Economics


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Salvaging the Wreckage: What's Next Globally?
Salvaging the Wreckage: What's Next Globally?
Leo Abruzzese
October 30, 2008
00:56:14
The slump in the United States housing market has become a synchronized global downturn. The world economy is headed for its worst year in more than a quarter century.
Vikram Kumar: Software Solutions to Societal Problems
Vikram Sheel Kumar
October 30, 2008
00:21:05
Vikram Kumar explains in detail his current projects and why he believes that “behind every societal ill is a solvable software problem.” He has developed, among other things, an electronic medical records system used by tens of thousands of people in Zambia; software that can detect clinical depres
Susan Athey: Resource Allocation Problem
Susan C. Athey
October 30, 2008
00:23:54
Economic theorist Susan Athey talks about the tools for analyzing how uncertainty affects the behavior of individuals, markets, and economic systems, and she explains how auctions function as the economic model that has revolutionized online marketing.
Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict
Linda Bilmes
October 29, 2008
01:21:23
Linda Bilmes, expert in budgeting and public finance at Harvard's Kennedy School, discusses the true cost of the Iraq conflict, as calculated in her new book, co-authored with Nobel Prize-winning econ
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Jacques Andreani: Unification of Europe
Jacques Andreani
October 24, 2008
01:19:15
Former French ambassador to the US Jacques Andreani discusses what the building of a united Europe means for France.
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The European Union as a Rising Superpower
Friis Arne Petersen
October 21, 2008
01:03:02
Danish Ambassador to the US Friis Arne Petersen discusses the reality of a more potent European Union. This event is hosted and cosponsored by Emory University and the Trade Commission of Denmark.
The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too
James K. Galbraith
October 20, 2008
01:43:47
While liberals continue to believe in the free market, conservatives have abandoned it all together. If conservatives no longer take free markets seriously, why should liberals?
Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the New Asian Age
Giovanni Arrighi
October 15, 2008
01:55:31
In the late 18th century, political economist Adam Smith predicted there would eventually be equalization of power between the conquering West and the conquered non-West. He described the possibility that China would become a non-capitalist market economy.