Video and Audio Lectures in Other topics
Eleven lectures, of varying lengths, on economic methodology published by the Institute for New Economic Thinking. Skidelsky looks at whether other disciplines, including psychology, sociology and ethics, can illuminate economic questions.
Online course consisting of 41 Youtube videos (totalling about 4 hours), online self-tests and forum capabilities for asking questions. The course addresses the economics of media industries, media bias, regulation and other governmental actions, and how media related to economic development. Six of the video lectures are given by guest speakers, addressing topics including media bias, net neutrality, and the market for newspapers.
One-and-a-half-hour video of a 2014 session featuring Diane Coyle of Enlightenment Economics, Steve Keen of Kingston University, and "Money, Blood and Revolution" author George Cooper. Each speaker gives a short talk outlining what they see as the problems with economics. The last hour of the video is a panel discussion with the three speakers responding to questions on the CORE project and on prospects for diversifying the economics curriculum.
YouTube playlist of guest lectures, video recorded from 2012-14, on various political and economic topics. Includes Abhijit Banerjee on "Microfinance: After the Hype and the Crisis", Paul Sniderman on "The Elasticity of Preferences", and Christopher Caldwell on "Money, Migration, and the European Crisis".
In this 56-minute talk from October 2011, the author of "The Economics of Good and Evil" argues that Economics goes beyond being a science and defines ideal conditions rather than being purely descriptive.
A podcast series about the credit crunch and global recession featuring three Oxford academics. This series examines how the current crisis developed, analyses market and government responses to it, and looks at what might happen next. Eight audio files are available with most programmes lasting around 30 minutes.
Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational speaks about his work in this 16 minute video from February 2009. He introduces the idea of experimental testing of economic hypotheses, applying it to experienced utility and to cheating behaviour. He contrasts the experimental results on cheating with what is predicted by rational choice analysis and draws implications for ethics in the financial sphere. The video can be watched online, with transcripts in multiple languages, or downloaded in various formats.
This is a website accompanying a 9 hour course in behavioural economics taught by Richard Thaler of the University of Chicago and organised by the Edge Foundation. It featured input from Sendhil Mullainathan, as well as Daniel Kahneman. The site includes texts providing an introduction to behavioural economics, reports on two days of the course and a videos of 10-15 minutes from each class, alongside a transcript of each videoed session.
Robert Reich, Professor of Public Policy in Berkeley’s Goldman School and former Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration, delivers the keynote address at the Fall 2008 Teaching Conference for new Graduate Student Instructors (GSIs). In this 40 minute video, Reich talks about teaching, the role political views should or should not have in the classroom and takes questions from the floor on a variety of teaching topics. Useful for lecturers looking for a some tips on classroom practice. Requires a Flash player.
Why do smart people make irrational decisions every day? Why do we repeatedly make the same mistakes when we make our selections? How do our expectations influence our actual opinions and decisions? Dan Ariely of MIT applies behavioural economics to these questions in this 75 minute podcast. This event was recorded on 17 March 2008 at the London School of Economics. It can be listened to online or downloaded as an mp3.
Behavioural economist and co-author of Nudge, Richard Thaler gives an hour long lecture on themes from the book including choice architecture and libertarian paternalism. This event took place on May 29, 2008, as a part of the Authors@Google series and is presented as a YouTube video.
Dan Gilbert, Harvard psychologist and author of Stumbling on Happiness talks about his work in this half-hour video dating from July 2005. Gilbert explains the principle of expected utility maximisation and contrasts it with the results of behavioural research. Covers biases and heuristics in subjective estimation of both probabilities and utilities. Explains hyperbolic discounting and its role in apparently inconsistent preferences. 34 minutes including Q&A at end. It can be watched online or downloaded in a variety of formats.
