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Recording of the Workshop “The collateral supply effect on central banking”, 04.02.2021, part of the "Next Generation Central Banking - Climate Change, Inequality, Financial Instability" conference by the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung 2021 Level: advanced NextGen Central Banking: The collateral supply effect on central banking Finanzwende e.V. & Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Carolyn Sissoko, UWE Bristol; Steffen Murau, Boston University; Michael Peters, Finanzwende Transformative Responses, Heinrich-Böll-Foundation & Finanzwende This panel was part of the conference "Next Generation Gentral Banking - Climate Change, Inequality, Financial Instability" 03. - 05.02.2021. 2021 Level: advanced NextGen Central Banking: How the coronavirus almost brought down the global financial system Finanzwende e.V. & Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Adam Tooze, Annette Vissing-Jørgensen, Sven Giegold, Martin Hellwig Transformative Responses, Heinrich-Böll-Foundation & Finanzwende This panel was part of the conference "Next Generation Gentral Banking - Climate Change, Inequality, Financial Instability" 03. - 05.02.2021. 2021 Level: advanced NextGen Central Banking: Central Banking Beyond Inflation Finanzwende e.V. & Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Benjamin Braun, Michal Horváth Transformative Responses, Heinrich-Böll-Foundation & Finanzwende Have you ever thought about the role of civil society and the evolution of economy in one breath? This one hour long interview of Daron Acemoğlu (MIT) and Martin Wolf (Financial Times) by Rethinking Economy NL gives you much inspiration for it. 2021 Level: beginner Socioeconomics of Disruptive Tech Daron Acemoğlu & Martin Wolf Rethinking Economics NL Looking for a pithy introduction into John Maynard Keynes's economic thinking? This BBC radio programme may be it. 2018 Level: beginner Keynesianism: The Story Behind This Key Economic Theory BBC, Anne McElvoy BBC The goal of the class is to acquire familiarity with recently-published research in alternative macroeconomics with a focus on the distribution of income and wealth, cyclical growth models, and technical change. 2021 Level: beginner Theory Seminar Macro-Distribution Daniele Tavani Exploring Economics Completing the Economics of Discrimination module, the students should have acquired knowledge and understanding of the existing similarities and differences of the definition and analysis of discrimination across economic theory and cultural theory. 2021 Level: beginner Economics of discrimination Dr. Mary Wrenn und Dr. Hans Dietrich Summer Academy for Pluralist Economics After completing the module, participants should be able to analyse the concepts of degrowth, ecological unequal exchange, Green New Deal, and embeddedness by applying theories situated within the fields of academic research of Ecological Economics and Political Ecology. 2021 Level: beginner Political ecology, Degrowth and the Green New Deal Riccardo Mastini Summer Academy for Pluralist Economics What are the debates, feminist and otherwise, surrounding the phenomena of globalization? How does a gendered lens complicate our understandings of neoliberal globalization? How are particular labor regimes integral to global restructuring, and how are these gendered? What are the implications of global restructuring for bodies, identities, relations, and movements? 2014 Level: beginner The Gender and Labor of Globalization Clara Freeman Emory University 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 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 As the current economic crisis spreads around the globe questions are being asked about what king of capitalist or post-capitalist economy will follow. There is increasing talk of the need for stringent economic regulation, the need to temper greed and individualism, to make the economy work for human and social development. 2009 Level: advanced The Social Economy Ash Amin Zed Books 'Impressive... provides a very good compendium of what are usually classified as "heterodox" development economics... an excellent volume.' Journal of International Development This important new collection tackles the failure of neoliberal reform to generate longterm growth and reduce poverty in many developing and transition economies. 2003 Level: advanced Rethinking Development Economics Ha-Joon Chang Anthem Press 'This Cambridge professor delights in paradox. And myth-busting . . . he does this with charm and a desire to see how things work in the real world' Guardian, 'In Praise of Ha-Joon Chang' In this revelatory book, Ha-Joon Chang destroys the biggest myths of our times and shows us the truth about how the world really works, including- there's no such thing as a free market. 2011 Level: advanced 23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism Ha-Joon Chang Penguin By focusing on the human side as well as the intellectual dimensions of how economists work and think, this collection of interviews with top economists of the 20th century becomes a startling and lively introduction to the modern world of macroeconomics. 2006 Level: advanced Inside the Economist's Mind Paul A. Samuelson, William A. Barnett Wiley 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 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 One of the most authoritative authors on the intellectual heritage of John Maynard Keynes, Robert Skidelsky draws a sketch of the great man's economic thinking both accessible and insightful. 2010 Level: beginner Keynes: A Very Short Introduction Robert Skidelsky Oxford University Press Racism and discrimination have choked economic opportunity for African Americans at nearly every turn. In From Here to Equality, William Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen confront these injustices head-on and make the most comprehensive case to date for economic reparations for U.S. descendants of slavery. 2020 Level: advanced From Here to Equality William A. Darity Jr., A. Kirsten Mullen The University of North Carolina Press In this book, the authors, Cinzia Aruzza, Tithi Bhattcahrya, and Nancy Fraser, move away from the myopic view of feminism for a select few to focus on a universal idea of feminism. 2019 Level: beginner Feminism for the 99 Percent Cinzia Arruzza, Nancy Fraser, Tithi Bhattacharya Verso Books This edited volume explores how dependency theories can be adapted and applied to understand limits and possibilities for development in Latin America and Europe It explores core periphery relations across different sets of countries specific mechanisms of dependency as well as the role of race and gender in dependency analysis … 2021 Level: advanced Dependent Capitalisms in Contemporary Latin America and Europe Aldo Madariaga, Stefano Palestini Springer Nature Christopher Hayes examines the causes and consequences of the uprisings, from the city’s history of racial segregation in education, housing, and employment to the ways in which the police both neglected and exploited Black neighborhoods. 2021 Level: advanced The Harlem Uprising Christopher Hayes Columbia 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 All leaders are constrained by geography. Their choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. People and ideas are important; but if you don't know geography, you'll never have the full picture. 2016 Level: beginner Prisoners of Geography Tim Marshall Elliott and Thompson Limited A comprehensive account of how government deficits and debt drive inflation 2023 Level: advanced The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level John Cochrane Princeton University Press Is inflation just a number game or does it hold deeper societal implications? Join Isabella Weber (@UMass.Amherst) as she challenges traditional economic stances on inflation and delves into the social dimensions of pricing. Discover how context shapes our reactions to price hikes and why understanding this can be a game-changer. 2023 Level: beginner Sellers Inflation Isabella Weber New Economic Thinking The productive work of widely distributed academic research has contributed substantially, over the postwar period, to important advances in our understanding. It has also offered a clearer recognition of many unresolved problems. Never theless, the progress achieved over the last decades, ex hibited by the systematic application of "theory" to actual issues and observable problems, could not overcome a per vasive sense of dissatisfaction. 2012 Level: advanced Economics Social Institutions K. Brunner Springer Science & Business Media The Elgar Companion to Feminist Economics is the first comprehensive reference work introducing readers to the field of feminist economics. It includes 99 entries by 88 authors. 1999 Level: advanced The Elgar Companion to Feminist Economics Janice Peterson, Margaret Lewis Edward Elgar This is an important contribution that defends the importance of heterodox economics. It discusses what constitutes heterodox economics as an intellectual, social, and political project, with a range of contributions from leading heterodox thinkers coming from a diversity of theoretical vantage points. 2022 Level: beginner Heterodox Economics Lynne Chester and Tae-Hee Jo World Economics Association Books This groundbreaking collection explores the profound power of Social Reproduction Theory to deepen our understanding of everyday life under capitalism. It tackles issues such as child care, health care, education, family life and the roles of gender, race and sexuality, and shows how they are central to understanding the relationship between economic exploitation and social oppression. Including contributions by: Lise Vogel, Nancy Fraser, David McNally and Susan Ferguson. 2017 Level: advanced Social Reproduction Theory Tithi Bhattacharya Pluto Press 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 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

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