The Baseline Scenario

December 2, 2008 The Global Crisis, class #4 Relevant links, including background material and tracking of all relevant developments available through http://BaselineScenario.com. Update: Webcast for today’s class (RealMedia). Summary of class content and structure:

Tomorrow, Tuesday December 2, at 4:30pm (please note special start time for this week), we will webcast our next MIT class on the global crisis.  The session will run until 7pm, as usual, with a break around 5:30pm. This is the last class on the crisis that we will broadcast & record, at least for now.  (There will also [...]

You can now download the video of our November 4th (Tuesday) class.  The class covered a range of topics, as advertised (although I always like a class to jump around as students and guests make good points.) The highlights from my perspective were:

Here are the slides I used in the first class, which ran from 4pm to 7pm yesterday.  Tell me if anything about them is unclear. We went in the deep end. 1. The global crisis is having an impact everywhere – including, the students tell me, making conditions harder for microfinance in Africa or India [...]

Note: pasted below is the material I am handing students at 4pm today (Tuesday, October 28), as a guide to what to expect from this class.  We hope to webcast the second class, next week, Tuesday, November 4; details to follow.  Other forms of interaction will depend on interest expressed by you and by the students.