Institute for New Economic Thinking
Economic Growth, Climate Change and Environmental Limits
Debate about the relationship between environmental limits and economic growth has been taking place for several decades. These arguments have re-emerged with greater intensity following advances in the understanding of the economics of...
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Understanding the UK Housing Market: Supply and Demand Analysis
The video explores the UK housing market and explains how supply and demand impacts it. It covers various factors affecting the demand for housing such as availability of mortgages, speculative investment, regional demand variations,...
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Game Theory: An Introduction to Payoff Matrices and the Prisoner's Dilemma Game
The video describes the basic concepts of game theory and uses the example of the prisoner's dilemma game to explain the Nash equilibrium. The video also discusses the use of the payoff matrix as a tool for analyzing outcomes within a...
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Agricultural and Commodity Markets: Applying Supply and Demand Analysis
The video is a lecture discussing agricultural and commodity markets with a focus on applying the principles of supply and demand to these industries. The speaker defines key terms and explains the analytical process of establishing...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Economics of Care
Nancy Folbre is an American feminist economist who focuses on economics and the family, non-market work and the economics of care. She is Professor Emirita of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, who has written...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Gender Equality Works for Everyone.
According to Colorado State Professor Elissa Braunstein, macroeconomics has a habit of misunderstanding and even misrepresenting labor. As a result, we see increased gender conflict and structural inequalities in the labor force....
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Demand and Supply- EconMovies #4: Indiana Jones (Reupload)
In this episode of EconMovies, I use Indiana Jones to explain the concepts of demand, supply, equilibrium, and shifting these curves. Good luck studying economics. Snakes? Why did it have to be snakes?!
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Understanding Buffer Stock Schemes and the Common Agricultural Policy
This video discusses buffer stock schemes, a government intervention strategy in commodity markets. The video explains how commodity markets operate and why price volatility can create issues for producers and consumers. The concept of...
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Types of Efficiency in Economics and their Importance in Market Structures
This is a video lecture on the topic of efficiency in economics. The lecturer explains how firms and markets allocate their scarce resources to their activities and the types of efficiency that exist within the market: productive...
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Rearranging Elasticity Formulas and the Elasticity Triangle
In this video, the instructor teaches how to rearrange elasticity formulas to make any variable the subject of the formula. The video focuses on price elasticity of demand as an initial example and demonstrates how to substitute and...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Tackling the Energy & Environmental Challenges of the 21st Century
How well do our assumptions about the global challenges of energy, environment and economic development fit the facts? That is a question with which Professor Michael Grubb, Chair of Energy and Climate Policy at the Cambridge University...
Financial Times
Coronavirus how to tackle the economic crisis
FT economics commentator Martin Sandbu analyses the emergency fiscal and monetary measures being taken to deal with the global financial and economic fallout from coronavirus.
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Understanding the UK Housing Market: Applying Supply and Demand Analysis
The video discusses the UK housing market, and how the concepts of supply and demand apply to it. The speaker explains how demand for housing is affected by interest rates, availability of mortgages, and the fact that housing is both a...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Bruce Caldwell - Why Economics Needs the History of Thought
Who is going to teach fields like economic methodology and the history of economic thought if these fields aren't taught to current graduate students? Bruce Caldwell is filling this hole in the graduate curriculum. The Hayek scholar is...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
D'Maris Coffman -- The Corn Laws: Seeing through the Eyes of Ricardo and Malthus
The British Corn Returns data provided the empirical basis for the fierce debate around the introduction and repeal of the 19th century British Corn Laws. Contemporary readers, like David Ricardo and Thomas Malthus, followed them as...
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Calculating Cross Elasticity of Demand: Easy Economics 3-Step Process
This video provides a tutorial on how to calculate the cross elasticity of demand for a pair of products given relevant data. The three-step process involved in the calculation of elasticity is explained clearly, with examples provided...
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Are you faster than Clifford? Micro Edition
Can you draw the graphs of microeconomics faster than me? Also, share this video with your teacher and see if he or she can beat my best times. Here are my times: 15 seconds- Natural monopoly regulated at socially optimal 23 seconds-...
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Understanding Price Elasticity of Demand - Characteristics of Demand Curves
This video is a lesson on the price elasticity of demand and the characteristics of demand curves. The instructor explains how to calculate price elasticity of demand and defines the terms elastic and inelastic. The video also covers how...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Failure of Market Failure | #4 | Venture Capital in the 21st Century
What are the rationales for State support for technical innovation? Adopting the Neoclassical approach of "market failure", Nelson and Arrow suggested that private business firms will invest less in research & development than is...
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Demand and Supply Explained Part 2 - Macro Topic 1.5 (Micro Topic 2.2)
In this video I explain supply, the law of supply, the shifters of the supply curve, equilibrium, surplus, and shortage. Make sure to draw the graphs on your own.
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Understanding Short-Run Costs in Economics
In this video, the topic of short-run costs is explored, specifically the distinction between short run and long run and its implications on costs. The video explains the specific definitions applied by economists to time frames,...
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Understanding Factor Immobility and Market Failure
In this video, the topic of immobility is explained, specifically, factor immobility and its effects on market failure. The concept of production and the allocation of resources are introduced, and then the video delves into different...
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Understanding Collusion: Forms, Examples, and Implications
This video is a lecture presentation discussing the different forms of collusion in concentrated industries. The presenter explains overt and tacit collusion. The video also covers how cartels function to set prices and production...
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Introduction to Elasticity in Economics
This video introduces the concept of elasticity and its importance in economics. The video also discusses the significance of proportionate changes in variables and how initial values impact the calculation of elasticity. The elasticity...