Economics

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How to Prevent Financial Meltdowns

The financial crisis is an experience no one wants to relive. What can we learn from the recent financial meltdown that will help us prevent them in the future? Tim Harford is a well-known economist and author who points out the lessons we all need to learn.

Tim Harford

Problem Solving: How Markets Succeed By Failing

Economist Tim Harford says we solve these problems through trial and error. He believes our markets succeed in the western world because our system lets businesses fail. And when weak businesses fail we replace bad ideas with better ideas.

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The Financial Future of the United States

This video from Dartmouth University gathers a panel of experts to discuss the financial future of the United States. Experts include Washington Post author Neil Irwin, Bloomberg News editor-at-large Tom Keene, political columnist Robert J. Samuelson, and GTCR Chariman Bruce V. Rauner.

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T. Boone Pickens on Solutions to America’s Energy Crisis

T. Boone Pickens discussed America’s energy crisis at Yale. Pickens has been lobbying for the “Pickens Plan,” which calls for switching to natural gas for transportation fuels and investing in renewable energy sources such as wind farms and solar energy.

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Out of Europe? The United States in an Asian age

Niall Ferguson argues that the world is now being shaped more by the emerging economies of the East than by the once dominant West. But within the West another kind of power shift is taking place, one that leads to the growing irrelevance of Europe.

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Inequality In Income and Wealth Throughout History

Branko Milanovic, the lead economist at the World Bank’s research division, approaches economic inequality in a new way, focusing on inequality in income and wealth in different time periods and contexts.

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How Life in the Internet Changes the Practice of Macroeconomics

This event will feature one of the top bloggers on the Euro Crisis who will discuss the role the bloggers have played in our understanding of the current Euro Crisis, and in what ways having more data in our hard drive than the sum total of all previous economists changes our understanding of macroeconomics.

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Managing Risk and Behaviour in Financial Markets

The consequences of banks’ risk taking behavior will be felt by the public finances of many countries for at least another generation. Risk taking behavior is the lifeblood of financial markets. How can, and should, it be managed?

howard davies

Financial Reform in China

In the 6th of an annual series of lectures, Howard Davies reviews the development of the Chinese financial system over the last year. He has been a member of the International Advisory Board of the Chinese banking regulator since 2003 and has observed the dramatic changes in Chinese banks at first hand.

john van reenen

Restoring Economic Growth

The financial crisis and the great recession dealt the global economy a massive shock. How can growth be put back on a sustainable path? What policy lessons have we learned? And how should Britain respond? John Van Reenen lectures.

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