TED Talks
TED: How economic inequality harms societies | Richard Wilkinson
We feel instinctively that societies with huge income gaps are somehow going wrong. Richard Wilkinson charts the hard data on economic inequality, and shows what gets worse when rich and poor are too far apart: real effects on health,...
TED Talks
Dan Pallotta: The way we think about charity is dead wrong
Activist and fundraiser Dan Pallotta calls out the double standard that drives our broken relationship to charities. Too many nonprofits, he says, are rewarded for how little they spend -- not for what they get done. Instead of equating...
TED Talks
Michael Porter: The case for letting business solve social problems
Why do we turn to nonprofits, NGOs and governments to solve society's biggest problems? Michael Porter admits he's biased, as a business school professor, but he wants you to hear his case for letting business try to solve massive...
Crash Course
The Progressive Era Crash Course US History
In which John Green teaches you about the Progressive Era in the United States. In the late 19th and early 20th century in America, there was a sense that things could be improved upon. A sense that reforms should be enacted. A sense...
TED Talks
Majora Carter: 3 stories of local eco-entrepreneurship
The future of green is local. Majora Carter tells three inspiring stories of people who are saving their own communities while saving the planet.
Brainwaves Video Anthology
James P. Comer - Comer School Development Program
Dr. Comer is the Maurice Falk Professor of Child Psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine's Child Study Center, and has been a Yale medical faculty member since 1968. During these years, he has concentrated his career on...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Kate Pickett - The Consequences of Inequality and Wealth Distribution
The Inaugural Conference @ King's, Institute for New Economic Thinking, Session 7: The Consequences of Inequality and Wealth Distribution
Step Back History
How the Police Became an Occupying Army
We’ve heard quite a bit about the institution of the police lately. We see them in places like Portland or Minneapolis sporting military weapons, driving armoured personnel carriers, and dressed like the jackboots from a dystopian 70s...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Why We Need a Federal Jobs Guarantee
13 million people looking for living wage work is not a “full employment” economy. Why should the federal government adopt a jobs guarantee? Just ask the 13 million Americans looking for living wage work. That’s what Pavlina Tcherneva,...
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,...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Vineeta Garg - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - Delhi, India
Vineeta Garg teaches at Shaheed Rajpal DAV Public School in Delhi, India. She is a Global Teacher Prize Finalist.She first started teaching in computer institutes to fund her own higher education studies. However, the experience of...
ShortCutsTv
What is Sociology?
This film gives students a broad introduction to Sociology, based around the distinction between social and sociological problems. The latter is then developed in terms of ""Sociology's core concerns"": problems of order; explaining...
Step Back History
America's Secret Police
So, how did the freest nation of freedom in the free world develop what is essentially America's secret police in the form of COINTELPRO? It's actually quite the story that has a lot to do with hating immigrants, suppressing left-wing...
Crash Course
Crash Course Sociology #1: What Is Sociology?
This video [9:41] focuses on defining sociology. Today we kick off Crash Course Sociology by explaining what exactly sociology is. We'll introduce the sociological perspective and discuss how sociology differentiates itself from the...