Video and Audio Lectures in Political Economy

This is a video of Joseph Stiglitz speaking on the topic of global financial market regulation at the James Martin 21st Century School at the University of Oxford. Stiglitz argues that the global financial crisis reflects a failure of global economic governance, before looking at the lessons for global governance in the 21st Century. Users will need a Flash player to watch this 63 minute video or they can download the audio version as an mp3 file.

A podcast series about the credit crunch and global recession featuring three Oxford academics. This series examines how the current crisis developed, analyses market and government responses to it, and looks at what might happen next. Eight audio files are available with most programmes lasting around 30 minutes.

This series of 10 lectures on the "Fundamentals of economic analysis : a causal-realist approach" was produced by the Ludwig Von Mises Institute that celebrates classical liberalism, libertarian political theory, and the Austrian School of economics. Topics covered include price controls, competition and monopoly, the determination of prices and choice. The lecturers are Joseph Salerno of Pace University and Peter Klein of the University of Missouri. Each lecture from this 2007 series is available in audio and video, with each session lasting about 90 minutes.

The Transformaton of macroeconomic policy and research is Prescott's 2004 Nobel Prize lecture. It sets out the method and significance of micro-founded, forward-looking, dynamic-equilibrium models as originated by Kydland, Prescott, Lucas and others, and widely adopted as cheap computing power becomes available. Assess the impact on use of macro models for policymaking, with particular attention to time consistency and credible commitment. It is complemented by the shorter, more empirical 'Quantitative Aggregate Theory' by co-laureate Finn Kydland, available from the same site. Both in video as well as text form.

In this 26 minute lecture from the Occupy Harvard "Teach-in" in December 2011, Fung, a professor of democracy and citizenship, discusses income and wealth inequalities in the USA. The video is available on YouTube under a Creative Commons Attribution licence that allows remixing.