This lecture is all about the challenge to include heterodox approaches into macroeconomics. After giving an overview of recent approaches to that problem Professor Michael Roos presents the theoretical framework of Complexity Economics as a means to combine behavioral aspects with macroeconomics. 2016 Level: adelantado Behavioural and Complexity Macroeconomics Michael Roos IMK Have you ever wondered why it is so difficult to follow through on new year’s resolutions, such as to exercise more or to start saving more money towards retirement? The agent that most traditional economic models are based on would not struggle to keep up these resolutions. These agents are referred to as homo economicus. 2018 Level: debutante Homo Economicus: Why are new year’s resolutions so difficult to maintain and economic models so bad at predicting our behaviour? Antonia T. Schröder Pluralist Economics Fellowship As opposed to the conventional over-simplified assumption of self-interested individuals, strong evidence points towards the presence of heterogeneous other-regarding preferences in agents. Incorporating social preferences – specifically, trust and reciprocity - and recognizing the non-constancy of these preferences across individuals can help models better represent the reality. 2019 Level: adelantado A fresh perspective to economic theory: Social preferences and their impact on gender and policy Sheral Shah Exploring Economics This course focus on the behaviour of individuals from an pluralist economic and an interdisciplinary bevavioural science apprach. 2020 Level: adelantado Actors, Behaviours and Decision Processes Sigrid Stagl and Roman Hausmann University of Vienna The podcast discusses how to deal with the rising inflation and presents a comparative perspective between the US and the EMU. Basically the speakers discuss whether we are heading to a stagflation in Europe similar to the 1970s and they compare the macroeconomic dynamics in the United States vs. the EMU. 2022 Level: adelantado Taming inflation? What are the implications of prolonged inflation? Maria Demertzis, Grégory Claeys and Megan Greene The Sound of Economics, Bruegel This invaluable volume brings together seminal articles with a significant behavioural content on various areas in macroeconomics. 2012 Level: adelantado Behavioural Macroeconomics Ian Martin McDonald Edward Elgar