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Econ Dept Seminar series podcasts, audio and "video of slides " (ie slides only, no professional camera work) (Trial for 2006 -files only available on UC internal network streaming server currently )
If you delivered a seminar at UC Econ and you're not listed here please don't be offended...I haven't been able to succesfully capture/present/upload/attend all seminars....but I am trying to get things in place so this will happen in 2007
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Nov 10 2006 |
Gene Grossman  |
Trading Tasks - a simple theory of offshoring | streaming webcast on UC intranet (webcast IP: some non commercial uses permitted, no derivative works ) |
| Gideon deWet | 30 years of Operations Research in the South African Navy | Gideon is an Erskine fellow in Management streaming webcast on UC intranet (webcast IP: some non commercial uses permitted, no derivative works )
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| Dr Iris Claus IRD | Taxation and Finance Constrained Firms | Iris explains the theory (and evidence) around the hypothesis that finance constraints faced by small frims exacerbate the (in) efficiency consequences of higher tax rates. Iris click here to download |
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Rodney Hyde |
Politics, Politicians and Public Choice | streaming audi/video slideshow on UC intranet download from libsyn.com (off campus) (webcast IP: non commercial uses permitted) NZ Act MP Rodney Hide talks to Econ 105 (Introductory Economics) students at the University of Canterbury. After talking a little bit about how and why he got into economics, Rodney dives in at the deep end challenging these University students to THINK about the implications of the NZ Labour party subsidies to interest rates on student loans: why was this form of help to students chosen (instead of a lump sum income grant for example)? The platform is set to talk about the fundamental necessity of politicians to win votes...and how they (he) acts so as to increase the chances of being elected, going back to the elementary truth of concentrated benefits (expenditures, regulations) and dispersed costs (taxes, higher prices). Rodney doesn’t flinch from some humorous digs at his “colleagues” in parliament - Enjoy |
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| Friday May 18 2006 | Doug Allen (SFU) bio Erskine Visitor |
The Duel of Honor:
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Watch and listen to Doug's fascinating seminar here streaming audio/video slideshow (webcast IP: some non commercial uses permitted) pdf of paper The duel of honor was a highly ritualized violent activity practiced (mostly) by aristocrats from about 1500 to 1900. The duel of honor was held in private, was attended by seconds and other members of society, was illegal, and often resulted from trivial incidents. Duels were fought according to strict codes, their lethality fell over time, and certain members of society were not allowed to duel. We argue dueling functioned as a screen for unobservable investments in social capital. Social capital was used during this period to support political transactions in an age when high civil service appointments were made through patronage. The screening hypothesis explains the puzzling features of the duel of honor, its rise and fall over time and locations, and the differences between European and American duels. |
| Friday March 24, 2006 | Frank Milne bio Erskine Visitor |
Market Distortions and Corporate Governance | streaming audio/video slideshow (sorry frank, the audio didn't record!!) |
| Friday March 10, 2006 | Curt Eaton (Calgary)bio
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Well-being and Affluence in the Presence of a Veblen Good
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streaming audio podcast available only if you are inside the UC network; Unfortunately with curt's talk i managed to lose the screen capture of the slides....i can reconstruct it in real time but that will take me an hour or so so you'll have to be patient. (webcast IP: some non commercial uses permitted, no derivative works )
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| March 1 2006 | Peter Zweifel (Zurich) bio & pic
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Consumer resistance against regulation: the case of health care | streaming audio/video slideshow |
I've tried to code these files as small, but scalable quicktime movies in either h264 form for viewing on mobile devices that play video, like cellphones and video ipods, (using a codec called h.264 see a description on Apple's website), so you may need Quicktime 7 to play them, although earlier versions may also work). Apple's Quicktime player is free and easy to download and install...Apple explains how to obtain and install the latest version of Quicktime player 7 Mac or Quicktime player 7 Windows it :
Alternatively ,play the clips on a free (and very good) cross platform media
player like VLC from VideoLan
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To publicize the wide and diverse landscape between "all rights reserved - ask permission to do anything" vs "no rights reserved - use it how you will, no permission needed" , the text/audio/video material on our website has been licensed under two Creative Commons broad licensing schemes that are consistent with our philosophy about educational resources.
The first license, applying mainly to the teaching resources in the Strategic Economics collection, is a broad license, permitting all non-commercial uses of both audio/video and supporting files (usually text, html and various graphics formats ) as is, but also permitting non-commercial derivative works: rip mix and burn baby! Contact the author for any variations and/or other uses.
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The second license, applying mainly to Erskine seminar and miscellaneous audio video seminars in the Sock Drawer is a Creative Commons license that only permits using the audio/video as is for non-commercial purposes as long as the user attributes the source to the author. Contact the author for any variations and/or other uses.
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