This page replaces my “Talks” page which is now better handled by the Calendar. The links below are to my standard public talks, and my lectures on economics that I give at the University of Western Sydney. My apologies for the formatting here, but the fastest way to get this page up and running was to cut and paste from my own Frontpage-”designed” website for Debunking Economics.
All links are to Powerpoint (PPT) files unless otherwise specified.
Public Talks
This is my standard presentation on the Global Financial Crisis. I update it regularly to reflect recent data, new research, and new (real or perceived!) changes in economic activity.
This is the presentation I gave at the Australian Conference of Economists in Adelaide in September 2009. It is similar to my standard presentation, but with more mathematics and some apposite quotes from Minsky.
Behavioural Finance
- Reconsidering Consumer Behaviour (PDF)
- Reconsidering Producer Behaviour (PDF)
- Reconsidering Behaviour in Finance (PDF)
- How the Data Killed CAPM (PDF)
- The Fractal Markets Hypothesis (PDF)
- The Inefficient Markets Hypothesis (PDF)
- Experiments in Economic & Financial Behaviour (to be posted later)
- The statistics on money and implications for finance and economics (PDF)
- The endogenous money perspective (PDF)
- Modelling Endogenous Money I (PDF)
- Modelling Endogenous Money II (PDF)
History of Economic Thought
- Introduction/Antiquity (Very large file [9MB] because of large images!)
- Antiquity to Physiocrats/Smith
- Classical to Marx
- Marx to Robbins
- Robbins to Keynes
- Keynes to Monetarism
- Monetarism to the Cambridge Controversies
- More on Marx
- More on Keynes
- Finance
- Methodology
- Debates: Nature of money and capital
- Debates: Economic Dynamics
Political Economy: Critiques
Political Economy: Evolutionary Economics
- Evolutionary theory in general (Large file [3MB] because of large images!)
- Early evolutionary economists (Veblen & Schumpeter)
- Complexity and Self-organisation
- Power laws and evolutionary modelling
Financial Economics
- Statistics on endogenous money
- Debates in endogenous money: Basil Moore & Sheila Dow
- The circuitist school
- Dynamic model of the Monetary Circuit
- Fisher and Debt Deflation
- Minsky: Modelling Debt Deflation
- Modelling Debt Deflation
Managerial Economics
- Conventional theory of the firm & a taste of reality
- Lecture 02: Blinder’s empirical research into the actual behavior of firms
- Supplement to Lecture 02: An explanation of my research on why the neoclassical theory of the firm is illogical
- Lecture 03: Alternative theories of price including Galbraith, Post Keynesians, Sraffians & Schumpeter
- Lecture 04: Schumpeter’s model of entrepreneurial profits
- Lecture 05: Game theory–warts and all
- Lecture 06: Ormerod’s Schumpeterian model of competition
- Lecture 07: Standard Macroeconomics
- Lecture 08: Data on US business cycle & Schumpeter’s theory of cycles
- Lecture 09: Minsky’s theory of financial cycles
- Lecture 10: The Capital Assets Pricing Model: Theoretical and Empirical Failure
- Lecture 11: New Approaches to Finance: Behavioural Finance, Econophysics and others
- Lecture 12: Standard Trade Theory, Warts and All…
- Lecture 13: Porter’s Competitive Advantage + Subject Wrap-up
Honours Lectures
Political Economy
- Demand
- Supply
- Equilibrium
- Evolution
- Early Evolutionary Economists (Veblen & Schumpeter)
- Evolutionary modelling, dynamics & statics
- Power laws and econophysics
More Political Economy
Advanced Finance
- Philosophy of nonlinear finance: Marx, Keynes, Fisher, Schumpeter & Minsky
- The fundamentals of dynamics: differential equations
- Higher order linear and first order nonlinear ODEs
- Systems of ODEs and introducton to chaos/complexity
- Modelling the Financial Instability Hypothesis (part 1)
- Modelling the Financial Instability Hypothesis (part 2)
- An introduction to Econophysics
Advanced Macro
- Lecture 1: The sorry history of macroeconomics: from Say to Phillips via Keynes and Marx
- Lecture 2: Sorry history continued: from Monetarism to Rational Expectations via murdering Phillips
Models
- Link to Vissim version 3.0 (I use Vissim for my dynamic simulations in teaching, and Mathcad for my mathematical modelling). Vissim 3.0 is an earlier version of the current release, provided to university lecturers who use Vissim in their teaching and freely distributable to students. Those interested in commercial use of the current version (4.5 as of 2004) should go to the Vissim home page. You can also download a free viewer to check out files that use features in the newer version.
- Lorenz vissim model (the classic “butterfly of chaos”)
- Goodwin vissim model
- Minsky private sector model (stable initial conditions)
- Minsky private sector model (unstable initial conditions)
- Minsky mixed economy model (stable regardless of initial conditions)
- Minsky mixed economy model (with compound blocks)
- Generalised exponential function
