1st Edition

Heterodox Economics and Global Emergencies Voices from Around the World

168 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

168 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

168 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

From the financial crash to the climate emergency and Covid- 19, this book demonstrates that recent crises have had unequal impacts, they require a heterodox approach to economics for their understanding, and new ways of thinking are needed to address them. Drawing on a variety of heterodox and radical perspectives and global voices, including those from India, Africa, and South America, this... Read more

Introduction: Permacrisis, Overlapping crises, Inter-crises

Ariane Agunsoye and Eurydice Fotopoulou

 

Section 1: Inequalities and Alternative Approaches

 

Chapter 1 Heterodox Economic Policy outlook: A proven boon at the time of a global pandemic

Medha A Sathi

 

Chapter 2 The Reach of Fiscal Stimulus for Urban Women Informal Sector Workers in Bengaluru during COVID 19

R Vijayamba 

 

Chapter 3 The impact of Covid-19 on the economy of lower-income Bogotá families: An analysis using Polanyi’s concept of the economy as an instituted process

Sonia Carolina López Cerón

 

Section 2: Finance and the Causes of Crises

 

Chapter 4 On the Financial Instability Hypothesis and its Global Implications post-Covid19

Barkin Cihani

 

Chapter 5 Estimating Economic Surplus in Argentina. The Neoliberal Strategy, Its Crisis and the Neo-Developmentalist Model (1991-2015)

Leandro Bona

 

Chapter 6 The commodity character of Marx’s theory of money: an assessment of the debate

Nicolas  Aguila

Section 3: Economics Education and Change

 

Chapter 7 Qualitative Economics and the Opportunity to Push for Heterodoxy in the Classroom

Juan David Parra

 

Chapter 8 Conclusion: “Crisis of What?” “Crisis for Whom?”

Jon Mulberg and Thoralf Dassler

Biography

Ariane Agunsoye is Senior Lecturer in Economics in the Institute of Management Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.

Thoralf Dassler is Senior Lecturer at the University of Westminster, UK.

Eurydice Fotopoulou is an Economist for the International Monetary Fund (IMF). All views expressed here are of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the IMF, its Executive Board, or IMF management.

Jon Mulberg is Associate Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts and Social Science at the Open University, UK.