Sal further ponders the meaning of wealth in this video, which explores the values of gold, land, and money. Touching on Adam Smith's definition of wealth, the presentation discusses the philosophy of utility and what different media of...

Why do scholars go to school? Is it due to self-interest and wanting more for themselves? Adam Smith's concept of competition spearheads the third lesson of a 21-part economic series from Econ Lowdown. Scholars investigate how...

Can capitalism have virtue? Adam Smith thinks so! The 12th video in a series of 13 discusses Smith's political and economic views. Pupils discover these concepts and more through primary source photographs and examples that relate to...

Who is to blame for widespread famine? Crash Course World History guides high schoolers through a video about droughts, famines, and whether the weather or human activity is at fault for each.

Adam Smith contended that people are inherently drawn to creating a medium of exchange to make barter easier. A Crash Course World History video takes high schoolers through the creation and implementation of currency, and asks them...

Holiday gift-giving seasons can be lucrative for an individual business, but does a profitable season bode well for the market as a whole? A video from Crash Course Economics discusses how giving gifts to people who are uninterested in...

Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes held different beliefs about economic systems that evolved from their predecessors, and then shaped by their countries' economic situations. A video from Crash Course Economics...

What works better: a planned economy or a market economy? Join the global debate with a Crash Course video about macroeconomics and the differences between economic systems. With quotes from Adam Smith and Karl Marx guiding...

Do companies work better when everyone works on everything, or when each person or department focuses on one specialized task? Explore the benefits of specialization and trade in the modern global economy with a explanatory video.

Crash Course video with host John Green on the history of money and why we use it. [12:31]

Video discusses Adam Smith was no uncritical apologist for capitalism: he wanted to understand how capitalism could be both fruitful and good.

BBC Video 4 This video focuses on philosopher Adam Smith used the metaphor of an 'invisible hand' to describe how individuals making self-interested decisions can collectively and unwittingly engineer an effective economic system that is...

Basic introduction to economics, and what microeconomics and macroeconomics study. Includes some information on Adam Smith and how his ideas helped to shape American capitalism.