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...

What do strawberries, gasoline, and human kidneys have in common? Explore the concept of supply and demand, and the varying degrees of demand for particular items in the free market, with an informative video from Crash Course economics.

"In a new article, doctors say that your attention span is like a muscle that can be strengthened. I didn't read the rest of the article because I saw a shiny thing." - Conan O'Brien. The video explains the way the brain process...

I'm not lost, I just haven't found my niche. Video discusses niches, including various pronunciations and definitions. It also covers competitive exclusion principle. Video is the 14th in a series of 18.

Warblers are small birds that have been known to get caught in spider webs. The video covers community ecology, focusing on the Competitive Exclusion Principle using the example of warblers. It also includes fundamental versus realized...

What goes into designing a vehicle? Take a look at a STEM competition where soon to be engineers design and build racing cars. Hear from the engineering scholars on what it takes to be in the competition. The video makes many connections...

An exciting scene plays out as a mother grizzly and her two cubs challenge and charge a wolf in competition for food. [4:30]

Interactions between species are what define ecological communities, and community ecology studies these interactions anywhere they take place. Although interspecies interactions are mostly competitive, competition is pretty dangerous,...

Economic Lowdown Podcast Series [6:21] talks about the concepts of self-interest and competition and their importance to our understanding of the economic system.

Students learn about the economic concept of competition through this funny Seinfeld clip [5:04] in which Jerry gets a bad haircut, but refuses to leave his barber out of loyalty.

Gael Force Team 126 from Clinton, Massachusetts, is one of more than 1,300 teams that compete in a Robotics competition.

Competition runs across a spectrum from perfectly competitive to monopoly, and two types of competition that lie within this spectrum are monopolistic competition and oligopolies. In this video [9:21], we briefly compare these two forms...

In imperfect competition, firms have some control over the price they charge, so the individual firm's demand curve is not horizontal. Learn how that fact also changes the marginal revenue curve in this video. [6:43]

This video explains why prices decrease when utilization is low and prices increase when utilization is high using a fictitious cupcake factory. [12:58]

This lesson will explain how a limiting factor effects the size of a population. It is 1 of 4 in the series titled "Limiting Factor."

Describes the main characteristics of a market economy. These include private property, free enterprise, self-interest, competition, a system of markets and prices, and limited government. [4L25]

Learn about the vocabulary words individual, opponent, merit, fortunately, and unfortunately with The Electric Company when a competition almost goes too far. Jessica and Manny compete to win the last copy of their favorite comic book,...