TED Talks
Sylvain Duranton: How humans and AI can work together to create better businesses
Here's a paradox: as companies try to streamline their businesses by using artificial intelligence to make critical decisions, they may inadvertently make themselves less efficient. Business technologist Sylvain Duranton advocates for a...
TED Talks
TED: Demand a more open-source government | Beth Noveck
What can governments learn from the open-data revolution? In this stirring talk, Beth Noveck, the former deputy CTO at the White House, shares a vision of practical openness -- connecting bureaucracies to citizens, sharing data, creating...
TED-Ed
TED-ED: What makes something "Kafkaesque"? - Noah Tavlin
The term Kafkaesque has entered the vernacular to describe unnecessarily complicated and frustrating experiences, especially with bureaucracy. But does standing in a long line to fill out confusing paperwork really capture the richness...
Crash Course
Bureaucracy Basics: Crash Course Government and Politics
This week Craig Benzine discuses bureaucracies. Bureaucracies tend to be associated with unintelligible rules and time-wasting procedures, but they play an important, though controversial, role in governing. From the FDA to the EPA,...
Crash Course
Controlling Bureaucracies: Crash Course Government and Politics
In which Craig Benzine tells you how we keep bureaucracy in check. So we've spent the last few episodes telling you all about what bureaucracies are and why they are formed. And throughout we've hinted about this ever-expanding power...
Crash Course
Government Regulation: Crash Course Government and Politics
Today, we’re going to wrap up our discussion of economic policy by looking at government regulation. We're going to talk about the government's goals for the U.S. economy and the policies it employs to achieve those goals. Ever since the...
Curated Video
What is the Adhocracy Organizational Model?
When did bureaucracy become a dirty word? Almost certainly when the idea of adhocracy emerged. The two are polar opposites: radically different ways to coordinate an organization. The one a set of rules and systems that overlay...
Curated Video
What is an Organization? - the Nature of Organizations
This is the first video of our course on the nature of organizations, so we answer the question: 'What is an Organization?'
Curated Video
Max Weber: The Father of Organizational Theory
Max Weber was a professor of political economy at the University of Freiberg. But he is known as the ‘Father of Organizational Theory’.
PBS
The Secret Tax Hiding in Plain Sight!
You're paying a secret tax every year... not just to the government, but also to your insurance company, your phone provider, even your employer!
Curated Video
Outdated Dualisms
Political scientist Mark Bevir (UC Berkeley) describes how the modern political debate has moved beyond the old markets vs. state distinctions.
Curated Video
Behind the Bureaucrats
Philosopher Brian Epstein (Tufts) describes how our models of bureaucratic corruption often fail to include initial selection processes.
Curated Video
Investigating Corruption
Tufts University philosopher Brian Epstein describes how carefully developing a model of bureaucratic corruption can lead to identifying key factors that traditional social science models will necessarily overlook.
Curated Video
Against Reification
Political scientist Mark Bevir (UC Berkeley) argues that we need to move beyond reification of abstract concepts and recognize intentionality.
Curated Video
Creating the Social World
UC Berkeley political theorist Mark Bevir describes his belief that, rather than passively describing the world around us, social science actually plays a key role in creating our social world.
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Andrew Sheng: Where do we go from here? 4/5
Andrew Sheng, Chief Adviser, China Banking Regulatory Commission at the Closing Panel entitled "Overhangs, Uncertainty and Political Order: Where Do We Go From Here?" at the Institute for New Economic Thinking's (INET) Paradigm Lost...
History Hit
Total War, The Three Kingdoms of China: The historical background behind the video game
What is the history behind the video game and what happened? How did they settle on early medieval Chinese history? Total War, The Three Kingdoms of China, Part 1
History Hit
Total War, The Three Kingdoms of China: Next steps and thoughts on the entertainment industry
What historical game would these developers like to work on next? Is the real creativity in games compared to television and film? Total War, The Three Kingdoms of China, Part 5
History Hit
Total War, The Three Kingdoms of China: Visualization and development of the game
How did they go about visualizing the world in terms of the sights, sounds and feel? How did they go about replicating weapons, equipment and battlefield moves for the game? Total War, The Three Kingdoms of China, Part 3
History Hit
Total War, The Three Kingdoms of China: Feedback from the professional historian community
Were there any edits to certain aspects of the game because it was too dense for the gamers? What was the response from the professional historian community? Total War, The Three Kingdoms of China, Part 6
History Hit
Total War, The Three Kingdoms of China: Historical accuracy
How important is historical accuracy when making a video game like this? Do the developers feel rewarded by the gamers when a game like this is historically accurate? Total War, The Three Kingdoms of China, Part 2
The Business Professor
Mintzberg's Organizational Configurations
Dr. Kyle Huff explains what is Mintzberg's Organizational Configurations