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	Podcast:		EconTalk Archives, 2014
	Episode:		Hansen on Risk, Ambiguity, and Measurement
	Category:		Education
	Duration:		01:00:17
	Publish Date:		2014-06-30 06:30:00
	Description:		Lars Peter Hansen of the University of Chicago and Nobel Laureate in economics, talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the power and limits of economic models and quantitative methods. Hanson defends the value of models while recognizing their limitations. The two also discuss quantifying systemic financial risk, how our understanding of financial markets has changed, the nature of risk, and areas of economics that Hanson believes are ripe for further research.
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