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Why Economics Needs Economic History
Sep 27, 2013
The current economic and financial crisis has given rise to a vigorous debate about the state of economics, and the training which graduate and undergraduates economics students are receiving. Importantly, among those arguing most strongly for a change in the way that young economists are trained are the ultimate employers of these students, in both the private and the public sector. Employers are increasingly complaining that young economists don’t understand how the financial system actually works, and are ill-prepared to think about appropriate policies at a time of crisis.
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The Failure of Financial Regulation
Sep 24, 2013
Anat Admati, author of The Bankers’ New Clothes: Whats Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It, talks about how to fix our broken banking sector.
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Five Years on from Lehman: The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same
Sep 22, 2013
Sadly, it is questionable whether the economy has really improved.
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Too Big to Fail and the State of Finance Today
Sep 21, 2013
What do we need to do to get the financial sector back on track?
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A Model’s Crisis
Sep 21, 2013
Friedrich von Hayek described the economist’s task as demonstrating how little we really know about what we imagine we can design
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Lehman Was Not Alone – Measuring System Risk in the 2008 Crisis
Sep 21, 2013
what would measures of systematic risk have indicated to Treasury Secretary Paulsen if they had been available at that time?
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Bankers Will Be Let Off the Hook If We Don't Start to Take Ourselves Seriously
Sep 20, 2013
How can we contain institutional failure?
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Current Account Rebalancing Since the Crisis
Sep 19, 2013
A look at the large role the trade deficit of the United States has played since the 1980s.
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The End of 'Financialization'
Sep 18, 2013
The failure of Lehman Brothers on 15 September 2008 marked the beginning of the end of the world’s love affair with financialization.
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Learning from Lehman: Lessons for Emerging Markets from the Financial Crisis
Sep 18, 2013
What can emerging economies learn from the financial meltdown in advanced economies?
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The Lehman Crisis and the Unfinished Business of Financial Reform
Sep 18, 2013
With the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, a crisis in part driven by derivatives on subprime mortgages, a seemingly obscure sector of the financial market help fuel the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
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The Lehman Crisis and the Unfinished Business of Financial Reform
Sep 18, 2013
what have we learned from the crisis and what should we have learned?
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Simon Johnson: The Problem of Too Big to Fail Is Even Bigger Than Before 2008
Sep 17, 2013
Simon Johnson, Professor at MIT and former chief economist of the IMF, calls for much higher capital requirements for big banks.
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Did Capitalism Fail? Looking Back Five Years After Lehman
Sep 17, 2013
How could reputable ratings agencies – and investment banks – misjudge things so badly?
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The Failure of Free-Market Finance
Sep 16, 2013
Five years after the collapse of the U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers, the world has still not addressed the fundamental cause of the subsequent financial crisis – an excess of debt. And that is why economic recovery has progressed much more slowly than anyone expected (in some countries, it has not come at all).