Karl Marx on Alienation

The Nobel laureate Amartya Sen´s text analyzes three main figures in social sciences and the relation between them: the Italian economist Piero Sraffa, the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, and the Italian politician and philosopher Antonio Gramsci.

Steven G. Medema is a Research Professor at Duke University. His research focuses on the History of Economic Thought, having published extensively on the issue of social costs of production (conceptualized as externalities in neoclassical economics). In this recorded seminar, he exposes his working paper on the history of the concept of externalities in economic literature, starting from Pigou’s “The Economics of Welfare” (1920), where Pigou makes the case for governmental intervention in the market where there is a divergence between private and social costs or benefits of a productive activity. T

In this short video, John Holmwood problematizes Marxian Economics from a post-colonial perspective.

Analog zur Bezugswissenschaft Ökonomik stellt sich auch in der universitären (sozio-)ökonomischen Lehrerbildung die Frage einer gelingenden Umsetzung und Etablierung von pluraler Ökonomik und epistemologischer Reflexion.