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The Economics of Seinfeld

The Economics of Seinfeld: The Non Fat Yogurt

9th - 10th
Seinfeld clip [4:44] from an episode that teaches us about the economic concept of demand, featuring Jerry and Elaine's crusade as they begin to get fat from the yogurt they are eating.
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Khan Academy: Price Elasticity: More on Elasticity of Demand

9th - 10th
Are you ready to look a bit deeper at why elasticity changes despite having a linear demand curve? This video explains how the quantity of demand of good or service changes when it price changes. [6:00]
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Khan Academy: Price Discrimination: First Degree Price Discrimination

9th - 10th
The video demonstrates first degree price discrimination using a graph with a fictional business. Learn how businesses try to optimize economic profit by charging different consumers different amounts. [6:00]
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Khan Academy: Total Revenue and Elasticity

9th - 10th
This video lesson from Khan Academy is intended for students who are taking the AP Microeconomics course or a college microeconomics class. Explore the relationship between total revenue and elasticity in this video.
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Khan Academy: Price Elasticity of Demand Using the Midpoint Method

9th - 10th
This video lesson from Khan Academy is intended for students who are taking a microeconomics course. This lesson serves as an introduction to price elasticity of demand.
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Khan Academy: Perfect Inelasticity and Perfect Elasticity of Demand

9th - 10th
This video lesson from Khan Academy is intended for students who are taking the AP Macroeconomics course. Students will examine the two extremes of elasticity: perfectly elastic and perfectly in elastic demand. The extremes can help...
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Khan Academy: More on Elasticity of Demand

9th - 10th
Looking a bit deeper at why elasticity changes despite having a linear demand curve. This resource is designed as a review for the AP Microeconomics Test or a college-level microeconomics course.
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Khan Academy: Introduction to Price Elasticity of Demand

9th - 10th
In this video lesson, explore a simple way to calculate the price elasticity of demand, how to interpret that calculation, and how price elasticity of demand varies along a demand curve. This resource is designed as a review for the AP...
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Khan Academy: Elasticity and Strange Percent Changes

9th - 10th
This video lesson explains why we calculate percent changes in a strange way when calculating elasticities. This resource is designed as a review for the AP Microeconomics Test or a college-level microeconomics course.
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Khan Academy: Determinants of Price Elasticity of Demand

9th - 10th
There are several factors that affect how elastic (or inelastic) the price elasticity of demand is, such as the availability of substitutes, the timeframe, the share of income, whether a good is a luxury vs. a necessity, and how narrowly...
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Khan Academy: Determinants of Elasticity Example

9th - 10th
Walk through the logic of determining what kind of good has the most elastic demand in this video. This resource is designed as a review for the AP Microeconomics Test or a college-level microeconomics course.
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Khan Academy: Constant Unit Elasticity

9th - 10th
This video lesson provides a case of price elasticity of demand, s demand curve with a constant unit elasticity. Explore what such a demand curve would look like in this video.
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Khan Academy: Changes in Income, Population, or Preferences

9th - 10th
In this video lesson from Khan Academy, students will explore how changes in a few factors, including income, population, and consumer preferences, affect the demand curve. This resource is designed as a review for the AP Macroeconomics...
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Khan Academy: Changes in Equilibrium Price, Quantity When Supply & Demand Change

9th - 10th
In this video lesson from Khan Academy, students will explore what happens when both supply and demand are simultaneously changing. This resource is designed as a review for the AP Macroeconomics Test or a college-level macroeconomics...
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Khan Academy: Change in Expected Future Prices and Demand

9th - 10th
Explore the role of buyers' expectations as a determinant of demand in this video lesson from Khan Academy. This resource is designed as a review for the AP Macroeconomics Test or a college-level macroeconomics course.
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Khan Academy: Change in Demand Versus Change in Quantity Demanded

9th - 10th
This video lesson from Khan Academy explains the differences between a change in the quantity demanded for a good (which causes a movement along a demand curve) and the change in a good's demand (which causes the entire demand curve to...
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Khan Academy: Cross Price Elasticity of Demand

9th - 10th
This video explains how the price of one good impacts the quantity demanded of another. [11:19]
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Khan Academy: Demand Curve as Marginal Benefit Curve

9th - 10th
To get a better intuition about how much a consumer values a good in a market, we think of demand as a marginal benefit curve. In this video, we look at the demand curve from a marginal benefit framework. [5:53]
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Khan Academy: Deflationary Spiral

9th - 10th
One of the biggest worries associated with deflation is a deflationary spiral, in which low unemployment and a decreasing price level lead to lower unemployment and an even lower price level. [3:50]
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Khan Academy: Deriving Demand Curve From Tweaking Marginal Utility Per Dollar

9th - 10th
Where does a buyer's demand curve come from? A rational buyer wants to get as much 'bang per buck' from their consumption as possible. In economics, that's called marginal utility per dollar spent. In this video, we derive the...