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  1. Has the Efficient Market Hypothesis Led to the Crisis? Collapsed with The Crisis?

    Featuring George Akerlof, Markus K. Brunnermeier, Michael Goldberg, and Jeremy Siegel

    Apr 8, 2010 | 05:15—07:25

  2. What Kind of Theory to Guide Reform and Restructuring of the Financial and Non-Financial Sectors?

    Featuring Franklin Allen, Sheila Dow, Axel Leijonhufvud, and Joe Stiglitz

    Apr 8, 2010 | 09:50—11:40

  3. Conference paper

    Interpreting the Great Depression: Hayek versus Keynes

    By Robert Skidelsky

    Apr 2010

    This is not intended to be a purely historical paper. I am interested in the light the Keynesian and Hayekian interpretations of the Great Depression throw on the causes of the Great Recession of 2007-9 and in the policy relevance of the two positions to the management of today’s globalizing economy.

  4. 1930 and the Challenge of the Depression for Economic Thinking

    Featuring Robert Skidelsky and Bruce Caldwell

    Apr 7, 2010 | 03:00—05:00

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.