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The Compendium The Compendium The Global Economy | Environment, Development and Globalisation CEMUS Education/Uppsala Centre for Sustainable Development • Fall Semester 2012 Documentary Online Video & lecture Podcast WikiArticle Article Book ★ Alternative/Heterodox Economics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterodox_economics Buddhist Economics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_economics Evolutionary Economics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_economics Thermoeconomics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioeconomics_(biophysical) Econophysics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Econophysics Institutional Economics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_economics Progressive Utilization Theory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_utilization_theory ★ E.F. Schumacher (1973). Small is Beautiful [Available at UU] ★ Steve Keen (2004). Debunking Economics – The Naked Emperor of the Social Sciences [Interview 2011, 24min at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F2FKxxN_IE&feature=plcp] [Available at CEMUS] Behavioral Economics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_economics Andrew Oswald LSE: Herd behaviour and keeping up with the joneses (2011, 75min) http://www2.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/channels/publicLecturesAndEvents/player.aspx?id=1270 Paul Dolan LSE: behavioural economics and human happiness (2011, 71min) http://www2.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/channels/publicLecturesAndEvents/player.aspx?id=878 Freakonomics (Docu 2010, 90min) Full movie at: http://www.movie2k.to/Freakonomics-watch-movie-399638.html Steven Levitt: Freakonomics - Why do crack dealers still live with their moms ? (2007: 22min) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UGC2nLnaes&feature=related Steven Levitt: Beyond Freakonomics – New musings on the Economics of Every day life (2010: 56min) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tmo9YsNXWCc&feature=related Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner: Superfreakonomics (2010, 19min) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfA76djbLAY&feature=plcp The Global Economy – Environment, Development and Globalisation | Autumn Semester 2012 | CEMUS 1 Education | Uppsala Centre for Sustainable Development, CSD Uppsala | Villavägen 16, SE-752 36 Uppsala, Sweden | +46-18-471 72 94 | [email protected] | www.csduppsala.uu.se | www.cemusstudent.se| What is behavioral economics? (2009, 4min) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa-mIosWOK8 ★ George Akerlof & Robert Shiller (2009). Animal Spirit: how human psychology drives the economy and why it matters for global capitalism [Available at Cemus] ★ Robert Frank (2007). The Economist Naturalist: in search of explanations for everyday enigmas [Available at UU] Business Muhammad Yunus: Ideas for change (2012,14min) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q2T7TEy9tE&feature=plcp Ellen McArthur & Stef Kranendijk: Re-imagining Business - The transition to a circulation economy (2011, 26min) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpxNqCVbJQ&feature=plcp Richard Lambert: Doing good is good business? From Rhetoric to reality (2010, 45min) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__AGFY-vfL4&feature=plcp Gansky (2011) “The Mesh: Six reasons why the sharing society will trump the ownership society” http://changethis.com/manifesto/79.01.TheMesh/pdf/79.01.TheMesh.pdf Young & Tilley (2006) “Can businesses move beyond efficiency? The shift toward effectiveness and equity in the corporate sustainability debate” in Business Strategy and the Environment. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1002/bse.510/asset/510_ftp.pdf;jsessionid=219FE35014B2E8D037EB36D8633 B8E4D.d01t01?v=1&t=h5to4f7s&s=5d340fda45bbfb376aa4ec63219c62c0ac267eed Capitalism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism Capitalism is the Crisis (Docu 2011, 100min) Full movie at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYFw3O--2R0 Kathleen Thelen: The future of egalitarian capitalism, in light of its past (2012, 91min) http://www2.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/channels/publicLecturesAndEvents/player.aspx?id=1386 Luigi Zingales LSE: A Capitalism for the People (2012, 85min) http://www2.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/channels/publicLecturesAndEvents/player.aspx?id=1523 David Harvey: The End of Capitalism? (2011, 85min) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYzKsiev43Q&feature=related David Harvey RSA: Crisis of Capitalism (2010, 11min) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOP2V_np2c0&feature=relmfu Slavoj Zizek: Living in the End time (2010, 50min) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw8LPn4irao&feature=player_embedded Bill Gates: How to fix capitalism (2008, 6min) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA1ioym5OYA Hernando Soto: Capitalism at crossroads (2008, 8min). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW5FKNpgg6I Jacqueline Novogratz TED: on patient capitalism (2007, 18min) http://www.ted.com/talks/jacqueline_novogratz_on_patient_capitalism.html Capitalism (1948, 10min) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VstTwFxNKk&mode=related&search= Perspectives on Capitalism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perspectives_on_capitalism Ikerd (2006) Is Capitalism sustainable? http://web.missouri.edu/ikerdj/papers/SFT-Sustainable%20Captialism.htm The Global Economy – Environment, Development and Globalisation | Autumn Semester 2012 | CEMUS 2 Education | Uppsala Centre for Sustainable Development, CSD Uppsala | Villavägen 16, SE-752 36 Uppsala, Sweden | +46-18-471 72 94 | [email protected] | www.csduppsala.uu.se | www.cemusstudent.se| ★ Kellerman et al (2011). Decent Capitalism: a blueprint for reforming our economies [Available at CEMUS] ★ Mark Fisher (2009). Capitalism Realism: Is there no alternative? [Available at CEMUS] ★ Paul Hawken, A. Lovins, L.H. Lovins (2008). Natural Capitalism: creating the next industrial revolution ★ David Schweickart (2002). After Capitalism [Available at UU] Carbon Trading The Story of Cap and Trade (2009, 10min). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA6FSy6EKrM Carbon Credit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_credit Carbon Tax: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_tax Emissions Trading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emissions_trading Personal Carbon Trading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_carbon_trading Cap and Dividend: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cap_and_dividend ★ Nordberg et al (2006) Carbon Trading: A critical conversation on climate change, privatization and power. [Available at CEMUS] or http://www.whatnext.org/resources/Publications/Carbon- Trading/carbon_trading_web_HQ.pdf China Stephen Perry LSE: Doing business with China: problems, challenges and opportunities (2011, 88min) http://www2.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/channels/publicLecturesAndEvents/player.aspx?id=1239 Danny Quah LSE: China in the global economic crisis (2010, 90min). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtSWbiTDeLg ★ Doug Guthrie (2009). China and Globalization: the social, economic and political transformation of chinese society. Available at: http://business.gwu.edu/dean/publications/pdf/china/china-and-globalization-chapter1-2009.pdf Civilization The crisis of Civilization (Docu 2011, 77min) http://vimeo.com/34752785 Jeffrey Sachs LSE: The Price of Civilization: economics and ethics after the fall (2011, 93min) http://www2.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/channels/publicLecturesAndEvents/player.aspx?id=1280 Jeremy Rifkin: The Empathic Civilization – the race to global consciousness in a world in crisis (2011, 97min) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EZv9H62xm0 Climate Change and Economics Nicholas Stern LSE: Climate Change and the New Industrial Revolution (2012, 3 lectures of 80min) 1) What we risk and how we should cast the economics and ethics http://www2.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/channels/publicLecturesAndEvents/player.aspx?id=1361 2) How we can respond and prosper : http://www2.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/channels/publicLecturesAndEvents/player.aspx?id=1365 The Global Economy – Environment, Development and Globalisation | Autumn Semester 2012 | CEMUS 3 Education | Uppsala Centre for Sustainable Development, CSD Uppsala | Villavägen 16, SE-752 36 Uppsala, Sweden | +46-18-471 72 94 | [email protected] | www.csduppsala.uu.se | www.cemusstudent.se| 3) How we can get there : building national and international action http://www2.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/channels/publicLecturesAndEvents/player.aspx?id=1369 Andrew Simms: The End of Development (2009, 2min) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMxmg3Wf1JU Nicholas Stern (2006). Review on the Economics of Climate Change http://www.hm- treasury.gov.uk/sternreview_index.htm Ackerman and Stanton (2008) “The costs of climate change” http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/reports/econ_costs_cc.pdf Consumerism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumerism Surplus: Terrorized into being Consumers (Docu 2006, 50min) Full movie at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AEiwOM4fAY Juliet Schor: Visualizing a Plenitude Economy (2011, 4min) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR-YrD_KB0M Barry Schwartz TED: The Paradox of Choice (2011, 19min) http://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_on_the_paradox_of_choice.html Sanne (2004) “ The consumtion of our discontent” http://www.ima.kth.se/utb/MJ2693/pdf/Sanne.pdf ★ Rob Hengelved (2012). Wasted World: how our consumption challenges the planet Corporate Social Responsibility http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_social_responsibility Porter M.E. & Kramer M.R., 2011. Creating Shared Value: how to reinvent capitalism – and unleash a wave of innovation and growth in Harvard Business Review, January-February 2011. Doppelt (2003) “Overcoming the seven sustainability blunders” in The Systems Thinker, vol. 14, No.5. http://www.greenleaf-publishing.com/content/pdfs/systhink.pdf
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