1. Human Action | Robert P. Murphy

Exploring Economics, an open-access e-learning platform, giving you the opportunity to discover & study a variety of economic theories, topics, and methods.

Der Vortrag von Michaela Haase bietet eine Einführung in die Wissenschaftstheorie, mit besonderem Bezug zu den Wirtschaftswissenschaften. Sie erläutert dabei die Argumente für Theorienpluralismus aus Sicht von Popper, Kuhn und Lakatos, geht auf den Instrumentalismus Friedmans ein und vergleicht die Ansätze Hayeks und Hempels zu wissenschaftlichen Methoden.

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.

This is a new online course at bachelor level. It presents an introduction into macroeconomics with a specific focus on the euro area. The theoretical part provides a critical presentation of the two key macroeconomic models: the (neo)classical approach and the Keynesian approach. This allows a comparative analysis of important macroeconomic topics: unemployment inflation government debt and Modern Monetary Theory banks and financial crises. The policy-oriented part discusses the monetary policy of the ECB and the specific challenges for fiscal policy in the euro area. The course also presents other euro area specific topics: Optimum currency area, euro crises, Next Generation EU and Green New Deal.