1.12 Conclusion It is clear that there are tensions in the use of the site, in that it attracts quite different audiences. There are also tensions relating to the number of visitors it is logistically possible to accommodate, and the economics of maintaining a viable revenue income. The debate goes on about how best to develop and maintain the site in line with the Trust's stated aims and objectives. There is no definitive answer, and the site will inevitably evolve over time. It is now an attrac
International finance Macroeconomics Why the credit crunch took hold Thailand in Crisis Episode 5 India as an Emerging Economic Power: Potential & Constraints Obesity as a Complex Problem The Trading System in Crisis: The Threat from Proliferating Preferences Paul Collier and Andy Sumner in discussion on the IDS paper, 'The New Bottom Billion'. Water, theres are hole in my bucket 6.3 The roots of segmentation Credit Crunch Live Elementary Statistics Is the global market economy broken? The Chinese economy Charting the Course Towards a Low Carbon Economy Psychologising Jekyll, Demonising Hyde: The Strange Case of Criminal Responsibility - Professor Nico Herds, Houses and the Crisis - Professor Andrew Oswald From Credit Crunch to World Recession - Professor Marcus Miller Introduction This unit considers four ways in which some social scientists have claimed that there might be a ‘new economy’ coming in to being: the switch from manufacturing to services, globalisation, new technology and flexible labour markets. The good and bad points of economic change, its benefits and costs, are discussed. For example, what does it mean for people trying desparately to balnace the urgent demands of work and life?
Richard Portes, Professor of Economics, talks about London's importance as global connection capital and as a centre for coordinating a wide area of research
Helene Rey, Professor of Economics, examines the US current account deficit.
Richard Portes, Professor of Economics, talks about why the credit crunch took hold and what the authorities should do to avoid a repeat of the crisis.
Professor Peter Warr discusses how economics has impacted Thailand and on perceptions of the Thai government while Professor Andrew Leigh talks about development economics in the fifth Thailand in Crisis vodcast. Host Nicholas Farrelly is also joined by regular Dr Andrew Walker to talk about financial lending to Thailand's agricultural sector.
The first lecture in the ANU-Toyota Public Lecture Series 2006 was
presented by the ANU College of Business & Economics. In this
lecture, influential Indian economist Professor B.B. Bhattacharya
outlined the reasons for India’s success and considered the challenges
ahead. He discussed how long-term prosperity in India will depend on
increased growth in the agricultural sector, which employs the majority
of workers, but has been lagging behind areas like information
technology and telec
Obesity has increased dramatically across the world, and there is currently no solution to its control. While obesity is easily understood as the positive imbalance of energy intake and expenditure, this does not explain why it is easy to overeat and underexercise. Explanatory models that feed into energy balance include those of obesogenic environments, thrifty genotype, obesogenic behaviour, obesogenic culture, nutrition transition, political economic structures and biocultural interactions of
Preferential trading arrangements are becoming increasingly popular
among the nations of the world. But are they a positive development?
In the Fourth H W Arndt Memorial Lecture – presented by the ANU
College of Asia and the Pacific and the ANU College of Business and
Economics – Professor Jagdish Bhagwati argues that bilateral,
sub-regional and regional free trade agreements, and the granting of
one-way preferences to developing countries of choice, are crea
Paul Collier (Professor of Economics, Oxford University, Economics Department and author of 'The Bottom Billion' and 'The Plundered Planet') and Andy Sumner (Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies) discuss Andy's new paper 'The New Bottom Billion and the MDGs: A Plan of Action' published by IDS.
Full story at: http://www.ids.ac.u
Mike Young is Professor of Water Economics and Management in the University's School of Earth and Environmental Sciences. He is one of Australia's leading water policy reformers
Discrimination in the labour market exists in many forms: the ‘glass ceiling’ ageism, racism, etc. This unit will help you look at this problem with a new perspective: through economics. You will learn how economists have tried to understand what drives this distortion of the labour market and why women and the ethnic minorities seem to suffer the most.
Economics students of St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford pose questions to a panel of experts about the credit crunch and global recession.
Elementary Statistics is an introduction to data analysis course that makes use of graphical and numerical techniques to study patterns and departures from patterns. The student studies randomness with emphasis on understanding variation, collects information in the face of uncertainty, checks distributional assumptions, tests hypotheses, uses probability as a tool for anticipating what the distribution of data may look like under a set of assumptions, and uses appropriate statistical models to
Andrew Scott, Professor of Economics at London Business School examines whether the global market economy is broken, or if it can be fixed
Linda Yueh, Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, talks about the state of the Chinese Economy and the problems China's steady rise presents for other developing countries.
The presentation focuses on three key questions on climate change: what set of policies are desirable? What are the impacts of policy action, and is global action achievable? The first question requires the development of a robust national policy framework and to ensure a set of policies are in place that deliver abatement and adjustment at least cost to the economy. The second question requires an understanding of the causes, nature, and the scale of the economic impacts to achieve the transiti
Professor Nicola Lacey, Professor of Criminal Law and Legal Theory at the
London School of Economics
Andrew is a Professor of Economics at Warwick. He is one of the pioneers of research into how economic conditions affect the psychology of wellbeing and is a member of the Stiglitz Commission on how to design a new measure of social wellbeing beyond GDP.
Marcus is a Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick. He was a research fellow at the Bank of England at the time the crisis unfolded.
