Curated OER
The Story of India - Freedom and Liberation - 2/6
Opium, textiles, spices, and trade mark the beginning of part two in this six-part series. The British Raj conquered India through profit and Imperialism. But, in this episode viewers will also learn that some British fell in love with...
Curated OER
Carry Someone's Problems
An inspirational girl from Africa tells viewers about her dream to help those less fortunate. Her passion to help others has led her to finish college, open a business, give half of her profits to help orphans, beggars, and disabled...
Curated OER
Eliminating Poverty
The "Teach a Man To Fish" non-profit organization provides a formal education to people living in rural communities throughout the world. This video follows a man that teaches in agricultural Latin America, the focus is to provide...
TED-Ed
Measuring What Makes Life Worthwhile
Are economic and political leaders prioritizing what we need most? In the business world of facts, figures, and profits, Chip Conley makes a passionate call for inspired employees. Using Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs and Bhutan's...
Curated OER
Depreciation
In order to effectively demonstrate depreciation of a capital asset, Sal outlines the COGS for a company over four years, including a factory tooling cost required every two years. As he calculates the operating profit, learners see that...
Curated OER
EBITDA
The review of enterprise value calculation is very helpful in this clip; Sal explains once again the way market capitalization can be a misleading valuation metric. He breaks down an example and plugs in numbers to get the EV, then...
Curated OER
Enterprise Value
Be sure to watch the previous vide on the P/E conundrum before this one, as it builds off of the hypothetical scenario to provide a valuation solution to the pizzerias with differing capital structures. Sal reviews the superficial market...
Curated OER
Getting a Seed Round From a VC
After reviewing his hypothetical business startup, Sal outlines stock distribution based on pre-money valuation and a $5 million investment from angel donor. He goes over the fluctuating percentage of ownership once an investor is...
Curated OER
Going Back to the Till: Series B
Help young economists understand the concept of a company's increasing value despite a lack of profit. They explore Sal's case study startup company, which needs to raise more money after going through the original angel investment. For...
Curated OER
Housing Price Conundrum (Part 3)
Wondering why home financing relaxed in the years following Y2K? In the third of a four-part series, Sal describes the investment phenomenon between 2000 and 2006 that allowed more people to bid on homes and increased demand...
Crash Course
Fate, Family, and Oedipus Rex
"Alas, how terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise." Is knowing a good thing? This course in the history of Greek drama uses Oedipus Rex as an exemplar. The narrator measures Sophocles’ play against...
Jacob Clifford
Resource Market, MRP and MRC
Young economists practice calculating the number of workers a firm should hire in a perfectly competitive labor market to maximize profit, as well as the given output of a perfectly competitive product market.
Crash Course
Markets, Efficiency, and Price Signals
Holiday gift-giving seasons can be lucrative for an individual business, but does a profitable season bode well for the market as a whole? A video from Crash Course Economics discusses how giving gifts to people who are uninterested in...
Fuse School
Green Chemistry - Principle 6
Using a catalyst to reduce reaction times is often necessary for a reaction to be profitable. But are all catalysts safe? The sixth installment in a 12-part Green Chemistry series has learners explore the role of catalysts in industrial...
Crash Course
Capitalism and the Dutch East India Company: Crash Course World History 229
How did the Dutch East India Company flourish while other trade companies floundered? Learn more about the ways that the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, or the VOC, used interest rates, monopolization, and violence to maintain their...
Macat
An Introduction to W. Kim Chan and Renee Mauborgne’s Blue Ocean Strategy
When businesses compete against one another in the same market, it becomes difficult to turn a profit. A playlist on the world's greatest ideas includes a video summary of the Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Kim Chan and Renee Mauborgne, which...
TED-Ed
How Can We Solve the Antibiotic Resistance Crisis?
We live in the age of Superbugs! These nasty bacteria have developed resistance to antibiotics, and no new antibiotics are being developed. Find out why in a short video that reveals the role profit plays in drug research.
Mathispower4u
Write Algebraic Expressions for Applications
Algebra makes the world go round; well, not really, but it does make problems easier. An informative YouTube video shows how to write algebraic expressions. Contexts include both mathematical and real-world problems, such as perimeter,...
The School of Life
Political Theory - Karl Marx
Every political theory needs a devil's advocate. Discussing Karl Marx with your classroom creates a healthy debate about the pros and cons of the capitalistic system and government. Last in a series of 13, the video includes primary...
Macat
An Introduction to Karl Marx's Capital
Explore the factors that make capitalism work with a short analysis of Karl Marx's Capital. An animated video explains the relationship between labor and capital, and uses a real-world example to illustrate the ways laborers can...
Macat
An Introduction to Thomas Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century
Does the structure of capitalism eliminate inequality or reinforce it? That is the essential question of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century. Introduce young economists to Piketty's "Central Contradiction of Capitalism" with a...
Jacob Clifford
The BIG Picture - AP Economics Overview
Review the circular flow model and connections between the resource and product market with help from a well-versed economics instructor, who explains the concept using illustrations and clear instructional guidance.
SciShow
Space Mining
We are using some natural resources at a rate that means we will run out of them in the near future, but what if we could get them from space? Watch a video that highlights a company that was founded to mine asteroids and other objects...
Curated OER
Bailout 11: Why these CDOs could be worth nothing
Differentiating between a $700 billion "blank check" and the acquisition of assets, this video explores the idea that the CDOs purchased by the government could be worth nothing. Sal takes students through the mathematical and economic...