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Economic History
2019
Level: beginner
Economic History
In this tenth lecture in INET’s “How and How Not to Do Economics,” Robert Skidelsky argues that there are two main reasons why economists should study history.
Robert Skidelsky
INET
The Governance of Markets in Challenging Times: From Classic Authors to New Approaches
2019
Level: beginner
The Governance of Markets in Challenging Times: From Classic Authors to New Approaches
This course provides future change makers in public and private sectors with a comprehensive overview on the structures and actors that shape markets.
Lukas Graf
Hertie School of Governance
Kicking Away the Ladder
2002
Level: advanced
Kicking Away the Ladder
How did the rich countries really become rich? In this provocative study, Ha-Joon Chang examines the great pressure on developing countries from the developed world to adopt certain 'good policies' and 'good institutions', seen today as necessary for economic development.
Ha-Joon Chang
Anthem Press
Essays on the Nature and State of Modern Economics
2015
Level: advanced
Essays on the Nature and State of Modern Economics

What do modern academic economists do? What currently is mainstream economics? What is neoclassical economics? And how about heterodox economics? How do the central concerns of modern economists, whatever their associations or allegiances, relate to those traditionally taken up in the discipline?

Tony Lawson
Routledge
Bankers and Bolsheviks
2018
Level: advanced
Bankers and Bolsheviks

Following an unprecedented economic boom fed by foreign investment, the Russian Revolution triggered the worst sovereign default in history. Bankers and Bolsheviks tells the dramatic story of this boom and bust, chronicling the forgotten experiences of leading financiers of the age.

Hassan Malik
Princeton University Press
From Political Economy to Economics
2009
Level: advanced
From Political Economy to Economics
Economics has become a monolithic science, variously described as formalistic and autistic with neoclassical orthodoxy reigning supreme. So argue Dimitris Milonakis and Ben Fine in this new major work of critical recollection.
Dimitris Milonakis, Ben Fine
Routledge
World-systems Analysis
2004
Level: advanced
World-systems Analysis
Immanuel Wallerstein provides a concise and accessible introduction to the comprehensive approach that he pioneered thirty years ago to understanding the history and development of the modern world.
Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein, Senior Researcher Immanuel Wallerstein
Duke University Press
Austerity
2019
Level: beginner
Austerity
Austerity has been at the center of political controversy following the 2008 financial crisis, invoked by politicians and academics across the political spectrum as the answer to, or cause of, our post-crash economic malaise.
Konzelmann, Suzanne J.
Polity
Foundations of Economics
1998
Level: beginner
Foundations of Economics
Foundations of Economics breathes life into the discipline by linking key economic concepts with wider debates and issues. By bringing to light delightful mind-teasers, philosophical questions and intriguing politics in mainstream economics, it promises to enliven an otherwise dry course whilst inspiring students to do well.
Yanis Varoufakis
Psychology Press
Political Economy of Money and Finance
1999
Level: advanced
Political Economy of Money and Finance
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.
Costas Lapavitsas; Makoto Itoh
Palgrave Macmillan

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