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Pensions, retirement plans and Debt, Government Budget Deficits

Pensions, retirement plans and Debt, Government Budget Deficits

De-growth and economics, environmental issues, global warming, and the desire to use fewer resources

De-growth and economics, environmental issues, global warming, and the desire to use fewer resources

Debt, Government Budget Deficits and the USA

Debt, Government Budget Deficits and the USA

Industrial Policy - Government Policy, Investment and Economic Development

Industrial Policy - Government Policy, Investment and Economic Development

Piketty - Wealth, Inequality, Taxes, Policy

Piketty - Wealth, Inequality, Taxes, Policy

Population growth, Malthusian Trap and Economic development - history

Population growth, Malthusian Trap and Economic development - history

Economic Impact (Latin America) of the COVID19 - Coronavirus pandemic

Economic Impact (Latin America) of the COVID19 - Coronavirus pandemic

COVID Post-pandemic economy - inflation fears, supply bottlenecks

Post-pandemic economy - inflation fears, supply bottlenecks

Economic Impact (Europe) of the COVID19 - Coronavirus pandemic

Economic Impact (Europe) of the COVID19 - Coronavirus pandemic

Debt crises and Global Economic Impact of the COVID19 - Coronavirus pandemic

Debt crises and Global Economic Impact of the COVID19 - Coronavirus pandemic

History: the Roaring '20s, after the 1918 flu, global pandemic

History: the Roaring '20s, after the 1918 flu, global pandemic

Government Budget Deficits and the Economic Impact (USA) of the COVID19 - Coronavirus

Government Budget Deficits and the Economic Impact (USA) of the COVID19 - Coronavirus

Creative Destruction, Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Creative Destruction, and Entrepreneurship

Zombie Companies and the case for allowing firms to fail, go bankrupt

Zombie Companies and the case for allowing firms to fail, go bankrupt

International reserve currencies - dollar, gold, euro, more

International reserve currencies - dollar, gold, euro, more

Game Theory - courses

an introduction to game theory

Real Estate and the Economic Impact of COVID19 Coronavirus (USA)

Real Estate and the Economic Impact of COVID19 Coronavirus (USA)

Resources within this category

Article

Redividing the world. Governments across the world are discovering “homeland economics”

Special report, the world economy. Introducing industrial policy is a big mistake, argues Callum Williams | Special report (2023)


Article

Economic integration: How Asia is reinventing its economic model

A new Era of Asian commerce. How the continent at the heart of globalization is reinventing itself. The continent’s future will involve less Weste... (2023)


Article

Industrial policy. Diluted about manufacturing.

An industrial arms race is underway. America, welcomes it, saying the world needs green technologies and a diversified supply of chips. But, Subsid... (2023)


Article

De-growth: Meet the lefty Europeans who want to shrink the economy

De-growers of the world, unite! | Europe Stop the economy, lefty Europeans want to get off. “Panels of citizens can advise what is wasteful ... (2023)


Article

Africa’s debts. Africa faces a mounting debt crisis

Rising rates are hurting some of its brightest economic stars. Some of the continent’s brightest economic stars are in serious trouble (2023)


Article

The battle for Europe’s economic soul | The Economist

Policymakers in Brussels ready their response to America’s protectionism | Finance & economics (2023)


Article

Opinion | Inequality and the Piketty Accounting Error - WSJ

The stock-market crash, not high FDR-era taxes, caused the ‘great leveling’ of the middle 20th century. By Phillip W. Magness and Vincent Gelos... (2022)


Article

Escaping from Malthusian stagnation - Unit 2 Technology, population, and growth – The Economy

How improvements in technology happen, and how they sustain growth in living standards (2022)


Article

Breaking out of the Malthusian trap: How pandemics allow us to understand why our ancestors were stuck in poverty

For much of human history, our ancestors were trapped in an economy in which incomes were determined by the size of the population. The Industrial ... (2022)


Article

Why Latin America’s economy has been so badly hurt by covid-19 | The Economist

Global GDP contracted by 3% last year, but that of Latin America and the Caribbean fell by 7% | The Americas (2021)


Article

Supply Shortages - The Bottleneck Economy | The Economist

Supply shortages are acute in America | Leaders The coming global economic boom could have a sting in the tail… (2021)


Article

The broader lesson from booming copper prices - commodities | The Economist

Shortages in commodity markets offer a paradigm for the post-virus economy | Finance & economics (2021)


Article

The Ultimate Guide to Inflation

This article explains how inflation is defined, what causes price inflation, how CPI is calculated, and how to protect yourself from inflation. (2021)


Article

Ever closer union?Europe’s radical economic response to covid-19

The EU can now borrow, but how well can the member nations spend? | Briefing (2021)


Article

Post-Covid America Isn’t Going to Be Anything Like the Roaring ’20s - POLITICO

Hopes of a repeat of the post-influenza Roaring ’20s are understandable, but misunderstand the differences between then and now, says historian Joh... (2021)


Article

Fintech’s Final Frontier: Central Banks and Disintermediation - a16z

The government should turn every social security number into a unique and secure bank account, enabling it to deposit money directly to consumers. ... (2021)


Article

What 1919 Teaches Us About Pent-Up Demand : Planet Money

A hundred years ago, a world war and a pandemic wreaked havoc on baseball and other industries. But pent-up demand helped them come roaring back. (2021)


Article

Turn on the spigot - The EU’s €750bn recovery plan comes one step closer

It’s part of an overall €1.8trn package (2020)


Article

U.S. States Face Biggest Cash Crisis Since the Great Depression

The drop in income and sales tax revenue has created a historic crisis for states, with a total shortfall expected in the hundreds of billions of d... (2020)


Article

The corporate undead - Why covid-19 will make killing zombie firms off harder

Easier access to credit and government support means they will stumble on (2020)


Article

Hard work and black swans - Economists are turning to culture to explain wealth and poverty

As a result, the ideas of the earliest economists are being revised and improved (2020)


Article

Buck up - Global trade’s dependence on dollars lessens its benefits

Policymakers around the world yearn to be free of the greenback’s grip (2020)


Article

Raising the floor - What harm do minimum wages do?

Three decades of research have led to a rethink (2020)


Article

Rising Seas Threaten an American Institution: The 30-Year Mortgage - The New York Times

Climate change is starting to transform the classic home loan, a fixture of the American experience and financial system that dates back generations. (2020)


Article

International banking - Geopolitics and technology threaten America’s financial dominance | Special report

And now the covid-19 pandemic is precipitating a split, says Matthieu Favas (2020)


Article

Opinion | In the Race for a Coronavirus Vaccine, We Must Go Big. Really, Really Big. - The New York Times

We should commit tens of billions toward a program. “ Today, the U.S. government could go big and create a Covid-19 vaccine A.M.C., guaranteeing... (2020)


Article

Europe's economy was hit hard too, but jobs didn't disappear like in the U.S. — NPR

Many governments, especially in European countries, are handling unemployment differently, paying companies to keep their workers on the payroll un... (2020)


Article

“Instead of coronavirus, the hunger will kill us.” A global food crisis looms. — The New York Times

The world has never faced a hunger emergency like this, experts say. It could double the number of people facing acute hunger to 265 million by the... (2020)


Article

This is what it will take to get us back outside (April 2020)

It’s becoming increasingly clear how we can get back outside and back to work—although not exactly back to normal. (2020)


Article

What Everyone’s Getting Wrong About the Toilet Paper Shortage

Around the world, in countries afflicted with the coronavirus, stores are sold out of toilet paper. There have been shortages in Hong Kong, Austral... (2020)


Video

How does raising interest rates control inflation? | The Economist

When central banks raise interest rates, the impact is felt far and wide. Mortgages become more expensive, house prices might fall and unemployment... (2022)


Video

Evictions (housing) - Coronavirus IX, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

LastWeekTonight With evictions on the rise due to coronavirus, John Oliver discusses the long struggle with housing in the US, why it’s gotten ... (2020)


Video

The Economics of Uber

PolyMatter Published on Jul 13, 2018 (2018)


Video

Game Theory - An Introductory Taste

A high-level overview of the material covered in the "Game Theory Online" course (http://www.game-theory-class.org), featuring Matt Jackson (Stanfo... (2018)


Video

The Tragedy of the Commons

In this video, we take a look at common goods. Common resources are nonexcludable but rival. For instance, no one can be excluded from fishing for ... (2018)


Video

How to Win with Game Theory & Defeat Smart Opponents | Kevin Zollman

If you want to win, it's best to think crazy like a fox. Nobody knows this better than Kevin Zollman — a nationally recognized expert in game theor... (2018)


Video

Game Theory and Oligopoly: Crash Course Economics #26

Would you like to play a game, Dr. Falken? Actually, this episode isn't really about games, or Matthew Broderick, or Thermonuclear War. But enough ... (2018)


Video

5 Ways People Are Dumb About Money - PBS

Not only do we as humans make financial mistakes, our mistakes are predictable! Here's the story of how we learned that we can predict our mistakes... (2018)


Video

Puzzle of Growth: Rich Countries and Poor Countries - Marginal Revolution University

Marginal Revolution University Published on Feb 16, 2016 Throughout this section of the course, we’ve been trying to solve a complicated economic... (2018)


Video

Game of Theories: The Great Recession - Marginal Revolution University

Marginal Revolution University Published on Dec 5, 2017 Tyler Cowen puts Keynesian, monetarist, real business cycle, and Austrian theories to w... (2018)


Video

The Monetary System Visually Explained

A great visual explanation of how monetary systems work. (2018)


Video

What causes economic bubbles? - Prateek Singh

During the 1600’s, the exotic tulip became a nationwide sensation; som... (2018)


Video

Puerto Rico: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

LastWeekTonight, 2016 "Puerto Rico is suffering a massive debt crisis. Lin-Manuel Miranda joins John Oliver to call for relief. (2017)


Video

Why can't we just print money to pay off debt?

Published on Aug 31, 2013 A video looking at way you can't simply print money to pay off debt. And what has happened when countries have tried to!... (2017)


Podcast

Market forces at Christmas tree auctions : Planet Money : NPR

Nick and Robert head to the world's largest Christmas tree auction with $1,000 and a truck. And get schooled in the tree market. | Subscribe to our... (2021)


Podcast

Solving Baumol's Cost Disease, in Healthcare - a16z

Why does the cost of education and healthcare services continue to rise rapidly, while the cost of goods rise much more slowly? According to econom... (2020)


Podcast

How Fake Money Saved Brazil : Planet Money : NPR

An economist and his grad-school buddies tricked the people of Brazil into saving the country's economy. Twenty years ago, Brazil's inflation... (2017)


Book

Development as Freedom - by Amartya Sen

Development as Freedom book. Read 238 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. By the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics, a... (2020)


Book

The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty - by Daron Acemoğlu

The Narrow Corridor book. Read 107 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. 'A must-read. Acemoglu and Robinson are intellectual hea... (2020)


Book

A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World from Prehistory to Today by William J. Bernstein

" If the Baldwin book doesn’t convince you of the importance of trade, this account of its historical role should. It is no coincidence that the gr... (2018)


Book

The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New Globalization by Richard Baldwin

"An essential book for understanding how modern trade works via global supply chains. An antidote to the protectionist nonsense being peddled by so... (2018)


Book

Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed

"This is the story of the Great Depression as told through the lives of the central bankers who tried and failed to deal with the crisis. As one, M... (2018)


Book

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoğlu

"The best explanation of the “institutional” school of economics. Why “inclusive institutions” promote growth and extractive ones don’t." - The Eco... (2018)


Book

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

When asked simple questions about global trends—what percentage of the world’s population live in poverty; why the world’s population is increasing... (2018)


SlideShare

Trade Theory and Competitive Advantage: TBird internatinal economics class 05

Published on May 30, 2009 Series of lectures from Brian Butler, given during fall 2008 session at Thunderbird Global MBA, Miami campus: This ... (2018)


SlideShare

Trade Economics: TBird international economics class 06

Published on May 30, 2009 Series of lectures from Brian Butler, given during fall 2008 session at Thunderbird Global MBA, Miami campus: This ... (2018)


SlideShare

International Trade: TBird international economics class 04

Published on May 30, 2009 Series of lectures from Brian Butler, given during fall 2008 session at Thunderbird Global MBA, Miami campus: This ... (2018)


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