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The Centre for Economy Studies works on improving and modernising economics education to ensure that students will be better prepared for their future careers and the societal challenges we face today and in the coming decades. The Essential Lectures are teaching packs designed for 90-minute sessions that can be added to existing courses. 2022 Level: beginner Economy Studies Essential Lectures   Economy Studies This book sets out to encourage a debate about the role that economic theory and philosophy of economics can play. A good part of economics consists of theoretical developments which describe completely imaginary worlds and have no connections to actual market economies 2016 Level: advanced A Philosophical Framework for Rethinking Theoretical Economics and Philosophy of Economics Gustavo Marqués College Publications "Ecological economics is an exciting interdisciplinary field of study that combines insights from the natural sciences, economics, philosophy and other fields to develop innovative approaches to environmental problems. 2000 Level: advanced Ecological Economics - A Introduction Gareth Edwards-Jones, Ben Davies, Salman S. Hussain Wiley The book is offered, in the first instance, to students who are beginners in economics, but some parts of it may be of wider interest. The three topics, Economic Doctrines, Analysis and Modern Problems, might be the subject of concurrent courses or they may be studied consecutively. 1973 Level: beginner An Introduction to Modern Economics Robinson, Joan; Eatwell, John Maidenhead McGraw-Hill This self-paced free course by Perry Merhling guides you to his "Money View" approach that integrates the fields of economics and finance. The course can easily be understood by people interested people without technical economic knowledge or training as it is primarily a tool for analysis. Level: beginner Economics of Money and Banking Perry Mehrling Columbia University Despite some diversification modern economics still attracts a great deal of criticism. This is largely due to highly unrealistic assumptions underpinning economic theory, explanatory failure, poor policy framing, and a dubious focus on prediction. Many argue that flaws continue to owe much of their shortcomings to neoclassical economics. 2015 Level: beginner What is Neoclassical Economics? Morgan, Jamie Routledge This book introduces 40 critical pointers for those who wish to see the theory in a broader, more realistic context. The material is suitable for introductory and intermediate courses and can be included selectively by students for additional reading or in lectures or tutorials as discussion points. "Students of mainstream economics need a guide like this to help them understand the underlying assumptions, limitations and inbuilt biases of what they are studying. It helps them open their eyes to a broader view of how real economies work." 2016 Level: advanced 40 Critical Pointers for Students of Economics Stuart Birks College Publications This course offered by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on edX provides an introduction in the major econometric tools used in standard Macroeconomics. Level: advanced Macroeconometric Forecasting Barajas et al. International Monetary Fund 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 This book explores frontier work at the intersection of experimental and environmental economics, with cutting edge research provided by premier scholars in the field.The book begins by focusing on improving benefit-cost analysis, which remains the hallmark of public policy decision-making around the globe. 2006 Level: advanced Using Experimental Methods in Environmental and Resource Economics John A. List Edward Elgar This statistics and data analysis course will introduce you to the essential notions of probability and statistics We will cover techniques in modern data analysis estimation regression and econometrics prediction experimental design randomized control trials and A B testing machine learning and data visualization We will illustrate these concepts with … Level: advanced Data Analysis for Social Scientists Esther Duflo & Sarah Fisher Ellison Massachusetts Institute of Technology 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 The novel coronavirus (Covid-19) is rapidly spreading around the world. The real economy is simultaneously hit by a supply shock and a demand shock by the spread of coronavirus. Such a twin shock is a rare phenomenon in recent economic history. 2020 Level: beginner How to Manage the Economic Fallout of the Coronavirus Kavaljit Singh Madhyam In a span of around 12 weeks, the course covers a wide range of topics including agent-based modeling, networks, dynamic, chaos, information, fractals, cooperation models and scaling in biology and society. The course acts as a perfect beginner level introduction spanning a wide range of topics in the field of complexity. Level: beginner Introduction to Complexity Melanie Mitchell Santa Fe Institute Participants should be able to distinguish the strictly non-cooperative (methodological individualist) foundations of traditional neoclassical economics as being couched in self-interested individuals, as well as having basic knowledge of an alternative set of theories based on the primacy cooperation and social norms and extending the breadth of economic analysis beyond exchange. 2021 Level: beginner Cooperative Economics Jerome Warren Summer Academy for Pluralist Economics The general idea of a Job Guarantee (JG) is that the government offers employment to everybody ready, willing and able to work for a living wage in the last instance as an Employer of Last Resort. The concept tackles societal needs that are not satisfied by market forces and the systemic characteristic of unemployment in capitalist societies. Being a central part of the Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), attention for the JG concept rose in recent years. 2020 Level: beginner The Job Guarantee Jannik Landwehr Exploring Economics This essay draws on several analyses on the gender impact of the recession and of austerity policies, in which authors acknowledge a threat to women’s labour market integration and a potential backlash to traditional gender labour structures. We contribute to that literature by asking whether recession and austerity convey a gender effect on educational attainment. Our aim in this essay is to portray the likely effects of austerity measures on gender equality with a focus on women’s participation in tertiary education and to hypothesize the implications of these scenarios for labour market effects, to be tested in future empirical research. 2017 Level: beginner The impact of Austerity on Gender in Tertiary Education: A Theoretical Analysis Zeynep M. Nettekoven and Izaskun Zuazu Exploring Economics This article reviews insights of existing literature on global care chains. A specific focus is laid on the impact that the refugee crisis has on global care chains and in turn how the crisis impacts the de-skilling of the women in the migrant workforce. 2017 Level: beginner Global care chains, refugee crisis, and deskilling of workers Dita Dobranja Exploring Economics An essay of the writing workshop on contemporary issues in the field of Nigerian economics: Labour and all the dynamics, such as laws, mobility, gender participation, regulation etc., that are associated with it cements the need for this paper which seeks to objectively review, analyse, and if deemed necessary, give plausible recommendations. Level: beginner Labour market: Applicable Labour Market Models and Gender Issues Asadu C. Emmanuel Exploring Economics This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Economic theory is centuries out of date and that's a disaster for ... 2014 Level: beginner Why it's time for 'Doughnut Economics' Kate Raworth TEDx 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. 2019 Level: beginner Economic History Robert Skidelsky INET Currency hierarchy and policy space: A research agenda for development economics Barbara Fritz 2017 Level: advanced Currency hierarchy and policy space Barbara Fritz FMM This Perspective argues that ergodicity — a foundational concept in equilibrium statistical physics — is wrongly assumed in much of the quantitative economics literature. By evaluating the extent to which dynamical problems can be replaced by probabilistic ones, many economics puzzles become resolvable in a natural and empirically testable fashion. Level: expert The ergodicity problem in economics Ole Peters Nature Physics 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 Ecologcial economics conceptualizes our society as embedded within the environment and our economic system as embedded within society and the environment. 2021 Level: beginner Is ecological economics for rebels? Accounting for natural resources Dr. Anke Schaffartzik Exploring Economics This lecture was held in the context of the a two day conference called Which pluralism for thinking about how to achieve a more sustainable and resilient economy The practices institutions and system logics of today s economy are not suitable for appropriately addressing fundamental human needs The climate crisis … 2021 Level: beginner Embracing speculation and liquid identity: The case of the entrepreneur in a post crisis world Wyatt Constantine Conference "Which Pluralism?" This lecture was held in the context of the a two day conference called Which pluralism for thinking about how to achieve a more sustainable and resilient economy The practices institutions and system logics of today s economy are not suitable for appropriately addressing fundamental human needs The climate crisis … 2021 Level: beginner A Methodology of Pluralist Economics Florian Rommel Conference "Which Pluralism?" This lecture was held in the context of the a two day conference called Which pluralism for thinking about how to achieve a more sustainable and resilient economy The practices institutions and system logics of today s economy are not suitable for appropriately addressing fundamental human needs The climate crisis … 2021 Level: beginner Exploring Ergodicity Economics Mark Kirstein Conference "Which Pluralism?" This lecture was held in the context of the a two day conference called Which pluralism for thinking about how to achieve a more sustainable and resilient economy The practices institutions and system logics of today s economy are not suitable for appropriately addressing fundamental human needs The climate crisis … 2021 Level: beginner The socio-economic world is non-ergodic Lucio Biggiero Conference "Which Pluralism?" This lecture was held in the context of the a two day conference called Which pluralism for thinking about how to achieve a more sustainable and resilient economy The practices institutions and system logics of today s economy are not suitable for appropriately addressing fundamental human needs The climate crisis … 2021 Level: beginner Beyond indifference - An economics for the future Lukas Bäuerle Conference "Which Pluralism?" This lecture was held in the context of the a two day conference called Which pluralism for thinking about how to achieve a more sustainable and resilient economy The practices institutions and system logics of today s economy are not suitable for appropriately addressing fundamental human needs The climate crisis … 2021 Level: beginner Caring the Care Sector - Contributions of Feminist Macroeconomics to Economics in the Post-COVID Era Izaskun Zuazu Conference "Which Pluralism?" This lecture was held in the context of the a two day conference called Which pluralism for thinking about how to achieve a more sustainable and resilient economy The practices institutions and system logics of today s economy are not suitable for appropriately addressing fundamental human needs The climate crisis … 2025 Level: beginner Pandemic Paradigm Shift Ivan Rubinic Conference "Which Pluralism?"

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