Understanding Financial Markets

≡ Category: Business, Current Affairs, Online Courses, Yale | ≅ 3 Comments

Robert Shiller, who predicted the stock market crash earlier this decade and the bursting of the housing bubble in 2008, has a unique understanding of the financial markets and behavioral economics.

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Paul Samuelson: How I Became an Economist

≡ Category: Economics | ≅ 2 Comments

Paul Samuelson, America’s first Nobel laureate in economics, died this weekend at age 94. In 2003, Samuelson wrote a short essay called How I Became an Economist.  What caught my eye is the last line: “Always, I have been overpaid to do what has been pure fun.” We should all be lucky enough to achieve that.

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Reading Marx’s Capital with David Harvey (Free Lectures)

≡ Category: Economics, Online Courses, Philosophy | ≅ 1 Comment

David Harvey, an important social theorist and geographer, has got the right idea. Take what you know. Teach it in the classroom. Capture it on video. Then distribute it to the world. Keep it simple, but just do it.

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