This brief views the environment through diverse lenses – those of standard economics, institutional economics, political science, environmental science and ecology. 2013 Level: advanced The Environment in Economics and Development Vikram Dayal Springer Science & Business Media The Microeconomics of Complex Economies uses game theory, modeling approaches, formal techniques, and computer simulations to teach useful, accessible approaches to real modern economies. 2018 Level: advanced The Microeconomics of Complex Economies Wolfram Elsner, Torsten Heinrich, Henning Schwardt Elsevier Science This is a great book Against the background of the dogmatism of much of modern economics Fullbrook has produced an innovative wide ranging argument for narrative pluralism The timely book is beautifully written accessible to all provocative extraordinarily insightful and extremely compelling Tony Lawson Cambridge University UK This fascinating and … 2016 Level: advanced Narrative Fixation in Economics Edward Fullbrook College Publications The leading edges of economic thinking in the early 21st century are marked by a nascent pluralism - a positive valuing of difference and complexity - regarding the nature and evolution of human behaviour and economic organization. Economic Pluralism brings these pluralist sensibilities to the fore. 2009 Level: advanced Economic Pluralism Robert F. Garnett, Erik K. Olsen, Martha A. Starr Routledge Big challenges lie ahead for our society: increased automation of work, and the threat of catastrophic climate change. But so, too, are the huge possibilities presented by new technology and better ways of organising our economy in the wake of neoliberalism's failure. 2018 Level: advanced Economics for the Many John McDonnell Verso Books That’s why it is time, says renegade economist Kate Raworth, to revise our economic thinking for the 21st century. In Doughnut Economics, she sets out seven key ways to fundamentally reframe our understanding of what economics is and does. 2017 Level: beginner Doughnut Economics Kate Raworth Chelsea Green Publishing 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 Despite some diversification modern economics still attracts a great deal of criticism. This is largely due to highly unrealistic assumptions underpinning economic theory, explanatory failure, poor policy framing, and a dubious focus on prediction. Many argue that flaws continue to owe much of their shortcomings to neoclassical economics. 2015 Level: beginner What is Neoclassical Economics? Morgan, Jamie Routledge In a challenge to conventional views on modern monetary and fiscal policy, this book presents a coherent analysis of how money is created, how it functions in global exchange rate regimes, and how the mystification of the nature of money has constrained governments, and prevented states from acting in the public interest. 2015 Level: advanced Modern Money Theory Wray, L. Randall Palgrave Macmillan Ecological economics addresses one of the fundamental flaws in conventional economics--its failure to consider biophysical and social reality in its analyses and equations. Ecological Economics: Principles and Applications is an introductory-level textbook that offers a pedagogically complete examination of this dynamic new field. 2003 Level: beginner Ecological Economics - A Workbook for Problem-Based Learning Daly, Herman E.; Farley, Joshua Island Press In analyzing the global competition between Chinese and Indian tea, Andrew B. Liu challenges past economic histories premised on the technical “divergence” between the West and the Rest, arguing instead that seemingly traditional technologies and practices were central to modern capital accumulation across Asia. 2020 Level: advanced Tea War Andrew B. Liu Yale University Press Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century is the most widely discussed work of economics in recent history, selling millions of copies in dozens of languages. But are its analyses of inequality and economic growth on target? Where should researchers go from here in exploring the ideas Piketty pushed to the forefront of global conversation? A cast of economists and other social scientists tackle these questions in dialogue with Piketty, in what is sure to be a much-debated book in its own right. 2019 Level: advanced After Piketty Marshall Steinbaum, J. Bradford DeLong, Heather Boushey Harvard University Press How Covid Shook the World s Economy Deftly weaving finance politics business and the global human experience into one tight narrative a tour de force account of 2020 the year that changed everything from the acclaimed author of Crashed The shocks of 2020 have been great and small disrupting the … 2021 Level: advanced Shutdown Adam Tooze Penguin Publishing Group The book explores the imperialist tendency inherent in global capitalism by using a rigorous political economy framework. 2019 Level: advanced The Wealth of (some) Nations Zak Cope Pluto Press Within the heterodox field one of the most active topics is related to the theory of economic growth and distribution This is a textbook for advance undergraduate and graduate students Throughout its 18 chapters Classical Neoclassical and post Keynesian models are developed Each chapter contains study problems and suggested readings … 2019 Level: expert Growth and Distribution Duncan K. Foley, Thomas R. Michl, Daniele Tavani Harvard University Press Having dissected what's supposedly wrong with contemporary macroeconomics, Steve Keen, on the leading critics of the mainstream of our times and distinguished economist himself, goes on to present his idea of a New Economics: What premises it should build on, what methods it should use, and yes, what purpose it should serve. 2022 Level: beginner The New Economics Steve Keen Wiley Derek Neal writes that economists must analyze public education policy in the same way they analyze other procurement problems. He shows how standard tools from economics research speak directly to issues in education. For mastering the models and tools that economists of education should use in their work, there is no better resource available.-- 2018 Level: beginner Information, Incentives, and Education Policy Derek A. Neal Harvard University Press In this volume, Katz offers a detailed summary of the foundations, evolutions and approaches of Dependency Theory in Latin America, focusing on the regional interpretations of Marxism, Developmentalism and World-Systems Theory. 2022 Level: advanced Dependency Theory After Fifty Years Claudio Katz Brill Whiteness is a process of learning: one is not born white, but becomes one. In this rich and compelling volume, Sriprakash, Rudolph and Gerrard offer a meticulous (and eye-opening) reading of educational experiences and structures that endorse systemic racism. 2022 Level: beginner Learning Whiteness Arathi Sriprakash, Sophie Rudolph, Jessica Gerrard Pluto Press The Price of Slavery analyzes Marx's critique of capitalist slavery and its implications for the Caribbean thought of Toussaint Louverture, Henry Christophe, C. L. R. James, Aimé Césaire, Jacques Stephen Alexis, and Suzanne Césaire. Nick Nesbitt assesses the limitations of the literature on capitalism and slavery since Eric Williams in light of Marx's key concept of the social forms of labor, wealth, and value. 2022 Level: beginner The Price of Slavery Nick Nesbitt University of Virginia Press The world's leading economist of inequality presents a short but sweeping and surprisingly optimistic history of human progress toward equality despite crises, disasters, and backsliding. 2022 Level: beginner A Brief History of Equality Thomas Piketty Harvard University Press