Buscar | Exploring Economics

2019

Level: debutante

In this tenth lecture in INET’s “How and How Not to Do Economics,” Robert Skidelsky argues that there are two main reasons why economists should study history.

Robert Skidelsky

INET

The Governance of Markets in Challenging Times: From Classic Authors to New Approaches

2019

Level: debutante

The Governance of Markets in Challenging Times: From Classic Authors to New Approaches

This course provides future change makers in public and private sectors with a comprehensive overview on the structures and actors that shape markets.

Lukas Graf

Hertie School of Governance

2002

Level: adelantado

Kicking Away the Ladder

How did the rich countries really become rich? In this provocative study, Ha-Joon Chang examines the great pressure on developing countries from the developed world to adopt certain 'good policies' and 'good institutions', seen today as necessary for economic development.

Ha-Joon Chang

Anthem Press

Essays on the Nature and State of Modern Economics

2015

Level: adelantado

Essays on the Nature and State of Modern Economics

What do modern academic economists do? What currently is mainstream economics? What is neoclassical economics? And how about heterodox economics? How do the central concerns of modern economists, whatever their associations or allegiances, relate to those traditionally taken up in the discipline?

Tony Lawson

Routledge

2018

Level: adelantado

Bankers and Bolsheviks

Following an unprecedented economic boom fed by foreign investment, the Russian Revolution triggered the worst sovereign default in history. Bankers and Bolsheviks tells the dramatic story of this boom and bust, chronicling the forgotten experiences of leading financiers of the age.

Hassan Malik

Princeton University Press

2009

Level: adelantado

From Political Economy to Economics

Economics has become a monolithic science, variously described as formalistic and autistic with neoclassical orthodoxy reigning supreme. So argue Dimitris Milonakis and Ben Fine in this new major work of critical recollection.

Dimitris Milonakis, Ben Fine

Routledge

2004

Level: adelantado

World-systems Analysis

Immanuel Wallerstein provides a concise and accessible introduction to the comprehensive approach that he pioneered thirty years ago to understanding the history and development of the modern world.

Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein, Senior Researcher Immanuel Wallerstein

Duke University Press

2019

Level: debutante

Austerity

Austerity has been at the center of political controversy following the 2008 financial crisis, invoked by politicians and academics across the political spectrum as the answer to, or cause of, our post-crash economic malaise.

Konzelmann, Suzanne J.

Polity

1998

Level: debutante

Foundations of Economics

Foundations of Economics breathes life into the discipline by linking key economic concepts with wider debates and issues. By bringing to light delightful mind-teasers, philosophical questions and intriguing politics in mainstream economics, it promises to enliven an otherwise dry course whilst inspiring students to do well.

Yanis Varoufakis

Psychology Press

1999

Level: adelantado

Political Economy of Money and Finance

To explain the pronounced instability of the world economy since the 1970s, the book offers an important and systematic theoretical examination of money and finance.

Costas Lapavitsas; Makoto Itoh

Palgrave Macmillan

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