The future of globalization and free trade has become a hot topic of discussion ever since the COVID-19 outbreak. In this post a number of courses to learn more about globalization and free trade from a variety of (disciplinary) perspectives, plus a course on how local economic development can be achieved in a globalized world.
After our last post on courses on the history and future of capitalism, we have this time collected online courses on Marx, his famous book Capital, Marxism. Marxian economics and (Chinese) communism as a real-world application of Marxist thought.
“With university classrooms and libraries shuttered because of the COVID-19 crisis, scholars are facing disruptions not only in their teaching lives but also in their ability to access research materials. In response, many academic presses have made hundreds of their titles freely accessible online,” notices the website Public Books, which is maintaining a list of publishers who have made available free books. Moral Markets went through their list to select books of interest in the area of the ethics of markets, capitalism, economics & business.
“What is economics for? What is it about? How should it be done? How can it be of use to us? How is it connected to morals and politics? These are the core questions economic historian Lord Robert Skidelsky will answer in this new lecture series for INET [published September 2019]. Expanding an understanding of economics beyond mathematical models, Skidelsky covers topics essential to using economics to better understand the world, such as economics and history, the role of psychology and sociology in economics, and the role of methodology.”
Whether you are interested in American capitalism or rather take a global perspective, want to know more about the history of capitalism or its future, have a background in economics or not: one of these five online courses will surely be right for you.
When discussing what direction we should go with the economy, we cannot get around discussing the role of the finance sector. In post 7 of this irregular blog series 6 courses you might want to take to learn more about (the ethics and social role of) finance, money and banking.
“Shoshana Zuboff coined the term “surveillance capitalism” to describe the new way companies claim private human experience as products. [In this podcast] Shoshana joins Azeem Azhar to discuss the emergence of surveillance capitalism, its pernicious and beneficial aspects, and the future for human autonomy and agency.”
To more fruitfully discuss the morality of markets it may be a good idea to learn more about markets: what are they, how do they work (and possibly fail)? In the sixth post in this series some massive open online courses (MOOCs) in economics on the workings of markets.
What courses to take if you would like to sharpen your thoughts on morality and markets? In the fifth post in this series some massive open online courses (MOOCs) on alternative business models, including cooperative firms and social entrepreneurship. [post updated with new course in December 2019]
What courses to take if you would like to learn more about morality and markets? In the fourth post of this series I recommend four massive open online courses (MOOCs) in business ethics. [post updated with new course in December 2019]
