Tag Archives: LSE

Weekend Lecture: The Next Financial Crisis – LSE

Posted on February 1, 2014 by macromon

Good stuff.  Check it out. Speakers: Professor Julia Black, Dr Jon Danielsson, Professor Charles Goodhart Chair: Dr Malcolm Knight Recorded on 28 January 2014 in Old Theatre, Old Building. The official response to the current economic crisis may create longterm … Continue reading →

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Weekend Lecture: New Goals for China’s Economic Development – LSE

Posted on January 18, 2014 by macromon

Speaker(s): Professor Liu Wei Chair: Professor Paul Kelly Recorded on 21 November 2013 in Old Theatre, Old Building.  China has built a relatively well-off society by the end of the 20th century, transforming from a low-income country to a lower-middle-income … Continue reading →

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Weekend Lecture: Is Europe Working? – LSE

Posted on December 20, 2013 by macromon

Lecture starts at 9 minutes. Christopher Pissarides has been appointed as Regius Professor at LSE. In 2010 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his work with Peter Diamond and Dale Mortensen on the analysis of markets … Continue reading →

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Weekend Lecture: Thinking and Feeling About Risk – LSE

Posted on November 1, 2013 by macromon

Lecture begins 19:20 minutes into video.   Good stuff. Whether it’s bicycle helmets or fracking, people often have strong feelings about risks and their control. But, when considering risk, to what extent is it feasible to separate thinking and feeling? David … Continue reading →

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Weekend Lecture: Macro and the Phillips Curve

Posted on October 5, 2013 by macromon

Great lecture by Tim Harford,  senior columnist for the Financial Times and author of the  The Undercover Economist Strikes Back: How to Run-or Ruin-an Economy. A million readers bought The Undercover Economist to get the lowdown on how economics works … Continue reading →

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Weekend Lecture: Transforming the Economic Lives of the Ultrapoor

Posted on September 28, 2013 by macromon

Robin Burgess, Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Abhijit Banerjee, Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology led a discussion regarding Transforming the Economic Lives of the Ultrapoor. … Continue reading →

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Weekend Lecture: Third World lessons for First World growth

Posted on September 14, 2013 by macromon

Thirty years ago, China seemed hopelessly mired in poverty, Mexico triggered the Third World Debt Crisis, and Brazil suffered under hyperinflation. Since then, these and other developing countries have turned themselves around, while First World nations, battered by crises, depend … Continue reading →

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Weekend Lecture: What should economists learn from the financial crisis?

Posted on April 12, 2013 by macromon

Speaker(s): Dr Ben S Bernanke, Olivier Blanchard, Professor Lawrence H. Summers, Axel A. Weber Chair: Professor Sir Mervyn King Recorded on 25 March 2013 in Old Theatre, Old Building. (click here if video is not observable)

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Weekend Lecture: Keynes and the Crisis of Capitalism

Posted on March 15, 2013 by macromon

“The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite … Continue reading →

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Weekend Lecture: In Conversation with Daniel Kahneman

Posted on February 22, 2013 by macromon

We can never get enough of Daniel Kahneman. Published on Jun 7, 2012 Speaker(s): Professor Daniel Kahneman Discussant: Professor Paul Dolan Chair: Evan Davis Recorded on 1 June 2012 in Peacock Theatre, Portugal Street Daniel Kahneman is Eugene Higgins Professor … Continue reading →

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