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The Economics of Uncertainty

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Learn how to cope with economic uncertainty and risk in these 24 advice-filled lectures from a master economist.

Syllabus

  • 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
  • By This Professor

Taught by

Connel Fullenkamp

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