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What Is Economics About? | How & How NOT to Do Economics with Robert Skidelsky
Why did economists largely fail to predict the 2008-09 financial crisis? In the first lecture in his INET series, “How and How Not to do Economics,” Robert Skidelsky looks at a neglected cause: methodology. The way economists build their...
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Understanding Financial Markets through Supply and Demand
This is a video that explains how to apply supply and demand to financial markets. The video provides examples of applying supply and demand to various financial products such as loans, bonds, and equities. The presenter also discusses...
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Regulating America's Companies
The Securities and Exchange Commission has a new agenda. How will it affect companies and markets?
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George Soros - The Living History of the Last 30 years
The Inaugural Conference @ King's, Institute for New Economic Thinking, Session 1: The Living History of the Last 30 years: Economic Theory, Politics and Policy Economic theory has modeled itself on theoretical physics. It has sought to...
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J. Doyne Farmer - Networks and Systemic Risks
The Inaugural Conference @ King's, Institute for New Economic Thinking, Day 2 - Lunch: Networks and Systemic Risks
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Jean-Philippe Bouchaud: Taking Stock of Complexity Economics 2/5
Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, Professor of Physics, École Polytechnique speaking at the breakout panel entitled "Taking Stock of Complexity Economics: Which Problems Does It Illuminate?" at the Institute for New Economic Thinking's (INET)...
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Michael D. Goldberg - Efficient Markets: Fictions and Reality
The Inaugural Conference @ King's, Institute for New Economic Thinking, Session 2: Has the Efficient Market Hypothesis Led to the Crisis? Collapsed with The Crisis?
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Kai Konrad: Debt: The Politics and Economics of Restructuring 3/4
Kai Konrad, Managing Director, Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance at the panel entitled "The Challenge of DeLeveraging and Overhangs of Debt II: The Politics and Economics of Restructuring" at the Institute for New...
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Paul Davidson - Keynes's Forgotten Lessons 1/4
In the first part of this four-part INET "From the Director's Chair" interview, INET Executive Director Robert Johnson talks with Journal of Post Keynesian Economics co-founder Paul Davidson about Davidson's book The Keynes Solution: The...
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Doyne Farmer - Macroeconomics From the Bottom Up
In 2006, the Fed asked its macroeconometric model what would happen if house prices dropped by 20%. The model projected the past into the future and said: "Not much." Well, the financial crisis proved it wrong. Meanwhile, DSGE models,...
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Joseph Vogl: Which Way Forward? 4/6
Joseph Vogl, Professor of German Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Humboldt University Berlin speaks on panel, entitled "Which Way Forward: Reflections on Global Turmoil and the Role of Markets, Governments, and Civil Society" at...
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Roger Guesnerie: What Can Economists Know? 3/5
Roger Guesnerie, Professor of Economic Theory and Social Organization, Paris School of Economics speaks on panel entitled "What Can Economists Know: Rethinking the Foundations of Economic Understanding at the Institute for New Economic...
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Tracking the Economy
The U.S. economy is on a roll, setting the pace for global growth. How long can that continue? And what should we make of the rising U.S. budget deficit?
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Scott Condie - Modeling Asset Markets when Knowledge is Ambiguous
When you flip a coin, you expect heads and tails to show up with a 50% chance each. But what if all you knew was that heads and tails each have a chance of at least 25%? That's how Scott Condie captures Knightian uncertainty in asset...
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Lance Taylor: Maynard's Revenge
In INET's exclusive interview with Lance Taylor, he discusses the concepts behind his recent book "Maynard's Revenge: The Collapse of Free Market Macroeconomics"
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Paul Davidson - The Trouble With the Ergodic Axiom 2/4
In the second part of this four-part INET "From the Director's Chair" interview, INET Executive Director Robert Johnson talks with Journal of Post Keynesian Economics co-founder Paul Davidson about Davidson's book The Keynes Solution:...
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George Akerlof: Rising to the Challenge - INET Panel Discussion (1 of 5)
George Akerlof is the Koshland Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and a speaker at INET's Conference at Bretton Woods on April 10, 2011
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Moritz Schularick: Instability in Financial Markets 4/5
Moritz Schularick, Professor of Economics and Economic History, Free University of Berlin speaking at the breakout panel entitled "Instability in Financial Markets: Sources and Remedies" at the Institute for New Economic Thinking's...
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Globalization: Definition, Causes, and Impacts
In this video, the lecturer defines globalization as the process of economic and financial integration that has progressively removed national boundaries from the financing, production, sale, and distribution of goods and services. He...
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Roman Frydman: What Can Economists Know? 4/5
Roman Frydman, Professor of Economics, New York University speaks on panel entitled "What Can Economists Know: Rethinking the Foundations of Economic Understanding at the Institute for New Economic Thinking's (INET) Paradigm Lost...
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Domenico Delli Gatti: Instability in Financial Markets 1/5
Domenico Delli Gatti, Professor of Economics, Catholic University Milan speaking at the breakout panel entitled "Instability in Financial Markets: Sources and Remedies" at the Institute for New Economic Thinking's (INET) Paradigm Lost...