This video discusses the concept of government failure and why it occurs in certain situations where a government intervention has a harmful effect on society's welfare despite being intended to improve it. The video provides examples of...

Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff tell the history of financial crisis as a tale of excessive public debt. But what more commonly drives financial instability, says Moritz Schularick, is excessive private debt. Financial crises are...

China is fast becoming a world leader in science, but should the world worry? Our deputy editor, Ed Carr, examines the impact of China's scientific expansion.

Khalil Gibran Muhammad is professor of History, Race and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and the Suzanne Young Murray Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies. He is the former Director of the Schomburg...

Are early childhood programs a good use of resources? In this series so far, we've talked about what childhood programs are, and whether they work. Now, we get to the question of whether or not they pay off. One of the reasons that life...

A conversation with Jon Galazka, project scientist for NASA’s GeneLab, and Ruth Globus, a rodent research project scientist, at NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley.

The promise of capitalism was that anyone could rise to the highest levels of society, purely by merit. Instead, the reality now is that the educational and social requirements for success are inherited, entrenching deep...

The video introduces the concept of absolute advantage in international trade. The speaker explains that differences in the quantity and quality of factors of production between countries create opportunities for countries to specialize...

In this video, the speaker discusses the policies that can be implemented to influence the distribution of income and wealth within an economy. They explain the different measures used to measure inequality, the rationale for tackling...

Keir Starmer has been leading the Labour party for about a year now, but despite some initially positive results many are still left confused what he & his party stands for. So in this video we're going to examine the policies that...

If you were to ask any random person on the street what it is that they knew about economics there is a pretty good chance that the first thing that they would blurt out would be the words “Supply &...

EVE Online is a massively multiplayer online game that is probably best known for articles about massive space battles with tens of thousands of players, or stories about in-game con men screwing over their allies after years of...

MOT 1952: SECRETARY OF COMMERCE: MS Title, MS Empty chair at Cabinet table. MS Charles Sinclair Weeks (1893-1972) looking over papers, MS Sinclair SOT at desk saying will endeavor to stimulate development of industry, transportation &...

In the previous tutorial we learned about six ways that governments can support economic growth. But there are ways in which governments can harm economic growth as well. What could those be? Let's take a look!

In this video we go over the pros and cons of a universal basic income. The US government spent over $5 trillion of economic stimulus and relief payments during the pandemic of 2020 and 2021. This is enough money to give every adult...

Space exploration has long been the dream of science fiction authors and enthusiasts well before we even had the technology to explore life beyond our own planet.



Today, astronauts live year-round in low-earth orbit...

MOT 1947: WHITE HOUSE MAIL READING CLERKS: WS Women workers at desks reading mail man delivering bundle of mail. MS Man putting mail on woman's table. VS Women opening letters. CU Letter addressed to U.S. President Harry S Truman....

Where is the intelligence? At the bottom. Where should it be? At the top...The NHS is upside-down, says Ken Minogue @ iQ2

This video provides an explanation of positive externalities which occur when third parties receive benefits from the production or consumption of a good or service. The video explains how positive externalities create a divergence...

David Zucchino is a contributing writer for The New York Times. He was awarded a 2021 Pulitzer Prize for his book, "Wilmington's Lie." He was also awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1989 for his dispatches from apartheid South Africa. Mr....

From the archives: Kathy Hessler, Director of the Animal Law Clinic at Lewis and Clark Law School in Portland (Oregon), discusses the important subject of factory farms in relation to animal welfare protections under existing federal and...

Last week we started our deep dive into the RAND Corporation’s comprehensive report on early childhood programs. We talked about how they’re defined, and how they’re targeted. Great. But do they work? What are the outcomes they improve?...

Britain's rules surrounding animal rights and the sentience of animals are changing, with Johnsons government brining in some pretty major adjustments. So in this video let's discuss what the changes are & if they're moving in the right...

From the archives: Dr. Grandin talks about her approach to helping livestock handling facilities become more effective and humane.