How did economic growth become paramount as the public policy objective? Peter Victor discusses the role of growth within institutions, asks if it is possible to imagine a degrowth economy and discusses the role of grass-root movements. 2012 Level: początkujący Ecological Economics Peter Victor Extraenvironmentalist 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: początkujący How can childcare policy affect intra-household power dynamics? Francesca Sanders and Nina Schubert Exploring Economics Steve Horwitz, professor of economics at St. Lawrence University, gives a concise account of Austrian approach and talks about how it relates to the various current public policy issues. 2013 Level: początkujący The Austrian school of economics Steve Horwitz YouTube Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) and Feminist Economics make a conjoint statement: The way we see the economic system has nothing to do with human beings nor those who have been surviving outside the market. 2015 Level: początkujący Decolonial Feminist Economics: A Necessary View for Strengthening Social and Popular Economy Viewpoint Magazine Medium The podcast explores the psychosocial implications of poverty in the society. Keetie Roelen investigates how the emotion of shame and policy-making are intertwined. 2017 Level: początkujący The Psychosocial Side of Poverty Keetie Roelen PS - Project Syndicate What is game theory? Game theory is a way of thinking about strategic interactions between people, which makes it a crucial component of economics, political science, international relations, psychology and a variety of other disciplines that deal with the complexities of human interaction in decision making. 2018 Level: początkujący An Introduction to Game Theory in Public Policy Giovanna Chaves Pluralist Economics Fellowship In this essay the author elaborates on the EU's perspective on the fast growing sector of the platform economy. 2019 Level: początkujący Sharing is Caring? On the EU- Narrative on Platform Economy Laura Porak Exploring Economics 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: początkujący 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: początkujący Synthetic Control Method for Estimating the Effect of the Climate Change Act of 2008 in Britain Aaron Morales Shildrick Pluralist Economics Fellowship The likely global impacts of the economic fallout from the Coronavirus and how we might be better prepared than the 2008 economic crisis to put forward progressive solutions. 2020 Level: początkujący The coming global recession: building an internationalist response   Transnational Institute 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: początkujący Sustainable Prosperity   ZOE Dr Murieann Quigley (Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Ethics and Law, University of Bristol) discusses the ethics of nudging and whether it matters that third parties construct the context in which you make your decisions. 2016 Level: początkujący The Ethics of Nudging Dr Murieann Quigley TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities Explore the pressing topic of globalisation and how it affects economics, politics and society with this online course. Level: początkujący International Affairs: Globalisation Richard Baldwin Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Geneva In a changing world that has been shaken by economic, social, financial, and ecological crises, it becomes increasingly clear that new approaches to economics are needed for both theoretical and empirical research; for applied economics as well as policy advice. 2018 Level: zaawansowane Policy Implications of Recent Advances in Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Claudius Grabner, Torsten Heinrich, Henning Schwardt Routledge One of the most authoritative authors on the intellectual heritage of John Maynard Keynes, Robert Skidelsky draws a sketch of the great man's economic thinking both accessible and insightful. 2010 Level: początkujący Keynes: A Very Short Introduction Robert Skidelsky Oxford University Press This edited volume put together by Jimi Adesina based on the proceedings of the Social Policy in African Conference in 2017 provides an overview of social policy in varied country contexts and fields especially in light of decades of the reduction in size and hollowing out of the content of … 2021 Level: zaawansowane Social Policy in the African Context Jimi O. Adesina African Books Collective What are the challenges and opportunities for achieving decent work in global supply chains How do transnational corporations and their global supply chains operate How can they be more effectively governed Mark Anner Esther Busser Michael Fichter Tandiwe Gross Frank Hoffer Jenny Holdcroft Praveen Jha Maité Llanos Adam Lee Victor … Level: początkujący Decent Work in Global Supply Chains Mark Anner, Esther Busser, Michael Fichter, Tandiwe Gross, Frank Hoffer, Jenny Holdcroft, Praveen Jha, Maité Llanos, Adam Lee, Victor Hugo Ricco, Christoph Scherrer Iversity 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: zaawansowane International Economics Pugel, Thomas A. McGraw Hill Book Co In this course you will study the different facets of human development in topics such as education health gender the family land relations risk informal and formal norms public policy and institutions While studying each of these topics we will delve into the following questions What determines the decisions of … Level: zaawansowane Foundations of Development Policy: Advanced Development Economics Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, Esther Duflo & Benjamin Olken Massachusetts Institute of Technology