Plurale Ökonomik – Eine Einführung in 8 Perspektiven

In diesem Video erklärt der Ökonom Maurice Höfgen das konkrete Verfahren, welches vom deutschen Staat genutzt wird, um Schulden aufzunehmen. Hierfür erläutert er die zwei separaten Kreisläufe unseres Geldsystems, in welchem die Geschäftsbanken und die Zentralbank (Bundesbank bzw. Europäische Zentralbank) verortet sind und wie genau der Staat hier Bundeswertpapiere verkaufen …

Marxist scholar David Harvey explains key concepts of capital from Marx. Applying Marx's analysis of capital to today's world, showing both the longevity and relevance of Marx's Capital, 150 years after its publication.

El Buen Vivir wird im westlich geprägten Diskurs der Entwicklungstheorie oft unzureichend mit The Good Living oder dem guten Leben übersetzt. Dies lässt wichtige Elemente des in südamerikanischen Indigenenbewegungen verwurzelten Prinzips vermissen

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.

“Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses1.” This is how Lionel Robbins came to define economics in the early 1930s and there is a good chance that many of you heard a variant of this definition in your first Economics 101 lecture.