In this video, you'll learn about the economics concepts of spending, saving, scarcity, and making choices based on costs and benefits.

In which John considers the differences between individual risk and societal risk, especially as it related to infectious disease pandemics.

In which John discusses the complicated reasons why the United States spends so much more on health care than any other country in the world, and along the way reveals some surprising information, including that Americans spend more of...

College is a good deal, but it could be a much better deal. A combination of factors have driven the costs of higher education in America to increase extremely quickly, pricing some people out of an education and building over a trillion...

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Power Electronics Problem Set 1b

This video explains the pros and cons of using the flyweight pattern.
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This clip is from the chapter "Flyweight Design Pattern" of the series "Structural Design Patterns in Modern C++".This section introduces you to the...

In this video, the speaker discusses the concept of trade deficits and the implications of large recurring trade deficits on an economy. The speaker explores different potential solutions to resolving trade deficits, including...

An Injection of Hope part 4/4: This video discusses the challenges faced by vaccine manufacturers like GlaxoSmithKline in producing affordable vaccines for developing countries where infectious diseases are still prevalent.

For many, many years we've been hearing about gene therapy - the chance that we can get into people's DNA and fix it to resolve problems and fix disease. In a recent piece in Science, Stuart Orkin and Philip Reilly discuss what finally...

This is a lecture on the causes of shifts in the supply curve in microeconomics. The lecturer then identifies the four main causes of supply shifts, including changes in the cost of production, introduction of new technology, factors...

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...

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....

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...

This Video Explains Marketing - Selective Distribution

Paul Roberts explores the unintended consequences of innovations in food production, starting with the post-World War II discovery that led to widespread use of antibiotics in livestock, which initially boosted production but later...

Many, many studies conclude that investing in public health is more effective than continually increasing spending on expensive treatments. So why doesn't the US spend more on public health?

In this video, the topic of short-run costs is explored, specifically the distinction between short run and long run and its implications on costs. The video explains the specific definitions applied by economists to time frames,...

This is a lecture presentation about business plans, their importance for businesses, and the typical components of a business plan. The presenter uses examples from hit BBC show The Apprentice, and discusses what successful investors...

The FDA's drug approval process is pretty good at determining which drugs are safe and effective. What the FDA doesn't look into is how similar drugs compare to one another. If there are three competing blood pressure drugs on the...

This video discusses the topic of long-run costs in economics, specifically related to the concept of returns to scale. The video explains the difference between short-run and long-run factors of production and how this affects a firm's...

The video discusses the concept of the tragedy of the Commons and its relevance in modern-day environmental issues. It explains why the absence of property rights can lead to market failure, using the example of common land in the UK and...

The video lecture discusses X-Inefficiency. The video explains that X-Inefficiency can lead to rising costs, poor decision-making, and reduced productivity, and identifies issues such as patents, lack of incentive to innovate, and...

The video explains the concept of economies of scale in microeconomics. It describes how businesses can increase their production scale and reduce their unit costs over time by becoming more experienced in producing goods and services,...

The video explains the topic of revenue in economics and specifically focuses on three forms of revenue: marginal revenue, average revenue, and total revenue. The video provides a definition of revenue and demonstrates how to calculate...