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To explain the pronounced instability of the world economy since the 1970s, the book offers an important and systematic theoretical examination of money and finance. 1999 Level: advanced Political Economy of Money and Finance Costas Lapavitsas; Makoto Itoh Palgrave Macmillan The world has changed dramatically in recent years and so has the field of economics, but many introductory economics textbooks have remained stuck in the past. This book provides a new beginning for the study of macroeconomics, fundamentally international in its approach and emphasizing current debates and research trends. 2014 Level: advanced Macroeconomics Dorman, Peter Springer-Verlag This book demonstrates the continuing relevance of economics for understanding the world, through a restatement of the importance of plurality and heterodox ideas for teaching and research. 2017 Level: advanced Post-Crash Economics Feraboli, Omar; Morelli, Carlo J. (eds.) Palgrave Macmillan Rethinking Business is a volume of thought-provoking researches that sets out to challenge the paradigm of business along the areas of governance, finance, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability. 2014 Level: advanced Rethinking Business Raymund B. Habaradas and Denver Bingski D. Daradar De La Salle University (DLSU) Publishing House The book deals with the financial instability hypothesis of Hyman P. Minsky and its application to current developments. The first part of the work summarizes the hypothesis and mentions works elaborating the hypothesis. The second part applies the hypothesis to the financial crisis 0f 2008/09. 2014 Level: advanced The Financial Instability Hypothesis of Hyman P. Minsky Michal Paulus LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing International Economics, 15e continues to combine rigorous economic analysis with attention to the issues of economic policy that are alive and important today in this field. 2011 Level: advanced International Economics Pugel, Thomas A. McGraw Hill Book Co Three dominant forces worldwide are driving change today in our financial markets: competition, technology and regulation. But their collective impact in reshaping the markets, though they may be viewed individually as desirable or well-intentioned, is producing challenging results that are difficult to predict, hard to control and not easy to understand. 2013 Level: advanced Rethinking Regulatory Structure Robert A. Schwartz, John Aidan Byrne, Gretchen Schnee Springer 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 Why do we think that sovereign debt must be repaid--even after a major regime change--in order to maintain country creditworthiness? In a fascinating and highly original book, Odette Lienau argues that this conventional wisdom is overly simplistic and in some respects entirely wrong. 2014 Level: beginner Rethinking Sovereign Debt Lienau, Odette Harvard University Press In this classic work of economic history and social theory, Karl Polanyi analyzes the economic and social changes brought about by the "great transformation" of the Industrial Revolution. 2001 Level: advanced The Great Transformation Karl Polanyi Beacon Press Focusing on Kenya’s path-breaking mobile money project M-Pesa, this book examines and critiques the narratives and institutions of digital financial inclusion as a development strategy for gender equality, arguing for a politics of redistribution to guide future digital financial inclusion projects. 2020 Level: advanced The Exclusionary Politics of Digital Financial Inclusion Serena Natile Routledge Planetary Mine rethinks the politics and territoriality of resource extraction, especially as the mining industry becomes reorganized in the form of logistical networks, and East Asian economies emerge as the new pivot of the capitalist world-system. 2020 Level: advanced Planetary Mine Martín Arboleda Verso Books Popular anger against the financial system has never been higher, yet the practical workings of the system remain opaque to many people. The Heretic's Guide to Global Finance aims to bridge the gap between protest slogans and practical proposals for reform. 2013 Level: advanced The Heretics Guide to Global Finance Brett Scott Pluto Press In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Bombay was beset by crises such as famine and plague. Yet, rather than halting the flow of capital, these crises served to secure it. In colonial Bombay, capitalists and governors, Indian and British alike, used moments of crisis to justify interventions that delimited the city as a distinct object and progressively excluded laborers and migrants from it. 2019 Level: advanced Making the Modern Slum Sheetal Chhabria University of Washington Press 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 This book discloses the economic foundations of European fiscal and monetary policies by introducing readers to an array of alternative approaches in economics. It presents various heterodox theories put forward by classical economists, Marx, Sraffa and Keynes, as a coherent challenge to neoclassical theory. 2020 Level: advanced Heterodox Challenges in Economics Sergio Cesaratto Springer International Publishing In this book, Carlota Perez develops her Neo-Schumpeterian concept of "techno-economic paradigms" which captures the patterns underlying the role of technological revolutions in economic development since the Industrial revolution. 2003 Level: advanced Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital Carlota Perez Edward Elgar This fresh and unique textbook provides students and general readers with an introduction to economics from a new and much needed perspective, characterised by its uniquely pluralist, sustainable, progressive and global approach. Unlike traditional textbooks, Introducing a New Economics contains the key concepts of pluralism, sustainability and justice. It provides students with the central questions covered by economics including resources, work, employment, poverty, inequality, power, capital, markets, money, debt and value. 2015 Level: beginner Introducing a New Economics Jack Reardon, Maria Alejandra Caporale Madi, and Molly Scott Cato Pluto Press Wealth inequality between Black and white people in the US barely has changed in the last 150 years. In her book "The Color of Money. Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap" Mehrsa Baradaran, analyzes why also Black banks have not successfully changed this and not enabled Black wealth on a broader scale. 2017 Level: advanced The Color of Money Mehrsa Baradaran Harvard University Press 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 In this sharp intervention, authors Lucí Cavallero and Verónica Gago defiantly develop a feminist understanding of debt, showing its impact on women and members of the LGBTQ+ community and examining the relationship between debt and social reproduction. 2021 Level: beginner A Feminist Reading of Debt Luci Cavallero, Verónica Gago Pluto Press Mr Minsky long argued markets were crisis prone His moment has arrived The Wall Street Journal In his seminal work Minsky presents his groundbreaking financial theory of investment one that is startlingly relevant today He explains why the American economy has experienced periods of debilitating inflation rising unemployment and marked … 2008 Level: advanced Stabilizing an Unstable Economy Hyman Minsky McGraw Hill Professional In this book, the author, Intan Suwandi, engages with the question of imperialism through the specific channel of Global Value Chains. 2019 Level: beginner Value Chains Intan Suwandi NYU Press In this book, Blakely tells us a story of the class nature of capitalism, in which she centers the role of the financial sector and its rapid growth. 2019 Level: beginner Stolen Grace Blakeley Watkins Media Limited 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 This blog post reviews "Democratizing Finance", an edited volume that analyses and provides policy proposals to ensure that the financial system serves the public good. Mquzama undertakes the task of summarising the main takeaways from each essay in the book as well as an exposition of its shortfalls. While he acknowledges the necessity of the book's reimaging capitalism and the financial system in a way that is practical within the current economic and political structures, he also highlights its failure to look beyond the United States of America. 2022 Level: beginner Book Review: Democratizing Finance Fred Block, Robert Hockett Verso Books Financialization is one of the most innovative concepts to emerge in the field of political economy during the last three decades, although there is no agreement on what exactly it is. Profiting Without Producing by Costas Lapavitsas puts forth a distinctive view defining financialization in terms of the fundamental conduct of non-financial enterprises, banks and households. 2014 Level: advanced Profiting Without Producing Costas Lapavitsas Verso Books Finance at the Threshold offers a unique perspective from an English economic and monetary historian. In it the author asks: Why did the banks stop lending to one another, and why now? Was it merely a matter of over-loose credit due to the relaxation of traditional prudence, or did global finance find itself at its limits? 2016 Level: advanced Finance at the Threshold Budd, Christopher Houghton Routledge

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