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On July 2020 ZOE-Institute published a unique platform for transformative policymaking: Sustainable Prosperity. Building on insights from new economic thinking the platform provides knowledge about ideas, arguments and procedures that support effective promotion of political change. It aims to strengthen change makers in public policy institutions, who are working on an ambitious green and just transition. As such, it provides convincing arguments and policy ideas to overcome the reliance of economic policy on GDP growth Level: beginner Sustainable Prosperity   ZOE Philosopher and political economist John Stuart Mill laid several foundations for liberal thinking, amongst others with the harm principle: everyone should be given the individual freedom - and not be hindered by e.g. state intervention - to act as s/he wants as long as no other person is harmed by this action. A short insight in his book On Liberty. 2014 Level: beginner The Harm Principle: How to live your life the way you want to   BBC Radio The sum of squares and degree of freedom calculation from the previous videos are put into a ratio to calculate the F Value, on whose basis the null hypothesis is confirmed or rejected. If variance is higher between samples than within the null hypothesis is more likely to be rejected. The results of a numerical example are interpreted more abstractly and then tested with regards to a confidence interval and the corresponding F table. 2012 Level: beginner ANOVA 3: Hypothesis test with F-statistic   Khan Academy What made the false assumption that saving the economy at all cost during a pandemic so popular? This paper discusses different pathways through the COVID-19 pandemic at national and international level, and their consequences on the health of citizens and their economies. 2021 Level: beginner How not to save the economy? The interplay of economics and health during the COVID-19 pandemic Vera Leuner, Navaneeth M S, Leandro Pereira Monteiro, Eduardo Lacerda Camargo Bisneto Exploring Economics First the global mean is calculated from a matrix of three sets each containing three observations. Then the sum of squares is calculated. Lastly, the concept of degree of freedom is explained. 2012 Level: advanced ANOVA 1: Calculating SST (total sum of squares)   Khan Academy The total sum of squares and the total degrees of freedoms are disaggregated by calculating in sample variance and "between" sample variance and their respective degrees of freedoms. It is demonstrated numerically that both these measures add up to the total sum of squares and the total degrees of freedom. 2012 Level: beginner ANOVA 2: Calculating SSW and SSB (total sum of squares within and between)   Khan Academy For many social critics "globalization" is a signpost of “late-capitalism” with the rise of multinational corporations, mass consumption and the multidirectional flows of capital, labor, media, communication, ideologies and social movements across national borders. Feminist analyses of globalization and the gendered and sexualized permutations of these phenomena offer a critical stance for theorizing these processes, and for studying their complex articulations across time and space. Level: advanced Feminist Inroads in Epistemology, Method, and Theory Carla Freeman Emory University After completing the module, participants should be able to analyse the concepts of degrowth, ecological unequal exchange, Green New Deal, and embeddedness by applying theories situated within the fields of academic research of Ecological Economics and Political Ecology. 2021 Level: beginner Political ecology, Degrowth and the Green New Deal Riccardo Mastini Summer Academy for Pluralist Economics The first day of the workshop is intended to initiate students to the foundational concepts of ecological economics. Ecological economics is an ecological critique of economics, applying the energetics of life to the study of the economy. It also investigates the social distribution of environmental costs and benefits. It does so by deconstructing concepts that are taken for granted like “nature” or “the economy”, excavating their ideological origins. 2022 Level: beginner Political ecology, degrowth, and the Green New Deal Ricardo Mastini Summer Academy 2022 for Pluralist Economics, This syllabus opens a literary overview of must-read papers in the field of development economics. 2022 Level: beginner Development Economics Rukmini Thapa Summer Academy 2022 for Pluralist Economics Exploring Economics, an open-access e-learning platform, giving you the opportunity to discover & study a variety of economic theories, topics, and methods. 2021 Level: beginner The Political Economy of Inequalities Jürgen Essletzbichler, Andrea Grisold, Hendrik Theine Exploring Economics 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 How long the COVID-19 crisis will last, and what its immediate economic costs will be, is anyone's guess. But even if the pandemic's economic impact is contained, it may have already set the stage for a debt meltdown long in the making, starting in many of the Asian emerging and developing economies on the front lines of the outbreak. 2020 Level: beginner The COVID-19 Debt Deluge Jayati Ghosh Project Syndicate As seen with the United Nations significant promotion of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the past few years, the issue of global development is of growing concern to many international organizations. As humanity continues to become more interconnected through globalization, the inequalities and injustices experienced by inhabitants of impacted countries becomes increasingly clear. While this issue can be observed in the papers of different types (e.g., different schools of thought) of economists throughout the world, the work of behavioral and complexity economists offer a unique, collaborative perspective on how to frame decisions for individuals in a way that can positively reverberate throughout society and throughout time. 2018 Level: beginner Behavioural vs Complexity Economics: Approaches to Development Erika Sloan Pluralist Economics Fellowship Exploring Economics, an open-source e-learning platform, giving you the opportunity to discover & study a variety of economic theories, topics, and methods. 2020 Level: beginner Yes, Money is Endogenous. Who Cares? Cahal Moran Rethinking Economics In this lecture Mirowski claims that a good critique of and alternative to neoclassical economics should focus on microeconomics. In addition, he claims that mainstream economics is not about a specific "human nature", instead the understanding of markets (partially based on Hayek) is of special importance. As an alternative Mirowski proposes institutionalist economics that builds upon how markets work nowadays (e.g. links to computer science). 2015 Level: expert Should Economists be Experts in Markets or in Human Nature? Philip Mirowski Netzwerk Plurale Ökonomik This multimedia dossier is part of the series „Understanding Finance“ by Finance Watch and presents a description and critical review of financial markets and their functions. It furthermore discusses recent developments, as high frequency trading. 2015 Level: beginner What kind of financial markets do we need?   Finance Watch Central banking is anything but clear-cut. As this webinar with Benjamin Braun demonstrates, the standard view of central banks as independent public entities that govern financial markets and "print" money is at least partially misleading. 2020 Level: beginner Central banking, Finance and Power Benjamin Braun crashcourseeconomics.org Poster of the different schools of thought made by Sergio A. Berumen. From the Greeks to late 20th and beginning of the 21th century. 2017 Level: beginner General Guide To Schools Of Economic Thought Sergio A. Berumen ESIC Business & Marketing School, 3rd edition, Madrid For intermediate courses in economics. A Unified View of the Latest Macroeconomic Events Macroeconomics, Blanchard presents a unified, global view of macroeconomics, enabling readers to see the connections between goods, financial markets, and labor markets worldwide. 2017 Level: advanced Macroeconomics Olivier J. Blanchard, David R. Johnson Pearson 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 Max Krahé explains the role of economic planning for a green transition. 2022 Level: advanced The Whole Field - Markets, planning, and coordinating the green transformation Max Krahé Phenomenal World Use economic models to learn how prices and markets benefit society in the face of scarcity and then apply those models to analyze policy Jonathan Gruber edX Massachusetts Institute of Technology Level: advanced Microeconomics Jonathan Gruber Massachusetts Institute of Technology The 2007–08 credit crisis and the long recession that followed brutally exposed the economic and social costs of financialization. Understanding what lay behind these events, the rise of “fictitious capital” and its opaque logic, is crucial to grasping the social and political conditions under which we live. Yet, for most people, the operations of the financial system remain shrouded in mystery. 2017 Level: advanced Fictitious Capital Cedric Durand Verso In this video, Rajan Raghuram highlights ‘A hereditary Meritocracy’. He identifies the “limitations” with the current economic systems of democracy and markets. 2019 Level: beginner A Hereditary Meritocracy Raghuram Rajan New Economic Thinking The workshop introduces into the field of critical political economy and tries to identify the role of finacial markets in capitalism, the reason for financial crises and the relevance of Marx in regard to these topics. 2018 Level: beginner Marxian Political Economy Jannis Eicker and Anil Shah 2. Summer Academy for Pluralist Economics Why is it that some countries become rich while others remain poor? Do markets require regulation to function efficiently? If markets offer an efficient way of exchanging goods, why do individuals even create firms? 2019 Level: beginner Institutional Economics - An Introduction Voigt, Stefan Cambridge University Press 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 Dr Murieann Quigley (Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Ethics and Law, University of Bristol) discusses the ethics of nudging and whether it matters that third parties construct the context in which you make your decisions. 2016 Level: beginner The Ethics of Nudging Dr Murieann Quigley TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities This episode from Odd Lost podcast with financial analyst Zoltan Pozsar features a discussion on the potential long-term financial effects of the Ukraine-Crisis on dollar and the global currency system centered around it. 2022 Level: advanced Zoltan Pozsar on Russia, Gold, and a Turning Point for the U.S. Dollar Zoltan Pozsar, Tracy Alloway, Joe Weisenthal Bloomberg In this teaching pack, we look at the acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk. In particular, we focus on what it means to take a company private and how the deal was financed. 2022 Level: beginner Musk buys Twitter   Economy Studies Improving Decisions About Health Wealth and Happiness Now available Nudge The Final Edition The original edition of the multimillion copy New York Times bestseller by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics Richard H Thaler and Cass R Sunstein a revelatory look at how we make decisions for fans … 2009 Level: beginner Nudge Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein Penguin Publishing Group

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