The Economics of Uncertainty
Offered By: The Great Courses Plus
Course Description
Overview
Learn how to cope with economic uncertainty and risk in these 24 advice-filled lectures from a master economist.
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: Man, Nature, and Economic Uncertainty
- 02: Turning Uncertainty into Risk
- 03: Five Ways to Face the Unknown
- 04: Probability: Frequency or Belief?
- 05: How We Misjudge Likelihood and Risk
- 06: The Reward in Risk
- 07: Decision Science Tools
- 08: Gambling Economics
- 09: Game Theory: Reveal or Conceal?
- 10: Adverse Selection: Hiding in Plain Sight
- 11: Moral Hazard: Whom Do You Trust?
- 12: The Principal-Agent Problem: When Mice Play
- 13: Compensation Traps
- 14: Caring, Sharing, and Risk Bearing
- 15: Mayhem! Insurance Protection
- 16: Uncertainty in the Numbers
- 17: The Business Cycle's Wheel of Fortune
- 18: The Danger of Inflation
- 19: Extreme Markets
- 20: Regulation, Innovation, Excess
- 21: Global Trade in Employment
- 22: No Limits to Growth
- 23: Hedging Business and Personal Risks
- 24: Stress Testing Your Finances
Taught by
Connel Fullenkamp
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