Finance and Economics
by Cambridge University
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Description
A series of inspirational interviews and podcasts from the Judge Business School
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A ball park figure - Professor Sam Savage | Using averages to calculate risk is leading risk management modelling astray... | 2/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Shape of things to come - Michael Kitson | According to Michael Kitson, the recession will be deeply protracted and U-shaped, leaving permanent scars on the economy in the form of lost economic capacity. The financial sector will not fully recover to be as significant a share of the economy as it | 10/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Being a 'good BRIC': how the rising BRIC economies can be a win-win for the global economy - Summer 2009 Quarterly Podcast - Pa | As the 'are we'/'aren't we' debate continues around Britain's early or late emergence from the global recession it is clear that the so called 'BRIC' economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China are proving somewhat more resilient to the global economic d | 10/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Being a 'good BRIC': how the rising BRIC economies can be a win-win for the global economy - Summer 2009 Quarterly Podcast - Pa | As the 'are we'/'aren't we' debate continues around Britain's early or late emergence from the global recession it is clear that the so called 'BRIC' economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China are proving somewhat more resilient to the global economic d | 10/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Is neo-liberalism doomed? | Is neo-liberalism doomed? Senator Yves Leterme, Former Prime Minister of Belgium, compares the Anglo-Saxon and the Rhineland models of socio-economic development. The current economic crisis, he believes, stems from an overpurification of neo-liberalism, | 7/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lessons from history | Lessons from history: Could the current financial crisis have been predicted from historians' knowledge of past down turns and depressions globally? Dr David Chambers, who is Deputy Director of the Master of Finance Programme at Judge Business School and | 7/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Healthy capital market equals healthy nation | Dr Patrick Byrne, CEO of Overstock.com, explains the concept of 'naked shorting', and how he predicted as early as three years ago that the corruption of the regulator of the US capital market would lead to the systemic collapse we have now witnessed, why | 5/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The competitive advantage and catching-up of nations | At a time when the global economic slowdown is encouraging countries and companies to introduce neo-protectionist policies - including possible moves by the new US President-elect to penalise American firms who relocate jobs outside the US - we should not | 4/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The devil's in the details - regulating financial innovation | With elections in India in a few months, the war on terror must be squarely at the centre of the political agenda. Not far away will be regulation of finance. As Sonia Gandhi put it, the poor had nothing to do with fancy sounding financial instruments. Th | 4/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Distributing the downturn | The International Labour Organisation has forecast a rise in unemployment by 20 million world-wide, by the end of 2009. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has forecast a loss of up to 10 million jobs within the OECD group of | 4/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Green shoots of recovery, anyone? | If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences: the maxim of the 'self fulfilling prophecy'. Forecasts that are sufficiently believed, cause people to act in ways that make the prediction come true. Forecasts about the economy can h | 4/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Green New Deal | The days of easy money, easy consumption and easy debt are over, according to Ann Pettifor, Executive Director of Advocacy International, who argues that finance should be a servant to the economy, not its master. | 4/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Gucci capitalism to co-operative capitalism | Dr Noreena Hertz, Associate Director of CIBAM, on why in an interconnected world an open source form of capitalism is what is required for longer term viability. | 4/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Can we turn adversity into opportunity? Yes, we can- Winter 2008 Quarterly Podcast Part 2 | Can we turn adversity into opportunity? Yes, we can. As 2008, a year that shook the world and began the restructuring of the global economies, draws to a close, we take a look at the year ahead. Which economies are likely to find it easiest to ride out th | 4/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Can we turn adversity into opportunity? Yes, we can- Winter 2008 Quarterly Podcast Part 1 | Can we turn adversity into opportunity? Yes, we can. As 2008, a year that shook the world and began the restructuring of the global economies, draws to a close, we take a look at the year ahead. Which economies are likely to find it easiest to ride out th | 4/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Survival of the most adaptable- how the recession can lead to a change for the better- Spring 2009 Quarterly Podcast Part 2 | Survival of the most adaptable- how the recession can lead to a change for the better: As the global recession sinks into becomming a global depression, and new financial measures such as 'quantitative easing' are brought in to try and stabilise markets, | 4/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Survival of the most adaptable- how the recession can lead to a change for the better- Spring 2009 Quarterly Podcast | Survival of the most adaptable- how the recession can lead to a change for the better: As the global recession sinks into becomming a global depression, and new financial measures such as 'quantitative easing' are brought in to try and stabilise markets, | 4/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 17 Episodes |
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