In the interview, Robert Skidelsky discusses the emergence of political influence of a certain school of economic thought and how the success of an economic theory depends on the power relations in the society. He introduces the historical example of Keynesian economics and its replacement by liberal economic theory and policy in the aftermath of the Great Depression, and transfers this historical case to the dominant paradigm of austerity policies in the Europe as response to rising public debts caused by the Financial Crisis. He contrasts austerity policies with a Keynesian approach. Furthermore, he relates the targets of policy to the underlying power structures, for example when not the reduction of unemployment but the protection of financial capital is politically addressed. 2015 Level: avancé Economics and Political Power during the Crisis Robert Skidelsky INET Ce podcast présente l’incompatibilité entre notre modèle économique et l’exigence écologique. « Comment affronter sérieusement les désordres de la planète si l’on s’évertue à réanimer un modèle économique qui en est la cause » ? s’est exclamé Gaël Giraud (chef économiste de l’Agence Française de Développement). La question de l'équation entre les impératifs économiques de court terme (croissance, emploi) et les exigences planétaires de long terme (l'avenir de notre monde) semble toujours irrésolue. 2018 Level: débutant Economie/écologie : l'impossible conjugaison? Gaël Giraud France Culture L'Observatoire régional de l'environnement (ORE) expose les instruments économiques que nous avons à disposition pour faire face à la gravité des problèmes environnementaux (réchauffement climatique, stress hydrique, pollution des eaux continentales et marines, érosion de la biodiversité). On apprend quels sont les enjeux à mettre un prix à la nature (pollution, biodiversité...) et quels sont les avantages et inconvénients de chaque mesure mise en place par l'État pour agir pour une transition écologique durable. Enfin, il propose différentes méthodes qui pourraient améliorer notre approche à inclure notre environnement dans notre système économique en prenant des cas concrets (eau potable, prix du carbone...) 2012 Level: avancé Donner un prix à la Nature ? Valérie Barbier L'Observatoire régional de l'environnement (ORE) de Poitoux-Charentes How does fiscal policy work and which dimensions have to be considered? In this short text, you can learn about the difficulty of juggling different dimensions and which optimal rules exist at the micro and macro level. 2019 Level: débutant Why is fiscal policy so difficult?   Dezernat Zukunft Here we look at the effect of the 2008 Climate Change Act passed in Parliament in the United Kingdom as an effort to curb emissions in all sectors. The Act aside from setting goals to become a low-carbon economy sets up an independent committee on Climate Change to ensure the implementation of policies to comply with the ultimate goal of 80% reduction in total emissions in 2050. I make use of the Synthetic Control Method (SCM) to create a comparative case study in which the creation of a synthetic UK serves as a counterfactual where the treatment never occurred (Cunningham, 2018). 2020 Level: débutant Synthetic Control Method for Estimating the Effect of the Climate Change Act of 2008 in Britain Aaron Morales Shildrick Pluralist Economics Fellowship The novel coronavirus (Covid-19) is rapidly spreading around the world. The real economy is simultaneously hit by a supply shock and a demand shock by the spread of coronavirus. Such a twin shock is a rare phenomenon in recent economic history. 2020 Level: débutant How to Manage the Economic Fallout of the Coronavirus Kavaljit Singh Madhyam This is an overview of (possibly transformative) proposals to address the economic consequences of the corona crisis 2020 Level: débutant Overview of proposals to combat the economic consequences of the Corona crisis Hannes Böhm, Anne Löscher & Jorim Gerrard Exploring Economics The vast uncertainty surrounding the possible spread of COVID 19 and the duration of the near economic standstill required to combat it make forecasting little different from guessing Clearly this is a whatever it takes moment for large scale outside the box fiscal and monetary policies Carmen M Reinhart Project … 2020 Level: avancé This Time Truly Is Different | by Carmen M. Reinhart Carmen M. Reinhart Project Syndicate This Forum in the Boston Review deals with the role of economics in modern policymaking and presents a wide set of perspectives on the topic. The opening text by Suresh Naidu, Dani Rodrik and Gabriel Zucman aims to answer a range of common criticisms against the modern, neoclassical science of economics and its influence on public discussions. 2019 Level: débutant Economics After Neoliberalism Suresh Naidu, Dani Rodrik, Gabriel Zucman Boston Review In this interview Mariana Mazzucato talks about economic actions governments need to take facing the Corona-crisis. Using the example of Britain, she argues that governmental bailouts need to be bound to commitment to sustainability. 2020 Level: débutant Mariana Mazzucato on New Economic Approaches RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce), Mariana Mazzucato, Matthew Taylor Youtube In spite of the manifold critique about the state of economics in the aftermath of the financial crisis, an even increasing presence of economists and economic experts can be observed in the public sphere during the last years. On the one hand this reflects the still dominant position of economics in the social sciences as well as the sometimes ignorant attitude of economists towards findings of other social sciences. On the other hand this paper shows that the public debate on politico-economic issues among economists is dominated by a specific subgroup of economists, tightly connected to an institutional network of “German neoliberalism”. This group of “public economists” (i) is dominant in public debates even after the financial crisis, (ii) reproduces the formative German economic imaginary of the Social Market Economy in a German neoliberal interpretation and (iii) has a good access to German economic policymaking, rooted in a long history of economic policy advice. 2016 Level: avancé Still the queens of social sciences? (Post-)Crisis power balances of “public economists” in Germany Stephan Pühringer Institut für Ökonomie und Philosophie Cusanus Hochschule The course will teach students to analyze the goals, implementation, and outcomes of economic policy. 2019 Level: avancé Advanced Economic Policy Alyssa Schneebaum Vienna University of Economics and Business The course will teach students to analyze the goals, implementation, and outcomes of economic policy. 2018 Level: avancé Advanced Economic Policy 2 Alyssa Schneebaum Vienna University of Economics and Business On July 2020 ZOE-Institute published a unique platform for transformative policymaking: Sustainable Prosperity. Building on insights from new economic thinking the platform provides knowledge about ideas, arguments and procedures that support effective promotion of political change. It aims to strengthen change makers in public policy institutions, who are working on an ambitious green and just transition. As such, it provides convincing arguments and policy ideas to overcome the reliance of economic policy on GDP growth Level: débutant Sustainable Prosperity   ZOE Photo by Kaitlyn Ashley on Unsplash 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 … 2012 Level: débutant The Future of Capitalism Anatole Kaletsky n.a. Explore the pressing topic of globalisation and how it affects economics, politics and society with this online course. Level: débutant International Affairs: Globalisation Richard Baldwin Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Geneva Heterodox Macroeconomics offers a detailed understanding of the foundations of the recent global financial crisis 2009 Level: avancé Heterodox Macroeconomics Jonathan P. Goldstein, Michael G. Hillard Routledge The Austrian tradition in economic thought had a profound influence on the development of post-war economics including neoclassical orthodoxy, game theory, public choice, behavioral economics, experimental economics and complexity economics. 2008 Level: avancé Explorations in Austrian Economics Roger Koppl Emerald Group Publishing The U.S. economy today is confronted with the prospect of extended stagnation. This book explores why. Thomas I. Palley argues that the Great Recession and destruction of shared prosperity is due to flawed economic policy over the past thirty years. 2012 Level: avancé From Financial Crisis to Stagnation Thomas I. Palley Cambridge University Press Diane Perrons and Sigrid Stagl combine feminist and critical environmental economics perspectives to develop a critique of the free market growth model and offer new ideas for a more sustainable gender equitable model of development in the interests of all. 2019 Level: avancé A Feminist Political Economy for an Inclusive and Sustainable Society Diane Perrons, Sigrid (Vienna University for Economics and Business) Stagl Agenda Publishing Examine what would happen if we were to deploy blockchain technology at the sovereign level and use it to create a decentralized cashless economy. This book explains how finance and economics work today, and how the convergence of various technologies related to the financial sector can help us find solutions to problems, such as excessive debt creation, banks getting too big to fail, and shadow banking. 2017 Level: avancé The Blockchain Alternative Bheemaiah, Kariappa Apress Are there distinct European traditions in economics? Is modern economics homogenous and American? The volume includes case studies of the UK, Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Greece. 2005 Level: avancé The Development of Economics in Western Europe Since 1945 Coats, A.W. Routledge The world has changed dramatically in recent years and so has the field of economics, but many introductory economics textbooks have remained stuck in the past. This book provides a new beginning for the study of macroeconomics, fundamentally international in its approach and emphasizing current debates and research trends. 2014 Level: avancé Macroeconomics Dorman, Peter Springer-Verlag The second edition of International Political Economy continues to be the perfect short introduction to the fundamental theories and issues of international political economy (IPE). 2018 Level: avancé International Political Economy Miller, Raymond C. Routledge International Economics, 15e continues to combine rigorous economic analysis with attention to the issues of economic policy that are alive and important today in this field. 2011 Level: avancé International Economics Pugel, Thomas A. McGraw Hill Book Co Noneconomists often think that economists' approach to race is almost exclusively one of laissez-faire. Racism, Liberalism, and Economics argues that economists' ideas are more complicated. 2009 Level: avancé Race, Liberalism, And Economics Colander, David; Prasch, Robert E.; Shetz, Falguni A. University of Michigan Press Rethinking Regulation of International Finance encapsulates the most important aspects of the development and operation of the international financial system. This book questions the fundamental basis of the existing international financial architecture (soft law) and explores the need for a compliance-based model based on legitimacy of regulations and accountability of the regulatory bodies in international financial stability. 2018 Level: avancé Rethinking Regulation of International Finance Uzma Ashraf Barton Kluwer Law International 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 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 "Stabilise, liberalise and privatise" has, since the debt crisis of the early 1980s, been the mantra chanted at developing countries by international financial institutions, donor countries and newspaper columnists with quasi-religious conviction. 2007 Level: avancé The Resistible Rise of Market Fundamentalism Richard Kozul-Wright, Paul Rayment Zed Books This book sets out to encourage a debate about the role that economic theory and philosophy of economics can play. A good part of economics consists of theoretical developments which describe completely imaginary worlds and have no connections to actual market economies 2016 Level: avancé A Philosophical Framework for Rethinking Theoretical Economics and Philosophy of Economics Gustavo Marqués College Publications The authors show how consumers, business, the Federal Reserve, and government take into account what's going on around them to make critical decisions like buying new products, building new factories, changing interest rates, or setting budget goals. The book provides a clear roadmap to understanding the whole story behind the global economy. 2014 Level: avancé Big Picture Economics Joel Naroff, Ron Scherer John Wiley & Sons