What determines the status of women in different communities? What role is played by women’s labor (inside and outside of the home)? By cultural norms regarding sexuality and reproduction? By racial/ethnic identity? By religious traditions? After some brief theoretical grounding, this course will address these questions by examining the economic, political, social, and cultural histories of women in the various racial/ethnic groups that make up the US today. 2017 Level: debutante Political Economy of Women Kimberly Christensen Sarah Lawrence College "Alexander Kravchuk is an economist and editor at Commons: Journal for Social Criticims, who has previously written about IMF conditions on loans to Ukraine. Jacobin’s David Broder asked him about the country’s economic situation and why debt cancellation is important if Ukrainians are to be able to shape their future." (quote from the interview) 2022 Level: debutante To Help Ukraine, Cancel Its Foreign Debt Alexander Kravchuk, David Broder Commons: Journal for Social Criticism In this piece Alexander Kravchuk gives an overview over the history of dept dependency in Ukraine, highlighting especially the role of international creditors and the negative socio-economic impacts of debt dependency for the Ukrainian economy. 2015 Level: adelantado The origins of Ukraine’s debt dependence Alexander Kravchuk Commons: Journal for Social Criticism Cédric Durand locates the Russian War on Ukraine in relation to Russian Economic Development and Political Economy after the collapse of the soviet union. 2022 Level: debutante Cold Peace Cédric Durand New Left Review An examination of women's changing economic roles. Includes an analysis of labour force participation, wage inequality, gender differences in education, intra-household distribution of resources, economics of reproduction, and how technological change affects women. 2015 Level: debutante Women and the Economy Dr. Cristina Echevarria University of Saskatchewan The goal of this course is to explore these differences in economic outcomes observed among women and men, measured by such things as earnings, income, hours of work, poverty, and the allocation of resources within the household. It will evaluate women’s perspectives and experiences in the United States and around the world, emphasizing feminist economics. Level: debutante Economics of Gender Dr. Erin George Hood College This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of work-related gender issues and to enable students to analyze the issues using the tools of economics. 2015 Level: debutante Women, Men, & Work Karen Leppel School of Business Administration at Widener University The article by the European Council of Foreign Relations argues that Europe s economic actions in response to the Russian invasion into Urkaine have been decisive different from the EU s external image but that this response should yet be better institutionalized The author Hackenbroich proposes an Anti Coercion Instrument … 2022 Level: debutante The EU’s geo-economic revolution Jonathan Hackenbroich European Council of Foreign Relations Is the Cold War division back with the US EU on the one and China Russia on the other side The article argues that things are more complicated as each of the country compounds has economic and political ties outside of its power bloc It reads the Chinese reactions to … 2022 Level: debutante Putin Is Creating the Multipolar World He (Thought He) Wanted Bart Dessein, Jasper Roctus, Sven Biscop Egmont Royal Institute for International Relations In this interview Ilya Matveev discusses the social, political, economic, and ideological foundations of the Russian regime, to provide additional context about Russia’s geopolitical goals. 2022 Level: debutante The Putin Regime Is Straining Under Its Own Contradictions Interview with Ilya Matveev by Rafael Khachaturian Jacobin Magazine The article reviews the effects that the War in Ukraine will have for the global economy. 2022 Level: debutante The Ukraine War's Multifaceted Economic Fallout Mohamed A. El-Erian Project Syndicate In this short essay, Jayati Ghosh gives an overview over the multiple ways in which the economic "fall-out" of the War in Ukraine is hitting economies and societies in the developing world. 2022 Level: debutante Putin’s War Is Damaging the Developing World Jayati Ghosh Project Syndicate This note, by Theresa Neef, Panayiotis Nicolaides, Lucas Chancel, Thomas Piketty, and Gabriel Zucman, provides data on wealth inequality in Russia and advocates for a European Asset Registry. 2022 Level: debutante Effective sanctions against oligarchs and the role of a European Asset Registry Theresa Neef, Panayiotis Nicolaides, Lucas Chancel, Thomas Piketty, Gabriel Zucman EU Tax Observatory / World Inequality lab This section includes selected content from Post-Colonialisms Today - a research and advocacy project recovering insights from the immediate post-independence period in Africa, and mobilizing them through a feminist lens to address contemporary challenges. You will find additional content at postcolonialisms.regionsrefocus.org. 2022 Level: debutante Contributions from Post-Colonialisms Today   Post-Colonialisms Today Drawing on Gramsci s Marxist Political Economy Mike Davis situates the War in Ukraine within the general condition of a crisis of capitalist hegemony The key argument is that the pathological and violent situation that we are finding ourselves in today is an expression of the inability of both global … 2022 Level: debutante Thanatos Triumphant Mike Davis New Left Review - Sidecar "Yuliya Yurchenko is a senior lecturer and researcher in political economy at University of Greenwich. She is currently in Ukraine on an extraordinary leave. And while she writes that she is, for the moment, in relative safety, that could change any moment. Being a Ukrainian, an activist and an academic, Yuliya traveled to Ukraine on Feb 19, 2022 as part of a fact-finding and solidarity mission with a number of MPs, trade unionists and journalists. The goal, she says, of this mission is to connect with civil society organizations, trade unions, activists and politicians, and “to express direct, cross-border solidarity from the UK working class to the Ukrainian working class.” 2022 Level: adelantado Yuliya Yurchenko expands the frame for understanding the Russian invasion of Ukraine Yulia Yurchenko Pretty Heady Stuff In this course we will critically analyze both economic theory and economic life through the lens of gender. Topics covered include: a critical examination of gender patterns and trends in the household, labor market, and the firm; issues concerning gender inequalities in the economy. 2014 Level: debutante Gender and the Economy Şemsa Özar Boğaziçi University This article by Rüdiger Bachmann et.al. discusses the economic effects of a potential cut-off of the German economy from Russian energy imports. 2022 Level: adelantado What if? The Economic Effects for Germany of a Stop of Energy Imports from Russia Rüdiger Bachmann, David Baqaee, Christian Bayer, Moritz Kuhn, Andreas Löschel, Benjamin Moll, Andreas Peichl, Karen Pittel, Moritz Schularick ECONtribute.de This website belongs to PolyluxMarx and provides open access material for use while reading Karl Marx Capital For several years now people have been starting to dust off Marx and return to his analysis of society This is mainly due to the social turmoil in global capitalism weaknesses in prevailing … 2013 Level: debutante PolyluxMarx - A Capital Workbook in Slides Valeria Bruschi, Antonelle Muzzupappa, Sabine Nuss, Anne Stecker & Ingo Stütze Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Wheat and oil prices were already rising before the Russian invasion so what might be the effect for people in low income countries of a war far away that may have a secondary impact much closer to home In this short video Rabah Arezki Chief Economist Vice President African Development … 2022 Level: debutante War in Ukraine, impact in Africa. The effect of soaring energy and food prices Rabah Arezki VoxEU - CEPR In this article, Hannah Ritchie presents the data we need to understand the scale of their contribution, and which countries are most reliant on Ukraine for their food supplies. 2022 Level: debutante How could the war in Ukraine impact global food supplies? Hannah Ritchie Our World in Data Study of the German Council of Economic Experts on the potential economic effects of a comprehensive energy embargo against Russia 2022 Level: adelantado A potential sudden stop of energy imports from Russia: Effects on energy security and economic output in Germany and the EU Eva Berger, Sylwia Bialek, Niklas Garnadt, Veronika Grimm, Lars Other, Leonard Salzmann, Monika Schnitzer, Achim Truger, Volker Wieland Sachverständigenrat für Wirtschaft Western sanctions on Russia after its invasion of Ukraine quickly led the Ruble to lose more than 45 percent of its value. But these days, the Russian currency is back to its pre-war value. Cameron and Adam explain the turnaround and discuss what it means for the war. 2022 Level: debutante How the Russian Ruble Bounced Back Adam Tooze interviewed by Cameron Abadi Foreign Policy Tejashree Dewoolkar Sujatha Padmanabhan Ashik Krishnan Extraordinary work of ordinary people Vikalp sangam 2022 Level: debutante Pandemic resilience in North East India Sujatha Padmanabhan & Ashik Krishnan Vikalp sangam This course introduces students to the relevance of gender relations in economics as a discipline and in economic processes and outcomes. 2015 Level: debutante Gender relations and Economics Alyssa Schneebaum Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien This course is intended to present some of the main ideas underlying the micro aspects of gender economics. The courses will tackle issues as fertility, marriage, women labor force participation, wage gap, gender inequality, violence against women and women empowerment within her household and within the society where she lives. Level: adelantado Gender and Microeconomics Hanan Nazier and Racha Ramadan Cairo University - Faculty of Economics and Political Science By the end of this course, students should understand the basic economic theories of the gender division of labor in the home and at the workplace, and theories of gender differences in compensation and workforce segregation. 2014 Level: debutante Economics of Gender (Woman in the U.S: Economy) Prof. Elaine McCrate University of Vermont This course is an introduction to Development Economics and is concerned with how economists have sought to explain how the process of economic growth occurs, and how – or whether – that delivers improved well-being of people. 2015 Level: adelantado Development Economics Sakiko Fukuda-Parr The New School This lecture course, which will be taught in English, will deal with gender issues in developing countries. After providing an overview of the gender differences in various aspects of welfare and economic life, the course will then tackle a number of specific issues. Level: adelantado Gender and Development Stephan Klasen and Teaching Assistants Bumi Camara and Merle Kreibaum Department of Economics University of Göttingen Education policy seeks to ensure equality in access, equality within the classroom and in teaching- learning processes, and equality in outcomes. This course encourages students to assess and evaluate the extent to which these objectives are met in practice and the ways in which educational outcomes are shaped by, as well as alter, gendered social norms. Level: debutante Education, Gender and Development Ratna Sudarshan National University of National Planning and Administration, New Delhi To what extent does gender affect people's patterns of labor force participation, educational preparation for work, occupations, hours of work (paid and unpaid) and earnings? 2014 Level: debutante Sex-Segregated Labor Markets Julie Nelson University of Massachusetts Getting to the policy discussion table is one of the objectives pursued by feminist scholars and advocates. However, some participants in this process have remarked that “you cannot get to the policy discussion table until you have proven that you can crunch the numbers.” 2006 Level: debutante Statistics for Feminists Yana Rodgers Rutgers University, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies