Curated Video
Shifts in Aggregate Supply: Short- and Long-Term Impacts and Uncertainties
This video explains the difference between long-run and short-run aggregate supply shifts, and provides examples of factors that can cause shifts, such as changes in the cost of production factors and population growth. The video...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Financial Reform in a Crisis: The Swedish Solution
Whenever the question is raised about the appropriateness of the bailouts for our largest financial institutions during the most recent financial crisis, the usual response among people who defend the idea is to suggest that without...
TLDR News
Will the UK Collapse After Brexit? - Brexit Explained
A few weeks ago we put out a video called will the EU fall apart after Brexit. People commented it was the UK who was going to fall apart. So we answered the question, will the UK fall apart after Brexit? Will each country decide to go...
Curated Video
Joe Biden wins: what next for America?
Joe Biden has won the race to become America’s next president. Our experts answer your questions on potential court battles, a divided country and the future of America.
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Thomas McMorran - A Community of Learners
Dr. Thomas McMorran, Assistant Superintendent and Joel Barlow High School Principal, was recently awarded the Connecticut Principal of the Year Award. "The staff lovingly refers to Mr. McMorran as Mr. Metaphor as he continually uses...
Curated Video
Introduction to Financial Regulation and its Different Forms
This video is a lecture presentation on the different forms of regulation in the financial sector and what they aim to achieve. The presenter discusses various regulatory strands relating to the UK financial sector, including...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Richard Koo: How the West is Repeating Japan's Mistakes
In INET's exclusive interview with the Chief Economist at Nomura Research Institute's Richard Koo, he discusses the ideas behind "Balance Sheet Recessions," why QE2 won't work, and how China's monetary policy was effective in the wake of...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Yanis Varoufakis: The Two Faces of the Crisis 3/4
In part 3 of this four-part INET "From the Director's Chair" interview, INET Executive Director Robert Johnson talks with Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis about Varoufakis's new book The Global Minotaur: America, The True Origins of the...
Wonderscape
Money Kids: The Stock Market
This video provides an overview of the stock market, explaining what stocks are, how the stock market works, and how investors can make money through buying and selling stocks. It also touches on the history of stock exchanges, the...
ACDC Leadership
Economic Systems: Why is Communist China doing so well? Micro Topic 1.2
My thoughts and reflections after visiting Xiamen, China in March 2014. Please note that this is not designed to be a comprehensive overview of the Chinese economic system. Many important facts were omitted. Most of the communist...
ACDC Leadership
Why YOU should learn economics!
Why should you learn economics? Put simply, it's becasue it will make you a better decision maker and help you see the "unseen". Economics is the study how we deal with scarcity so we can use our resources as efficiently as possible. So...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Story of the Conference From a Wide Range of Interviews - INET Documentary
"Economics in Crisis and the Crisis in Economics" was the theme of INET's inaugural conference, held at King's College at the University of Cambridge in April 2010. This is a short documentary that covers the background of the...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Robert and Edward Skidelsky - How Much is Enough? 1/3
In the first part of this three-part INET "From the Director's Chair" interview, INET Executive Director Robert Johnson talks with Robert Skidelsky and his son Edward Skidelsky about their book, How Much is Enough? Money and the Good...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Rob Johnson Introduces INET's Inaugural Grantees
Rob Johnson, the Executive Director of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, introduces some of the most interesting and exciting Inaugural grantees.
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Rob Johnson at Davos: The Global Economy, Inequality, and the Humanity Behind Economics
Rob Johnson at Davos: The Global Economy, Inequality, and the Humanity Behind Economics
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Steve Keen Urges Economists to Put Money into Their Models 7/7
In a monetary economy, all transactions are three-sided: There is a buyer, a seller, and a bank that records the transfer of money between the two parties. A realistic model of capitalism should have money in it, says Steve Keen in part...
TLDR News
Britain's £120 Million Brexit Festival Explained: Plans for a 2022 Festival of Britain - TLDR News
This week Britain allocated £29 million towards the so-called 'Festival of Brexit'. Officially called FestivalUK*2022, the event's set to cost a total of £120 million pounds to celebrate British culture, media and technology. So in this...
The Wall Street Journal
Strategy Planning in the Time of Covid-19
Martina Bozadzhieva, head of research at FrontierView, provides CFOs perspective on the global economy in 2021.
History Hit
Ottoman Empire with Kate Fleet: The role of women
What was the role of women in Ottoman society? How did they drive it? Ottoman Empire with Kate Fleet, Part 6
Curated Video
Agreeing and Disagreeing in English
This English language learning video explains how to agree or disagree appropriately and use the first conditional to express possibilities.
The Economist
Does this line predict America’s next recession?
The yield curve has predicted America's last eight recessions. In March this year it inverted again. So what does it mean for America?
TLDR News
5 Reasons Trump Will Be Re-Elected in 2020 - TLDR News.
In 2016 a lot of people were shocked to see Trump win the US Presidential Election. This time around we wanted to be a bit more prepared, so in this video, we explain the 5 reasons we think Trump hs a good chance at getting a second term.
The Wall Street Journal
Trade and China
U.S. trade talks with Beijing have so far failed to get China to change practices that hurt foreign business - from subsidizing its own companies to stealing intellectual property. A look inside the Central Committee's strategy.
History Hit
10 Steps to World War Two: Re-occupation of the Rhineland and Anschluss with Austria
Where is Rhineland and was it of military interest? Why did Hitler want Austria and how did Britain feel about this? 10 Steps to World War Two, Part 3