Curated Video
Teddy Roosevelt's Square Deal
In the early 1900s, President Theodore Roosevelt's progressive legislation, dubbed the Square Deal, aimed to limit the power of corporations, protect consumers, and conserve natural resources. The Square Deal drastically changed the...
Curated Video
Hoovervilles: Shantytowns of the Great Depression
As the Great Depression worsened in the 1930s, thousands of Americans lost their jobs and eventually their homes. Shantytowns dubbed “Hoovervilles” named after unsympathetic President Herbert Hoover, spread across the U.S.
PBS
Why Do Students Have So Much Debt?
Going to college in America ain't cheap with each semester costing thousands upon thousands of dollars. How do American students pay for this and how did the price tag get so high? Today, Danielle takes a dive into the student debt...
Curated Video
Rome's Tyrant God... Named Bootsie | The Life & Times of Caligula
Rome's Tyrant God... Named Bootsie | The Life & Times of Caligula
Economics Explained
Do Bank Failures Always Cause Recessions? | Economics Explained
Jean-Edouard Colliard is a financial regulation professor at HEC Paris. He previously worked as Economist at the European Central Bank where he gave policy advice to the ECB, including at the highest level. The video describes the recent...
Economics Explained
Why The 2022 Nobel Prize For Economics Is Making People So Angry
0:00 - 1:16 intro 1:17 - 2:08 Morning Brew 2:09 - 4:17 Trade wars 4:18 - 6:24 Global financial crisis 6:25 - 8:08 Stimulus 8:09 - 10:30 Supply side shock 10:31 - 12:45 Zombie companies 12:46 National leaderboard
Curated Video
Rough seas for global shipping
When the shipping firm Hanjin went bust in September, $14bn worth of goods were stranded at sea. Discover how the shipping industry has faced strong headwinds since the financial crisis of 2008.
Curated Video
Understanding Financial Markets through Supply and Demand
This is a video that explains how to apply supply and demand to financial markets. The video provides examples of applying supply and demand to various financial products such as loans, bonds, and equities. The presenter also discusses...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Economic Growth, Climate Change and Environmental Limits
Debate about the relationship between environmental limits and economic growth has been taking place for several decades. These arguments have re-emerged with greater intensity following advances in the understanding of the economics of...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Problem of Capital Flight
The problem of capital flight 15h30-17h00 10-5-15
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Kevin Gallagher: Emerging Markets and the Reregulation of Cross-Border Finance
Since the revival of global capital markets in the 1960s, cross-border capital flows have increased by orders of magnitude, so much so that international asset positions now outstrip global economic output. Most cross-border capital...
The Wall Street Journal
Opinion Debates: Can the economy return to 3% growth?
Watch WSJ Editorial Board members Paul Gigot and Mary O'Grady, columnist William Galston, and contributors Jason Furman and Arthur Laffer, have a lively discussion on the importance of economic growth in America in 2018.
Curated Video
Encouraging Innovation in Businesses: Approaches & Examples
The video discusses how businesses can encourage innovation within their organizations. It presents four main approaches to achieve this goal: Kaizen, team collaboration, benchmarking, and entrepreneurship. The video also highlights the...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crisis
Competition and conflict are intrinsic features of modern societies, inequality is persistent, and booms and busts are recurrent outcomes throughout capitalist history. State intervention modifies these patterns but does not abolish...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
John Smithin: Forging Fresh Tools from the Past
Professor Smithin argues that new economic thinking is not only about new thinking but also about recovering past knowledge from past crises. He talks about the policy response from the 2008 crisis compared to the 1930s. Most crucially,...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Curriculum Reform & Rethinking Economics
Mainstream economic theory has been increasingly questioned following the Global Financial Crisis of 2008. The disconnect between reality and theory manifested itself most clearly when the Queen of the United Kingdom pointedly asked why...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Globalized Finance and the Crisis of 2008
The world economy is just starting to recover from the most disastrous episode in the history of financial globalisation. Understanding what happened is essential. Anton Brender and Florence Pisani, both economists teaching at...
The Wall Street Journal
Jeremy Holland and Alisa Williams on The Private Equity Perspective
At WSJ Pro Private Equity, Jeremy Holland, Alisa Williams and WSJ Pro Private Equity Reporter, Laura Cooper discuss the path forward for the mid-market from the private equity perspective.
Institute for New Economic Thinking
George Soros: Why We Need To Rethink Economics
In this short interview, Institute for New Economic Thinking co-founder George Soros tackles the question at the heart of the Institute's mission: What's wrong with economics and what can we do to change it?"Economic theory needs to be...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Charles Goodhart: The State of the Global Economy - A Central Banker's Perspective
Welcome to our new video series called "New Economic Thinking." The series will feature dozens of conversations with leading economists on the most important issues facing economics and the global economy today. This episode features...
Curated Video
Covid-19: how it will change the world
Even when covid-19 is under control, the long-term effects of the virus will be far-reaching. How will the coronavirus pandemic—and the way it has been handled—change the world?
Financial Times
Gillian Tett asks if banking culture has really changed
The FT's Gillian Tett discusses the 'flaw' in Alan Greenspan's thinking and how culture has been overlooked at the cost to the global economy 10 years on from the financial crisis. By understanding the role of culture in banking, are we...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Anton Korinek - Capital Flows, Crises and Externalities: A Primer
The Inaugural Conference @ King's, Institute for New Economic Thinking, Session 4: Toward a New Global Financial Architecture
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....