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We the Economy: The Street
How does Wall Street influence the economy? On the heels of the financial crisis, Wall Street for some has become synonymous with corruption and greed. Director Joe Berlinger takes us to the epicenter of the financial world - the New...
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Pbs Learning Media: Tomatoes of Wrath: Lucas Benitez
Lucas Benitez worked picking tomatoes in Southern Florida for wages that were barely enough to live on. Conditions were deplorable and workers faced a climate of intimidation, fear and violence right here in the United States. Lucas...
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Pbs Learning Media: Southern Africa: Troubled Water
In 2005, FRONTLINE/World featured the PlayPump, a promising new technology that pumped fresh water when children played on a merry-go-round. The story appealed to the good intentions of politicians, celebrities, and funders, who gave...
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Pbs Learning Media: Haiti: Relief Efforts Meet Staggering Obstacles
Correspondent Martin Smith travels to Haiti to bear witness to this humanitarian crisis and the ill-coordinated relief efforts on the ground.
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Pbs Learning Media: Sustainable Small Business Solutions for World's Poor
Listen as Jacqueline Novogratz discusses investing in sustainable small business solutions for the world's poor. The goal, says Novogratz, CEO of Acumen Fund, is to find a way to bring essential services to low income people not just...
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Khan Academy: Changes in the Ad as Model and the Phillips Curve
Economists who studied the relationship between inflation and unemployment made an important modification to the Phillips curve model with the addition of the long-run Phillips curve (LRPC). When expectations are factored in, and there...
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Khan Academy: Married Taxes Clarification
Tutorial on taxes including income tax, estate taxes, and married taxes.
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Khan Academy: Simple Fractional Reserve Accounting (Part 2)
How banks can actually create checking accounts under a fractional reserve system.
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Khan Academy: Simple Fractional Reserve Accounting (Part 1)
In this video, Sal begins a walkthrough of the process of money creation using a highly simplified example.
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Khan Academy: The Business Cycle
Economists have long been interested in the causes of the business cycle. In this video we define the business cycle, discuss potential reasons it exists, and explore how it may be driven by emotion.
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Khan Academy: The Aggregate Production Function and Growth
This video discusses how economists measure the total factor productivity, capital, and human capital for an aggregate production function.
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Khan Academy: Terms of Trade and the Gains From Trade
In this video, we explore how we can use opportunity costs to determine who has comparative advantage in producing a good. By specializing in the production of a good that a country has comparative advantage in, and trading for the other...
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Khan Academy: Tax Multiplier, Mpc, and Mps
The spending multiplier and tax multiplier will cause a $1 change in spending or taxes to lead to further changes in AD and aggregate output. The spending multiplier is always 1 greater than the tax multiplier because with taxes some of...
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Khan Academy: Standard of Deferred Payment and Legal Tender
A fourth function of money is that anytime you take on a debt, when the time comes to repay it, you can use money. This is highly related to the idea of 'legal tender', which you can also learn about in this video.
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Khan Academy: Stagflation
How a supply shock can cause prices to rise and the economy to stagnate.
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Khan Academy: Speculative Attack on a Currency
Video discussing speculative attack on a currency.
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Khan Academy: Perfect Inelasticity and Perfect Elasticity of Demand
This video lesson from Khan Academy is intended for students who are taking the AP Macroeconomics course. Students will examine the two extremes of elasticity: perfectly elastic and perfectly in elastic demand. The extremes can help...
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Khan Academy: More on Total Revenue and Elasticity
This video lesson from Khan Academy is intended for students who are taking the AP Macroeconomics course. Students will take a deeper dive into the total revenue rule and the relationship between total revenue and elasticity.
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Khan Academy: Marginal Benefit Ap Free Response Question
In this video, walk through the solution to one of the questions on the free response section of the 2016 AP Microeconomics exam.
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Khan Academy: Health Care Costs in Us vs Europe
Dr. Lawrence Baker and Sal discuss health care costs in the U.S. vs Europe.
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Khan Academy: Conversations About Drug Pricing
Dr. Laurence Baker talks to Sal about how drug prices are set.
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Khan Academy: Blue Cross and Blue Shield
A history of the concept of Blue Cross and Blue Shield from the early thirties to now, from non-profit to for-profit concept, the variances of insurances and the control by the state in which each operate.
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Khan Academy: Paying Doctors
Basics of how doctors get paid: fee for service, capitation, and salary are examined.