PickVidsBest Microeconomics & behavioral economics Videos
The 85 Microeconomics & behavioral economics videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 8 introductory, 2 intermediate, 75 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are an explainer. What they share is that one picture or analogy is used to supply a missing concept. Channels you will keep seeing include LibertyPen, TED, Free To Choose Network.
Milton Friedman - Why Tax Reform Is Impossible
Milton Friedman explains why the US tax code is enormously complex and why meaningful reform is unlikely.
Dominic Frisby. A simple guide to land value tax
Comedian Dominic Frisby gives a ten-minute explanation of land value tax.
RSA ANIMATE: First as Tragedy, Then as Farce
An RSA Animate adaptation of a Slavoj Zizek talk on charitable giving and ethical consumerism.
The Stealership Trap - Why We Need the Dealership "Rip Off"
FortNine explains the economics of the dealership model, arguing that dealers absorb inventory risk and help manufacturers' finances.
The puzzle of motivation | Dan Pink | TED
Dan Pink's TED talk argues that traditional carrot-and-stick rewards often fail for creative work, drawing on the candle problem and social science research.
How government programs drive up college tuitions
Peter Schiff, during his 2010 Senate campaign, argues that government loan programs and subsidies push college tuition up.
The REAL reason behind the housing crisis
Gary's Economics argues that the UK housing crisis stems from wealth inequality, treating housing as an asset like shares that rich people bid up.
I, Pencil: The Movie
A short film from the Competitive Enterprise Institute adapting Leonard Read's 1958 essay I, Pencil, showing how no one person knows how to make a pencil and how many people cooperate without central planning.
Gabe Newell: On Productivity, Economics, Political Institutions, and the Future of Corporations
Gabe Newell of Valve speaks at UT Austin's LBJ School on productivity, economics, political institutions and the future of corporations.
Principles of economics, translated
Economist-comedian Yoram Bauman delivers a humorous translation of Mankiw's ten principles of economics for the uninitiated.
Unlocking UAP Mysteries: Economics, Aliens, and The Great Filter | Merged EP0109
A 146-minute Merged Podcast episode in which UAP researcher Ryan Graves talks with economist Robin Hanson about UFOs.
Induced Demand & Roadway Widening: Everything You Always Wanted to Know (and Weren't Afraid to Ask)
CityNerd Ray Delahanty explains induced demand and what happens when freeways are widened.
Free To Choose 1980 - Vol. 01 The Power of the Market - Full Video
The first episode of Milton Friedman's 1980 Free To Choose series, on how markets and voluntary exchange organize economic activity and the price system.
Saifedean Ammous: Bitcoin, Anarchy, and Austrian Economics | Lex Fridman Podcast #284
A long Lex Fridman podcast conversation with Austrian economist Saifedean Ammous, author of The Bitcoin Standard.
Death to Pennies
CGP Grey's short animated argument for abolishing the US penny, covering its cost and history.
The Myth of the Robber Barons with Burt Folsom
Hillsdale historian Burt Folsom lectures at a 2011 seminar on the 'robber barons' of the Gilded Age.
Are we in control of our decisions? | Dan Ariely
In a TED talk, behavioral economist Dan Ariely uses visual illusions and his research to show that people are less rational in their decisions than they think.
The Psychology of Human Misjudgement - Charlie Munger Full Speech
A recording of Charlie Munger's 1995 Harvard speech on the psychology of human misjudgment.
Pounds, shillings, and pence: a history of English coinage
Lindybeige gives an hour-long history of English coinage and the problems of maintaining a trustworthy currency.
Noam Chomsky: "Free Markets?"
A 1997 Noam Chomsky talk at Northeastern University about the gap between free-market rhetoric and practice.
The riddle of experience vs. memory | Daniel Kahneman
In this TED talk, Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman distinguishes the experiencing self from the remembering self, using examples such as vacations and colonoscopies.
Strong Towns: Property Tax vs. Land Value "Tax" (LVT)
Chuck Marohn of Strong Towns explains how a land value tax differs from an ordinary property tax, why it makes economic sense, and why it is rarely used.
Why Are American Health Care Costs So High?
John Green explains why the US spends far more on health care than other countries, going through insurers, drug companies, hospitals and lawyers.
Milton Friedman Speaks: The Economics of Medical Care (B1234) - Full Video
Milton Friedman lectures to physicians on the economics of medical care, arguing that government involvement raises costs and leads toward socialized medicine.