Author: Ina Praetorius (WiC - Wirtschaft ist Care) Producer: Hans Jörg Fehle Realisator: Sergio Herencias, Andreas Tanner and others
Wirtschaft ist Care,
2018
Level: beginner
Perspectives:
Feminist Economics,
Solidarity Economy
Topic:
Criticism of Capitalism,
Economic History,
Inequality & Class,
Labour & Care,
Race & Gender,
Resources, Environment & Climate
Se trata de un cortometraje que cuestiona el estado actual de la economía presentando ideas que hacen pensar, además de mirar el pasado para explicar cómo se formó el concepto actual de la economía.
Premier épisode d'une série sur le libéralisme d'Entendez-vous l'Eco, qui porte sur la théorie néoclassique. Cette école de pensée fondatrice de l'économie dominante actuelle peut se comprendre à travers quatre penseurs : William Stanley Jevons, Léon Walras et Carl Menger, Alfred Marshall.
After completing the module, participants should be able to analyse the concepts of degrowth, ecological unequal exchange, Green New Deal, and embeddedness by applying theories situated within the fields of academic research of Ecological Economics and Political Ecology.
How should we discuss welfare when understanding the role of growth and the viability of Growth-led development? One option is to look at subjective happiness. This provides an anti-materialistic view which may superficially appear more compatible with significant reductions in consumption in order to remain within safe ecological limits.
Neue Eurokrise?! In diesem RROKLA-Artikel untersuchen Etienne Schneider und Felix Syrovatka die Entwicklungen seit der vergangenen Eurokrise und beschreiben drei Szenarien für die Zukunft der Eurozone bereithält.
In the inspiring interview on Economics of Care, Nancy Foblre takes a closer look to the consequences of the marketization of caring activities on those activities and on the societal organization of care. Folbre elaborates on how to value care and how this shifts the perspectives on living standards. She points to the fact, that caring activities are undervalued both in the market sphere and within the family and thereby questions the division between those spheres. Lastly, Folbre answers the question how to reteach Economics when accounting for caring activities.
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