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The Suez Crisis: A Turning Point in Colonial Power
This video provides a detailed historical account of the Suez Crisis of 1956, a significant event in international relations and decolonization. The video highlights the political motivations and consequences of the crisis, including the...
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Do Schools Spy on Students' Laptops? | Gaggle AI Student Surveillance
Do Schools Spy on Students' Laptops? | Gaggle AI Student Surveillance
Neuro Transmissions
Should Police Respond To Mental Health Calls?
If you were in a mental health crisis and called for emergency services, who would you want coming to your aid? Right now in the US, local police have shouldered the burden of this kind of crisis response. But...should they? If we agree...
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An Introduction to Government Intervention in Markets
This video provides an introduction to the topic of government intervention in markets. The video discusses different types of market failures and the reasons why governments may intervene to correct them. The video also discusses...
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Price Controls: Creating Stability or Creating Problems?
The video is a lecture presentation that explains the concept of price controls. The presenter discusses the two types of price controls: maximum and minimum, and analyzes their impacts on supply, demand, and welfare. The video explains...
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Indirect Taxation and Government Intervention: Analyzing through Economic Models
This is a video lecture that explores the topic of indirect taxation as a form of government intervention in markets. The speaker covers the economic rationale for government intervention to rectify market failure, the types of market...
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Understanding Subsidies: Analyzing and Evaluating Government Intervention in Markets
The video discusses the topic of subsidies and how they can be used as a government intervention in markets. The speaker explains how subsidies can help to rectify market failures, particularly in cases where a product is under-provided...
Global Health with Greg Martin
Systematic Literature Review and Meta Analysis
Systematic literature review with meta analysis is one of the most important methods used to review the scientific evidence on a topic. It starts with a literature search. If you're in the medical world, that might mean using PubMed (but...
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Understanding Buffer Stock Schemes and the Common Agricultural Policy
This video discusses buffer stock schemes, a government intervention strategy in commodity markets. The video explains how commodity markets operate and why price volatility can create issues for producers and consumers. The concept of...
Healthcare Triage
Why Don't We Invest More in Public Health?
Many, many studies conclude that investing in public health is more effective than continually increasing spending on expensive treatments. So why doesn't the US spend more on public health?
Healthcare Triage
Money Can't Buy You Weight Loss AND Vaccine Investment Strategy
Aaron's been traveling, so this will be more of a quick hits episode. This is Healthcare Triage News...and we're talking about whether workplace premium incentives lead to employee weight loss, whether behavioral interventions improve...
Healthcare Triage
Heart Stents, Angina, and the Placebo Effect
Stents are a popular treatment for angina pectoris, or chest pain usually resulting from narrowed arteries. Getting a stent is a serious procedure, with no small risk associated with it. And recent studies indicate that stents don't do...
Curated Video
Extension of Property Rights and the Coase Theorem
In this video, the topic of the extension of property rights is discussed, and how governments use it to correct market failure. The Coase theorem is explained and an example is given to illustrate this principle. The video also explains...
Institute of Art and Ideas
Is Medical intervention dangerous?
We ring fence NHS spending and western countries spend ever more on medicine. But a third of all deaths are due to medical intervention and some argue poverty not pathogens makes the biggest difference. Is it a fantasy to believe that...
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Cost Benefit Analysis: Evaluating Economic Decisions for Society
This video introduces the concept of cost benefit analysis and explains how it can be used to evaluate the social benefits and costs of a specific economic decision. The examples used in the video include the hypothetical scenario of a...
Healthcare Triage
Sleep Training for Parents and Infants
When my wife's water broke, minutes after I went to bed back in January of 2002, I remember driving her to the hospital and anguishing over one thought: "I'm never going to be well rested again". If there's one things all new parents...
Healthcare Triage
Can We Do Anything About Childhood Obesity?
Between 2017 and 2018, obesity affected about 14.4 million children and adolescents in the United States. In order to create treatments, interventions, and health policies to adequately address this issue, we need solid data from...
Curated Video
Codify Your Message 2 -Crystallize your vision
You will allow yourself to hold a grand vision for the world, and will learn to position yourself as Supreme Leader of your idea.
Curated Video
Understanding Government Failure in Economics
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...
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Competition Policy: Principles and Practices in the UK
This video introduces the topic of competition policy and explains why governments are interested in promoting competition. It outlines the benefits of competition, such as lower prices for consumers and the idea of consumer sovereignty....
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Your First Pitch - Slide 2
In this video, you will learn how to talk about the big overarching problem and solution.
Healthcare Triage
Going Hungry is not Great for your Health
About 50 million people in the United States don't have access to enough food to support a healthy lifestyle. The technical term for this is food insecurity, and over 40% of people in the United States will experience it during their...
Healthcare Triage
Texting Robots May Improve Your Health!
Amazing health effects of texting people with significant cardiovascular disease! This is Healthcare Triage News.
Healthcare Triage
Someone Give That Baby Peanut Protein! Also, Wearables Alone Don't Lead to Weight Loss.
People aren't paying enough attention! This is Healthcare Triage News.