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VIDEO: Finanzkapitalismus in der Krise? Das Verhältnis von Finanzialisierung und Euro

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Prof. Dr. Christoph Scherrer, politischer Ökonom und Leiter des International Center for Development and Decent Work (ICDD), referiert zu dem Thema “Finanzkapitalismus in der Krise? Das Verhältnis von Finanzialisierung und Euro” im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung “Leben in Zeiten der Multiplen Krise?!” an der Universität Kassel im Wintersemester 2015/16.

Vortragsbeginn: 7:44

Aufgenommen am 03.11.2015

Weitere Literatur:
* Scherrer, Jessop, Young (eds.), 2014: Financial Cultures and Crisis Dynamics, Oxford, Routledge. http://routledge-ny.com/books/details/9781315773476/
* Scherrer, Dürmeier und Overwien (Hrsg.) 2010: Perspektiven auf die Finanzkrise, Leverkusen, Verlag Barbara Budrich. http://www.budrich-verlag.de/pages/frameset/reload.php?ID=419&_requested_page=%2Fpages%2Fdetails.php

Master’s Programme Global Political Economy honoured for internationalisation

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The English languare master’s programme “Global Political Economy” (GPE) at the University of Kassel has received an award for its internationalisation. The European Consortium for Accreditation has conferred the Certificate for Quality in Internationalisation on the programme.

The GPE course of study focuses on a critical consideration of the economic, social, political and cultural aspects of globalisation and governance. It combines contet from the social and economic sciences. Students on the GPE programme benefit in particular from exchange with the international partner universities of the global network of the International Center for Development and Decent Work (ICDD). This teaching and research network with headquarters at the University of Kassel has been active since 2009 to improve the understanding of the conditions that allow for productive employment and decent work in development situations. The University has offered the “Global Political Economy” course of study since the winter semester 2003/2004. Currently it has 76 enrolled students from locations around the world representing countries from Argentina to Uzbekistan.  The Certificate for Quality in Internationalisation makes special mention of the international composition of the faculty and of the student body as well as the distinctive experiences, offerings and the substantial support the students receive from the University. The learning environment of the Programme was described as being international in an exemplary fashion. In its report the accrediting consortium summed up that “the programme has successfully realised internationalisation activities that make a clear contribution to the quality of teaching and learning.”  The director of the programme Prof. Dr. Christoph Scherrer characterised this success as “an important seal of quality for the programme. Persons who enrol for this course of study know that they will benefit both form a scholarly and academic standpoints as well as a personal one. ” This certification of the GPE master’s programme follows another significant recent achievement of the ICDD, which has just received five million EUR in funding from the DAAD for a further five years.

http://www.uni-kassel.de/einrichtungen/icdd/news.html

In 4 days: MOOC on “Workers’ Rights in a Global Economy”

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Next week, on Monday 1st June 2015, we will start our MOOC on “Workers’ Rights in a Global Economy”. We are very happy to see so many of you have enrolled. We are 2.000 right now, all interested in labour rights worldwide. This is great news!

As a first appetizer we invite you to look at this short text from the Global Labour Column, the multilingual blog on labour affairs in the Global Labour University network: http://www.global-labour-university.org/fileadmin/GLU_Column/papers/no_46_Hoffer.pdf

We are looking forward to meeting you online soon!
Register now: https://iversity.org/en/courses/workers-rights-in-a-global-economy

Food Crisis: Implications for Labour

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Food Crisis: Implications for Labour

2013 publication with Debdulal Saha (eds.): Food Crisis: Implications for Labour, Mering, Rainer Hampp Verlag

Introduction: The Neglected Labour Dimension – Debdulal Saha and Christoph Scherrer

I. Food Insecurity
1. Addressing the ‘Slow Violence’ of Food Insecurity – Jacklyn Cock
2. The Origins of the Food Crisis: The Case of East Africa – Thomas Ogola and Jane Sawe
3. Market Queens and the Blame Game in Ghanaian Tomato Marketing – Akua O.Britwum

II. Decent Work Deficit and Rural Labor
4. “You entered through that gate and you will leave through that gate”. The Decent Work Deficit amongst Farm Workers… – Edward Webster and Mbuso Nkosi
5. Indonesian Oil Palm Plantations:
Decent Work Deficit Despite Employment Growth – Hariati Sinaga
6. Rural Development and the Decent Work Agenda:The Role of Smallholders and the Rural Poor – Lars Thomann

III. Social Protection
7. Food Security Requires Income Security. The Case for Universal Social Protection Floors – Frank Hoffer
8. The Brazilian Food and Nutrition Security Policy: Concept and Results – Walter Belik
9. Food or Cash: Assisting the Urban Poor in India – Sharit K. Bhowmik, Indira Gartenberg, and Kanchan Sarker

http://tiny.cc/scherrerfoodcrisis

‘TTIP serves the major corporations’

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‘TTIP serves the major corporations’

‘TTIP serves the major corporations’

“The TTIP trade agreement between the US and the EU is continuing to cause a major row in Europe. Economist Christoph Scherrer tells DW that the corporations’ right to file lawsuits will be particularly problematic.”

Read more: http://www.dw.de/ttip-serves-the-major-corporations/a-17655221 

Is the accusation that TTIP is negotiated intransparently “complete nonsense”?

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Prof. Dr. Christoph Scherrer on the transparency of the TTIP/TAFTA negotiations in #ZDFcheck

Read the whole article:
http://zdfcheck.zdf.de/faktencheck/lambsdorff/

Read Prof. Scherrers Statement:
http://zdfcheck.zdf.de/?attachment_id=3924