469 Videos
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What's so Interesting About Interest?
Mar 30, 2022
Nobody likes to be in debt, but we owe even more to interest itself.
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Does Economics Understand China?
Mar 16, 2022
As a discipline rooted in exceptionalism and capitalist values, is economics capable of comprehending socialism?
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Coding Capital
Feb 23, 2022
This law is my law, this law is your law…
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You're Irrational and It's OK
Feb 16, 2022
Should the government regulate personal behavior, or are the irrational choices of people actually reasonable?
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Prosperity for All
Feb 2, 2022
How do we make economic development work for everyone?
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The Antidote to the Wall is the Bridge
Jan 31, 2022
Professor Glenn Hubbard, professor of Finance and Economics at Columbia Business School, talks about his just-released book, “The Wall and the Bridge: Fear and Opportunity in Disruption’s Wake,” and how society and policymakers can help those who are left behind in the wake of today’s competitive world.
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Legal Evil
Jan 19, 2022
From feudal land rights to intellectual property in the modern era, lawyers have been battling over capital for centuries. Typically leveraging social resources to generate and protect private wealth.
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Our Own Worst Enemy
Dec 13, 2021
Tom Nichols, Professor of National Security Affairs, US Naval War College, columnist for USA Today, and contributing writer at The Atlantic, discusses his new book, Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault from within on Modern Democracy, and how a decline in civic virtue has generated a dangerous illiberalism.
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A Clash of Two Gilded Ages
Dec 6, 2021
Yuen Yuen Ang, political science professor at the University of Michigan and author of the book, China’s Gilded Age, argues that the US and China have more in common than we usually think and that it makes more sense to see the conflict as a clash of gilded ages instead of a clash of civilizations.
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The Legacy of Systemic Racism
Dec 1, 2021
How systemic racism of the past continues to haunt the present.
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Innovation in the Service of Society
Nov 24, 2021
How innovation ought to be guided if it is to be successful in addressing our most pressing problems.
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Can Markets Save the Planet?
Nov 10, 2021
Graciela Chichilnisky has a plan to do exactly that.
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A New Vision for Economics Education
Nov 5, 2021
The education of the next generation of economists too often ignores the real crisis we face today: climate change, inequality, and financial instability.
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How Do We Create the Financial Conditions for a Green New Deal?
Nov 3, 2021
Political economist, author, and public speaker Ann Pettifor talks about her latest book, The Case for a Green New Deal, which not only lays out the urgency for such a deal, but also proposes a roadmap for both national and global financial reform to make it possible.
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The US Federal Government's Fifty-Year Role in Causing the Climate Crisis
Nov 1, 2021
From LBJ to the present, the federal government has knowingly continued to expand the US fossil economy, not passively but as a major active player, endangering the future of young people.