TED Talks
Enrique Peñalosa: Why buses represent democracy in action
"An advanced city is not one where even the poor use cars, but rather one where even the rich use public transport," argues Enrique Peñalosa. In this spirited talk, the mayor of Bogotá shares some of the tactics he used to change the...
TED Talks
Michael Sandel: Why we shouldn't trust markets with our civic life
In the past three decades, says Michael Sandel, the US has drifted from a market economy to a market society; it's fair to say that an American's experience of shared civic life depends on how much money they have. (Three key examples:...
Crash Course
Market Economy: Crash Course Government and Politics
Today, we’re going to take a look at how the government plays a role in the economy. Specifically, the way the government creates and maintains our market economic system. Now sure, the government’s role in the economy can be...
Crash Course
The Market Revolution Crash Course US History
In which John Green teaches you about the Market Revolution. In the first half of the 19th century, the way people lived and worked in the United States changed drastically. At play was the classic (if anything in a 30 year old nation...
Crash Course
Women in the 19th Century Crash Course US History
In which John Green finally gets around to talking about some women's history. In the 19th Century, the United States was changing rapidly, as we noted in the recent Market Revolution and Reform Movements episodes. Things were also in a...
Curated Video
What are Economic Systems?
Different economic systems have been developed to meet the needs and wants of the citizens of a country or society. These systems have distinct advantages and downsides for producers, consumers, and governments.
Curated Video
Market Economy
Market Economy defines and identifies characteristics of a market economy and lists examples of how the colonial and early American economy exhibited such characteristics.
Curated Video
Types of Economic Systems
Types of Economic Systems compares various types of economic systems by exploring traditional, command, and market economies.
Curated Video
What are Economic Systems?
Different economic systems have been developed to meet the needs and wants of the citizens of a country or society. These systems have distinct advantages and downsides for producers, consumers, and governments.
Professor Dave Explains
The Wilson Cycle and Plate Boundaries
We just learned about plate tectonics, so let's see how that fits into a global-scale model for the formation and destruction of supercontinents called the Wilson Cycle. How do supercontinents like Pangea form and split up? It's an...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
How China Escaped Shock Therapy
A story spanning thousands of years, there is far more to China's market reformation than many Western scholars might have you believe. -- China has become deeply integrated into the world economy. Yet, gradual marketization has...
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
Leadership of the Next New Economy | #8 | Venture Capital in the 21st Century
What will the next technological revolution look like? What challenges will be posed by climate change? Economists cannot approach it merely as an externalities pricing problem, but one which will require a wider range of policies to be...
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
Curated Video
The Three Functions of Prices in a Market Economy
The video discusses the role of prices in a market economy and how they serve three main functions: rationing goods, providing incentives to economic agents, and signaling the state of a market. It explains how the price mechanism works...
Curated Video
William Janeway: Which Way Forward? 2/6
William Janeway, Senior Advisor, Warburg Pincus, speaks on panel, entitled "Which Way Forward: Reflections on Global Turmoil and the Role of Markets, Governments, and Civil Society" at the Institute for New Economic Thinking's (INET)...
Financial Times
How Brexit disruption will change London's financial centres
The FT's head of Lex Jonathan Guthrie takes a high-speed tour of Mayfair, the City of London and Canary Wharf to see how leaving the EU will affect the capital's financial landmarks
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa - Keynote Speech, INET Conference @ King's
The Inaugural Conference @ King's, Institute for New Economic Thinking, Day 3 - Dinner Keynote. Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa discusses the crisis in economics and provides the closing remarks on the final night of the conference.
Financial Times
Joe Biden faces multiple domestic crises
The FT's Washington correspondent Kiran Stacey looks ahead to the five key domestic crises that Joe Biden will have to tackle after his inauguration as US president on January 20
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Joe Stiglitz: The Challenges Facing China
The Nobel laureate economist discusses how an activist government is needed to tackle problems like climate change. Stiglitz also gives his thoughts on economic growth in Africa, inequality in China, and the other key economic questions...
The Wall Street Journal
Ray Dalio on the Financial Outlook
Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio discusses how income inequality threatens economic prosperity, the importance of investing in China and his thoughts on inflation.
The Wall Street Journal
Defining Fair Trade
The Trump administration has fired its first salvos in what it says isn't a trade war. Where is this headed?
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Should We Remain Hopeful About Globalization?
Justin Yifu Lin describes his work to better understand how transition economies can achieve sustainable growth, and why a closer look at unique structural conditions is essential to redefining development. Lin is the Dean of the...
Professor Dave Explains
The Four Main Economic Systems
We've talked about free market economies and command economies, but the truth of the matter is that nearly every country on Earth utilizes a mixed economy, which blends aspects of each of the aforementioned economy types. Whether talking...