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Labour’s Manifesto Quickly Summarised (2019 Election) - TLDR News
On Thursday the Labour party announced their new manifesto, full of their promises to the electorate. We read all of this over 100-page document and compressed it into less than 10 minutes to make understanding their policies easier!
The Wall Street Journal
Silicon Valley's Green Thumb
Entrepreneurs who want to deploy tech-industry tools in the Farm Belt are getting billions of dollars in investment from venture capital firms and food companies. But profits are elusive.
Brainwaves Video Anthology
LaShawn D. Harris - Sex Workers, Psychics and Numbers Runners
LaShawn Harris is an associate professor of History at Michigan State University and assistant editor for the Journal of African American History (JAAH). Her area of expertise includes twentieth century African American and Black Women’s...
ACDC Leadership
Micro 5.4 Resource Market, MRP and MRC: Econ Concepts in 60 Seconds- Factor Market
Mr. Clifford's 60 second explanation of how to calculate Marginal Revenue Product (MRP) and Marginal Resource Cost (MRC). Remember that you hire workers where MRP = MRC to maximize profit.
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Breaking the Glass Ceiling
Inequality takes many forms, such as wealth inequality, or inequality amongst northern and southern hemisphere nations (the developed vs developing economies). One can make the case that gender inequality has been with us the longest,...
The Wall Street Journal
Funding Solutions to Supply Chain Disruption
CFOs from e.l.f. Beauty and CarParts.com discuss their challenges with ongoing supply chain disruption, and how they are working through logistics issues and inventory management.
Financial Times
The case for a new centrist political party in Britain
There has been a lot of talk in Britain about the need for a new centrist political party. Political commentator Janan Ganesh talks to FT editor Lionel Barber about whether this is something that could happen.
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Yanis Varoufakis: Europe by (Mis)Design 4/4
In part 4 of this four-part INET "From the Director's Chair" interview, INET Executive Director Robert Johnson talks with Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis about Varoufakis's new book The Global Minotaur: America, The True Origins of the...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
‘Stratification’ Theory Tackles the Racial Blindspots of Orthodox Economics
Economist Darrick Hamilton and Institute President Rob Johnson discuss “stratification economics”, which addresses the failure of orthodox economics to see, explain and point to remedies for persistent racial inequality.
TLDR News
Labour’s 2017 Manifesto Explained in 5 Minutes
The Labour's 2017 Manifesto is very long, and most people don't bother reading it. So I'll sum it all up really quick, then you won't need to read it.
History Hit
Protest, Spirit of the People: Word of mouth
How did students organize with no social media like we have today? How was the next protest handled compared to the previous one? Protest, Spirit of the People, Part 4
Science360
Impact of Military Service on Our Returning Veterans
With over 200,000 individuals currently separating from military service each year, a growing number of veterans are faced with readjusting to civilian life. Researchers study employment, health and family life of veterans.
Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Male-centric Biases of Economic Models
The assumptions economists make in their models have implications not only for policymaking and choosing what data we collect, but also for the very definition of work, says Professor Maria Floro of American University. Many assumptions...
The Wall Street Journal
The Digital Food Chain
Agricultural companies have struggled for years to reliably predict consumer purchasing habits and the profitability of crops. Now they're betting on automation and data analysis to change that.
Curated Video
Understanding Short Run Aggregate Supply (SRA) Curve: Shape and Shifts
In this video, the speaker explains the concept of short run aggregate supply curve (SRS curve), which represents the aggregate supply of all goods and services produced within an economy over the short run.
Soliloquy
How Jacinda Ardern turned 49% into 53%
In the recent New Zealand Election, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s Labour party came away with almost a majority of the vote, but from this, they will get an absolute majority in Parliament, so how did they manage this and turn 49% into...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Invisible Woman [Jayati Ghosh]
Economics has many flaws, yet few are as broadly oppressive as its illusions about gender.
Curated Video
Tevye the Dairyman Episode 3
TODAY’S (MODERN) CHILDREN In this third story, “Today’s Children,” we finally begin to explore the famous romances of Tevye’s daughters and the effect they have on Tevye. Tevye is eager to marry off his girls to wealthy and learned men....
History Hit
Protest, Spirit of the People: Vietnam's effect on Britain
How did the youth in the U.S. and Britain view the war? Protest, Spirit of the People, Part 2
Financial Times
Garlic and the 'dirty secret' of China's prisons
The FT's Yuan Yang goes to Jinxiang, the world's garlic production capital, and finds that prisoners are being used to peel the bulbs.
ACDC Leadership
The Labor Market: EconMovies #13
Teachers! I created NEW worksheets for all my EconMovies episodes and for all the Crash Course Economics episodes.
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Mainstream Economics & Gender | Feminist Economics Part 5
In this fifth and final lecture in the Institute for New Economic Thinking’s “Feminist Economics” series, Professor Jayati Ghosh explores some of the shortcomings of mainstream economics. Heavily reliant on unrealistic assumptions and...
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Will Labour Increase Tax by £2,400 to Cover £1.2 Trillion of Spending? - TLDR News
In recent days the Conservative party have begun to claim that Labour's spending plans would cost the UK £1.2 Trillion and the average taxpayer £2,400 a year. In this video we dive into those claims, look at the data behind them and...