TTC VIDEO - Why Economies Rise or Fall (2010)

While an insightful understanding of different economic approaches has always been essential for policymakers, it is equally important for those of us who might not steer the economy but must still live and function within it. In the 24 lectures of Why Economies Rise or Fall, Professor Peter Rodriguez of the University of Virginia guides you through a stimulating and, above all, accessible examination of what economists know and don't know about this elusive search for economic prosperity.

How can a nation create the conditions for economic growth and prosperity, improving people's lives on both the individual and national levels? And what, once these conditions are achieved, can it do to sustain this progress? Do any of the many "isms" under which we organize our economic philosophies hold the answer?
While an insightful understanding of different economic approaches has always been essential for policymakers, it is equally important for those of us who might not steer the economy but must still live and function within it.
In the 24 lectures of Why Economies Rise or Fall, Professor Peter Rodriguez of the University of Virginia guides you through a stimulating and, above all, accessible examination of what economists know and don't know about this elusive search for economic prosperity.
Discover the Truths of Economic Success and Failure
In Why Economies Rise or Fall, you'll learn
* how countries as widely different as the United States and Vietnam have grown their economies;
* how countries like China and India were able to recover from economic reverses; and, most important,
* why the critical test of any economic policy is its ability to productively alter human behavior for everyone's ultimate benefit.
By looking at economic growth as the result of incentivizing such productive behavior—"making productivity more profitable than all the alternatives"—Professor Rodriguez clears up an often-shrouded economic landscape. The result is a course that brings the economic strategies chosen by nations down to street level by adding a newfound clarity to key issues:
* Why economies succeed or fail, what secrets lie beneath the generalized "banner" of a particular ideology, and what might happen when you mix them together
* How economic bubbles are created, why they burst, and how nations recover from them
* The challenges posed by the hyperconnected world economy created by globalization
* The damage that factors like corruption and even the "informal" economy represented by colorful vendors and street bazaars can do to a nation's prospects for growth
* How everything we know about economic and financial hegemony may change with the rise of China and the deep structural issues facing mature Western economies
Your Chance to Connect the Dots That Link Economics to People
The results, of course, are with us to this day, and Professor Rodriguez examines both sides of the picture history has painted.
"What all of these conversations and all of these schools of thought and ideas really intend to teach us is about how to get what we want. They're about a means to an end … the chance to live a little bit better year by year, getting us to places that have equality for lots of people, or at least something near it; if not equality, then justice and fairness, hope for a better life, for stability."
Corruption, in fact, becomes the focus of a fascinating lecture that reveals the key distinction between corruption that is merely pervasive and corruption that is arbitrary, as well as the profoundly different impacts each can have.
Dr. Peter Rodriguez is Associate Dean for International Affairs and Associate Professor at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, where he teaches global macroeconomics and international business.
The holder of a Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University, Professor Rodriguez has also taught at both that university and at Texas A&M, as well as at universities around the world, including on the water as a faculty member of Semester at Sea.
His broad experience as a teacher—which has produced awards for teaching excellence wherever he has taught—goes hand-in-hand with significant real-world experience in the realm of business, which has drawn on his skills as both an educator and a practitioner.

professor : Peter Rodriguez
production land: usa
Run time: ~24x30 min

1. From Free Markets to State Economies
2. A Brief History of Economic Growth
3. Economic Growth and Human Behavior
4. The Birth of the Western Free Market
5. American Economic Strategies
6. America and Europe—Divergent Approaches
7. State-Led Theories of Economic Growth
8. The Secrets of Rapid Growth in Tiger Economies
9. Lessons and Limits of Japan's Economic Model
10. From Closed to Open Economies
11. How Can We Manage Global Growth?
12. China's Policies and the World Economy
13. Merging the Theories of East and West
14. Lessons about Economic Success
15. The Roots of Economic Failure
16. Politics, Statecraft, and the Fate of Economies
17. Corruption and Its Impact on Growth
18. Informal, Inefficient Markets
19. Technology and the Instant Economy
20. Possible Strains on Global Economic Growth
21. Latin America—Moving Away from Free Markets
22. Financial Crises and Economic Theory
23. The Multipolar Economic World
24. Driving Forces, Emerging Trends

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