Wishing all Bellerbys students a happy new year!
Apologies for the long hiatus, as the past term has been extremely hectic.
The Bellerbys London Economics Club has enjoyed great success, with participation in our Economics Essay Competition extending to our Oxford and Cambridge counterparts, and we'll be looking forward to more contributions from all our students. Results and winning essays for the past 2 months will be posted on the blog very soon.
As the January exams come to an end, the Economics Club will once again resume its fortnightly visits to various public lectures held in London, and kindly check the blog regularly for updates on them.
To end the post, I will add a couple more book-recommendations:
1. The Strategy of Conflict - Thomas C. Schelling
2. The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 - Paul Krugman
Once again, wishing all a happy new year!
Chik A52
Sunday 1 February 2009
The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom
The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIXDMycMYsw&feature=PlayList&p=8D2965A956D903F5&index=0&playnext=1
This is a BBC documentary series by English filmmaker Adam Curtis. It began airing on BBC Two on 11 March 2007. The series explores the concept and definition of freedom, specifically, "how a simplistic model of human beings as self-seeking, almost robotic, creatures led to today's idea of freedom."
In the first episht. The pode, Curtis examines the rise of game theory during the Cold War and the way in which its mathematical models of human behaviour filtered into economic thougrogramme traces the development of game theory with particular reference to the work of John Nash, who believed that all humans were inherently suspicious and selfish creatures that strategised constantly. The series goes on with another 2 episodes, and it covers a broad range of disciplines which span from psychology to economics. Many prominent economists of our time have contributed to this documentary, namely; Thomas C. Schelling, Friedrich von Hayek, mathematician John Nash, and so on.
I urge all of you to check out this documentary, as we continue to pursue and explore the actual meaning of freedom in modern society.
Chik A52
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIXDMycMYsw&feature=PlayList&p=8D2965A956D903F5&index=0&playnext=1
This is a BBC documentary series by English filmmaker Adam Curtis. It began airing on BBC Two on 11 March 2007. The series explores the concept and definition of freedom, specifically, "how a simplistic model of human beings as self-seeking, almost robotic, creatures led to today's idea of freedom."
In the first episht. The pode, Curtis examines the rise of game theory during the Cold War and the way in which its mathematical models of human behaviour filtered into economic thougrogramme traces the development of game theory with particular reference to the work of John Nash, who believed that all humans were inherently suspicious and selfish creatures that strategised constantly. The series goes on with another 2 episodes, and it covers a broad range of disciplines which span from psychology to economics. Many prominent economists of our time have contributed to this documentary, namely; Thomas C. Schelling, Friedrich von Hayek, mathematician John Nash, and so on.
I urge all of you to check out this documentary, as we continue to pursue and explore the actual meaning of freedom in modern society.
Chik A52
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