From Marketisation to Armed Conflict Since 1991 nominally independent Ukraine has been in turmoil with the Orange Revolution and the Maidan protests marking its most critical moments Now its borders are threatened and the civil unrest and armed conflict continue to destabilise the country In order to understand these dramatic … 2018 Level: avancé Ukraine and the Empire of Capital Yuliya Yurchenko Pluto Press The Currency of Politics explains why only through greater awareness of the historical limits of monetary politics can we begin to articulate more democratic conceptions of money. 2022 Level: avancé The Currency of Politics Stefan Eich Princeton University Press This book provides a comprehensive description of this intriguing new area of feminist economics. It includes discussion of what constitutes feminist economics and how feminist economics is different from other approaches 2020 Level: avancé Advanced Introduction to Feminist Economics Joyce P Jacobsen Edward Elgar In this teaching pack, we take a look at satellite crop monitoring and how it is used for both real and financial economic activities. By looking at commodity futures, we give students a sense of what financialization can mean. In the active exercise students learn to discuss these matters and reflect upon them. 2022 Level: débutant Space & Agriculture Economy Studies Economy Studies In this teaching pack, we look at the acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk. In particular, we focus on what it means to take a company private and how the deal was financed. 2015 Level: débutant Musk buys Twitter Economy Studies Economy Studies The 2022 FIFA World Cup (including the construction work required for it) provides a clear example of economic activity that has taken place despite the financial costs to the Qatari state being an order of magnitude larger than the financial benefits it will receive. Whilst this is a fairly extreme case in terms of how many different costs and benefits are involved and how unequally they have been spread, many economic decisions are more complicated than mere financial calculations and it is therefore vital for students to be able to think about multiple dimensions involved in economic decisions. 2023 Level: débutant The Economics of a World Cup in Qatar Economy Studies Economy Studies 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. 2019 Level: débutant Austerity Konzelmann, Suzanne J. Polity In this book, Carlota Perez develops her Neo-Schumpeterian concept of "techno-economic paradigms" which captures the patterns underlying the role of technological revolutions in economic development since the Industrial revolution. 2003 Level: avancé Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital Carlota Perez Edward Elgar The 2007–08 credit crisis and the long recession that followed brutally exposed the economic and social costs of financialization. Understanding what lay behind these events, the rise of “fictitious capital” and its opaque logic, is crucial to grasping the social and political conditions under which we live. Yet, for most people, the operations of the financial system remain shrouded in mystery. 2017 Level: avancé Fictitious Capital Cedric Durand Verso In China's Gilded Age, Yuen Yuen Ang maintains that all corruption is harmful, but not all types of corruption hurt growth. Ang unbundles corruption into four varieties: petty theft, grand theft, speed money, and access money. 2020 Level: débutant China's Gilded Age Yuen Yuen Ang Cambridge University Press The world is still feeling reverberations from the financial crisis of 2008 foreseen by neither politicians nor economists The history of capitalism has been punctuated by major crises exposing the fragility of our entire economic system How has capitalism despite these ruptures managed to each time resurface more resilient and … Level: débutant The Global Financial Crisis Timothy Geithner; Andrew Metrick Yale University The book criticizes neoclassical climate economics in the tradition of William Nordhaus. It explains why this kind of thinking is misleading and why neoclassical climate economics asks the wrong questions. 2020 Level: avancé Climate Economics Franziska M. Hoffart and Michael Roos Springer Nature "Despite the rediscovery of the inequality topic by economists as well as other social scientists in recent times, relatively little is known about how economic inequality is mediated to the wider public of ordinary citizens and workers. That is precisely where this book steps in: It draws on a cross-national empirical study to examine how mainstream news media discuss, respond to, and engage with such important and politically sensitive issues and trends. 2020 Level: avancé Economic Inequality and News Media Andrea Grisold & Paschal Preston T. Oxford University Press This is an immensely important book for any student of social theory interested in understanding the colonial roots of a lot of contemporary thinking From a post colonial perspective Gurminder Bhambra and John Holmwood unpack how the emergence of modern society in the context of European colonialism and empire impacted … 2021 Level: avancé Colonialism and Modern Social Theory Gurminder K. Bhambra, John Holmwood John Wiley & Sons Is or has economics ever been the imperial social science? Could or should it ever be so? These are the central concerns of this book. It involves a critical reflection on the process of how economics became the way it is, in terms of a narrow and intolerant orthodoxy, that has, nonetheless, increasingly directed its attention to appropriating the subject matter of other social sciences through the process termed "economics imperialism". 2009 Level: avancé From Economics Imperialism to Freakonomics Ben Fine, Dimitris Milonakis Routledge L’idée fondamentale de l’économie écologique est que l’activité économique humaine est contrainte par des limites absolues. L’analyse porte sur les interactions entre l’économie, la société et l’environnement, avec pour objectif ultime la durabilité. Économie écologique     What causes a recession? Told by economic historian John S. Gordon and visualized by a dancing performance, this short film focuses on emotions that are linked to recessions and recovery: fear and confidence. 2014 Level: débutant Recession Lee Hirsch We The Economy This article explores if power dynamics in the household can be changed, and if so, how. In this context the focus is laid on government childcare policy and its various channels of possible influence. Level: débutant How can childcare policy affect intra-household power dynamics? Francesca Sanders and Nina Schubert Exploring Economics A concise introduction to Marx's Labour Theory of Value, the three ratios and the falling rate of profit hypothesis. 2009 Level: débutant Marx's Theory of Economic Crisis Cliff Bowman YouTube The age of the contemplative economist-scholar—at home equally in classical languages, economic history, the history of ideas, and mathematical theory—has passed. The history of economics as a subdiscipline has lost touch with the mainstream study of economics. InThe Future of the History of Economics, internationally known scholars from ten countries provide a comparative assessment of the subdiscipline. 2002 Level: avancé The Future of the History of Economics Eliot Roy Weintraub Duke University Press In this TedTalk Dan O Neil explains why GDP and infinite growth are concepts that we should leave behind and which other perspectives have been developed Degrowth post growth well being or steady state economy The goal is to rethink a new paradigm that puts society and the environment at … 2014 Level: débutant The Economics of Enough Dan O'Neil TedX Marx’s theory of the falling rate of profit is not only empirically borne out, but the theory he proposed seems to describe accurately how that happens. Furthermore, the whole process is useful for understanding the history of contemporary capitalism. 2020 Level: débutant On the Rate of Profit Cahal Moran Rethinking Economics In both economics textbooks and public perceptions central banks are a fact of life. On the wall of my A-level economics classroom there was the Will Rogers quote “there have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking”, summarising how many economists view the institution. There is a widespread belief that there is something different about money which calls for a central authority to manage its operation, a view shared even by staunch free marketeers such as Milton Friedman. This belief is not without justification, since money underpins every transaction in a way that apples do not, but we should always be careful not to take existing institutions for granted and central banking is no exception. In this post I will look at the idea of private or free banking, where banks compete (and cooperate) to issue their own currency. 2020 Level: débutant Whither Central Banks? Cahal Moran Rethinking Economics 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: débutant Women, Men, & Work Karen Leppel School of Business Administration at Widener University L’économie évolutionniste se focalise sur le changement économique. En conséquence, sont analysés des processus de changement tels que la croissance, l’innovation, le changement technologique et structurel, ou encore le développement économique en général. L’accent est mis sur les populations et les (sous-)systèmes. Économie évolutionniste     L’économie féministe se focalise sur les interdépendances entre les relations de genre et l’économie. Le 'care' et la sphère de la reproduction partiellement non-marchande sont des objets d’étude particulièrement mis en avant. Économie féministe     L’économie comportementale se dédie à l’observation du comportement humain et en particulier à celle du comportement de décision économique. Économie comportementale     Economist and 2020 Balzan Prize winner for Environmental Challenges: Responses from the Social Sciences and Humanities, Joan Martínez Alier, speaks on the importance of ecological economics and its timeliness around the 2007/2008 global financial crisis. He speaks on the importance of building the field of ecological economics “from the ground up” through praxis. 2012 Level: débutant Ecological Economics Joan Martinez Alier Extraenvironmentalist Maria Nikolaidi on how Minsky’s theory has been modelled over past decades and how one can use these models in order to analyse contemporary issues such as financial fragility and financial instability caused by climate change. 2016 Level: avancé Minsky's theory about financial fragility and financial instability Maria Nikolaidi IMK The Sufficiency Policy Map is an online tool for initiatives, political actors, organisations and individuals. It provides recommendations, strategies and communication tools for realizing projects and policy around the topic sufficiency. Sufficiency projects have the aim to reduce one's own ecological footprint. 2016 Level: débutant Sufficiency Politics Map Dominik Zahrnt, Angelika Zahrnt Institute for Ecological Economy Research This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Economic theory is centuries out of date and that's a disaster for ... 2014 Level: débutant Why it's time for 'Doughnut Economics' Kate Raworth TEDx What is “equitable growth” and how do we measure it? A better understanding of equitable growth—and how to measure it—can improve our understanding, inform decisions and lead to better outcomes for all. 2017 Level: débutant Why current definitions of family income are misleading, and why this matters for measures of inequality Nancy Folbre Equitable Growth Blog