Dirk Bezemer exemplary presents pattern of the U.S. economy before the 2007 economic crisis and explains how due to those pattern the crisis could have been, unless not precisely predicted, yet anticipated. 2014 Level: beginner Prof Dirk Bezemer on 2007/2008 Financial Crisis Dirk Bezemer University of Groningen Jens Beckert and Richard Bronk, authors of "Uncertain Times", explore the extent to which flaws, blind spots and more importantly bias created by macroeconomics models, based on forecasts and statistical devices, shape crisis and the market economy in which we live. 2018 Level: beginner Economics for Uncertain Times RSA Events, Jens Beckert and Richard Bronk RSA Events In a capitalist system, consumers, investors, and corporations orient their activities toward a future that contains opportunities and risks. How actors assess uncertainty is a problem that economists have tried to solve through general equilibrium and rational expectations theory. Powerful as these analytical tools are, they underestimate the future's unknowability by assuming that markets, in the aggregate, correctly forecast what is to come. 2016 Level: advanced Imagined Futures Jens Beckert Harvard University Press This course offered by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on edX provides an introduction in the major econometric tools used in standard Macroeconomics. Level: advanced Macroeconometric Forecasting Barajas et al. International Monetary Fund Forecasting is required in many situations. Stocking an inventory may require forecasts of demand months in advance. 2018 Level: advanced Forecasting: principles and practice Rob J Hyndman and George Athanasopoulos OTexts This statistics and data analysis course will introduce you to the essential notions of probability and statistics We will cover techniques in modern data analysis estimation regression and econometrics prediction experimental design randomized control trials and A B testing machine learning and data visualization We will illustrate these concepts with … Level: advanced Data Analysis for Social Scientists Esther Duflo & Sarah Fisher Ellison Massachusetts Institute of Technology