PROBLMATIZING QUESTION:

WHAT IS THE MARKET AND THEIR PRODUCTION?

Desempeños:  

Class Rules: 

1. BE ON TIME AND READY WHIT ALL THE MATERIALS

2. NO GOING TO THE BATHROOM UNLESS IT´S URGENT.

3. NO CHEWING GUM.

4. NO TALKING WHILE EXPLANATIONS ARE GOING ON.

5. NO DISRESPECT TO OTHERS OPINIONS. 

6. RAISE YOUR HAND.

7. BE HONEST AND DO YOUR BEST. 

8. NO CELLPHONE USE UNLESS AUTHORIZED BY THE TEACHER. 

Contenidos: 

10 TOP WOMEN IN ECONOMICS

10. OLVIA S. MITCHELL

Her work focuses on public and private pensions, insurance and risk management, financial literacy and public finance. She in one of his last books, talks about financial education and the fight against financial literacy. Investing in financial education brings high profits. The work shows that not only financial education are vulnerable to society economically, but also the general population.

9. ELLEN R. MACGRATTAN.

She previously worked in the research department of the Minnesota Fed, where she was the third-highest-ranked researcher. McGrattan published a fascinating paper on the evidence in favour of wealth taxes, as proposed by French economist Thomas Piketty in his book Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century, among others. Her conclusion from surveying the available evidence is that there is currently insufficient understanding of what we mean by wealth and what impact targeting any particular measure of it would have on the economy.

She wants everyone to know, that it can be if they make a breakthrough in the economy

8.SERENA NG

Ng is a professor at Columbia University in New York. Her particular fields of study are econometrics and macroeconomics. In a paper she published in march whit Kyle Jurado and Sidney Ludvigson the authors argue that periods of heightened market uncertainty that have an impact on real economic activity are far less common than others have assumed.

7. CLAUDIA GOLDIN

Goldin is the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University and director of the NBER’s Development of the American Economy programme. Her research has covered topics including slavery, the economic impact of war, the female labour force, immigration, New Deal policies, income inequality, technological change, education and the gender gap in pay.

Her work focuses on the economics and econometrics of technical change and innovation.Given the productivity challenges faced by advanced economies in the aftermath of the Great Recession, Hall’s work on innovation has come to the fore.Hall is professor of Economics Emerita at the University of California at Berkeley and professor of Economics of Technology and Innovation at the University of Maastricht, Netherlands.

5. MARIANNE BERTRAND

She is a research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Center for Economic Policy Research, and the Institute for the Study of Labor.Bertrand is the Chris P. Dialynas Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.Her field is applied micro-economics and her work focuses mainly on labour economics, corporate finance and development economics.

4. JANET CURRIE

 Her research focuses on the health and well-being of children, including early intervention schemes, expansions of public health insurance, public housing, and food and nutrition programmes. Currie is the Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs Director of the Center for Health and Well-Being at Princeton University. 

3. ASLI DERMIGÜC-KUNT

Demirgüç-Kunt is the Director of Research at the World Bank, having joined the international institution in 1989. While there, she has created the World She has authored over 100 publications on subjects including banking crises, financial regulation and access to financial services including SME finance. Demirgüç-Kunt is the Director of Research at the World Bank, having joined the international institution in 1989. 

2. ESTHER DUFLO

Duflo is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a co-founder and co-director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). Over her career she has received honours including the Infosys Prize (2014), the David N. Kershaw Award (2011), a John Bates Clark Medal (2010) and a MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellowship (2009).

Her research areas include health, education, financial inclusion, environment and governance. In particular, Duflo’s work has focused on designing social policy to improve the economic lives of the poor.

Her 2011 book Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty, written with Abhijit Banerjee, argued for a radical rethinking of the economics of poverty and the policies aimed at alleviating it. It won the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award in 2011.

1. CARMEN M. REINHART

Reinhart is the Minos A. Zombanakis Professor of the International Financial System at Harvard Kennedy School. She is also a member of the Congressional Budget Office Panel of Economic Advisers and the economic advisory panel of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

She wrote the bestselling book, This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, with Kenneth Rogoff, which documented historical examples of booms and busts and the many similarities between the events and the various policy responses.

More recently, sheco-authored a paper with Christoph Trebeschon sovereign debt relief and its aftermath. Their findings suggest that debtor countries receive clear economic benefits in the five years following debt relief, casting doubt on the notion that credit events cast a long shadow on the economic prospects of nations.

    21/04/2016

    Activity

    We continue the activity in trios
about the problematics and the solutions in the inventions of the radio,
the TV, the cellphone, the telephone, the GPS and
    Facebook.