balance sheets of the central bank or commercial bank. 2017 Level: beginner Modern Monetary Theory and European Macroeconomics Dirk H. Ehnts Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group The economic crisis is also a crisis for economic theory. Most analyses of the evolution of the crisis invoke three themes, contagion, networks and trust, yet none of these play a major role in standard macroeconomic models. What is needed is a theory in which these aspects are central. 2011 Level: advanced Complex Economics Alan Kirman Routledge This invaluable volume brings together seminal articles with a significant behavioural content on various areas in macroeconomics. 2012 Level: advanced Behavioural Macroeconomics Ian Martin McDonald Edward Elgar This Encyclopedia is a very first fully refereed A-Z compendium of the main principles, concepts, problems, institutions, schools and policies associated with political economy. Part 1 of a 2-volume set comprises entries from A-K. 1999 Level: advanced Encyclopedia of Political Economy: A-K Phillip Anthony O'Hara Psychology Press More than a century after Hartley Withers's "The Meaning of Money" and 80 years after Keynes's "Treatise on Money", the fundamentals of how banks create money still needs explaining and this book meets that need with clear exposition and expert marshalling of the relevant facts. 2014 Level: advanced Where Does Money Come From? Josh Ryan-Collins, Tony Greenham, Richard Werner, Andrew Jackson New Economics Foundation

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