Instructional Video2:42
Financial Times

NZ housing: a canary in the coalmine?

Higher Ed
FT Transact - Ultra-low interest rates and cheap finance have driven a global house price boom and in New Zealand the house price to income ratio has topped that of many OECD nations. But as interest rates rise and prices dip, the...
Instructional Video9:12
PBS

Is the Stock Market Irrational?

12th - Higher Ed
The economic numbers look bleak, but the stock market is strangely optimistic... Has it lost touch with reality?
Instructional Video7:04
PBS

Is Price Gouging Bad?

12th - Higher Ed
Price gouging during a crisis is universally frowned upon and punishable by law in most states... so why would economists say it's actually not a bad thing?
Instructional Video5:47
Professor Dave Explains

Free Trade vs. Protectionism

12th - Higher Ed
More trade tends to lead to more prosperity for a society. So everyone should favor completely free international trade, right? Well not exactly. Some economists promote protectionism, which restricts trade with other countries to...
Instructional Video6:28
Professor Dave Explains

Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

12th - Higher Ed
How do we measure the health of an economy? The most common way is by looking at its gross domestic product, or GDP. But what does that mean exactly? Are there any limitations to this approach? What kind of goods are counted towards GDP?...
Instructional Video5:49
Professor Dave Explains

Universal Basic Income (UBI)

12th - Higher Ed
Wouldn't it be amazing if the government just gave you money every month, so that you didn't have to worry so much about rent and bills? Well this precise arrangement has been discussed among economists for centuries. It's called...
Instructional Video6:45
Healthcare Triage

Innovation in a Changing US Health System

Higher Ed
The US healthcare system has a lot of issues, but one thing it's got going for it is innovation. More clinical trials originate in the United States, and more Nobel Physiology and Medicine Laureates are from here than from any other...
Instructional Video15:38
Institute for New Economic Thinking

What Is Economics About? | How & How NOT to Do Economics with Robert Skidelsky

Higher Ed
Why did economists largely fail to predict the 2008-09 financial crisis? In the first lecture in his INET series, “How and How Not to do Economics,” Robert Skidelsky looks at a neglected cause: methodology. The way economists build their...
Instructional Video15:54
Institute for New Economic Thinking

Matheus Grasselli: How Advanced Mathematics Can Support New Economic Thinking

Higher Ed
Welcome to our new video series called "New Economic Thinking." The series will feature dozens of conversations with leading economists on the most important issues facing economics and the global economy today. This episode features...
Instructional Video5:44
ACDC Leadership

Does economics make you selfish?

12th - Higher Ed
Thank you so muych for watching my videos. In this video I explore some arguments regarding why economics makes people selfish. I inlcuded several artciles about the subject below. Please feel free to read them over and let me know if...
Instructional Video4:41
Financial Times

Here's what a carbon tax could mean for you

Higher Ed
FT economics commentator Martin Sandbu looks at what is needed to achieve a just transition to a low-carbon economy that safeguards public health and sustainable energy sources
Instructional Video9:32
Curated Video

Why Economics is a Social Science: Understanding the Basics

12th - Higher Ed
The video is an introductory lecture on why economics is defined as a social science. The lecturer explains that economics is the study of individuals and their decision-making behavior and how those decisions affect the economy as a...
Instructional Video7:33
Institute for New Economic Thinking

Sheila Dow - Why Economists Think How They Think

Higher Ed
Economists argue over how the economy works or what is the best fiscal policy to recover from the current crisis. Sheila Dow looks behind the curtain of these debates; she seeks to find out why particular theories are being advanced, and...
Instructional Video9:52
Institute for New Economic Thinking

In Defense of Economic Theory

Higher Ed
It’s common to hear economists derided for being overly theoretical. But University of Puget Sound’s Wade Hands cautions that empiricism without theory isn’t enough.
Instructional Video13:51
Institute for New Economic Thinking

How Economics Became a Cult

Higher Ed
Watch Steve Keen discuss how mainstream economics acts more like a cult than a science, how mathematics has been misused by the economic discipline, and how with the right tools a grad student can make a better economic model than a...
Instructional Video16:43
Institute for New Economic Thinking

Eric Weinstein: Economic Thinking In A Fallible World

Higher Ed
By Marshall Auerback The philosopher Karl Popper argued that we cannot know empirical truths with absolute certainty. According to Popper, even scientific laws can't be verified beyond a shadow of a doubt. They can only be falsified by...
Instructional Video2:58
Institute for New Economic Thinking

John Kay: People, Not Iron Ore: The Limits of Math in Economics (4/5)

Higher Ed
In part four of this INET interview, John Kay suggests that economists need to broaden their skill set and reconnect with the humanities and other social sciences. While math is a useful tool, it is not the only language appropriate for...
Instructional Video7:41
Institute for New Economic Thinking

Economists Incentivize Conformity Over Quality

Higher Ed
Economists tend to incentivize conformity over quality, but could pressure from outside groups change that? INET sits down with Carlo D’Ippoliti, Associate Professor of Economics at Sapienza University of Rome, to talk about pluralism in...
Instructional Video5:21
ACDC Leadership

Limitations of GDP- Macro Topic 2.2

12th - Higher Ed
Hey, thanks for watching. In this episode I explain the limitations of GDP and why it's not the best way to measure standard of living. I talk about GDP per capita, income inequality, the environment, and the shadow economy. Just to...
Instructional Video3:54
Institute for New Economic Thinking

Paul Davidson - Keynes's Forgotten Lessons 1/4

Higher Ed
In the first part of this four-part INET "From the Director's Chair" interview, INET Executive Director Robert Johnson talks with Journal of Post Keynesian Economics co-founder Paul Davidson about Davidson's book The Keynes Solution: The...
Instructional Video22:27
Institute for New Economic Thinking

Dennis Snower: Which Way Forward? 3/6

Higher Ed
Dennis Snower, President, Institut für Weltwirtschaft (Kiel Institute for the World Economy), Kiel speaks on panel, entitled "Which Way Forward: Reflections on Global Turmoil and the Role of Markets, Governments, and Civil Society" at...
Instructional Video12:53
Institute for New Economic Thinking

Doyne Farmer - Macroeconomics From the Bottom Up

Higher Ed
In 2006, the Fed asked its macroeconometric model what would happen if house prices dropped by 20%. The model projected the past into the future and said: "Not much." Well, the financial crisis proved it wrong. Meanwhile, DSGE models,...
Instructional Video6:18
Healthcare Triage

If Economists Chose the Health Care System

Higher Ed
Health economists study the economic determinants of health. They also analyze how health care resources are utilized and allocated, and how health care policies and quality of care can be improved. In this episode, we discuss what...
Instructional Video4:51
Institute for New Economic Thinking

Young Scholars Initiative: The Next Generation of New Economic Thinkers

Higher Ed
Explore your curiosity in economics in an open and critical community The Young Scholars Initiative (YSI) is a growing international community comprising thousands of students, young professionals and researchers committed to new and...