Healthcare Triage
Shrooms and Smoking, Adult Drug Abuse, and Ebola: Healthcare Triage News
Shrooms to quit smoking, who's using drugs, and a clarification on Ebola. This is Healthcare Triage News.
The Wall Street Journal
Yale Professor Laurie Santos on How to be Happy During a Pandemic
Laurie Santos is the professor behind Psychology and the Good Life, the most popular course in Yale's history. Here, she discusses how we need to reconsider our approach to mental health to cater for the complex emotions triggered by the...
Global Ethics Solutions
Me First! Building a Balanced Ethical Perspective: Ethics and Ego at Work
Ethical decisions involve deeply personal moral beliefs and attitudes that impact the kinds of choices we make at work. This course helps participants understand how conscience, feelings, guilt, moral perspectives, and ethical balance...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Jan Kregel: The Continuing Risk of Derivatives
Everybody now knows the narrative of the Great Financial Recession of 2008, in particular, the impact that toxic derivatives had in terms of exacerbating the crisis. And the usual defense of those who misdiagnosed the crisis is that the...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Jean-Philippe Bouchaud: Taking Stock of Complexity Economics 2/5
Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, Professor of Physics, École Polytechnique speaking at the breakout panel entitled "Taking Stock of Complexity Economics: Which Problems Does It Illuminate?" at the Institute for New Economic Thinking's (INET)...
Hip Hughes History
Limits on Civil Rights Through Executive Action: US History Review
Let HipHughes develop a thesis so you can kill those essays on your exams. Using the theme of crisis and limited rights we take a look at the Civil War, WWI, WWII and 9/11, designed to pound in some content and put a smirk on your face too.
Next Animation Studio
Amazon goes from ‘carbon sink’ to carbon creator
The Amazon used to be praised as our planet’s lungs, absorbing a lot of Earth’s carbon dioxide, but things are going very wrong in the world’s last great wilderness.
TLDR News
How to Solve the Housing Crisis - TLDR News
A few weeks ago we made a video explaining the housing crisis in Britain; today we're here to solve it. So in this video, we run through some proposals for how the crisis could be stopped and what the future of housing in Britain could...
Seven Dimensions
Running an Effective Crisis Simulation
In this video, Ross Campbell, an expert in crisis management, discusses the importance of exercising and scenario planning in preparing for potential crises. He emphasizes the need to test and validate crisis response plans through...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
George Soros: Why We Need To Rethink Economics
In this short interview, Institute for New Economic Thinking co-founder George Soros tackles the question at the heart of the Institute's mission: What's wrong with economics and what can we do to change it?"Economic theory needs to be...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Jonathan Jansen - Lessons from South Africa
Jonathan Jansen is Vice Chancellor and Rector of the University of the Free State and President of the South African Institute of Race Relations. He holds a PhD from Stanford University, the MS degree from Cornell University, and...
Global Ethics Solutions
Employee Ethical Decision-Making Skills - Actions for Success
This is the fourth video in the powerful Ethical Decision-Making series that provides practical “how-to” information to help any employee effectively deal with the wide variety ethical decisions in the workplace. Learn steps to deal with...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Charles Goodhart: The State of the Global Economy - A Central Banker's Perspective
Welcome to our new video series called "New Economic Thinking." The series will feature dozens of conversations with leading economists on the most important issues facing economics and the global economy today. This episode features...
Curated Video
Covid-19: how it will change the world
Even when covid-19 is under control, the long-term effects of the virus will be far-reaching. How will the coronavirus pandemic—and the way it has been handled—change the world?
The Wall Street Journal
Rethinking Health Policy in the Age of Coronavirus
At the 2020 WSJ Health Forum, Chief Economics Commentator Greg Ip spoke with MIT Sloan School of Management's Dr. Simon Johnson and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Health's Dr. Joshua Sharfstein on the public health gaps COVID-19 has...
Financial Times
Gillian Tett asks if banking culture has really changed
The FT's Gillian Tett discusses the 'flaw' in Alan Greenspan's thinking and how culture has been overlooked at the cost to the global economy 10 years on from the financial crisis. By understanding the role of culture in banking, are we...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Anton Korinek - Capital Flows, Crises and Externalities: A Primer
The Inaugural Conference @ King's, Institute for New Economic Thinking, Session 4: Toward a New Global Financial Architecture
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Credit Booms & Credit Busts
There is now a growing consensus among policymakers and academics that a key element to improve safeguards against financial instability is to strengthen the “macroprudential” orientation of regulatory and supervisory frameworks....
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Women, Finance & Society
Since the onset of the Global Financial Crisis in 2008, there has been much debate about reforming the financial sector and improving the accountability of its major actors. In fact, many of the principals involved in creating the mess...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Paul Davidson - Keynes's Forgotten Lessons 1/4
In the first part of this four-part INET "From the Director's Chair" interview, INET Executive Director Robert Johnson talks with Journal of Post Keynesian Economics co-founder Paul Davidson about Davidson's book The Keynes Solution: The...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Yanis Varoufakis: Europe by (Mis)Design 4/4
In part 4 of this four-part INET "From the Director's Chair" interview, INET Executive Director Robert Johnson talks with Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis about Varoufakis's new book The Global Minotaur: America, The True Origins of the...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Doyne Farmer - Macroeconomics From the Bottom Up
In 2006, the Fed asked its macroeconometric model what would happen if house prices dropped by 20%. The model projected the past into the future and said: "Not much." Well, the financial crisis proved it wrong. Meanwhile, DSGE models,...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Erik Berglöf - Crisis in Eastern Europe: The People's Perspective (1/4)
The global economic and financial crisis hit Eastern Europe harder than anywhere in the world. The region was shut off from global financial flows essentially overnight and some Eastern European countries lost a staggering 20% of GDP in...
Mediacorp
Religious Harmony and the Impact of Terrorism
This video explores the impact of terrorism on religious harmony in Singapore. Through interviews with university students and individuals from different faiths, the host uncovers the challenges faced in bridging the gap of understanding...