Thursday, April 12, 2007

Econ Talks

William Easterly Says Global Aid Programs Are Flawed

Lecture 1 of the Reith Lectures 2007: Bursting at the Seams- Jeffrey Sachs

Bogle on Investing via EconTalk

The Global Economic and Financial Market -- 2007
Min Zhu, Vice President, Bank of China Limited

Politics of Anxiety
Fear of crime has been championed by crimiologists, policy makers and politicians to justify increasing levels of security. But how much should we really fear. In his new book, 'Inventing Fear of Crime: criminology and the politics of anxiety', criminologist Dr Murray Lee scrutinises the origins of the concept and reveals its invention at the hands of earnest US politicians in the 1960s, and its continuing influence through the politics of anxiety

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