TED Talks
Yasheng Huang: Does democracy stifle economic growth?
Economist Yasheng Huang compares China to India, and asks how China's authoritarian rule contributed to its astonishing economic growth -- leading to a big question: Is democracy actually holding India back? Huang's answer may surprise you.
TED Talks
TED: The social animal | David Brooks
Columnist David Brooks unpacks new insights into human nature from the cognitive sciences -- insights with massive implications for economics and politics as well as our own self-knowledge. In a talk full of humor, he shows how you can't...
TED Talks
Ashraf Ghani: How to rebuild a broken state
Ashraf Ghani's passionate and powerful 10-minute talk, emphasizing the necessity of both economic investment and design ingenuity to rebuild broken states, is followed by a conversation with TED curator Chris Anderson on the future of...
TED Talks
Nandan Nilekani: Ideas for India's future
Nandan Nilekani, the visionary co-founder of outsourcing pioneer Infosys, explains four brands of ideas that will determine whether India can continue its recent breakneck progress.
The Business Professor
Expanding Into Foreign Markets
How does a Business Expand into Foreign Markets? This can involve a range of activities, including establishing a physical presence in international markets, building relationships with customers and partners, adapting products and...
The Business Professor
4 Trajectories of Industry Change
What are the 4 Trajectories of Industry Change? Her research suggests that industries evolve along one of four distinct trajectories--radical, progressive, creative, and intermediating--that set boundaries on what will generate profits...
Curated Video
Specialization
Specialization evaluates how the availability of productive resources, including human, capital, and natural resources, promotes specialization that leads to trade.
Curated Video
Human Capital
“Human Capital” defines the term human capital and discusses specific examples.
Curated Video
Factors That Affect Income
“Factors That Affect Income” discusses various economic factors that affect profit and income, such as inflation, deflation, unemployment, capital goods, human capital, and productivity.
Curated Video
Dynamic Efficiency in Market Structures
The speaker discusses dynamic efficiency in this lecture video. He explains the difference between static efficiency and dynamic efficiency and provides examples of how they can be applied to analyze industries. He describes the three...
ACDC Leadership
Micro Unit 1 Summary (Updated Version)
The Micro Unit 1 Summary video is designed to help you understand economics and goes hand-in-hand with my Ultimate Review Packet. In this video I cover the basics: scarcity, opportunity cost, the economic systems, the production...
ACDC Leadership
Micro Unit 1 Summary- Basic Economic Concepts (Old Version)
The Micro Unit 1 Summary video is designed to help you understand economics and goes hand-in-hand with my Ultimate Review Packet. In this video I cover the basics: scarcity, opportunity cost, the economic systems, the production...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Erik Berglof: Building a Bridge Between Political And Economic Reform
Since it's release in late 2013, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development's Transition Report "Stuck In Transition" has generated a lot of attention for its compelling and provocative conclusions about the intersection...
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
Institute for New Economic Thinking
James Heckman: Early Interventions Lead To Higher IQs
The Jesuits used to argue that if they could get someone in their church by age five, they’d have them hooked for life. Nobel Laureate James Heckman doesn’t go quite so far in his ideas for early childhood education, but he does suggest...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Race Has a Regional Dimension in America’s Political Economy
Stanford economic historian Professor Gavin Wright, addressing the Institute’s conference on the economics of race, argues that the conditions facing the children of the great migration from the South are very different to the conditions...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Ronald Schettkat: Inequality and the Challenge of Employment 2/3
Ronald Schettkat, Professor of Economics at Schumpeter School, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany speaking at the panel entitled "Inequality and the Challenge of Employment" at the Institute for New Economic Thinking's (INET)...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Andy Hargreaves - Professional Capital Transforming Teaching in Every School
Andy Hargreaves is the Thomas More Brennan Chair in the Lynch School of Education at Boston College. The mission of the Chair is to promote social justice and connect theory and practice in education. Before moving to Boston, he taught...
ACDC Leadership
Macro and Micro Unit 1- Practice Questions #1
This is a 13 question practice quiz for Macroeconomics and Microeconomics Unit 1. The questions are designed for AP and college introductory economics. Do your best and feel free to click on the "learn more" link next to each question to...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Dalia Marin: The Global Market and Nation States (2/7)
The video shows the panel Sovereignty and Institutional Design in the Global Age at INET's Bretton Woods Conference on April 9, 2011. The speaker in this segment is Dalia Marin, Professor of International Economics at the University of...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Innovation Needs Inventors
By not addressing inclusivity, we are losing entire generations of new minds. MIT Economist John Van Reenan describes this in his research as the "lost Einstein" effect, and argues that to get innovation back on track we need to do a...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
A Growth Slowdown is Coming
U.S. GDP accounting underestimates intangible capital, overstates financial capital, and is all but oblivious to the erosion of human and social capital. Peter Temin, the Elisha Gray II Professor Emeritus of Economics at the...
The Wall Street Journal
The Financial Outlook
The world's major economies are growing in concert for the first time in years. Interest rates are rising. After a sustained rise over many years, stock markets suffered a rare bout of volatility in February. What's next?
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Armin Falk: Inequality and the Challenge of Employment 1/3
Armin Falk, Director, Center for Economics and Neuroscience, University of Bonn speaking at the panel entitled "Inequality and the Challenge of Employment" at the Institute for New Economic Thinking's (INET) Paradigm Lost Conference in...