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Conference paper
Methodological Problems in Macroeconomics: Curriculum and Computers
Apr 2014
The financial crisis of 2008, and the subsequent worldwide economic depression and continuing dislocation, have made little to no impression on the way macroeconomics is taught at the university level, from Economics 101 through graduate school. It has been “business as usual’, which (it seems to me) means an almost studious avoidance of any attempt to acquire knowledge of how monetary economies actually work.
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Conference paper
Can Structural Reform Boost Economic Growth?
Apr 2014
How to rebalance Chinese economy has become a topic of heated discussion. After years of fast economic expansion, now China faces a difficult crossroad. The global financial crisis provided clear evidence that China’s traditional export-driven strategy is vulnerable to slumps of the external demand.
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Conference paper
Narrative in Teaching Economics
Apr 2014
Economics has advanced an enormous distance from the Walrasian paradigm and the Neoclassical synthesis. However, undergraduate curriculums continue to heavily favour these views of what economics is and what tools it provides for understanding contemporarypublic problems.
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The Problem of the Predator State: Fostering Innovation While Facilitating Corporate Predation
Apr 11, 2014 | 07:00—08:30
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Economic Progress and Financial Reform in China
Apr 11, 2014 | 07:00—07:00
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Law and Innovation: Is Intellectual Property a Path to Progress
Apr 11, 2014 | 07:00—08:30
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Finance and the Real Economy
Apr 11, 2014 | 05:15—06:30
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Conference paper
New Economic Teaching -Bridging Four Gaps
Apr 2014
When the Curriculum Open-access Resources in Economics (CORE) project launched on 11 November 2013 at Her Majesty’s Treasury in London, we promised that we would be ‘teaching economics as if the last three decades had happened’. The last six months have shown us that this is challenging but we are well on our way to doing it.
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New Economic Thinking
Apr 11, 2014 | 03:45—05:00
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Secular Stagnation? The Future Challenge for Economic Policy
Apr 11, 2014 | 03:15—05:00
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The Environment and Innovation: What Are The Real Costs?
Apr 11, 2014 | 12:45—02:15
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Conference paper
Toward an Intellectual History of Uncertainty
Apr 2014
Economists discussing the problem of radical uncertainty commonly invoke Frank Knight’s classic definition in Risk, Uncertainty and Profit, but only rarely venture to explore the broader contours of his argument.
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Conference paper
The Economics of Cyberwar
Apr 2014
Cyberwar is very much in the news these days. It is tempting to try to understand the economics of such an activity, if only qualitatively. What effort is required? What can such attacks accomplish? What does this say, if anything,about the likelihood of cyberwar?
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Cyber War, Cyber Space: National Security and Privacy in the Global Economy
Apr 10, 2014 | 12:45—02:15
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Integration, Currency Unions, and Balance of Payments
Apr 10, 2014 | 09:00—10:45