What counts as work & what doesn't? 🤔 Nancy Folbre shows how nearly half of all work done in this country is ignored by economists. 👇 LearnEcon.org

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Economists like to claim that they can explain everything. But does that really hold up? 🤔 Watch "Economics for People" with Ha-Joon Chang at LearnEcon.org 🧠

🎙️ Public Lecture at Kanyashree University 📚 Gift: Hundred and Not Out 🗣️ Prof. Sony Pellissery (NLSIU) 🗓️ July 10 | 🕖 7 PM IST | 🌐 Online 🎉 100 yrs of Mauss' The Gift—Why it still matters! 🔗 Register: forms.gle/mszKzFTaQ9MtE8… #Mauss100 #SocialWork #Welfare #PublicLecture

Forthcoming: 40 Years of Economics: Tributes to Richard Arena and His Impact on Economic Thought, edited by Muriel Dal Pont Legrand & Sandye Gloria buff.ly/5rCamY3

To make sense of all the conversations on trade, it's helpful to look at specific examples. Farhad, young scholar from Canada, zooms in on auto and oil:

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.The New York Times featured Fred Ledley’s INET working paper on funding for FDA-approved pharmaceuticals nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Proud to share that the results of a workshop organised with geraldine sibanda UFS (funded by Young Scholars Initiative and with the support of the International Studies Group) have now been published in a dossier of the Southern Journal for Contemporary History journals.ufs.ac.za/index.php/jch/…

Join us on July 2nd, 1:15pm-8pm, at UMass, Amherst! International Association for Feminist Economics Pre-Conference ysi.ineteconomics.org/event/ysi-iaff…

Meet Arnold Foko Kengne! 🙌 Arnold is a Ph.D. Candidate in Economics, a budding entrepreneurship theorist and practitioner, and an emerging consultant in development economics. His academic and professional interests lie at the intersection of economic research, entrepreneurial

Cyber threats are surging—and Dr. David Mussington warns we’re not ready. He breaks it down with Lynn Parramore ineteconomics.org/perspectives/b…

Why are US unions stuck at 6% of the workforce? 👉 youtu.be/Nv4wxEBW2po 👀 Ruth Milkman The Graduate Center breaks down employer tactics, labor law loopholes, and what young organizers are up against.

What's wrong with globalization? 👉 youtu.be/HVGJDwEWIrI 👀 Ha-Joon Chang explains the backlash and why across the world we’re seeing governments and popular movements rise to power.

Thank you to all scholars worldwide for your submissions to the 3rd Southeast Asia Economic Research and Development Conference (#SAERD25). We have received more than 150 submissions. The selected papers will be announced in the fourth week of July.

Rob Johnson is not your average economist & this is not your average economics podcast. youtube.com/playlist?list=… In each episode, Rob Johnson talks about issues with a guest who probably wasn’t on your Econ 101 reading list, from musicians to activists to rebel economists.

Mainstream economics is rooted in the idea that individual self-interest drives society. Does it? Should it? 👉 youtu.be/hYnFbzcWcGQ 👀 In this episode of #EconomicsForPeople Ha-Joon Chang explores other, more complicated theories of the individual in the economy. 32m

This essay argues that Nievas and Piketty’s account of “unequal exchange” reduces colonialism to price and transfer imbalances, stripping the concept of its social-relational core. Ingrid H. Kvangraven ineteconomics.org/perspectives/b…

AI is deciding who gets a job, a loan, even parole. It’s fast. It’s scalable. But is it fair? 👉 youtu.be/-HyR32dos6A 👀 Alireza Fallah Rice Computer Science explains why algorithmic decisions always involve trade-offs — and how better rules can protect both efficiency and equity.

Will robots take your job? 👉 youtu.be/jmtFefE7kaA 👀 Automation is as old as capitalism itself, but new technology raises new questions. In this episode of #EconomicsForPeople, Ha-Joon Chang examines the history of automation, and whether current fears are well-founded.