Tenerife

Things to learn

 * Sign language
 * Juggling
 * Kraulen
 * MMA
 * Effektgerät

Reading priority list

 * 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
 * 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
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 * 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
 * Panitch & Gindin, 2012 - The Making of Global Capitalism
 * 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

 * |Youtube lecture series Modern Social Theory
 * |Youtube lecture series Marxian Economics Lecture
 * |Youtube lecture on the state in Capitalism
 * |Visualizing the circuit of capital
 * Hunt & Lautzenheiser's History of economic thought (only read till Ch9)
 * Excellent sheep (only read Ch1-2)
 * Wood, 2009 - Peasants and market imperatives
 * Graeber, Debt-the first 5000 years
 * Streeck - Gekaufte Zeit/Buying time
 * Berger & Luckmann - Sociology of knowledge: 1
 * Lukes' Power-A radical view (Ch1)
 * Charles Mills - Ideal theory as ideology
 * Pateman - The sexual contract (Ch1)
 * Fraser, 2009 - Feminism, capitalism, and the cunning of history
 * Stanley, 2015 - How propaganda works (Ch5+6)
 * Sklair, 2002 - Democracy and the Transnational Capitalist Class
 * Harvey 17 contradictions
 * Lapavitsas, 2013 - Profiting Without Producing
 * Foster & McChesney, 2012 - The Endless Crisis How Monopoly
 * Chang, 2014 - Economics - The user's guide
 * Harvey A brief history of Neoliberalism
 * Harvey Limits to capital (better after having read Marx)
 * Little, 1986 - The Scientific Marx
 * Douglas, 2015 - The Philosophy of Debt
 * Marx Capital Vol 1 + 2
 * Harvey's companion to Marx's Capital Vol 1 + 2
 * Chibber - Postcolonialism and the specter of capital (esp. Ch 5+6+11)
 * Mehrling, 2012 - The Inherent Hierarchy of Money
 * El Subcomandante Marcos - La Cuarta Guerra Mundial
 * Anderson - What is the point of equality
 * Fullerton, 1928 - Calvinism and Capitalism
 * GeoEpoche Heft "Der Kapitalismus"
 * Black swan

Others

 * Finance Wikiseite
 * Lukas Paper Derivatives Markets – Liberal Governance Par Excellence
 * Citigroup reports
 * 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

 * 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

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