Institute for New Economic Thinking
How the Stock Market Drives Wealth Inequality
When the stock market grows faster than the housing market, the gains of the top 1% outpace those of the middle class. INET Fellow and University of Bonn professor Moritz Schularick discusses the drivers of wealth inequality.
Mediacorp
Examining Wealth Disparity and Social Integration in Singapore
This video focuses on whether it is possible to break down preconceived ideas and stereotypes and live in an integrated class society. Regardless of Class part 4/8
Healthcare Triage
More Money, More Life: Studies Indicate Wealthy People Live Longer
Unless you were living under a rock this week, you heard there was a huge new study on life expectancy in America. It's worth our time. This is Healthcare Triage News.
ACDC Leadership
The Economics of Inequality Part 2- Tax the Rich!
Are the richest 1% greedy? Should we tax the rich and force them to pay their fair share? What's the first step toward fighting income inequality? These are the questions that I attempt to answer in the video. NOTE- I got some complaints...
Healthcare Triage
Life Expectancy and the United States' Inequality Problem
Healthcare Triage often notes that lots of health metrics are improving in the US. But that is not the case with life expectancy. Life span is decreasing, and the losses are not equally distributed. The lives of the poor are getting...
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
Britlish
Walk and Work (subtitles)
The words walk and work, contain vowel sounds that are very similar and very difficult for many students, particular Russian students and those speaking Latin-based languages. This video English lesson is full of words containing these...
Out of this Word
Bigwig
Moon gets ready for a school play. Her role is a British high court judge and her costume includes a fancy, huge wig. Max notices the big wig and makes an important connection between the two words.
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Martin Schuerz on Wealth Distribution
A member of the Austrian Central Bank tells us his research on wealth and income inequality in Europe. Before the crisis, the European Central Bank commissioned work on the liabilities side of European debt. Research from the Austrian...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Do Economists Understand the Economy?
Missing the big picture is all too common in the field. Lance Taylor, Professor Emeritus at The New School for Social Research, has focused on the reconstruction of macroeconomic theory and seeks to challenge mainstream approaches....
Britlish
Walk and Work (no subtitles)
The words walk and work, contain vowel sounds that are very similar and very difficult for many students, particular Russian students and those speaking Latin-based languages. This video English lesson is full of words containing these...
Schooling Online
Shakespeare Today: The Merchant of Venice - Theme of Money
Watch this lesson today to discover how Shakespeare explores attitudes towards money in The Merchant of Venice. In Venice, everything is about money, even in questions of friendship, religion, marriage, families, rivalries… Along the...
PBS
Trapped In Paradise
Welcome to Fiji. Local rapper/producer Dave Lavaki (aka Mr. Grin) explains how they are building a scene 8000 miles away from the music industry.
Next Animation Studio
Scientists may have explained the solar system’s ‘Great Divide’
A separation known as the Great Divide splits the rocky planets and the gas planets in our solar system.
Guinness World Records
Living Life as the Most Tattooed Person in History
Lucky Diamond Rich talks about accepting who you are and feeling like he has an identity as a result of his Guinness World Records title - as the most tattooed man in the world. Use to discuss identity, the use of body art, judging...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Ha-Joon Chang: Economics Upside Down
In INET's full interview with Ha-Joon Chang, he discusses some ideas that seem contrary to traditional thinking in economics, such as free trade does not necessarily make countries richer, and that there is no such thing as a free market.
Institute of Art and Ideas
The wealth divide
As China and Russia adopt their own variants, the reign of capitalism seems absolute. Yet there are many who wish for an alternative and some who claim a final crisis is in the making. Is there a radical alternative that we have not yet...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Orlando Patterson - Understanding Black Youth
Orlando Patterson, a historical and cultural sociologist, is John Cowles Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. He previously held faculty appointments at the University of the West Indies, his alma mater, and the London School of...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Ricardo Hausmann: Taking Stock of Complexity Economics 4/5
Ricardo Hausmann, Professor of the Practice of Economic Development, Harvard University speaking at the breakout panel entitled "Taking Stock of Complexity Economics: Which Problems Does It Illuminate?" at the Institute for New Economic...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Robert and Edward Skidelsky - How Much is Enough? 1/3
In the first part of this three-part INET "From the Director's Chair" interview, INET Executive Director Robert Johnson talks with Robert Skidelsky and his son Edward Skidelsky about their book, How Much is Enough? Money and the Good...
TMW Media
Searching for Life in the Galaxy: How life on Earth began
What was proto-Earth like? How do Earth slowly form over time? Where were the first forms of life found on Earth? Searching for Life in the Galaxy, Part 1
Religion for Breakfast
What Are Frankincense and Myrrh?
According to the Gospel of Matthew, the magi bring gold, frankincense, and myrrh as expensive gifts to the young Jesus. We all know what gold is, but what is this frankincense and myrrh stuff? What did the ancients use it for?
The Viral Fever
The Food Files, Series 2
Hot on the heels of the popular first series, The Food Files returns to investigate the real health benefits and risks of the foods we eat. Foodie and health guru Nikki Muller travels back to the source of the food’s origins, and breaks...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Jeff Sachs - Survival of the Fittest: The Need for Comparative Economics 3/5
In Part 3 of this interview From the Director's Chair, INET Executive Director Robert Johnson talks with Jeffrey Sachs about the realities of the American fiscal situation. The focus on small government can't fit ever-lower taxes for the...