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Mayan Garden, Mexico: Ancient Mayan Forest Gardens
Mayan Garden, Mexico part 2/2: This video explores the sustainable agricultural practices of the Mayan descendants in Central America, specifically their use of the Milpas system to grow crops like corn, beans, and squash. It also delves...
ACDC Leadership
Vote for The Economics Party- Clifford vs Trump & Clinton
Two points. First, politicians shouldn't make economically unrealistic promises. A single-payer health care system would be nice, so would free college education, lower taxes, paid maternity, a balanced budget, services for senior...
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Encouraging Innovation in Businesses: Approaches & Examples
The video discusses how businesses can encourage innovation within their organizations. It presents four main approaches to achieve this goal: Kaizen, team collaboration, benchmarking, and entrepreneurship. The video also highlights the...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crisis
​Competition and conflict are intrinsic features of modern societies, inequality is persistent, and booms and busts are recurrent outcomes throughout capitalist history. State intervention modifies these patterns but does not abolish...
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Why The Supreme Court's Major LGBTQ Ruling Was so Shocking What it Means for the Future - TLDR News
Yesterday the US supreme court made a major ruling in favour of LGBTQ+ rights. The decision was good news for activists, but it also represented a major surprise, with two conservatives justices siding with the four more liberal judges...
Healthcare Triage
Would Medicare for All Increase Your Wages?
Medicare for All, which would extend health coverage to all Americans, has been a hot topic of debate in recent years. Researchers have looked into the many ways that a switch to Medicare for All might change our lives, and one of those...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
How the Federal Reserve's QE Has Contributed to Inequality
People in America get really angry at the Federal Reserve and at the "money system" in general during economic crises. The Fed draws hostility because of its power, its insulation from democratic accountability, its lack of transparency,...
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Motivational Theories: Understanding the Influential Factors Behind Workforce Motivation
The video talks about different motivational theories that businesses can use to increase the motivation and productivity of their workforce. It discusses four main individual studies conducted over time, starting with Taylor's theory...
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Understanding Labor Markets and Equilibrium Wage Rates
In this video, the presenter explains the fundamentals of labor markets and how economists study them. They discuss the downward sloping labor demand curve, and how higher wage rates cause firms to demand fewer workers. They also explain...
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Mental health and the gig economy
Workers appreciate the flexibility of the gig economy, but isolation, long hours and performance assessment by an algorithm are contributing to mental health problems.
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Understanding Transfer Earnings and Economic Rent in Labor Markets
This video is a tutorial on the topics of economic rent and transfer earnings in labor markets. It starts with defining these two terms and explaining their differences, using examples and diagrams to illustrate the concepts. The video...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Burden of Race Discrimination is Heaviest Where it Intersects with Gender
Professor Marlene Kim provided a riveting picture, via her personal family history of the exploitation of the Asian-American working-class in California. She challenged the invisibility of Asian-Americans in discussions of race in...
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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.
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Dueling Economies That Fueled the Civil War
Which economy was best for the country's future? The industrial economy of the North? Or the plantation system of the South? The stage was set for a financial fracas that would lead to the deadliest war in US history.
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Micro Unit 5, Question 8- Hiring Workers
Join the hundreds of thousands of students that have used Mr. Clifford's videos and resources to ace your microeconomics course.
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Monopsony Labor Markets: Effects and Interventions
The video discusses the concept of a monopsony, which occurs when there is only one buyer in a market, such as the government in the public sector. The video explains the differences between the outcomes of a monopsony labor market and a...
Step Back History
The Poor People's Campaign
Martin Luther King Jr was a more radical figure whose history has been whitewashed. This is the story of his last days fighting for economic justice in the Poor People's Campaign.
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Types of Management and Leadership Styles
This video discusses the different types of management and leadership styles, with a focus on autocratic management, democratic leadership, paternalistic leadership, and charismatic leadership. The video explains the characteristics of...
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Employment Laws: Threats and Opportunities for Businesses
The video explores how employment laws affect the performance level, threats, and opportunities of businesses. It discusses various factors covered by employment laws, such as pay, working conditions, worker's rights and benefits, trade...
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Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: Motivating Workers towards Self-Actualization
This video is a lecture presentation that explains Maslow's hierarchy of needs, which is a theory in psychology that describes the different types of needs that individuals have and how they relate to each other. The presenter discusses...
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Understanding Productivity and Its Importance for Economic Growth
The video discusses the concept of productivity and the factors that determine productivity. The video also explores various policies that can be implemented to improve productivity, such as investing in education and infrastructure,...
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Elaborating on Supporting Details with Anecdotes
In this video, the teacher explains the importance of elaborating on supporting details in persuasive writing. They discuss how elaboration helps the reader understand the argument and connect it back to the thesis statement. The teacher...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Bill Mitchell: Demystifying Modern Monetary Theory
In a challenge to conventional views on modern monetary and fiscal policy, Professor Bill Mitchell of Newcastle University in Australia has emerged as one of the foremost exponents of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), a heterodox challenge...
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Communicating Change: Strategies for Effective Implementation in a Business Environment
The video discusses the importance of effective communication when implementing strategic change within a business. The speaker highlights potential pitfalls that can occur when poorly communicating strategic change to lower levels of...