Political Economy of Sustainability – the course presents the mechanisms in which contemporary economic system leads to environmental, social, and financial unsustainability. It builds critically on the heterodox schools of economics, including ecological economics, to present the vital aspects of power, institutions, and inequalities. You will be aware of principles and solutions of alternative economic modes, including degrowth and circular economies. You will be able to evaluate critically economic strategies, production structures and governance of businesses and trade in terms of sustainability.
After the course, you will understand the mechanisms in which contemporary economic system leads to environmental, social and financial unsustainability. You will be aware of principles and solutions of alternative economic modes, including degrowth and circular economies. You will be able to evaluate critically economic strategies, production structures and governance of businesses and trade in terms of sustainability. You will recognize the methods of analysis and design of sustainable organizations, policies and strategies.
The MOOC, in English, is articulated in 14 modules/lectures.
Video-lectures (45 min. in total)
Slides and additional materials
Compulsory and voluntary activities for students
If you have questions about the course or have encountered a technical problem with the Copernicus College platform, please write to the wojciech.wyzykowski@uj.edu.pl.
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Maciej GrodzickiEcological and Marxist economist, member of the JU Climate Board and of the Polish Economic Network. He conducts research on the international political economy, global supply chains and the economy of shared resources, including forests. |
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Anna Zachorowska-MazurkiewiczFeminist and institutional economist. She has writen about the situation of women in the United States, the European Union and Poland, social and economic inequalities, as well as gender relations in the economy. |
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Zofia ŁapniewskaFeminist and institutional economist, co-president of the Polish Economic Network. She researches common goods, cooperatives and ecology from an economic and gender perspective. |
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Krzysztof BerbekaEnvironmental economist. His scientific activity covers topics such as: EU energy and environmental policy, adaptation of the economy to global climate change, economic analysis of renewable energy sources and the monetary valuation of the environment. |
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Katarzyna FilipowiczEconomist. Her scientific activity covers the issues of mathematical modeling of economic processes and the analyzes of diversification of economic and social development at the regional and local level. |
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Jurand SkrzypekEconomist. He studies energy systems, their efficiency and emissivity on the basis of input-output techniques and multi-sector macroeconomic models. |
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Michał PałaszScholar of Humanistic Management. He studies management practices in the Anthropocene, i.e. ways of organizing a sufficiently good common world in the era of a climate and ecological catastrophe. |
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