Untimely meditations on credit: Alan Dyer at TEDxLouisianaTechUniversity

Are financial crises a necessary "cost" of doing business in the United States?Professor Dyer has been working in the field of economics for over 30 years, specializing in the history of economic thought. His writings focus on thinkers, like Thorstein Veblen, John Maynard Keynes, and Joseph Schumpeter, who have developed unconventional ideas about the role of money and credit in market economies. Despite the appreciation his students have expressed over the years for the contrast his lectures provide to the more typical mathematical explanations of how we earn our livings, he is aware that an appreciation for analytical diversity continues to shrink in the discipline. Marginal landscapes like those found in the Chiricahua Mountains and on the island of Sicily provide him the space to recharge and practice patience. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)