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Learn the basics of microeconomics including supply and demand of commodities and how equilibrium in the market affects price Joon Koo Lee edX Seoul National University
Level: beginner
Introduction to Economics - Part 1: Microeconomics
Steve Keen provides an alternative view on Macroeconomics before and after the crisis and outlines different macroeconomic fallacies.
Level: advanced
Advanced Political Economy Lectures
A collection of the prolific economist's essays written since 1990, in sections on history of economic thought, methodology of economics, economics of education, cultural economics, and book reviews. Subjects include the work of Adam Smith, Hayek, and Keynes, the economic case for subsidies for the arts, the historiography of economics, and education and the employment contract. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
1997
Level: advanced
Not Only an Economist
Edited by two of the foremost academics in the field, the volumes comprise insightful and original contributions from scholars across the world. The encyclopaedic breadth and scope of the original entries will make these reference books an invaluable source of knowledge for all serious students and scholars of the history of economic thought.
2016
Level: beginner
Handbook on the History of Economic Analysis, Volume 1: Great Economists since Petty and Boisguilbert
A short course introducing co-operative firms, in the context of the Candian economy where various forms of co-operative make up a significant sector of the economy. The course offers foundational knowledge about co-operatives, explaining what they are and how they operate.
Level: beginner
Coops 101
Big challenges lie ahead for our society: increased automation of work, and the threat of catastrophic climate change. But so, too, are the huge possibilities presented by new technology and better ways of organising our economy in the wake of neoliberalism's failure.
2018
Level: advanced
Economics for the Many
Source image UMassEconomics Youtbe channel Stephen Resnick UMassEconomics University of Massachusetts Amherst
Level: beginner
Marxian Economics Lectures
The short video gives a first idea of what Karl Popper meant by falsification.
2015
Level: beginner
Karl Popper's Falsification
The video gives a short explanation of Max Weber's treatment of the protestant work ethic as the explanatory factor for the development of capitalism.
2016
Level: beginner
An Introduction to Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic - A Macat Sociology Analysis
First the global mean is calculated from a matrix of three sets each containing three observations. Then the sum of squares is calculated. Lastly, the concept of degree of freedom is explained.
2012
Level: advanced
ANOVA 1: Calculating SST (total sum of squares)
The video presents different ways of how to measure the money supply and thereby explains the differences between M0, M1 and M2.
2012
Level: beginner
Money supply: M0, M1, and M2 | The monetary system
Mounting evidence suggests a lot of published research is false. Check out Audible: http://bit.ly/AudibleVe Support Veritasium on Patreon: http://bit.ly/VePa...
Level: beginner
Is Most Published Research Wrong?
This dossier gives an overview of the functions and the nature of money. The concept of Islamic finance is briefly explored, too.
2015
Level: beginner
The Nature of Money
How the brain works, how we learn, and why we sometimes make stupid mistakes.
Level: beginner
The Science of Thinking
What is universal basic income? This video gives a first, short introduction.
2016
Level: beginner
What is Universal Basic Income?
an interactive guide to the game theory of why & how we trust each other
2017
Level: beginner
The Evolution of Trust
In this blog article, Dirk Brockmann illustrates how strong heterogeneities, cluster-like structures and high variability in node connectivities can naturally emerge in growing networks.
2019
Level: expert
Complexity Explorables
In this episode of the Planet Money podcast the Caribbean island of Barbuda is used as an example to explore the notion of property rights Until the island was struck by Hurricane Irma in November 2017 the island belonged to all Barbudans First there is a brief historic background given …
2020
Level: beginner
"The Island No One Owns" - Property Rights in Barbuda
Tejashree Dewoolkar Sujatha Padmanabhan Ashik Krishnan Extraordinary work of ordinary people Vikalp sangam
2022
Level: beginner
Pandemic resilience in North East India
This article demonstrates Schumpeter s propagated approach to monetary analysis in macroeconomics so as to provide for a better understanding of the relation between finance and growth Peter Bofinger Lisa Geißendörfer Thomas Haas Fabian Mayer voxEU
2022
Level: advanced
Discovering the 'true' Schumpeter: New insights on the finance and growth nexus
From the perspective of mainstream theory the effectiveness of monetary policy in bringing down inflation depends on two very important equations the aggregate demand equation and the infamous Phillips Curve Without these it becomes more difficult or rather impossible for central banks to carry out monetary policy and obtain the …
2022
Level: advanced
Monetary Policy and the Phillips Curve
How long the COVID-19 crisis will last, and what its immediate economic costs will be, is anyone's guess. But even if the pandemic's economic impact is contained, it may have already set the stage for a debt meltdown long in the making, starting in many of the Asian emerging and developing economies on the front lines of the outbreak.
2020
Level: beginner
The COVID-19 Debt Deluge
Isabella M Weber and Evan Wasner challange the dominant view of inflation that it is macroeconomic in origin and must always be tackled with macroeconomic tightening In contrast they argue that inflation is predominantly a sellers inflation that derives from microeconomic origins namely the ability of firms with market power …
2023
Level: expert
Sellers’ Inflation, Profits and Conflict: Why can Large Firms Hike Prices in an Emergency?
First some definitions regarding econometrics, regressions, types of data and independent and dependent variables are given. Then the basic function of a simple regression analysis is explained. Lastly, there is discussion of the meaning of the error term.
2013
Level: beginner
Econometrics // Lecture 1: Introduction
Sheila Dow discusses the concept of radical uncertainty and the failure of neoclassical economics to integrate it into its analysis. As to the implications for financial regulation that arise from the presence of radical uncertainty she argues for institutional overhaul, where the banks see themselves as a licensed partner of the central bank and where rules, values, and conventions would be subject to a cultural shift. Also, Sheila Dow advocates for a renewed focus on retail banking.
2015
Level: advanced
The Economics of Uncertainty
What are the challenges and opportunities for achieving decent work in global supply chains How do transnational corporations and their global supply chains operate How can they be more effectively governed Mark Anner Esther Busser Michael Fichter Tandiwe Gross Frank Hoffer Jenny Holdcroft Praveen Jha Maité Llanos Adam Lee Victor …
Level: beginner
Decent Work in Global Supply Chains
Source image GC Videography Fellows Youtube channel David Harvey davidharvey org City University of New York
Level: advanced
Marx and Capital: The Concept, The Book, The History
The interview states the importance of joining hands in the international trade to get trade justice at multilateral forum such as the WTO. It is mainly in English, the introduction is in Spanish.
2024
Level: advanced
International trade and barriers
What is innovation, what drives innovation and the process that differentiates firms? What is competition and what kind of dynamics lie behind the differences between firms and their innovative activities? Mariana Mazzucato elaborates on those questions from an evolutionary economics' and Schumpeterian perspective. The slides of her lecture are not visible, hence some visualizations can't be followed.
2014
Level: advanced
Economics of Innovation
The Heterodox Economics Directory provides a broad variety of links to heterodox journals, books, conferences, study programs, teaching materials and blogs. Some categories are subdivided by schools of thoughts - it's a valuable source for heterodox material on the internet.
Level: beginner
Heterodox Economics Directory
An Introduction to the Political Theory of John Maynard Keynes. John Maynard Keynes was arguably the greatest economist of the 20th century. He discovered the idea that governments should stimulate demand during economic downturns.
2017
Level: beginner
An Introduction to the Political Theory of John Maynard Keynes
Steve Horwitz, professor of economics at St. Lawrence University, gives a concise account of Austrian approach and talks about how it relates to the various current public policy issues.
2013
Level: beginner
The Austrian school of economics

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