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Ride hailing home sharing meal delivery and other forms of digitally powered task sharing are creating jobs and growth in Europe and significant policy challenges What should be the responsibilities of these new platforms how should workers be classified and how can insurers and others provide services to this new … 2020 Level: advanced Europe’s Collaborative Economy William Echikson / Jesse Goldberg Centre for European Policy Studies - CEPS This video provides key insights into the functioning of Western sanctions imposed on Russia due to the current Ukrainian conflict. 2022 Level: beginner How The West Broke Russia's Economy Joeri Schasfoort Money & Macro An examination of women's changing economic roles. Includes an analysis of labour force participation, wage inequality, gender differences in education, intra-household distribution of resources, economics of reproduction, and how technological change affects women. 2015 Level: beginner Women and the Economy Dr. Cristina Echevarria University of Saskatchewan By the end of this course, students should understand the basic economic theories of the gender division of labor in the home and at the workplace, and theories of gender differences in compensation and workforce segregation. 2014 Level: beginner Economics of Gender (Woman in the U.S: Economy) Prof. Elaine McCrate University of Vermont Diane Perrons and Sigrid Stagl combine feminist and critical environmental economics perspectives to develop a critique of the free market growth model and offer new ideas for a more sustainable gender equitable model of development in the interests of all. 2019 Level: advanced A Feminist Political Economy for an Inclusive and Sustainable Society Diane Perrons, Sigrid (Vienna University for Economics and Business) Stagl Agenda Publishing This book provides important insights into agrarian history and the economic and cultural meanings associated with land. 2019 Level: beginner The Cultural Economy of Land Suhita Sinha Roy Tulika Books This book is a collection of articles on topics and individuals within the history of heterodox economic thought, approached from a heterodox perspective. The principal topics are the nature and scope of economics as an intellectual venture. 1992 Level: advanced Essays in the History of Heterodox Political Economy Warren J. Samuels NYU Press Based on a clear conceptual framework and ten flexible building blocks this handbook offers refreshing ideas and practical suggestions to stimulate student engagement and critical thinking across a wide range of courses Drawing on decades of ideas on how to improve economics education and a growing number of available alternative … 2021 Level: beginner Economy Studies Sam de Muijnck and Joris Tieleman Amsterdam University Press The recent financial meltdown and the resulting global recession have rekindled debates regarding the nature of contemporary capitalism. 2013 Level: advanced A Political Economy of Contemporary Capitalism and its Crisis Sotiropoulos, Dimitris P.; Milios, John; Lapatsioras, Spyros Routledge This course is part of the SDG initiative addressing the UN Sustainable Development Goals, specifically for the following SDGs [1, 8, 10 and 16]. Level: beginner Political Economy of Institutions and Development Richard Thomas Griffiths Universiteit Leiden Steve Keen provides an alternative view on Macroeconomics before and after the crisis and outlines different macroeconomic fallacies. Level: advanced Advanced Political Economy Lectures Steve Keen University of Western Sydney At the 2013 Climate, Mind, & Behavior Symposium, Rebecca Adamson of First Peoples Worldwide illustrates alternative economic systems modeled after indigenous worldviews and the power they have in pushing us towards a more sustainable existence. 2013 Level: beginner Rebecca Adamson: Enoughness - Restoring Balance to the Economy Rebecca Adamson YouTube As the global economic landscape evolves, demographics shift, inequality expands, climate change gets worse and technology continues to advance at breakneck speed, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is struggling to stay relevant. 2021 Level: beginner Beyond GDP - Wellbeing Economy, Happiness Index and the postgrowth debate Anna Murphy , Dr. Fred K. Muhumuza Exploring Economics Course goals Learn about women men and work in the labor market and the household Learn to apply the tools of economic analysis to these topics and deepen understanding of these tools Develop the skills to think critically about gender issues including policy interventions Enhance understanding of how to analyze … 2016 Level: beginner Women in the Economy Professor Francine D. Blau International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) This MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) discusses Global Workers’ Rights and shows instruments and strategies which can be used to implement them. Level: beginner Workers' Rights in a Global Economy Paul Whitehead; Mark Anner; Mark Anner; Stefanie Lorenzen; Fernando Lopes; Michael Fichter; Frank Hoffer; Victor Hugo Ricco; Camilo Rubiano; Christoph Scherrer; Ben Scully; Beatriz Vacotto; Beatriz Vacotto Global Labour University This book analyzes the transition of chocolate from an exotic curiosity to an Atlantic commodity. It shows how local, inter-regional, and Atlantic markets interacted with one another and with imperial political economies. It explains how these interactions, intertwined with the resilience of local artisanal production, promoted the partial democratization of chocolate consumption as well as economic growth. 2020 Level: advanced Empire, Political Economy, and the Diffusion of Chocolate in the Atlantic World Irene Fattacciu Routledge Why are income inequalities so large and why do they continue to increase in so many countries? What role can minimum wages play in reducing social and economic inequalities? What is a good system of wage bargaining? What constitutes a fair wage? Level: beginner Fair Wage Strategies in a Global Economy Hansjörg Herr, Maité Llanos, Gilad Isaacs, Susan Hayter, Patrick Belser, Mary Bellman, Luis Campos, Frank Hoffer Global Labour University The Nawi Knowledge Portal is an open access repository that features for multi themed research outputs and knowledge products. They aim to amplify the work of African women working to demystify the space of macroeconomic policy from a Pan African feminist to the widest possible audience. 2023 Level: advanced NAWI Collective - A Pan African Feminist Political Economy Collective Diverse NAWI Collective Commons stand for a plurality of practices ‘beyond market and state’ as the famous Commons scholar – and first female noble prize winner of economics - Elinor Ostrom put it. Their practice and theory challenge classical economic theory and stand for a different mode of caring, producing and governing. Within this workshop we want to dive into theory, practice and utopia of Commons following four blocks... 2022 Level: beginner The Future of Commons Friederike Habermann & Simon Sutterlütti, Summer Academy 2022 for Pluralist Economics Kareem Megahed, Omar Ghannam and Heba Khalil, from Post-Colonialisms Today, provide insights on the early post-independence industrialization project in Egypt, in which the state played a central coordinating role. 2020 Level: advanced Lessons for Today from Egypt’s Post-Independence Industrialization Kareem Megahed, Omar Ghannam, and Heba Khalil Post-Colonialisms Today: postcolonialisms.regionsrefocus.org From religious leaders to heads of state, everyone is talking about economic inequality. What form can such inequality take in different countries? What impact does it have on society? And why should it matter to you? Level: beginner Challenging Wealth and Income Inequality Jerome De Henau; Jonqil Lowe Open University The 2022 FIFA World Cup (including the construction work required for it) provides a clear example of economic activity that has taken place despite the financial costs to the Qatari state being an order of magnitude larger than the financial benefits it will receive. Whilst this is a fairly extreme case in terms of how many different costs and benefits are involved and how unequally they have been spread, many economic decisions are more complicated than mere financial calculations and it is therefore vital for students to be able to think about multiple dimensions involved in economic decisions. 2023 Level: beginner The Economics of a World Cup in Qatar Economy Studies Economy Studies The book’s central theme is to develop a new theory of speculative capital related to other forms of capital, the world market, and the state. Unlike most marxist and heterodox theories, the book distinguishes credit and fictitious capital from speculative capital to show its hegemony today in the capital markets. 2022 Level: advanced Financial Capital in the 21st Century Achim Szepanski Springer Nature Economists occupy leading positions in many different sectors including central and private banks, multinational corporations, the state and the media, as well as serving as policy consultants on everything from health to the environment and security. Power and Influence of Economists explores the interconnected relationship between power, knowledge and influence which has led economics to be both a source and beneficiary of widespread power and influence. 2021 Level: beginner Power and Influence of Economists Jens Maesse, Stephan Pühringer, Thierry Rossier, Pierre Benz Routledge Austrian economics focuses on the economic coordination of individuals in a market economy. Austrian economics emphasises individualism, subjectivism, laissez-faire politics, uncertainty and the role of the entrepreneur, amongst others. Austrian Economics     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 In this radio interview, Philip Mirowski, author of the book "Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste" presents several differences between neoclassical economics and neoliberalism. Apart from a historical outline, Mirowski primarily discusses different perceptions of markets and the role of the state. Mirowski further reflects on the role think tanks ("part of the "neoliberal thought collective") and the entrepreneurial self (the "neoliberal agent") in the spreading and fostering of the neoliberalism. 2015 Level: beginner How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown Philip Mirowski The Majority Report with Sam Seder Ricardo Hausmann says the new industrial policy is an information revelation process about the state of possibilities, the nature of the obstacles and figuring out whether you can sort out the obstacles so that these new activities can take over. 2018 Level: beginner Industrial Policy: Love it or Hate it? Ricardo Hausmann Center for International Development at Harvard University 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 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 Neoliberalism is dead. Again. After the election of Trump and the victory of Brexit in 2016, many diagnosed the demise of the ideology of Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, Augusto Pinochet, and the WTO. Yet the philosophy of the free market and the strong state has an uncanny capacity to survive and even thrive in crisis. 2020 Level: advanced Nine Lives of Neoliberalism Dieter Plehwe Verso Books The complex economic problems of the 21st century require a pluralist, real-world oriented and innovative discipline of economics that is capable of addressing and teaching these issues to students. This volume is a state-of-the-art compilation of diverse, innovative and international perspectives on the rationales for and pathways towards pluralist economics teaching. 2018 Level: advanced Advancing Pluralism in Teaching Economics Samuel Decker, Wolfram Elsner, Svenja Flechtner Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

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