Institute for New Economic Thinking
Jeff Sachs - Money Talks: The Distortion of Money in Democracy 2/5
In Part 2 of this interview From the Director's Chair, INET Executive Director Robert Johnson talks with Jeffrey Sachs about money in American politics. Sachs sees a "system of legalized corruption" that has distorted political outcomes....
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Young Scholars Initiative: The Next Generation of New Economic Thinkers
Explore your curiosity in economics in an open and critical community The Young Scholars Initiative (YSI) is a growing international community comprising thousands of students, young professionals and researchers committed to new and...
60 Second Histories
Protest, Action and Hunger Strike
Part of a series on women's suffrage, Emmeline Pankhurst describes the WSPU tactical intensification and hunger strike
60 Second Histories
Suffrage and WW1
Emmeline Pankhurst discusses the outbreak of war and women over 30 getting the vote.
60 Second Histories
Women’s Franchise League (WFL)
Emmeline describes the inaugural meeting of the Women's Franchise League
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...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Economics Is in Need of Radical Reform
"Openness" and "restructuring" led to the collapse of the Soviet Union. But if it also led to the collapse of orthodox economics, James Galbraith wouldn't mind. The University of Texas economist outlines how the profession has become...
Curated Video
The Battle of the Sexes
Although half of Americans are female, women make up just 25% of Congress. In fact, women have been treated unfairly in America since day one – but what are the causes of that inequality and what are the effects?
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Niall Ferguson: Rising to the Challenge - INET Panel Discussion (2 of 5)
Niall Ferguson is a Professor of History at Harvard University, and a speaker at INET's Conference at Bretton Woods on April 10, 2011
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Measuring the Danger of Segregation
An 1869 study incorrectly stated that black Union soldiers had lower lung capacity than white soldiers. 150 years later, this same study is impacting the health and disability diagnosis of black patients. Structural segregation is still...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
James Galbraith - Inequality and Economic and Political Change: A Comparative Perspective
The Inaugural Conference @ King's, Institute for New Economic Thinking, Session 7: The Consequences of Inequality and Wealth Distribution
60 Second Histories
Emmeline Pankhurst and Winston Churchill
Emmeline Pankhurst talks about the WSPU opposition to the Liberal party and the defeat of Winston Churchill
60 Second Histories
Emmeline Pankhurst and Keir Hardie
Emmeline talks about becoming friends with Keir Hardie and joining the Independent Labour Party
60 Second Histories
Protest, Arrest and Prison
Part of a series on women's suffrage, this video covers the protest made by the WSPU after the suffrage bill was filibustered in 1905 and the arrest of Christabel and Emmiline Pankhurst.
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Is Poverty More Worrying than Inequality?
Xavier Gabaix argues that public policies should prioritize alleviating deprivation at the bottom over narrowing the rich-poor gap. Gabaix discusses why economies fluctuate, and postulates that firm-level shocks, meaning when a large...
Brian McLogan
Summary for solving one variable inequalities
👉 Learn about solving an inequality and graphing it's solution. An inequality is a relation where the expression in the left hand side is not equal to the expression in the right hand side of the inequality sign. A linear inequality is...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Christian Belabed and Thomas Theobald: Inequality and the Current Account
Most economists think about aggregate consumption through the lens of Friedman's permanent income hypothesis or Modigliani's life-cycle hypothesis. But long ago there was a third contender, Duesenberry's relative income hypothesis, which...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
America's First Black Economist
Eighty years ago, Sadie Alexander was writing on the devaluation of household work, a topic that has only recently been covered by graduate economics programs. That’s just one of the ways the pioneering economist was ahead of her time,...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Discussion and Q&A: Inequality and Macroeconomics Dynamics 5/5
Discussion and Q&A at the panel entitled "The Impact of Inequality on Macroeconomics Dynamics" at the Institute for New Economic Thinking's (INET) Paradigm Lost Conference in Berlin. April 14, 2012. #inetberlin
Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Invisible Woman [Jayati Ghosh]
Economics has many flaws, yet few are as broadly oppressive as its illusions about gender.
Brian McLogan
Gaph the system of three linear inequalities and determine the feasible region ex 15
In this video series you will learn how to graph a system of linear inequalities. When graphing a system of linear inequalities you will graph just like a system of linear equations except you will use test points to shade.
Brian McLogan
What are compound inequalities
👉 Learn all about solving and graphing compound inequalities. An inequality is a statement in which one value is not equal to the other value. A compound inequality is a type of inequality comprising of more than one inequalities. To...
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...
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