Blind Spots & Bad Decisions: Why We Fall for Financial Traps Why do smart people make dumb financial choices? This lecture...
Picturesque Engineering: Telford's Highland Roads and Bridges In partnership with the Fulbright Commission. In 1819, Thomas Telford...
Ghost of Scandals Past: A Short History of Financial Scandals The litany of great financial scandals is long, and sadly...
Gresham and Defoe (underwriters): The Origins of London Marine Insurance This lecture explores the astonishing history of marine insurance underwriting...
Does Net Zero Mean the End of Livestock Agriculture? Diet and agriculture are borderline untouchable “third rail” issues in...
Standards Markets: The free market response to regulation Many societal goals for markets can be achieved with more...
Local or global? Network economics and the new economy Should we prefer the brittle resilience of a very nervous...
Carbon Offsetting: Does It Really Work? Offsets, politely called carbon credit markets, are essential to many...