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Anastasia Nesvetailova

Director, Macroeconomic and Development Policies, UNCTAD GDS
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Dean Baker

Senior Economist, Center for Economic and Policy Research
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Jeffrey L. Spear

Associate Professor Emeritus of English, New York University
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Yin Li

Assistant Professor, School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University Senior Fellow, Academic-Industry Research Network
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Ariel Ezrachi

Slaughter and May Professor of Competition Law and Fellow, Pembroke College, University of Oxford Director, University of Oxford Centre for Competition Law and Policy
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The Economics of Money & Banking

Taught by Perry G. Mehrling

Learn to read, understand, and evaluate professional discourse about the current operation of money markets at the level of the Financial Times.
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Markets, Speculation and the State

Taught by William Janeway

William Janeway’s Far-Ranging Seminar on Fundamental Debates in Innovation and Finance
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The I Theory of Money

Taught by Markus K. Brunnermeier

This lecture series is based on Brunnermeier and Sannikov’s research papers “The I Theory of Money” and “Redistributive Monetary Policy”
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Capitalism: Competition, Conflict and Crises

Taught by Anwar Shaikh

The aim of the two-semester sequence is to explore a coherent alternative to neoclassical and post-Keynesian theory that does not rely in any way on concepts of utility maximization, rational choice, rational expectations, or perfect/imperfect competition.
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Monetary Macroeconomics

Taught by John Smithin and Fredrick Zhou

Some years ago, in the aftermath of the “great financial crisis” (GFC) of the first decade of the twentieth century, Paul Krugman famously remarked that “most macroeconomics of the last thirty years was spectacularly useless at best and positively harmful at worst”. It is the premise of this set of lectures that it is possible to do better, much better.
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After the Crisis

Taught by Anatole Kaletsky

Many thought the financial crash was a final blow to capitalsim. Why does it still reign supreme? Anatole Kaletsky outlines the shape of things to come.
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What’s The Difference Between Growth And Prosperity? (Sample)

By Anthony Blundell-Wignall
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K.P. Kannan

Chairman, Laurie Baker Centre for Habitat Studies
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A.A. Erumban

Assistant Professor & Researcher, University of Groningen
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Sumeetha Mokkil Maruthur

Research Fellow, Migration Studies, Centre for Public Policy Research, India Senior Research Fellow, International Institute of Migration and Development