Who said or what said? Estimating ideological bias in views among economists

Economics has long been the domain of the ivory tower, where specialized language and opaque theorems make it inaccessible to most people. That’s a problem.

Die Notwendigkeit einer nationalen und globalen Umverteilung von Vermögen. Piketty zeichnet den historischen Verlauf von Ungleichheit in der Geschichte des Kapitalismus nach und macht deutlich, dass ein Übermaß an materieller Ungleichheit für das demokratische Miteinander erhebliche Gefahren mit sich bringt.

In this lecture Ben Fine aims at stimulating interest for and explaining the relevance of Marxist Political Economy. Ben Fine dedicates the first half of his comprehensible lecture to the question on how mainstream economics became the way it is by explaining its key concepts and how those evolved during the past 150 years. While critically reflecting those concept he also emphasizes that mainstream economics does not consider historical processes. This is the point of departure on his presentation of the core terms and crucial categories of Marxist Political Economy: e.g. the production process and class relations (Part 1). Part 2 examines the consequences of the capitalist mode of production and its propensity to crises. Ben Fine illustrates this Marxist analysis with the example of the current crisis and explains current conditions for the accumulation of capital.

Dieses Seminar untersucht wie gesellschaftliche und wirtschaftliche Transformationen im Kontext der Klimakrise aussehen können und was diese gegenwärtig behindert.

Einer der wichtigsten Bezugspunkte des Marktfundamentalismus ist Friedrich August von Hayeks „Road to Serfdom“