Saturday 26 April 2014

Exam tomorrow in Macerata

For those that took the spreadsheet on USB the first three columns were missing.
Here they are:

abroad bullish custom
account for burden deals
accrue call centre dear
advertising capped debate
ambivalence care demise
ardour carrot depth
aspire Catch-up derail
assets cemented deregulation
Attack-ad chain design
back office chump displacement
bad press claims distasteful
bargains clearing house dodgy
be had clinging on dole out
beasts conceal downturn
belonging concerted efforts
benign concession Drop-out
big chunk conduct duration
boil constituency earthworm
boosting constrained
borrowing binge converge effort
bounty cooler measures elite

Cost-benefit endure
bowing to counterpart equipped
bulk counterparty risk erode
collaborative consumption frame of reference draw conclusions

Monday 7 April 2014

Macerata Economics - 7/4/14

http://www.ted.com/talks/peter_donnelly_shows_how_stats_fool_juries

http://www.ted.com/talks/david_mccandless_the_beauty_of_data_visualization#t-506988

http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21599053-chronic-deflation-may-keep-bitcoin-displacing-its-fiat-rivals-money


original word synonym
marvel wonder
heist robbery
aspire hope
match equal
Money-ness ability to be money
stable store reliable way to save
tuck away save
yardstick point of reference
holdings possessions
clearing house place of exchange
fees costs
wallet place to keep money
prone susceptible
plunder robbery
bullish optimistic
soaring rising very high
tracking fund e.g. index fund
take a punt speculate
retailers shops
exchange rate e.g. €1= $1.40
wages money for work
fall short not attain
frame of reference benchmark
quirk oddity
capped limited
neat in order
greases lubricates
keep pace stay with
hoard save
downturn recession
minted create money
worryingly a cause of worry
boosting promoting
saving grace redeeming factor
havoc chaos
faith belief
withdraw take out
demise collapse
stem slow down

Macerata Economics 31/3/14

http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_levitt_analyzes_crack_economics

https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/microeconomics/nash-equilibrium-tutorial/nash-eq-tutorial/v/prisoners--dilemma-and-nash-equilibrium
https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/microeconomics/nash-equilibrium-tutorial/nash-eq-tutorial/v/more-on-nash-equilibrium
http://www.ted.com/talks/philip_evans_how_data_will_transform_business
http://www.ted.com/talks/marco_annunziata_welcome_to_the_age_of_the_industrial_internet#t-740383