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SUMMARY:CIDRAL Public Lecture: Mary Poovey: Some Lessons of History: Why 
 Economists Failed to Anticipate the Great Recession
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DESCRIPTION:Professor Mary Poovey will lecture as part of CIDRAL's Semest
 er 1 programme for the 2015-16 academic year\, themed around Finance and
  the Market.\n\nThis lecture explores the relationship between two ideas
  developed in eighteenth-century political economy and the foundational 
 assumptions of modern economics.  The first holds that economic processe
 s\, like their natural counterparts\, belong to a self-organizing and se
 lf-regulating system.  The second assumes that human beings are\, by nat
 ure\, rational\, self-maximizing agents who can model risk in probabilis
 tic terms.  While neither of these ideas is solely responsible for moder
 n economists’ recent failure to predict financial crises\, the combinati
 on of the two is inadequate for analyzing such events.\n\nMary Poovey is
  Samuel Rudin University Professor in the Humanities at New York Univers
 ity. She has written widely on nineteenth-century British literature\, a
 s well as eighteenth-century British literature and culture\, the histor
 y of literary criticism\, feminist theory\, and economic history. Her mo
 st recent books are 'Genres of the Credit Economy: Mediating Value in  E
 ighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Britain' (University of Chicago Press\,
  2008) and 'A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the S
 ciences of Wealth and Society' (University of Chicago Press\, 1998).\n\n
 This event is followed by a wine reception at Kro Bar
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CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:John Casken Lecture Theatre\, Martin Harris Centre for Music and
  Drama\, Manchester
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