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What is economic growth? How it is defined? To whom it creats profit? What gives better access to economic goods and services? How politicians watch economic growth? What is inflation and how it influences market?

What are the differents schools of economic thought? Have you ever thought that thay respond to different historical contexts? Is there one better than the other? Why are they different and what is their approach regarding labour?

What is an economic crisis and how can we identify one? How can governments react to it? Is there only one valid solution? Are different solutions inocuous related to the effects over the population? Who pays the price of the differents possible solutions?

How is our way of doing business related to the climate crisis? What role does economic growth play? And what might a good life for all within planetary boundaries look like? The course Economy and Climate deals with these questions and shows different strategies to make economies ‘future fit’.

Have you ever wondered which attitude - cooperation or competition - has a better effect on the functioning of an economy? What economic effects does competition and cooperation have? What does European and international trades look like? What are the positives of free trade? Find out more by taking the course!

What is inequality? How is it (re)produced? And how is the climate crisis connected to inequality? This course provides a comprehensive overview of different forms of inequality and shows what can be done about them.

Have you every heard about feminist economics? Feminist economics is not just a theory that promotes economic equality between men and women. It is a tool to empower us with knowledge to make changes in our societies to reach equal rights and a prosperous life for everyone. Dive in into training course to find out more.

The growing phenomenon of migration constitutes one of the most important challenges facing Europe and particular member states of the European Union. It is connected with economics (mainly associated with globalisation), cultural and social transformations, but also with spreading areas of poverty, international and ethnic conflicts.

Where does money come from? Why is it usually scarce and in crises is it suddenly unlimited available? Where do some governments get hundreds of billions of euros, pounds or dollars? And why can't some euro states do that? Governments, central banks or banks - who actually creates the money and who lends it to whom? Will our children have to pay back this society's debt at some day?

The goal of all governments is or should be to increase the well-being of their citizens. But what is well-being? How can be achieved well-being? What it means in in economic? What are different opportunities for classifying or grouping goods?

Is borrowing and debt just another benign economic policy tool? Or is it a means of control and coercion? Can we address the most pressing social challenges of our time while governments are saddled with so much historical debt? When does a debt from the past become odious and illegitimate?

Why do multinational corporations not pay their fair share of taxes? Why are countries competing with one another on tax laws in order to attract investment, resulting in a ‘race to the bottom’ on corporation tax? Why do developing countries lose more in tax dodging than they receive in aid? And more importantly, what can be done about it?

Why is it important to support and invest into women's economic empowerment? Women as well as men, they both equally contribute to prosperity of our economies and societies. Even if this contribution may have different forms. Dive in into training course to find out more.