Sustainable Business Consulting
Current Political Climate
Describes how the broken political system allows opportunities for other institutions to make change and step in to that leadership role
Institute for New Economic Thinking
William White - Anatomy of Crisis: Economic Theory, Politics and Policy
The Inaugural Conference @ King's, Institute for New Economic Thinking, Session 1: Anatomy of Crisis The Living History of the Last 30 years: Economic Theory, Politics and Policy The current economic and financial crisis, and it is both,...
Curated Video
Design a computer system using tree search and reinforcement learning algorithms : Creating an Agent to Solve the MAB Problem Using Python and Tensorflow
From the section: The Multi-Armed Bandit. In this section, we will learn about the basics and look at one of the most foundational concepts in Reinforcement Learning – The Multi-Armed Bandit We construct a model of a MAB environment from...
ACDC Leadership
Economic Growth and LRAS- Macro Topic 5.6
In this video I show how LRAS can shift causing economic growth. Keep in mind that a changing in consumption or government spending doesn't lead to more output in the long run if there is not an increase in capital. To permanently...
History Hit
Protest, Spirit of the People: Word of mouth
How did students organize with no social media like we have today? How was the next protest handled compared to the previous one? Protest, Spirit of the People, Part 4
Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Government as Entrepreneur
Mariana Mazzucato argues that the idea that entrepreneurship is confined to the private sector is wrong. In fact, while often considered "inefficient," the state is among the shrewdest investors in innovation—and deserves its fair share...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Stephen Kinsella -- Irish Crisis Demands New Economic Thinking
Most "state of the art" macro models trivialize financial flows and largely neglect the interaction between finance and industry. That is why they failed at predicting and illuminating the collapse of the Irish economy. Stephen Kinsella...
Curated Video
Fiscal Policy: Threats and Opportunities for Businesses
This video is a lecture on fiscal policy, which refers to the decisions a government makes about taxation levels and formats, government spending on services, and implications for government borrowing. The Chancellor of the UK sets out...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Mazzucato and Wray: Making Finance Work for Innovation
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...
Financial Times
Mexico's migrant crackdown
The FT's Central America correspondent Jude Webber travels to the Mexico-Guatemala border to meet migrants desperate to make it to the US and the 'coyote' people smugglers profiting from their pain. Has Mexican president Andrés Manuel...
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...
Seven Dimensions
Addressing Privacy Breaches in the Workplace
In this video, a group of employees discuss the importance of privacy and security in the workplace. They address issues such as breaching privacy, collecting personal information, and inappropriate behavior towards clients. The...
Sustainable Business Consulting
Options for Climate Policy
Describes other ways that countries are combating climate change
Institute for New Economic Thinking
George Soros, Perry Mehrling, William White, Roman Frydman - Anatomy of Crisis
The Inaugural Conference @ King's, Institute for New Economic Thinking, Session 1 Q&A: Anatomy of Crisis The Living History of the Last 30 years: Economic Theory, Politics and Policy
Curated Video
Understanding Bank Rates and the Transmission Mechanism for Monetary Policy
This video explains the concept of bank rates and the transmission mechanism, which is the process by which a central bank's monetary policy decisions are passed on through financial markets to businesses and households. The video covers...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
China Goes for Gold?
In part 1 of INET's interview with David Hale, he discusses how China is positioning the RMB as a possible reserve currency by buying gold, and what this means for the dollar and the euro
Curated Video
Design a computer system using tree search and reinforcement learning algorithms : Control – Building a Very Simple Epsilon-Greedy Policy
From the section: Model-Free Prediction and Control With Monte Carlo (MC). In this section, we will learn one of two improvements on DP – Monte Carlo, a method which does not require a model of the environment. We talk about a new...
Curated Video
Understanding Monetary Policy and its Impact on Business
In this lecture video, the speaker discusses one of the key economic policies of the government, monetary policy. They explain that monetary policy is organized and managed by independent central banks, such as the Bank of England, and...
Sustainable Business Consulting
Carbon Pricing
Delivers the case for carbon pricing and provides viable options and case studies around cap and trade and carbon taxes
Seven Dimensions
Making Informed Decisions Based on Data and Facts
This video emphasizes the importance of critical thinking in decision making by presenting a scenario where a manager reacts impulsively to one employee's abuse of a work from home policy. It highlights the need for gathering facts and...
Global Ethics Solutions
Honesty Made Simple: Making Honesty Intrinsic
Honesty Made Simple is a character building course that helps employees and employers understand principles of personal honesty and move to deeper levels of personal integrity by developing understanding of the practical issues that...
Global Ethics Solutions
Company Assets and Occasional Use
Many companies allow employees to occasionally use company resources for personal use. Without a clear understanding of “occasional use” employees run the risk of crossing ethical boundaries when it comes to company assets. In this...
The Wall Street Journal
Lawrence Summers on Economic Risks for the U.S.
Lawrence Summers discusses the reemergence of inflation, monetary policy and risks the markets currently face.