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Complexity Science: 11 Complexity Economics
2014
Level: debutante
Complexity Science: 11 Complexity Economics
Critique of neoclassical economics is presented and contrasted with the more realistic assumptions made by an complex adaptive systems and evolutionary approach.
 
Complexity Academy
How Economics Forgot about Women
2015
Level: debutante
How Economics Forgot about Women
How do we get our dinner? And who cooked Adam Smith's dinner? Starting with Smith's answer on the origin of a dinner, Katrine Marçal problematizes and illustrates how unpaid labour was and is still being ignored by economic theory and how the homo economics represents characteristics perceived as male.
Katrine Marçal
TEDx Talks
Enough! The Sufficiency Approach and the Limits of Economic Growth
2018
Level: debutante
Enough! The Sufficiency Approach and the Limits of Economic Growth
In this essay, the principle of capital accumulation, as well as the idea of homo economicus as the basis of the growth model, are located and analyzed from a feminist perspective. The sufficiency approach is presented as an alternative to these two economic logics.
Fernanda Nacif
Exploring Economics
Homo Economicus: Why are new year’s resolutions so difficult to maintain and economic models so bad at predicting our behaviour?
2018
Level: debutante
Homo Economicus: Why are new year’s resolutions so difficult to maintain and economic models so bad at predicting our behaviour?
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.
Antonia T. Schröder
Pluralist Economics Fellowship
Economic Transition in the Anthropocene
2019
Level: debutante
Economic Transition in the Anthropocene
In this talk, Eric Beinhocker outlines his ideas of how to ensure a just and sustainable future for Humanity: This includes his interesting Russian Doll approach to unpacking 20th-century economics and proposals of new theories to underpin a new economic system.
Eric Beinhocker
University of California
From Pleasure Machines to Moral Communities
2013
Level: adelantado
From Pleasure Machines to Moral Communities

Are humans at their core seekers of their own pleasure or cooperative members of society? Paradoxically, they are both. Pleasure-seeking can take place only within the context of what works within a defined community, and central to any community are the evolved codes and principles guiding appropriate behavior, or morality.

Geoffrey M. Hodgson
University of Chicago Press

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