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Anders als der Mainstream der Ökonomie nimmt die Feministische Ökonomik das Ganze des Wirtschaftens in den Blick: die ein Drittel der bezahlten und die zwei Drittel der unbezahlten Arbeiten, die das Fundament unserer Wirtschaft bilden.

Die Sparpolitik der Bundesregierung geht auf Kosten der Zukunft der jungen Generation. Die Kolumne von Carl Mühlbach, erschienen in der Frankfurter Rundschau.

This article provides a contextual framework for understanding the gendered dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic and its health, social, and economic outcomes. The pandemic has generated massive losses in lives, impacted people’s health, disrupted markets and livelihoods, and created profound reverberations in the home. In 112 countries that reported sex-disaggregated data on COVID-19 cases, men showed an overall higher infection rate than women, and an even higher mortality rate. However, women’s relatively high representation in sectors hardest hit by lockdown orders has translated into larger declines in employment for women than men in numerous countries. Evidence also indicates that stay-at-home orders have increased unpaid care workloads, which have fallen disproportionately to women. Further, domestic violence has increased in frequency and severity across countries. The article concludes that policy response strategies to the crisis by women leaders have contributed to more favorable outcomes compared to outcomes in countries led by men.

Comment éradiquer le chômage de masse ? La garantie d'emploi propose une solution ambitieuse en offrant un emploi à tou.te.s.

For many social critics "globalization" is a signpost of “late-capitalism” with the rise of multinational corporations, mass consumption and the multidirectional flows of capital, labor, media, communication, ideologies and social movements across national borders. Feminist analyses of globalization and the gendered and sexualized permutations of these phenomena offer a critical stance for theorizing these processes, and for studying their complex articulations across time and space.

In this article, Perry Mehrling, a professor of economics at Barnard College, presents and discusses three theories of banking which are guiding bank regulation. These are credit creation theory, fractional reserve theory and debt intermediation theory.