Great courses (Compact disc)

Compact discs

Look behind the scenes into the history and workings of influential economic groups around the world

Course no. 5405

The length of each lecture is: ca. 30 min. The entire program consists of 24 lectures

Unabridged

Lecturer: Dr. Ramon P. DeGennaro, The University of Tennesse, Knoxville

Politics of economic institutions -- Financial regulation across borders -- International anarchy under one roof -- Messy multilateralism -- Fed and the roles of central banks -- Pre-World War II rise of big government -- Interest groups, the state, and corporatism -- World Bank, poverty, and violence -- Group choices: rock, scissors, paper -- United Nations: a league of its own -- Exchange rates and the gold standard -- What caused the Great Depression? -- Higgledy piggledy: F.D.R.'s stimulus plan -- Bank for International Settlements -- Intrigue at Bretton Woods: July 1944 -- International Monetary Fund -- Asian Development Bank -- World Trade Organization -- Euro -- Great Recession: mismanaging risk -- After the recession: a bigger house of cards -- Banking supervision and the Basel Accords -- A unified Europe, and then Brexit -- A g-zero era of instability