ACDC Leadership
Macro Unit 2 Summary (New Version)- Measuring the Economy
Hey, this is Jacob Clifford and welcome to the Macro Unit 2 Summary (new version). This unit is about measuring the economy and covers topics like GDP (2:17), unemployment (8:16), inflation/CPI (12:47), the business cycle (19:55).
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Market Competition: Understanding Perfect Competition and Monopoly
This video discusses the concept of market competition and how it affects outcomes like prices, efficiency, and outputs. The video then introduces two important forms of market competition: perfect competition and monopoly. The speaker...
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Understanding the Pros and Cons of Globalization
This video provides an overview of globalization, discussing how it has led to the integration and alignment of the world's economies, generating mutual beneficial outcomes in terms of trading benefits. The video also highlights the main...
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Understanding the Phillips Curve and its Role in Economic Management
The video explains the concept of the Phillips Curve and its relationship to managing economies from a demand side perspective. The video explains the history of the Phillips Curve, which was established in 1958 by AW Phillips, and how...
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Understanding Absolute and Comparative Advantage in Trade Theories
In this video, the speaker explains how trade theories such as absolute advantage and comparative advantage can help understand why countries engage in certain trading patterns and specialize in specific goods and services. The speaker...
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Understanding Quantitative Easing
The video discusses quantitative easing, an unconventional form of monetary policy that was implemented by major developed economies like the US and UK following the financial crisis of 2007-2008. It explains how central banks were...
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Understanding Price Controls: Minimum and Maximum Prices
This video discusses price controls and explains the two main types of price restrictions, minimum prices and maximum prices, and illustrates their impact on the market using diagrams. Examples of price controls in different sectors,...
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Understanding Inequality, Poverty, and their Implications
This is an economics lesson on the topics of inequality and poverty. The instructor discusses the political sensitivity of these terms and how they are used interchangeably, but emphasizes the importance of carefully weighing the impact...
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Understanding Economic Integration: Customs Unions and Free Trade Areas
The video provides an overview of economic integration, explaining how different countries interact with each other to increase trade. The presenter describes various types of economic integration, ranging from complete economic...
Oxford Online English
How to Describe a Picture in English - Spoken English Lesson
In this lesson, you can learn how to describe a picture in English. Describing a picture is useful in many English exams; you need to describe images in English for exams like FCE, TOEIC or PTE. It’s also a good way to practise your...
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Understanding Public Goods and Their Characteristics
This video explains the concept of public goods and why they are typically provided by the government rather than through the market. The video describes two unique characteristics of public goods - non-excludability and non-rivalry.
Oxford Comma
Love and Memory: What Lips My Lips Have Kissed
A summary, reading, and analysis of Edna St. Vincent Millay's "What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why." The title alone could have its own video, so please don't take this as an exhaustive study. But, if you're confused by the...
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Understanding Labor Markets and Equilibrium Wage Rates
In this video, the presenter explains the fundamentals of labor markets and how economists study them. They discuss the downward sloping labor demand curve, and how higher wage rates cause firms to demand fewer workers. They also explain...
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Understanding the Balance of Payments
The video provides an explanation of what the balance of payments is and its importance in measuring a country's trading performance on the world stage. The video breaks down the balance of payments into two main sub-accounts: the...
Oxford Comma
A Look at Inspiration in She Walks in Beauty
Often regarded as one of the most beautiful and famous poems of all time, "She Walks in Beauty" has featured in films like The Dead Poet's Society and shows like White Collar. Inevitably, the character reciting the poem does one thing:...
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Understanding Aggregate Demand and Its Expenditure Components
The video explains the concept of aggregate demand and its four expenditure components that make up the total expenditure for an economy's goods and services over time - consumption, investment, government spending, and net exports. The...
Seven Dimensions
Creating a Powerful Resume
Your CV or resume should stand out and attract recruiters, says Peter Wallbridge: - 3 classic mistakes with a resume - Typos, grammar & font size - Make it compelling - Page 1 essentials - The question of referees - The power of the...
Oxford Comma
Speaker or Author: She Dwelt Amoung the Untrodden Ways
By using William Wordsworth's famous poem we seek to draw the distinction between author and speaker and determine which one was in love with the mysterious Lucy.
Visual Learning Systems
Investigating Heredity: Video Review
This fascinating program helps students understand the basics of heredity. Acquired traits and inherited traits are defined and contrasted. Special emphasis is placed on some easy to understand human traits that are inherited. Concepts...
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Understanding the Differences Between LRAS and Keynesian Aggregate Supply Curve
The video discusses the differences between the classical long-run aggregate supply curve (LRAS) and the Keynesian aggregate supply curve, with a focus on their shapes and shifts based on changes in factors of production.
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Monopsony Labor Markets: Effects and Interventions
The video discusses the concept of a monopsony, which occurs when there is only one buyer in a market, such as the government in the public sector. The video explains the differences between the outcomes of a monopsony labor market and a...
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Understanding Price Discrimination and Its Effects on Markets and Consumers
The video discusses the concept of price discrimination and how it is used by firms to charge different prices to different segments of the market. It provides examples of price discrimination, such as different ticket prices for adults...
Oxford Comma
Chapter by Chapter (Never Let Me Go): Intro and Chapter One
Welcome to the first video in our chapter by chapter analysis of Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go! In this video we'll look at the background of the author and genera, meet our three main characters, discuss the importance of the...
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Understanding Productivity and Its Importance for Economic Growth
The video discusses the concept of productivity and the factors that determine productivity. The video also explores various policies that can be implemented to improve productivity, such as investing in education and infrastructure,...