The website contains a vast amount of information on the history of economic thought. It presents thinkers, their main works (and links to those works) and schools of thought which are sorted by political economy schools, neoclassical schools, alternative schools as well as thematic schools. Level: advanced The history of economic thought website Gonçalo L. Fonseca Gonçalo L. Fonseca Hamilton argues that economics lacks the political economy context in order to understand racism, and demonstrates how racism is embedded in the political economy of America. 2020 Level: beginner How America’s Economy Runs on Racism Lynn Parramore Institute for New Economic Thinking This course introduces students to political economy and the history of economic thought. We will cover the core ideas in various schools of economic thought, positioning them in the historical and institutional context in which they were developed. In particular, we will cover some economic ideas from the ancient world and the middle ages; the enlightenment; the emergence of and main ideas in classical political economy (Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Thomas Malthus, and others); Marx, Mill, and Keynes; European versus American economic thought through history; the rise of mathematical economics; economic theories around state-managed economies versus socialism; Austrian economics; behavioral economics; and the future of economics. 2020 Level: beginner Political Economy and the History of Economic Thought Alyssa Schneebaum Vienna University of Economics and Business This course provides future change makers in public and private sectors with a comprehensive overview on the structures and actors that shape markets. 2019 Level: beginner The Governance of Markets in Challenging Times: From Classic Authors to New Approaches Lukas Graf Hertie School of Governance 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 This course will survey contemporary heterodox approaches to economic research, both from a microeconomic and a macroeconomic perspective. Topics will be treated from a general, critical, and mathematical standpoint. 2021 Level: advanced Heterodox Approaches to Economics Daniele Tavani Colorado State University Nancy Fraser starts out by introducing the multidmiensional cirises of the 21st century Three dimensions are especially alarming to her the ecological the financial and social aspects of the crisis Fraser then revives the ideas of Karl Polanyi which he first presented in his 1944 book The great transformation She … 2013 Level: advanced Can societies be commodities all the way down? Nancy Fraser Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki Cédric Durand locates the Russian War on Ukraine in relation to Russian Economic Development and Political Economy after the collapse of the soviet union. 2022 Level: beginner Cold Peace Cédric Durand New Left Review Health Economics traditionally involves two distinct strands. One focuses on the application of core  neoclassical economic theories of the firm, the consumer and the market to health-seeking behaviour  and other health issues. It suggests a role for government intervention only in the case of specific  market failures (for example externalities, asymmetric information, moral hazard, and public goods)  that distort market outcomes. The second strand is evaluation techniques, used to assess the cost effectiveness of competing health interventions. 2022 Level: beginner Health Economics Julia Ngozi Chukwuma Summer Academy 2022 for Pluralist Economics Mainstream economics was founded on many strong assumptions. Institutions and politics were treated as irrelevant, government as exogenous, social norms as epiphenomena. As an initial gambit this was fine. But as the horizons of economic inquiry have broadened, these assumptions have becomehindrances rather than aids. 2003 Level: advanced Prelude to Political Economy Kaushik Basu Oxford University Press Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy Many similarities exist between the new movements against austerity that have emerged since 2011 ranging from Taksim Square in Turkey to the Chilean student protests and from Greece to NYC One of them is their return to the principles of direct democracy … 2015 Level: advanced The Next Revolution Murray Bookchin Verso This Companion takes stock of the trajectory, achievements, shortcomings and prospects of Marxist political economy. It reflects the contributors' shared commitment to bringing the methods, theories and concepts of Marx himself to bear across a wide range of topics and perspectives, and it provides a testimony to the continuing purpose and vitality of Marxist political economy. 2013 Level: advanced The Elgar Companion to Marxist Economics Ben Fine, Alfredo Saad-Filho, Marco Boffo E. Elgar A Study of Capitalist Rule This book aims at presenting and assessing imperialism as a theoretical concept It aims to provide a comprehensive evaluation focusing specifically on the tension between Marx s theoretical system of the Critique of Political Economy and the theories of capitalist expansion and domination For over … 2009 Level: advanced Rethinking Imperialism J. Milios, D. Sotiropoulos Springer This Encyclopedia is a very first fully refereed A-Z compendium of the main principles, concepts, problems, institutions, schools and policies associated with political economy. Part 1 of a 2-volume set comprises entries from A-K. 1999 Level: advanced Encyclopedia of Political Economy: A-K Phillip Anthony O'Hara Psychology Press Once in a while the world astonishes itself. Anxious incredulity replaces intellectual torpor and a puzzled public strains its antennae in every possible direction, desperately seeking explanations for the causes and nature of what just hit it. 2008 was such a moment. Not only did the financial system collapse, and send the real economy into a tailspin, but it also revealed the great gulf separating economics from a very real capitalism. 2011 Level: advanced Modern Political Economics Yanis Varoufakis, Joseph Halevi, Nicholas Theocarakis Routledge Understanding Capitalism: Competition, Command, and Change is an introduction to economics that explains how capitalism works, why it sometimes fails, and how it undergoes and brings about change. It discusses both the conventional economic model and the role of power in economic interactions. 2017 Level: beginner Understanding Capitalism Samuel Bowles, Frank Roosevelt, Richard Edwards, and Mehrene Larudee Oxford University Press 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 The Handbook on the Economics of Conflict conveys how economics can contribute to the understanding of conflict in its various dimensions embracing world wars, regional conflicts, terrorism and the role of peacekeeping in conflict prevention. The economics of conflict is a relatively new branch of the discipline of economics. 2011 Level: advanced Handbook on the Economics of Conflict Braddon, Derek L.; Hartley, Keith Edward Elgar Publishing 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 In a changing world that has been shaken by economic, social, financial, and ecological crises, it becomes increasingly clear that new approaches to economics are needed for both theoretical and empirical research; for applied economics as well as policy advice. 2018 Level: advanced Policy Implications of Recent Advances in Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Claudius Grabner, Torsten Heinrich, Henning Schwardt Routledge Transition from central planning to a market economy, involving large-scale institutional change and reforms at all levels, is often described as the greatest social science experiment in modern times. 2013 Level: advanced Handbook of the Economics and Political Economy of Transition Paul Hare, Gerard Turley Routledge Readers of economic and political theory as well as students of economic planning will appreciate this classic, now available for the first time in English. Written eighty years ago, when Sorel became disillusioned with the official socialism of the German and French Marxist parties, this new translation presents Sorel's analysis of the rise and fall of the two great modern ideologies: socialism and liberal capitalism. 2017 Level: advanced Social Foundations of Contemporary Economics Georges Sorel Routledge Foreign exploitation of economic crises in the developing world has been a central claim of neoliberal critics. This important and recurring international theme is the subject of closer scrutiny in this new collection, where contributors offer competing interpretations of the interaction between international and domestic forces after crises. 2008 Level: advanced Power and Politics after Financial Crises Robertson, Justin Palgrave Macmillan 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 A comprehensive textbook on contemporary Global Political Economy and its historical evolution providing a broad-ranging and even-handed introduction to the subject by covering traditional elements (such as trade and finance) while also analysing issues such as gender, environment and labour. 2020 Level: advanced Global Political Economy Robert O'Brien & Marc Williams Red Globe Press It has become a contentious term in- and outside of economic policy: austerity. Allegedly the culprit behind the shortfalls of governments' reaction to the Great Financial Crisis, the policy makes for a spirited debate. 2015 Level: beginner Austerity Mark Blyth Oxford University Press This book highlights the political economy of wealth and income inequality in Latin America. The author segments his analysis to separately evaluate the economic, social, and political costs of inequality building on country case studies. It draws well-contextualized lessons from the Latin American experience that is important to consider for other regional contexts, especially for social policies of nations within the 'Middle Income Trap'. 2020 Level: beginner The Costs of Inequality in Latin America Diego Sánchez-Ancochea Bloomsbury Academic The Currency of Politics explains why only through greater awareness of the historical limits of monetary politics can we begin to articulate more democratic conceptions of money. 2022 Level: advanced The Currency of Politics Stefan Eich Princeton University Press Introduces four of the most influential economists you'll never read in a modern economics class - Marx, Veblen, Keynes, and Galbraith. 2016 Level: beginner Introduction to Political Economy Charles Sackrey, Geoffrey Schneider, Janet Knoedler Dollars & Sense 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 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 This collection of essays, a supplement to History of Political Economy, brings together prominent scholars from economics, sociology, literature, and history to examine the role of biography and autobiography in the history of economics. The first of its kind, this volume looks at the relevance of first-person accounts to narrative histories of economics. 2007 Level: advanced Economists' Lives E. Roy Weintraub, Evelyn L. Forget Duke University Press