Institute for New Economic Thinking
Legal Evil
From feudal land rights to intellectual property in the modern era, lawyers have been battling over capital for centuries. Typically leveraging social resources to generate and protect private wealth. Katharina Pistor (Columbia...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Branko Milanovic - Global Income Inequality
The Inaugural Conference @ King's, Institute for New Economic Thinking, Session 7: The Consequences of Inequality and Wealth Distribution
The Africa Channel
Currency of Wealth: The currency of the TransAtlantic Slave Trade
Host Gugulethu Zuma-Ncube introduces the unusual yet fascinating forms of ethnographic African currencies; from personal adornments such as beads, shells, jewelry and even massive iron forms weighing as much as 100 pounds, to the...
Bill Carmody
Unshakable: Achieving Wealth and Happiness
In this video, Tony Robbins discusses his new book, "Unshakable," which focuses on financial strategies and advice for achieving financial freedom and stability. He emphasizes the importance of being a conscious investor and making smart...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
David Tuckett - The Human Element: Reinserting People into Finance
David Tuckett suggests that economics should drop the physics envy. Economics in the real world is not, and should not be, made up of mechanical situations. Finance has become too remote from human judgments and understanding the...
Boulder Creek International
Kansas City: Addressing the Challenges of Generational Poverty and Fatherless Homes in the Black Community
Kansas City part 4/7: The speaker discusses the difference between income and wealth, and the challenges faced by the black community in building wealth over generations. They also talk about the importance of addressing the toxic...
Mediacorp
Exploring Poverty in Singapore
This video focuses on government handouts and there attempts to bridge the ever widening class gap. Furthermore, it questions whether it is structural or social factors which best explain the class disparity. Regardless of Class part 7/8
Curated Video
The Best Way to Measure Inequality
Thomas Piketty and his colleagues have insisted that tax records are better for measuring inequality than income surveys. They’re wrong. James K. Galbraith, the Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair of Government/Business Relations at the Lyndon B....
TLDR News
Wealth Tax? Could Britain's Billionaires Pay for the Pandemic?
Having already spent hundreds of billions on COVID, some are suggesting that the UK government should attempt to recoup some of those costs with a wealth tax. So in this video we explain how a British wealth tax might work, how much...
PBS
Why Do Kids Have Their Own Bedrooms?
"Go To Your Room!" might be the most well known parental demand in America, but why do kids have their own sleeping area at all? Because while a bedroom might just seem like a "normal" thing for people who can afford a certain amount of...
TLDR News
Why is American Life Expectancy Falling? - TLDR News
The US has a major mortality issue, with the country's life expectancy actually falling in recent years. So in this video, we explain the issues with the American system and why people pay so much for some of the lowest life expectancies...
Curated Video
Rent Seeking: Taking Without Giving
The video explains the concept of rent seeking, which is the behavior of seeking profits without creating new wealth for others. It provides a classic example of a lord setting up a chain across a river to charge fishermen a fee, which...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
How the Stock Market Drives Wealth Inequality
When the stock market grows faster than the housing market, the gains of the top 1% outpace those of the middle class. INET Fellow and University of Bonn professor Moritz Schularick discusses the drivers of wealth inequality.
Schooling Online
Shakespeare Today: Romeo and Juliet - Theme of Gender
Watch this lesson today to discover how Shakespeare explores the social expectations placed on men and women in Romeo and Juliet. See how Shakespeare provides a complex exploration of how gender impacts people. Along the way, learn how...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
A Growth Slowdown is Coming
U.S. GDP accounting underestimates intangible capital, overstates financial capital, and is all but oblivious to the erosion of human and social capital. Peter Temin, the Elisha Gray II Professor Emeritus of Economics at the...
ACDC Leadership
Aggregate Demand- Macro Topic 3.1 (Old Version)
In this video. I explain the most important graph in most introductory macroeconomics courses- the aggregate demand model. In this video I cover aggregate demand (AD), aggregate supply (AS), and the long run aggregate supply (LRAS). Make...
Mediacorp
Examining Wealth Disparity and Social Integration in Singapore
This video focuses on whether it is possible to break down preconceived ideas and stereotypes and live in an integrated class society. Regardless of Class part 4/8
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Coding Capital [Katharina Pistor]
This law is my law, this law is your law...Katharina Pistor (@Columbia Law School) explains how our legal system is manipulated to protect wealth, and why the rules of the game always seem just out of reach.
Globalive Media
Beyond Innovation: Episode 3
An AI learns to speak like a human, founders take their visions abroad and a Nobel institution pushes medical boundaries. Plus, Anthony and Michael speak with a cryptocurrency firm making it possible for poorer nations to transact....
Institute for New Economic Thinking
One Nation, Under Finance
Access to finance was supposed to reduce inequality, and make us all better off. Why hasn't that happened? Birmingham City Business School Senior Lecturer Hanna Szymborska calls for economists and bankers to look more deeply, and to root...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Racist Violence and Economic Activity
Riots, lynching and other forms of violence dramatically disproportionate impact on the lives and prospects of African inventors. That’s just one indicator, says Professor Lisa Cook, of the profound impact of racial violence on the...
Financial Times
Crunched: is the inequality gap really widening?
FT data journalists Federica Cocco and John Burn-Murdoch take a look at the numbers behind the wealth gap amid growing concern that inequality is worsening
Curated Video
The Invisible Plight of Poor Southern Whites
For many poor White families in the Antebellum South, slavery did not pay – so why did the ruling elite erase their narrative from the history books?
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Martin Schuerz on Wealth Distribution
A member of the Austrian Central Bank tells us his research on wealth and income inequality in Europe. Before the crisis, the European Central Bank commissioned work on the liabilities side of European debt. Research from the Austrian...