Curated Video
Understanding Investments
This video is a lecture on the topic of investments. In the lecture, the presenter provides definitions for various terms related to investments such as fixed capital, working capital, and depreciation. He also covers the factors that...
Financial Times
Will zero emissions aviation ever take off?
Aviation must find an alternative to fossil fuels if countries are to hit ambitious net zero targets by 2050. As the FT’s Peggy Hollinger explains, intriguing options using electric batteries, bio and synthetic fuels, and hydrogen...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Bill Mitchell: Demystifying Modern Monetary Theory
In a challenge to conventional views on modern monetary and fiscal policy, Professor Bill Mitchell of Newcastle University in Australia has emerged as one of the foremost exponents of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), a heterodox challenge...
Curated Video
The Dangerous Ideological Bias of Economists
“We do not publish papers about our own profession.” – Top Five Journal Economists claim they are not biased or ideological, but research by economist Mohsen Javdani tells another story. Javdani discovered that 82% of economists claim...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Credit Booms & Credit Busts
There is now a growing consensus among policymakers and academics that a key element to improve safeguards against financial instability is to strengthen the “macroprudential” orientation of regulatory and supervisory frameworks....
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Roger Guesnerie - The Next Economic Frontier and the Wild World of Non-Rational Expectations
One of the fundamental ideas of modern economics -- that people have rational expectations, an unbiased, statistically correct view of the future -- is, in reality, a simple hypothesis. And despite its prominence in recent economic...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Equity and Growth Through Knowledge Based Economies
Chris Benner is an environmental and urban economist researching regional development and employment in America. He is a Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the Executive Director of the...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Long Road Back Toward Ethical Banking Practices
We all know the story of the last 30 years in financial services: The ‘big bang’ deregulation initiated in the Thatcher/Reagan period (and carried on through to the 21st century) led to a much more permissive and international trading...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Women, Finance & Society
Since the onset of the Global Financial Crisis in 2008, there has been much debate about reforming the financial sector and improving the accountability of its major actors. In fact, many of the principals involved in creating the mess...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Pavlina Tcherneva - Bottom Up Fiscal Policy: Direct Employment of the Unemployed
To cure unemployment, mostly we prime the pump: we devise fiscal strategies on the presumption that jobs follow economic growth. But the strategies have not worked, unemployment remains high. That is why Pavlina Tcherneva studies...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Paul Davidson - Keynes's Forgotten Lessons 1/4
In the first part of this four-part INET "From the Director's Chair" interview, INET Executive Director Robert Johnson talks with Journal of Post Keynesian Economics co-founder Paul Davidson about Davidson's book The Keynes Solution: The...
Bill Carmody
Kim's Testimonial of Three Rules of Marriage
This is perhaps the best testimonial I have heard about our bestselling book, "The Three Rules of Marriage." When I think about why my wife and I wrote this book, this is better than we could have envisioned ourselves. Thank you Kim...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Profound Ecological Implications of a Perpetually Growing Economy
In part 1 of INET's extensive interview with John Fullerton, the founder and President of the Capital Institute talks about the ideas that inspired him to start a think tank that would bridge the gap between finance and the environment
ACDC Leadership
NEW AP® Economics Teacher Resources
Check out my new and improved AP® Economics Teacher Resources (2015).
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Alexander Field: A Great Leap Forward - Productivity Growth During the Great Depression (1/4)
Alexander Field offers a new take on postwar prosperity in the United States. While public spending during the Second World War is often credited with laying the foundation for postwar growth, Field suggests this foundation had long been...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Yanis Varoufakis: Europe by (Mis)Design 4/4
In part 4 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...
Bill Carmody
Social Media That Sells
Bill Carmody wants you to reevaluate your social media marketing to make sure it sells.
Curated Video
Understanding Supply Side Policies: Interventionist and Free Market Approaches
The video discusses supply-side policies and their aim to increase the quantity and quality of an economy's factors of production. The two forms of supply-side policies are interventionist and free market policies, and examples of each...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Giovanni Dosi -- The Survival of the Riskiest
Financial fragility does not fall from the sky. That's why treating risk as if it comes from exogenous shocks can't capture the reality of financial markets. In Giovanni Dosi's models, systemic risk is inherent to the financial system...
ACDC Leadership
Macro and Micro Unit 1- Practice Questions #1
This is a 13 question practice quiz for Macroeconomics and Microeconomics Unit 1. The questions are designed for AP and college introductory economics. Do your best and feel free to click on the "learn more" link next to each question to...
Bill Carmody
The Power of Emotional Connection in Marketing
Everyone buys on emotion but then back-fills with logic. Bill Carmody goes into detail on why emotional reasons to buy are just as important as logical reasons to buy.
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Peter Temin: Lessons from the Great Depression
George Santayana once wrote that those who could not remember the past were condemned to repeat it. And looking at today’s policy makers at work seeking to combat the huge challenge of unemployment in the aftermath of the Great Financial...
ACDC Leadership
Development Economics- EconMovies #11
In this episode I overanalyze Marvel's Captain America: The First Avenger. I discuss the field of developmental economics and explain how Steve Rodgers can be seen as a metaphor for the world's underdeveloped countries.
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Robert Skidelsky - Interpreting the Great Depression: Hayek versus Keynes
The Inaugural Conference @ King's, Institute for New Economic Thinking, Day 1 - Dinner. 1930 and the Challenge of the Depression for Economic Thinking: Friedrich Hayek versus John Maynard Keynes