TLDR News
Wealth Tax? Could Britain's Billionaires Pay for the Pandemic?
Having already spent hundreds of billions on COVID, some are suggesting that the UK government should attempt to recoup some of those costs with a wealth tax. So in this video we explain how a British wealth tax might work, how much...
PBS
Why Do Kids Have Their Own Bedrooms?
"Go To Your Room!" might be the most well known parental demand in America, but why do kids have their own sleeping area at all? Because while a bedroom might just seem like a "normal" thing for people who can afford a certain amount of...
TLDR News
Why is American Life Expectancy Falling? - TLDR News
The US has a major mortality issue, with the country's life expectancy actually falling in recent years. So in this video, we explain the issues with the American system and why people pay so much for some of the lowest life expectancies...
Curated Video
Rent Seeking: Taking Without Giving
The video explains the concept of rent seeking, which is the behavior of seeking profits without creating new wealth for others. It provides a classic example of a lord setting up a chain across a river to charge fishermen a fee, which...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
How the Stock Market Drives Wealth Inequality
When the stock market grows faster than the housing market, the gains of the top 1% outpace those of the middle class. INET Fellow and University of Bonn professor Moritz Schularick discusses the drivers of wealth inequality.
Schooling Online
Shakespeare Today: Romeo and Juliet - Theme of Gender
Watch this lesson today to discover how Shakespeare explores the social expectations placed on men and women in Romeo and Juliet. See how Shakespeare provides a complex exploration of how gender impacts people. Along the way, learn how...
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...
ACDC Leadership
Aggregate Demand- Macro Topic 3.1 (Old Version)
In this video. I explain the most important graph in most introductory macroeconomics courses- the aggregate demand model. In this video I cover aggregate demand (AD), aggregate supply (AS), and the long run aggregate supply (LRAS). Make...
Mediacorp
Examining Wealth Disparity and Social Integration in Singapore
This video focuses on whether it is possible to break down preconceived ideas and stereotypes and live in an integrated class society. Regardless of Class part 4/8
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Coding Capital [Katharina Pistor]
This law is my law, this law is your law...Katharina Pistor (@Columbia Law School) explains how our legal system is manipulated to protect wealth, and why the rules of the game always seem just out of reach.
Globalive Media
Beyond Innovation: Episode 3
An AI learns to speak like a human, founders take their visions abroad and a Nobel institution pushes medical boundaries. Plus, Anthony and Michael speak with a cryptocurrency firm making it possible for poorer nations to transact....
Institute for New Economic Thinking
One Nation, Under Finance
Access to finance was supposed to reduce inequality, and make us all better off. Why hasn't that happened? Birmingham City Business School Senior Lecturer Hanna Szymborska calls for economists and bankers to look more deeply, and to root...
Financial Times
Crunched: is the inequality gap really widening?
FT data journalists Federica Cocco and John Burn-Murdoch take a look at the numbers behind the wealth gap amid growing concern that inequality is worsening
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Racist Violence and Economic Activity
Riots, lynching and other forms of violence dramatically disproportionate impact on the lives and prospects of African inventors. That’s just one indicator, says Professor Lisa Cook, of the profound impact of racial violence on the...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Martin Schuerz on Wealth Distribution
A member of the Austrian Central Bank tells us his research on wealth and income inequality in Europe. Before the crisis, the European Central Bank commissioned work on the liabilities side of European debt. Research from the Austrian...
Weird History
How a Random Flower Became the Bitcoin of the 1600s
When Bitcoin came screaming back into the public consciousness in late 2017, there was a lot of talk about whether or not Bitcoin is an economic bubble. The crypto currency flew under the radar for several years and then all of a sudden...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Unlimited Wants, Limited Resources | How & How NOT to Do Economics with Robert Skidelsky
Lionel Robbins defined economics as: “the science which studies behaviour as a relationship between unlimited wants and limited resources which have alternative uses.” How do we understand this tension between unlimited wants and limited...
Curated Video
How Prostitution Built The Wild West
Putting the "wild" into Wild West, prostitution was big business in frontier communities – and gave the so-called "soiled doves" who controlled the industry wealth and influence as America grew.
Curated Video
Understanding the Distribution of Income and Wealth in Society
In this lecture presentation, the speaker discusses the distribution of income and wealth, what it is, why it is important to consider, and the impact it can have on various groups within society. The speaker explains the distinction...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
[DISCUSSION] How Can Sociology Help Economics? | How & How NOT to Do Economics | Robert Skidelsky
Following Robert Skidelsky’s lecture “How Can Sociology Help Economics?” he leads a discussion with students. INET sincerely thanks the Julis-Rabinowitz Family for their generous support, who named this series to honor the spirit of a...
Curated Video
Income and Wealth Inequality: Causes and Consequences
The video is a lesson on the topic of inequality in economics. The presenter explains the difference between income and wealth and how an unequal distribution of these can result in market failure. The video also touches on the impact of...
Mr. Beat
Saudi Arabia and Iran Compared
Mr. Beat compares and contrasts Saudi Arabia and Iran, two Middle Eastern countries with governments that apparently hate each other.
Curated Video
Changunak Antisarlook: The Reindeer Queen
She was known as the Reindeer Queen – and one of the richest women in Alaska. So how did Changunak Antisarlook use her remarkable wealth to benefit the Inupiat community?
Mr. Beat
What's Up With All the Rothschild Conspiracies
Mr. Beat explains the history of the Rothschild dynasty and the origins of the conspiracy theories based on the beliefs that the Rothschilds control the world.