Curated Video
Understanding Subsidies and their Impact on Markets
In this video, the concept of subsidies is explained. The video provides various examples of industries that are heavily reliant upon subsidies, such as the UK rail industry and the common agricultural policy in Europe. The overall cost...
The Wall Street Journal
Clearing The Renewable Energy Logjam
Grid Strategies’ Rob Gramlich and Google’s Michael Terrell discuss how companies can navigate switching to renewable energy sources despite supply constraints and regulatory delays.
ACDC Leadership
Perfect Competition Short Run (1 of 2)- Old Version
In this video I explain how to draw and analyze a perfectly competitive market and firm...and you get to meet Mr. DARP. Makes sure that you can use the graph calculate total revenue, total cost, and profit.
Healthcare Triage
Premium Support, Medicare, and Obamacare
A number of Republican health care policy proposals that seemed out of favor in the Obama era are now being given new life. One of these involves Medicare, the government health insurance program primarily for older Americans, and is...
Curated Video
Supply Curve Basics: Deriving the Shape and Understanding the Law of Supply
This video explains the basics of the supply curve and how to derive its shape. It also explores the law of supply and its relationship to the quantity supplied and the price of a product. The video also gives examples of firms and the...
Curated Video
Agricultural and Commodity Markets: Applying Supply and Demand Analysis
The video is a lecture discussing agricultural and commodity markets with a focus on applying the principles of supply and demand to these industries. The speaker defines key terms and explains the analytical process of establishing...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Economics of Care
Nancy Folbre is an American feminist economist who focuses on economics and the family, non-market work and the economics of care. She is Professor Emirita of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, who has written...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Gender Equality Works for Everyone.
According to Colorado State Professor Elissa Braunstein, macroeconomics has a habit of misunderstanding and even misrepresenting labor. As a result, we see increased gender conflict and structural inequalities in the labor force....
Curated Video
Understanding Buffer Stock Schemes and the Common Agricultural Policy
This video discusses buffer stock schemes, a government intervention strategy in commodity markets. The video explains how commodity markets operate and why price volatility can create issues for producers and consumers. The concept of...
Financial Times
Can meat-free products curb pet food's environmental impact?
The global pet food market is predicted to be worth $113bn by 2025. It’s a big business, but one that takes a toll on the planet. A recent US study estimated that in the United States, pet food could be responsible for a quarter of the...
Curated Video
Types of Efficiency in Economics and their Importance in Market Structures
This is a video lecture on the topic of efficiency in economics. The lecturer explains how firms and markets allocate their scarce resources to their activities and the types of efficiency that exist within the market: productive...
Food Farmer Earth
David Korten: Assessing Capitalism's Impact on Democracy and Society
David Korten critiques the current capitalist system for exacerbating economic disparities and undermining the democratic process, suggesting that it operates counter to the interests of the broader society by prioritizing corporate...
Healthcare Triage
Results Are In! Congressional Budget Office Scores the American Health Care Act
And it's not a hit. Last week we talked about the new American Health Care Act, but ended on the note that it needed a score from the CBO. Well, the CBO has spoken, and it's not great news for the AHCA.
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Exploring New Economic Space | #6 | Venture Capital in the 21st Century
What is the relationship between core general purpose technologies (e.g. steam engine, electricity, computers) and the sectors to which they are applied (e.g. railways, radio communications, e-commerce)? There is positive feedback...
The Business Professor
Marketing - Selective Distribution
This Video Explains Marketing - Selective Distribution
The Business Professor
Marketing - Using Data for Market Segmentation
This Video Explains Marketing - Using Data for Market Segmentation
Curated Video
Understanding the UK Housing Market: Applying Supply and Demand Analysis
The video discusses the UK housing market, and how the concepts of supply and demand apply to it. The speaker explains how demand for housing is affected by interest rates, availability of mortgages, and the fact that housing is both a...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
D'Maris Coffman -- The Corn Laws: Seeing through the Eyes of Ricardo and Malthus
The British Corn Returns data provided the empirical basis for the fierce debate around the introduction and repeal of the 19th century British Corn Laws. Contemporary readers, like David Ricardo and Thomas Malthus, followed them as...
The Wall Street Journal
Hello Private Capital
Private capital markets have leapfrogged public markets to become the most popular way for companies to raise cash in the U.S. - $2.4 trillion raised privately last year alone. That has implications for how companies operate and are...
ACDC Leadership
Are you faster than Clifford? Micro Edition
Can you draw the graphs of microeconomics faster than me? Also, share this video with your teacher and see if he or she can beat my best times. Here are my times: 15 seconds- Natural monopoly regulated at socially optimal 23 seconds-...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Failure of Market Failure | #4 | Venture Capital in the 21st Century
What are the rationales for State support for technical innovation? Adopting the Neoclassical approach of "market failure", Nelson and Arrow suggested that private business firms will invest less in research & development than is...
ACDC Leadership
Demand and Supply Explained Part 2 - Macro Topic 1.5 (Micro Topic 2.2)
In this video I explain supply, the law of supply, the shifters of the supply curve, equilibrium, surplus, and shortage. Make sure to draw the graphs on your own.