PBS
Should It Be Illegal for Facebook to Sell Your Data? | America From Scratch
"Surveillance Capitalism" refers to practice companies like Facebook and Google use to collect and sell users' information. A short video from PBS reveals how that business model works and then asks viewers to consider whether that...
TED-Ed
The Life, Legacy, and Assassination of an African Revolutionary
The stormy political history of the African nation of Ghana provides the backdrop for a short video about Thomas Sankar, who in his four-year presidency, instituted changes that were adopted in other African nations, as well. Find out...
The School of Life
Political Theory - John Ruskin
Beauty and Capitalism—not two words you usually see together. John Ruskin, a prominent political thinker definitely did not think so. Teach pupils about the political theory behind aesthetics and why some countries may value beauty over...
The School of Life
Political Theory - Adam Smith
Can capitalism have virtue? Adam Smith thinks so! The 12th video in a series of 13 discusses Smith's political and economic views. Pupils discover these concepts and more through primary source photographs and examples that relate to...
Crash Course
Democracy, Authoritarian Capitalism, and China: Crash Course World History 230
Is democracy on the rise, or is it declining worldwide? Take a look at Crash Course World History's take on the state of global democracy when compared to the governments of Singapore, China
Crash Course
Capitalism and the Dutch East India Company: Crash Course World History 229
How did the Dutch East India Company flourish while other trade companies floundered? Learn more about the ways that the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, or the VOC, used interest rates, monopolization, and violence to maintain their...
Macat
An Introduction to Prahalad and Hamel’s Core Competence of the Corporation
If you want to get ahead in business, is it better to foster collaboration between departments, or to allow specialists to work on their own projects? A short video introduces C.K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel's 1990 work, The Core...
Macat
An Introduction to Friedrich Hayek's The Road to Serfdom
Friedrich Hayek's 20th century work The Road to Serfdom warns readers against classical socialism and its tendency to stem from good intentions into total tyranny and control. A brief video explains Hayek's points about...
Macat
An Introduction to Thomas Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century
Does the structure of capitalism eliminate inequality or reinforce it? That is the essential question of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century. Introduce young economists to Piketty's "Central Contradiction of Capitalism" with a...
Macat
An Introduction to Karl Marx's Capital
Explore the factors that make capitalism work with a short analysis of Karl Marx's Capital. An animated video explains the relationship between labor and capital, and uses a real-world example to illustrate the ways...
Macat
An Introduction to Roland Barthes's Mythologies
Teenagers are the first to agree that they are the frontrunners in popular culture. But how much of their image is constructed by individualism, and how much of it have they bought from capitalistic sources? Roland...
Crash Course
Monopolies and Anti-Competitive Markets
Take your knowledge of monopolies off the board game and into economic concepts with an engaging video from Crash Course Economics. It explains the philosophy behind government regulations of monopolies and horizontal integration, the...
Crash Course
Markets, Efficiency, and Price Signals
Holiday gift-giving seasons can be lucrative for an individual business, but does a profitable season bode well for the market as a whole? A video from Crash Course Economics discusses how giving gifts to people who are uninterested in...
Crash Course
Economic Schools of Thought
Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes held different beliefs about economic systems that evolved from their predecessors, and then shaped by their countries' economic situations. A video from Crash Course Economics...
Crash Course
Economic Systems and Macroeconomics
What works better: a planned economy or a market economy? Join the global debate with a Crash Course video about macroeconomics and the differences between economic systems. With quotes from Adam Smith and Karl Marx guiding...
Scratch Garden
The Sentence Song ♫♪♫ | Scratch Garden
A laid back beat and silly animation makes a music video about sentence structure a hit among young learners. Find out what a capital letter is and when we use them, as well as end punctuation; the period, exclamation point, and question...
Emergent Order
Fight of the Century: Keynes vs. Hayek Round Two
In a witty and entertaining video, world-renowned economists John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich Hayek come to life and debate impact of government spending on the economy through the medium of a rap song and metaphor of a boxing match.
Khan Academy
Wealth Destruction 2, Finance and Capital Markets
Continuing from the past video on wealth bubbles, Sal begins by recapping what scholars saw in the first segment. He then goes into more depth on bank-owned homes, short sales, foreclosures, and wealth destruction. Scholars begin to...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Communism
A discussion of capitalism, socialism, communism, and the philosophies of Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin. [15:04]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: How Was the Modern World Created?
This video looks at three forces of change that gather momentum and help create the modern world, transforming the biosphere. [11:22]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Government and Politics: Media Regulation
Today we wrap up our discussion of the media by talking about how the government interacts with and influences the content we see. Now it may be easy to assume that because we live in a free-market capitalist society, the only real...
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Rise of Capitalism Part 1
On the podcast today, we learn about the rise of capitalism and when it began. [1:22]
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Rise of Capitalism Part 2
Today we learn about how capitalism empowered a new class of citizens. It allowed opportunity for independent business choices and offered people more time personal interests. [1 min. 17 secs.]
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Rise of Capitalism Part 3
Today we examine two influences on capitalism: natural rights philosophy and the rise of Protestant groups. [1 min. 22 secs.]