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Can’t talk right now, I’m transferring energy.
You work all the time. But what is work, really? And how has that changed? In Work: A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots, anthropologist
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Imagination is a serious matter—economists can’t do without it anymore.
It seems only realistic to say that we’re doomed. We can no longer picture things turning out okay, and that’s the very problem. In From What Is to What If,
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YSI’s Holiday Reading List
Looking for a good book for during the holidays? Here are some recommendations from your YSI coordinators!
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Neoliberalism in Action
Book Review: Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of The Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America How did a network of libertarian influencers mobilize ideas and resources to restructure American
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What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Questions of Market Solutions
Against the backdrop of a society that rarely questions the perceived superiority of “market-based” solutions, Michael Sandel skillfully explores the intersection between markets and morality. In a six-part video series,
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Rethinking Economic Growth: A Review of “The Growth Delusion” by David Pilling
By Raghunath Nageswaran. If economic exchange determined by the market forces of demand and supply provided the right incentives for production, how should the exercise of measuring the economy and its
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PostCapitalism: A Guide to Our Future
By Hannah Temple. It is difficult to get through a day without encountering the idea that we as a species and a planet are at some kind of a tipping
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Doughnut Economics – Grab a pencil, draw a doughnut!
Many of us know we need to rethink economics, but Kate Raworth actually did it. Envisioning the economy as a doughnut, two boundaries become clear. If we fall into the
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Ending the Econocracy: The Need for Pluralism in Economics
To understand why economics students around the globe are calling for Rethinking Economics, the book The Econocracy is a thoughtful and accessible place to start. An econocracy, as defined by
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Rigged: How Mainstream Economics Failed Us All
Econ 101 operates under the observation that “households and firms interacting in markets act as if they are guided by an invisible hand that leads them to desirable market outcomes.”
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