Readings

PhD

 * Tortola, 2019 - The Politicization of the European Central Bank
 * Conti-Brown & Lastra, 2018 - Research Handbook on Central Banking - Ch20
 * Twinoburyo, 2017 - Monetary Policy and Economic Growth A Review of International Literature
 * Blanchard, 2018 - Should We Reject the Natural Rate
 * Stockhammer & Sturn, 2011 - The impact of monetary policy on unemployment hysteresis
 * Cingolani, 2019 - Necessary Public Investment - The Role of Publi
 * Blanchard, 1984 - The Lucas Critique and the Volcker Deflation
 * BoE, 2019 - Renewing our Monetary Vows
 * Borio, 2019 - What anchors for the natural rate of interest
 * Buiter, 2019 - Central Banks as Fiscal Players
 * The Case For People's Quantitative Easing
 * Ban & Gabor, 2016 - The political economy of shadow banking
 * Douglas on Cohen's take on LTV

Personal readings

 * Mann - The new climate war
 * Buch über Exzentriker
 * Rillinger - Socialist calculation debate
 * Crouch, della Porta & Streeck, 2016 - Democracy in neoliberalism
 * Crouch, 2009 - Privatised Keynesianism
 * Isiksel, 2016 - Europe's Functional Constitution
 * King, 2002 - A History of Post Keynesian Economics Since 1936 --> Ch4 on Capital Controversy
 * Tymoigne & Wray, 2013
 * Taylor, 2004 - Ch2
 * Dornbusch & Draghi - DMO book
 * Ypi - From Reform to Revolution
 * Rowthorn
 * Reinhart & Sbrancia - liquidiation of gov debt
 * Dyson - Ch11
 * Caesar, 1980 - Die Unabhängigkeit der Notenbank im demokratischen Staat.pdf
 * Lerner - The burden of the national debt
 * Bringing the helicopter to ground: A historical review of fiscal-monetary coordination to support economic growth in the 20th century (PDF)
 * Buggeln, Daunton & Nützenadel, 2017 - The political economy of public finance
 * Blankart, 2012 - Öffentliche Finanzen in der Demokratie: eine Einführung in die Finanzwissenschaft
 * Schularick et al, 2017 - The Rate of Return on Everything, 1870-2015
 * Mazza & Merler @Bruegel, 2018 - Could Italian private wealth compensate for flight of foreign bond-holders
 * Spaventa, 2013 - The growth of public debt in Italy
 * Andrew Glynn
 * Dornbusch & Draghi, 1990 - Public Debt Management - Theory and History
 * Cafiso, 2015 - Treasury Auctions and Secondary Market Dynamics
 * Boermans, 2016 - Market concentration in the euro area bond markets
 * Balling et al, 2013 - The Future of Sovereign Borrowing in Europe
 * Musgrave, 1992 - Schumpeter
 * Chains of investment Ch3: Fund Managers and their Investors
 * Lagna, 2013 - Italy
 * Rocholl 2016
 * Gabor & Ban
 * Hardie, Banks and the False Dichotomy in the Comparative Political Economy of Finance
 * Crockett, 2007 - The evolution and regulation of hedge funds
 * Prasad - The Politics of Free Markets


 * Theorizing in the social sciences
 * Wright - Classes
 * Wright - Falling into Marxism
 * Bleaney - Underconsumption theories
 * Hunt & Lautzenheiser - History of economic thought
 * Gali, 2008 - Monetary policy, inflation & business cycle (Ch3 on New Keynesianism)
 * Mizruchi & Bey - Corporate Control, Interfirm Relations, and Corporate Power
 * Star, 2010 - This is Not a Boundary Object
 * Giovanni Arrighi - The long twentieth cenutry
 * Post Keynesian Monetary Economics: A Critical Survey Allin Cottrell
 * Michal Kalecki, “Three Ways to Full Employment
 * Windolf, 1998 - The Transformation of the East German Economy
 * Di Carlo - Dissertation wage restraint in Germany
 * Wright - Reconstructing Marxism (esp 2 & 7)
 * Jessop, The Capitalist State
 * Target debate
 * Sennett, 1998 - The Corrosion of Character & The Culture of the New Capitalism
 * Marx, 1852 - Der achtzehnte Brumaire des Louis Napoleon
 * Bell & Wray, 2002 - Fiscal effects on reserves and the independence of the Fed
 * Streeck - How to study contemporary capitalism
 * Wang, 1992 - Sense and Nonsense of Statistical Inference
 * Young, 2013 - Ordoliberalismus – Neoliberalismus – Laissez-faire-Liberalismus
 * Statistical Models and Shoe Leather
 * Lapavitsas & Saad-Filho, 2000 - Supply of credit money
 * Block - The ruling class does not rule
 * Whelan, 2011 - Professor Sinn misses the target
 * Lawless & Whelan, 2011 - Understanding the dynamics of labor shares and inflation
 * Whelan, 2014 - Ireland’s Economic Crisis - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
 * Slobodian, 2018 - Globalists-The end of empire and the birth of neoliberalism
 * Borio & Disyatat, 2011 Appendix
 * Capital 3, p. 736
 * Profiting without producing ch 6
 * Tymoigne & Wray, 2013 - Modern Money Theory 101-A Reply to Critics
 * Arestis - Handbook of Alternative Monetary Economics ; Ch28 Money and inflation
 * Do central banks serve the people
 * Kalecki Some remarks on Keynes GT; Dow Central banking, Snow & Vaden ch1
 * Wray, 2004 - Credit and State Theories of money
 * Dialectics of the Abstract and the Concrete in Marx's Capital
 * Orwell - The road to Wigan Pier
 * Erich Fromm - Haben und Sein
 * Hermann Hesse - Narzis und Goldmund
 * Hegel Phänomenologie des Geistes
 * Read all about dialectics
 * Bricmont, 2004 - Determinism, Chaos and Quantum Mechanics
 * Viktor Frankl - Das Leiden am sinnlosen Leben. Psychotherapie für heute
 * Trotsky - The history of the Russian Revolution & The Revolution betrayed
 * Hilferding - Finance Capital
 * Panitch & Gindin, 2012 - The Making of Global Capitalism
 * Lapavitsas Profiting without producing
 * Mandel - Late Capitalism & Long Waves of Capitalist Development
 * Nitzan - Capital as power
 * McCarthy, 1988 - Marx's critique of science and positivism
 * Moore, 1988 - Horizontalists & Verticalists
 * Clark & Chalmers, 1998 - The Extended Mind
 * Nietzsche's Amor fati
 * Socialism, Communism etc
 * Gorter, 1921 - Open letter to comrade Lenin
 * Lebowith - "The Contradictions of Real Socialism" & "The Socialist Imperative: From Gotha to Now"
 * Pannekoek-Worker's council
 * Lenin as philosopher
 * Pannekoek-World revolution
 * Le guin - The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
 * McCarthy, 1988 - Marx's critique of science and positivism
 * Fahrenheit 451
 * Spatan, The Certainties of Skepticism
 * Yevgeny Zamyatin - We
 * Suzanne de Brunhoff - The State, Capital and Economic Policy
 * McCarthy, 1988 - Marx's critique of science and positivism - The Methodological Foundations of Political Economy
 * Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften
 * 
 * Brenner, 2009 - What is good for Goldman Sachs is good for America
 * The Invention of Capitalism
 * Hunt & Lautzenheiser, 2011 - History of Economic thought
 * Keen, 2011 - Debunking Economics
 * Panitch & Gindin - Global capitalism and american empire
 * Lothar Gall Der Bankier Hermann Josef Abs. Eine Biografie
 * Van Appeldoorn, 2014 - The European Capitalist Class and the Crisis of its Hegemonic Project
 * Lukacs - History and Class Consciousness
 * Streeck, 2011 - Socio-Economic Review - Special Issue on Commonalities of Capitalism
 * Irene van Staveren, 2015 - Economics after the crisis
 * Harvey - A short history of neoliberalism
 * Wood, 1986 - The Retreat from Class - A new true socialism
 * EPOG series
 * Krippner, 2007 - The making of US monetary policy - Central banks
 * Harvey - History vs Theory - A commentary on Marx's method
 * Veblen, 1899 - The Theory of the leisure class
 * Wallerstein - Historical Capitalism with Capitalist Civilization
 * Arestis & Sawyer, 2001 - A Biographical Dictionary of Dissenting Economists
 * Kowalik, 2014 - Rosa Luxemburg Theory of Accumulation and Imperialism, esp. chapters 3-5 and Appendix 1
 * Duménil & Lévy, 2011- The Crisis of Neoliberalism
 * Streeck, 2013 - Buying time - The delayed crisis of democractic capitalism
 * Arrighi, 2009 - The Long Twentieth Century - Money, Power, and the Origins of Our Times
 * Foley, 1982 - The value of money, the value of labor-power and the Marxian transformation problem
 * Marglin - What Do Bosses Do?: The Origins and Functions of Hierarchy in Capitalist Production
 * Chang, 2014 - Economics - The User's Guide
 * Sjostrom, 2009 - The AIG Bailout
 * Chang, 2010 - 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
 * Imai, 2011 - Unpacking the Black Box of Causality: Learning about Causal Mechanisms from Experimental and Observational Studies
 * Hobsbawn, 1994 - Age of Empire
 * Wallerstein
 * Gorz, 1989 - Critique of Economic Reason
 * Herman 6 Chomsky, 1988 - Manufacturing Consent The Political Economy of the Mass Media
 * Knuuttila & Voutilainen, 2002 - A parser as an epistemic artifact - A material view on models
 * Guy, 1967 - La Societe du Spectacle
 * Nietzsche, 1887 - Zur Genealogie der Moral
 * Trotsky, 1932 - The History of the Russian Revolution
 * Williams, 1944 - Capitalism and Slavery
 * Konings, 2012 - The Development of American Finance
 * Little - The Scientific Marx
 * Albo, Gindin & Panitch, 2010 - In and Out of Crisis - The globl financial meltdown and left alternatives
 * Hobsbawm, 1971 - From Social History to the History of Society
 * Saskia Sassen, 2005 - The global city - Introducing a concept
 * Taylor, Harrison & Kraus, 2008 - The New Elite - Inside the Minds of the Truly Wealthy
 * Luhmann, 1993 - Risk - A Sociological Theory
 * Marcuse, 1964 - One-Dimensional Man
 * Hobbs, 1991 - Chaos and Indeterminism
 * Turkheimer, 2014 - A Phenotypic Null Hypothesis for the genetics of personality
 * Gigerenzer - Make Sense of Health Statistics
 * Krämer & Gigerenzer, 2005 - How to Confuse with Statistics
 * Turkheimer - Heritability and Biological Explanation
 * Beck, 1992 - Risk Society - Towards a New Modernity
 * George, 1877 - Progress and poverty
 * Karl Polyani - The great transformation
 * Keeran & Kenny, 2004 - Socialism Betrayed - Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union
 * Eichengreen's Globalizing Capital - A History of the International Monetary System
 * Khanacdemy Finance & capital markets
 * Hill - Protestantism and Capitalism
 * Harvey, 2005 - A brief history of neoliberalism
 * Edgar Morin - L'intelligence de la complexite
 * Global Finance Kurs RUG
 * L'avenir de la decision
 * Nesvetailova, 2007 - Fragile Finance - Debt, Speculation and Crisis in the Age of Global Credit
 * Wigan, 2009 - Financialisation and Derivatives: Constructing an Artifice of Indifference
 * edX Course on the History of American Capitalism
 * Johnson, 2010 - 13 Bankers
 * Pierson, 2010 - Winner-take-all politics
 * Reinhart & Rogoff, 2009 - This time is different
 * Bookstaber, 2007 - A Demon of Our Own Design - Markets, Hedge funds
 * Lewis, 2010 - The big short
 * Davies, 2014 -The Limits of Neoliberalism - Authority, Sovereignty and the Logic of Competition
 * Marieke de Goede,2005 - Virtue, Fortune, and Faith - A genealogy of finance
 * Underhill, 2010 - Global Financial Integration thirty years on
 * Marx - Das Kapital + Harvey's reading guide
 * Das Kapital Piketty
 * Skidelsky, 2009 - Keynes The Return of the Master
 * Cox, 1983 - Gramsci, hegemony and international relations - an essay in method
 * Kindleberger & Aliber, 2005 - Manias, Panics, and Crashes - A history of financial crises
 * Stuart Shields, Ian Bruff & Huw Macartney, 2011 - Critical International Political Economy
 * Why do we avoid tasks - Motivation Summary
 * Devetak et al., 2007 - An Introduction to International Relations
 * Brave new world
 * Verhaeghe, 2014 - What About Me
 * Adorno, 1978 - Minima moralia - Reflections from damaged life
 * Smith, - Uneven development

Book 2: Other
 * Weber, 1917 - Der Sinn der „Wertfreiheit“ der soziologischen und ökonomischen Wissenschaften
 * Rosa - Social acceleration
 * Parsons, 1937 - Structure of Social Action
 * Taleb, 2012 - Antifragile
 * Grundbegriffe der Soziologie von Weber
 * Luhman, 1997 - Globalization or world society - How to conceive modern society + Luhmann Wiki
 * Wilson, 1999 - Consilience - The unity of knowledge
 * Jerome Revitz, 1996 - Scientific Knowledge and Its Social Problems
 * Deresiewicz, 2014 - Excellent Sheep
 * Taleb, 2001 - Fooled by Randomness
 * [https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9x2ZgF49ZkQSFV2dUR0S0NQbkE Gesellschaftswissenschaftliches Kolleg "The Global"
 * [https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9x2ZgF49ZkQZDFpbzYzVHZyZXM Genf Kurs Histoire économique et sociale de la globalisation
 * Veblen, 1899 - The Theory of the leisure class
 * Baripedia
 * Frederick Kanfer, 2012 - Selbstmanagement Therapie
 * Mills, 1956 - The Power Elite

Mindfulness
Same of the guys I like: Sam Harris: Philosophy and politics, meditation, consciousness, anti religion Eckhart Tolle: "Ego"-related stuff, consciousness Joseph Goldstein: Mindfulness Medititation, Buddhism Dan Harris: Meditation, Buddhism Alen Watts: Eastern Philosophy, Meditation, consciousness Ram Dass: Spirituality, consciousness, compassion

Dan Harris could be a good starting point. Then maybe Sam Harris. Then Jospeh Goldstein? Eckhart Tolle, Alen Watts, Ram Dass are not very accessible in my opinion. But see for yourself what speaks to you.

Recommended

 * Harvey Limits to capital (better after having read Marx)
 * Harvey A brief history of Neoliberalism
 * David Harvey - Neoliberalism and the City (video lecture)
 * Lapavitsas, 2013 - Profiting Without Producing
 * Marx Capital Vol 1 + 2 + 3
 * Harvey's companion to Marx's Capital Vol 1 + 2
 * Streeck - Gekaufte Zeit/Buying time
 * Foster & McChesney, 2012 - The Endless Crisis How Monopoly
 * Hunt & Lautzenheiser - History of economic thought
 * ARTE Doku zu Regan
 * James Galbraith - The Age of Uncertainty (video lecture)
 * Vivek Chibber - The role of the state in capitalism (video lecture)
 * Noam Chomsky - Neoliberalism & the Global Order (video lecture)
 * David Harvey - Visualizing the circuit of capital (video lecture)
 * Erik Olin Wright - Understanding class (video lecture)
 * The making of global capitalism Leo Panitch (video lecture)
 * Susan George - Power at stake (video lecture)
 * Graeber, Debt-the first 5000 years
 * Anderson, 2004 - Ethical assumptions in economic theory
 * Erik Olin Wright's lectures (audio)
 * Hunt & Lautzenheiser's History of economic thought
 * Charles Mills - Ideal theory as ideology
 * Feuerbach & Marx on religion
 * Deresiewicz, 2008 - The disadvantages of an elite education or his book Excellent Sheep (Ch1-2 will do)
 * Fraser, 2009 - Feminism, capitalism, and the cunning of history
 * Yalom - When Nietzsche Wept
 * Fraser, 2017 - The end of progressive neoliberalism
 * Brown, 2006 - American Nightmare-Neoliberalism, Neoconservatism, and De-Democratization
 * Wood, 2009 - Peasants and market imperatives
 * Mehrling, 2012 - The Inherent Hierarchy of Money
 * Erich Fromm - Haben oder Sein
 * Companion lecture series on Marx's Capital (video lecture)
 * Harvey 17 contradictions
 * Chang, 2014 - Economics - The user's guide
 * Rosenau, 1980 - Thinking Theory Thoroughly
 * Philosphize this podcast especially: #66, 67, 75, 76, 80, 90-93, 107, 108-114, 131
 * Blyth - Austerity-History of a dangerous idea (book or short talk)
 * Berger & Luckmann - Sociology of knowledge: 1
 * Shaikh, 2016 - Capitalism, competition,conflict along with his video lectures
 * Lukes' Power-A radical view (Ch1)
 * Pateman - The sexual contract (Ch1)
 * Chibber - Postcolonialism and the specter of capital (esp. Ch 5+6+11)
 * Citigroup's leaked plutonomy reports
 * El Subcomandante Marcos - La Cuarta Guerra Mundial
 * Stanley, 2015 - How propaganda works (Ch5+6)
 * Hudson, 2011 - How economic theory came to ignore the role of debt
 * Douglas, 2015 - The Philosophy of Debt
 * Anderson - What is the point of equality
 * Sklair, 2002 - Democracy and the Transnational Capitalist Class
 * Modern Social Theory, especially #8-13 and #16-21 (video lecture)
 * Little, 1986 - The Scientific Marx
 * Douglas, 2015 - The Philosophy of Debt
 * Fullerton, 1928 - Calvinism and Capitalism
 * GeoEpoche Heft "Der Kapitalismus"
 * Articles by Dezernat Zukunft (German only) and Makronom
 * Black swan

Others

 * Finance Wikiseite
 * Lukas Paper Derivatives Markets – Liberal Governance Par Excellence
 * Kranke, 2014 - Which ‘C’ Are You Talking About - Critical Meets Cultural IPE
 * De Goede, 2004 - Repoliticizing financial risk
 * Paine, 1795 - Agrarian justice
 * Palan, 2012 - Britain’s Second Empire Interview
 * Strange, 1990 - Finance, Information and Power
 * Bertocco, 2007 - The relationship between saving and credit from a Schumpeterian perspective
 * De Goede - Virtue, Fortune

Overview


Psychology (individual-; inter-group-; cultural-) → philosophy (social-; political-; moral-; -of science) → sociology (urban-; economic-; -of science/knowledge) → society (civil-; education; data protection) → law (humanitarian-; international-) → economics (IPE; heterodox-; developmental-; history of economic thought) → capitalism (liberal-; socialist-; neoliberal-) → Finance → IR

Fields of interest in PE

 * Political economy of central banking
 * Macroeconomics
 * The role of fiscal and monetary policy on growth
 * Sovereign debt, MMT
 * Greening the central bank; CBI; distributional effects of central banking
 * Growth models
 * Structural power of finance
 * Political economy and theories of money; public debt and inequality; central banks and financial markets
 * Macrofinance
 * At the intersection of heterodox economics, philosophy, political science, history & anthropology, psychology & sociology
 * Global Finance, International Political Economy
 * Sovereign debt, public credit
 * History of economic thought
 * Philosophy of (social science) and epistemology
 * History and theory of money, value, and debt
 * Financialization
 * Credit theories/theories of finance
 * Sociology of financial markets and financialization; political sociology and theories of the state; sociological theory
 * Marxist PE & finance: Hilferding; Harvey-A brief history of neoliberalism; Limits to capital; Companion to Marx’s Capital; Lapavitsas-Profiting without producing; Duménil & Lévy; 	Marx 1+2+3;
 * Social inequality: Piketty
 * History of economic thought/history of capitalism: Ellen Wood, Hunt & Lautzenheiser
 * Ideology critique
 * (Philosophy of) Statistics, uncertainty: Taleb; Knight
 * Macroeconomics: Keynes, Borio, Snowdon&Vane, Hein, Bibow
 * Miscellaneous: Chang, Veblen, C. Wright Mills,
 * Philosophy/Political economy/history of debt: Who are the creditors; what is their power; what is their role in democracy and to what extent have they gained from financialization; Who actually benefits (i.e. creditors vs. Treuhändeship vs. proxy advisors etc.)?; Mehrling, Graeber, Streeck; Monetary policy/Central banking; Distributional effects of monetary and fiscal policy
 * Eurozone

Things to learn

 * Sign language
 * Juggling
 * Kraulen
 * MMA
 * Effektgerät

Reading a text

 * Does the article seem likely to contain substantial insight or provocation relevant to my project – new questions, new ideas, new methods, new results?
 * Read shallow and add Anki questions about the core claims, core questions, and core ideas of the paper - extract Anki min. 5 questions from the abstract, introduction, conclusion, figures, and figure captions

Anki

 * Use Anki
 * Make most Anki questions and answers as atomic as possible - refactor difficult questions by breaking it into two piees, i.e. turn a question you routinely got wrong into two questions you routinely get right
 * Anki use is best thought of as a virtuoso skill, to be developed: Part of developing Anki as a virtuoso skill is cultivating the ability to use it for types of understanding beyond basic facts; Break things up into atomic facts. Build rich hierarchies of interconnections and integrative questions. Don't put in orphan questions. Patterns for how to engage with reading material
 * Anki skills concretely instantiate your theory of how you understand
 * Use one big deck
 * Avoid orphan questions: make it a rule to never put in one question. Rather, I try to put at least two questions in, preferably three or more. That's usually enough that it's at least the nucleus of a bit of useful knowledge. If it's a lonely orphan, inevitably I get the question wrong all the time, and it's a waste to have entered it at all.
 * Cultivate strategies for elaborative encoding / forming rich associations: One simple example strategy is to use multiple variants of the “same” question

Learning & Methodology

 * Speed-reading
 * The right mindset for reading (read first: Consilience; Antifragile; Holistic learning ebook). You don't have to finish a book if it's not worth reading it, but if it is take your time, read it consciously and reflect on it.
 * Effective summaries
 * Mind-maps
 * Presentations (also to learn how to use Prezi)
 * Useful quotes
 * Writing papers (also to learn how to write proposals, designs, abstracts
 * Find a way to connect & recombine knowledge