Jacob Clifford
Intro - Monetary Policy (AP Macroeconomics)
Mr. Clifford briefly introduces the concept of monetary policy, highlighting primary features such as why using money is more valuable than a barter system and the three primary functions of money, as well as banking, the money...
Emergent Order
"Fear the Boom and Bust" a Hayek vs. Keynes Rap Anthem
Opt out of another dry economics lesson with this crazy video featuring a performance and rap song about the contributions and theories of economists Friedrich Hayek and John Maynard Keynes. The primary topic of focus is a boom...
Jacob Clifford
Intro: Measuring the Economy
Our motivation to understand and measure the economy is a relatively new, yet also incredibly vital, endeavor. Quickly review the importance of macroeconomics and the major topics it entails, including GDP, CPI, the business cycle, and...
Jacob Clifford
Intro: Basic Economic Concepts
Before delving into the bank of instructional videos that this economics instructor has to offer, check out an introductory video in which he offers a quick overview of the topics he will be covering in the particular unit.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Economic Indicators
Series of videos reviews essential economic concepts including price inflation, Consumer Price Index, Gross Domestic Product, and unemployment rates.
Crash Course
Crash Course Economics #3: Economic Systems and Macroeconomics
Economics is basically about choices. Look at the broadest economic choices when we talk about the difference between planned economies and market economies. Identify communism, socialism, command economies, and capitalism. Recognize how...
Crash Course
Crash Course Economics #5: Macroeconomics
Understand macroeconomics. The GDP as a measure of a country's economic health, the basics of economic analysis, and even a little about full employment and unemployment. [13:42]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Inflation, Deflation & Capacity Utilization 2
More on inflation and capacity utilization
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Is Lm Model: Lm Part of the Is Lm Model
Learn more about the Investment Saving-Liquidity Preference Money Supply tool in this video. Understand how the theory of liquidity preference drives demand for money and the LM curve. [7:48]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Parsing Gross Domestic Product
A video lecture that can help you understand what GDP does and doesn't measure. [11:59]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: What Is Economics?
Introduction to economics using notes and a corresponding video teaches students the basic definition of economics which involves individual choice. [1:12]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Introduction to Economics
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.
Investopedia
Investopedia: Unlevered Beta
Learn about how this calculation provides a number of how much systematic risk a firm's equity has compared to the market.
Vulcan Productions and Cinelan
We the Economy: The Street
How does Wall Street influence the economy? On the heels of the financial crisis, Wall Street for some has become synonymous with corruption and greed. Director Joe Berlinger takes us to the epicenter of the financial world - the New...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Tomatoes of Wrath: Lucas Benitez
Lucas Benitez worked picking tomatoes in Southern Florida for wages that were barely enough to live on. Conditions were deplorable and workers faced a climate of intimidation, fear and violence right here in the United States. Lucas...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Southern Africa: Troubled Water
In 2005, FRONTLINE/World featured the PlayPump, a promising new technology that pumped fresh water when children played on a merry-go-round. The story appealed to the good intentions of politicians, celebrities, and funders, who gave...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Haiti: Relief Efforts Meet Staggering Obstacles
Correspondent Martin Smith travels to Haiti to bear witness to this humanitarian crisis and the ill-coordinated relief efforts on the ground.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Sustainable Small Business Solutions for World's Poor
Listen as Jacqueline Novogratz discusses investing in sustainable small business solutions for the world's poor. The goal, says Novogratz, CEO of Acumen Fund, is to find a way to bring essential services to low income people not just...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Changes in the Ad as Model and the Phillips Curve
Economists who studied the relationship between inflation and unemployment made an important modification to the Phillips curve model with the addition of the long-run Phillips curve (LRPC). When expectations are factored in, and there...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Married Taxes Clarification
Tutorial on taxes including income tax, estate taxes, and married taxes.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Simple Fractional Reserve Accounting (Part 2)
How banks can actually create checking accounts under a fractional reserve system.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Simple Fractional Reserve Accounting (Part 1)
In this video, Sal begins a walkthrough of the process of money creation using a highly simplified example.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Business Cycle
Economists have long been interested in the causes of the business cycle. In this video we define the business cycle, discuss potential reasons it exists, and explore how it may be driven by emotion.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Aggregate Production Function and Growth
This video discusses how economists measure the total factor productivity, capital, and human capital for an aggregate production function.