57th Annual Management Conference 2009 on "The Future of Markets" at University of Chicago

57th Annual Management Conference 2009 on “The Future of Markets”, held at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, May 29, 2009.  Of particular interest is the 2 hour, 7 minute long keynote panel webcast featuring the following six University of Chicago faculty panelists:

  • Gary Becker, University Professor of Economics and of Sociology and winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Economics
  • Kevin Murphy, George J. Stigler Distinguished Service Professor of Economics
  • Raghuram Rajan, Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance
  • Steven Kaplan, Neubauer Family Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance
  • Marianne Bertrand, Fred G. Steingraber/A. T. Kearney Professor of Economics
  • Anil Kashyap, Edward Eagle Brown Professor of Economics and Finance
Click here for an executive summary of the keynote panel. For some context on the panel members, read the “Conference Pre-Reading“. Also, the discussion (roughly 1 hour long) featuring Ted Snyder and Gene Fama (from the same conference) on the question “Is the stock market an “efficient” market? is also very worthwhile (executive summary here). Ironically, even though the keynote panel and Fama webcasts took place nearly two months prior to the publication of the Economist cover article (dated 7/16/2009) entitled “What went wrong with economics (and how the discipline should change to avoid the mistakes of the past)”, these webcasts address many of the issues that were brought up in the Economist article.]]>

57th Annual Management Conference 2009 on “The Future of Markets” at University of Chicago

I would like to call attention to the 57th Annual Management Conference 2009 on “The Future of Markets”, held at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, May 29, 2009.  Of particular interest is the 2 hour, 7 minute long keynote panel webcast featuring the following six University of Chicago faculty panelists:

  • Gary Becker, University Professor of Economics and of Sociology and winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Economics
  • Kevin Murphy, George J. Stigler Distinguished Service Professor of Economics
  • Raghuram Rajan, Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance
  • Steven Kaplan, Neubauer Family Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance
  • Marianne Bertrand, Fred G. Steingraber/A. T. Kearney Professor of Economics
  • Anil Kashyap, Edward Eagle Brown Professor of Economics and Finance

Click here for an executive summary of the keynote panel. For some context on the panel members, read the “Conference Pre-Reading“. Also, the discussion (roughly 1 hour long) featuring Ted Snyder and Gene Fama (from the same conference) on the question “Is the stock market an “efficient” market? is also very worthwhile (executive summary here). Ironically, even though the keynote panel and Fama webcasts took place nearly two months prior to the publication of the Economist cover article (dated 7/16/2009) entitled “What went wrong with economics (and how the discipline should change to avoid the mistakes of the past)”, these webcasts address many of the issues that were brought up in the Economist article.

Assorted Links (8/28/2009)

Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading today (organized by topic):

Economics

Global Warming

Health Care Reform

  • A Strategy to Save Obamacare, But at What Cost, by Charles Krauthammer
    Washington Post: “Obamacare Version 1.0 is dead. The 1,000-page monstrosity that emerged in various editions from Congress was done in by widespread national revulsion not just at its expense and intrusiveness but also at the mendacity with which it is being sold. You don’t need a PhD to see that the promise to expand coverage and reduce costs is a crude deception, or that cutting $500 billion from Medicare without affecting care is a fiction.”
  • Some Roman Catholic Bishops Assail Health Plan, by David Kirkpatrick
    New York Times: “Despite the church’s push on the issue, some are raising concerns over abortion and alarms about ‘rationing.’”
  • Fixing Health Care Is Good for Business, by Gary Locke
    Wall Street Journal: “How many aspiring entrepreneurs are stuck in dead-end jobs because of health concerns?”President Obama’s Secretary of Commerce asks a very pertinent question here. However, as I have previously noted, the question of whether the health care system should be reformed is not particularly controversial; what is controversial is the manner in which health care reform ought to be structured and implemented.

Miscellaneous

  • How Facebook Ruins Friendships, by Elizabeth Bernstein
    This essay from today’s Wall Street Journal ought to be required reading for all Facebook users!

Religion

  • The Benefits of Religion
    Freakonomics: “A new study by Angus Deaton uses an expansive dataset to analyze the determinants and benefits of religiosity around the world.”