update 6.5.
Blogs:
Nobel Price Laureate Paul Krugman: NY Times, Robert Shiller,...
https://www.nytimes.com/column/paul-krugman
Nobel Price Laureate Joseph Stiglitz and others: Project Syndicate
https://www.project-syndicate.org/section/economics
Critical Cambridge Economist: Ha Joon Chang in the Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/hajoonchang
50 things that made the modern Economy
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csv3gv#play
https://www.intelligenteconomist.com/comparative-advantage/
Right and Left side of Economics
Neo liberal think tank: Mises Org
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e_8H7E3cTo
Weekly American radical economist Richard Wolff
https://economicupdate.podbean.com
Ron Paul (Tea Party vs. Paul Krugman)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJgzx88RgEw
Newspaper & Magazins:
The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development
The local: Austrian news in English
Business and Economic New Channel Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/europe
The Economist
The Economics Book
http://www.btng.education/uploads/9/3/9/2/9392622/economics.pdf
Austrian News
Die Presse/Economist
https://diepresse.com/home/wirtschaft/index.do
Der Standard/Wirtschaft
https://derstandard.at/Wirtschaft
Der Kurier/ Wirtschaft
Businessart
http://www.businessart.at/wohlstand-fuer-alle-utopie-oder-theoretisch-moeglich
Choose one of the Economists analysis on Corona and make a blog entry on your website. Don't forget to quote the Economist:
A good day has 100 Points
How die EA become a dominant firm in the Game Development Market?
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Arts#Beteiligungen_und_Übernahmen
Examples for Oligopolies
https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/121514/what-are-some-current-examples-oligopolies.asp
film analysis: inside job
Business Cycle, Measurement, Economic Crises, unemployment, business cycle Policies, Supply Side Economics, Demand Side Economics (Keynesian Economics)
Future Trends as a basis for future cycles
https://www.trendsderzukunft.de
Macro Economics & Cars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYFYla1H7KE&index=5&list=PLjtHdTsAECMISeMDZI3BZ2OubRJivmPKF
Business Cycle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnUo82ZCo5s
Find out about Keynesianism Economics (Demand Side Economics) and Supply side economics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZvjh1dxz08
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKGtmzLP8gw
Online Game
Chose 1 crises and make 1-2 page description of the respective crises. In addition make a short comparison to the corona crises. Where are similarities, where are differences?
Occupation and earnings, trade unions, labour markets, unemployment, how to fight unemployment,
Social Policies: Health insurance, ...
Blog Entry on: David Card & Alan Krueger: Minimum wages, Monopsony; Angus Deaton: measuring consumption and poverty, Joseph Stiglitz Cost of inequality, Piketty: economics of inequality, Capitalism TV: Why Income inequality is a good thing, Milton Friedman: equality and poverty ...
Global Financial Crises 10 years after, what happened, Financialisation, lessons learned and evaluation
Development, Institutions, Euro, ECB, Monetary Policy, inflation, deflation
Topics for blog entry on money:
Budget, Tax System, Economic policy: government, Macro objectives, demand side, supply side,
Topics for Blog Entry: International trade / politics
- Ukraine war... what are the sanctions? Are they working? What are the potential consequences for Russia?
- Chinas current role in a globalised world
- Green deal / green washing?
- EU and Russia, economical and political challenges
- Green Deal and international trade
- EU and the US
- illiberal democracies in Europe (Hungary,...)
- ... topic of own choice
European Council sets the directions and priorities.
It does not negotiate or adopt EU laws.
It is made up from the heads of states or government from each EU country.
It meets at least 4 times a year.
Meetings are chaired by the president of the European Council, selected every 2,5 years (currently: Donald Tusk).
Council of the European Union: negotiates and adopts EU legislation together with the EU Parliament.
It is made up from national ministers grouped together by policy area (national education ministers, finance ministers)
It develops and adopts policies, concludes agreements and budgets.
Presidency rotates among the member states every 6 month
Council of Europe in Strasbourg is not an EU institution.
It consists of 48 member states including the 27 EU states.
This is the continents leading human rights organisation.
Österreichische Gesellschaft für Europapolitik
Potential topics for Blog entry (include also Economic Theory):
Choose a nobel price laureate for Economics and create a portrait on the person and the economic theory...
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/lists/all-prizes-in-economic-sciences/
or any other important economist of your choice...