Here are the lecture notes for the last lecture, and below is a recording of the lecture. Remember, email if you have questions, and good luck in the final exam. Thanks very much for attending lectures and giving me your feedback by text, email, twitter, and the old fashioned conversation. It’s been a blast.
Economics for [...]
Tagged Economic, Education, Math, Number Theory, Publications, Social Sciences, Stephen Kinsella, VimeoHere are the notes from the lecture, here is the recording. Last lecture is tomorrow!
Economics for Business Lecture 21 from Stephen Kinsella on Vimeo.
Here’s the worksheet for week 12.
Here are the lecture notes in 2*2 format, a recording of the lecture is below.
Irving Fisher’s 1933 article on Debt, Deflation, and Depression is here, Hyman Minsky’s big book on financial panics and the theory of debt-deflation is here, you can learn more about him here. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s 1983 paper on debt-deflation [...]
Students in Economics for Business should take a look at the webpage below, especially Prof PJ Drudy’s chapter, ‘What is progress and how should it be measured’ (pdf). The other papers look fascinating also. The debate on what consititutes an appropriate measure of ‘progress’ rather than output, as we currently measure growth (with GDP, etc) [...]
Here are the slides for the lecture, the recording of the lecture is below.
Economics for Business Lecture 20 from Stephen Kinsella on Vimeo.
This is why I love teaching at UL. Occasionally, you get emails like this one. A student in Economics for Business wrote me the following email after a rant in class asking why shouldn’t we double the ‘dole’ to increase consumption. Here’s her email to me, and my reply is below the fold.
Everytime we talk [...]
All are welcome.
Author, award-winning journalist, and policy analyst Sara Burke will be in UL tomorrow talking on the subject of
GUBU 2009 – the Irish health system.
All are welcome, the talk is on from 2-3pm in KB1-11.
Here are the lecture notes, and here is the podcast of the lecture.
Economics for Business Lecture 19 from Stephen Kinsella on Vimeo.
Get the lecture notes here, and a recording of the lecture is here.
From Michael Taft’s blog, which is excellent, here’s an interesting chart describing Ireland’s current situation and our policy choices in 5 weeks’ time.
The multiplier row I referred to in the lecture starts here and here, you can read the rest yourselves. The Ernst [...]