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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)
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)
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)
The U.S. Tried to Build a New Fleet of Ventilators. The Mission Failed. - The New York Times
As the coronavirus spreads, the collapse of the project helps explain America’s acute shortage. The plan was to build a large fleet of inexpensi... (2020)
Opinion | The Monopolization of America - The New York Times
In one industry after another, big companies have become more dominant over the past 15 years, new data show. (2018)
A Guide to Statistics on Historical Trends in Income Inequality | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
The years from the end of World War II into the 1970s were ones of substantial economic growth and broadly shared prosperity. Beginning in the 1970... (2011)
Diversity helped Australia weather the resources bust - Beyond commodities - The Economist
TOWNSVILLE, A COASTAL city of 200,000 in the state of Queensland, owes its existence to commodities. The local agent for a Sydney merchant named Ro... (2018)
The libertarian think tank Niskanen Center is abandoning libertarianism — Quartz
Moderation is the way forward. (2018)
Why Paul Romer won the Nobel Prize in economics - Marginal REVOLUTION
It is hard to do better than Alex’s video on Romer, pretty much definitive and Romer liked it too. Most importantly, Romer won the Prize for seein... (2018)
Opinion | We’re Measuring the Economy All Wrong - The New York Times
The official statistics say that the financial crisis is behind us. It's not. (2018)
The Bloody Grab for Gold in Venezuela’s Most Dangerous Town - Bloomberg
With free rein from Maduro, the military cuts a violent swath through the failing state. Dispatches from ground zero, El Callao. (2018)
What Venezuelan savers can teach everyone else - The Economist
ASK the chief investment officer of a fund-management firm how to spread your investments and you will be told to put so much in stocks, so much in... (2018)
What Venezuelan savers can teach everyone else - The Economist
ASK the chief investment officer of a fund-management firm how to spread your investments and you will be told to put so much in stocks, so much in... (2018)
What’s the Yield Curve? ‘A Powerful Signal of Recessions’ Has Wall Street’s Attention - The New York Times
The bond market’s yield curve is perilously close to predicting a recession — something it has done with surprising accuracy — and it’s become a bi... (2018)
A $76,000 Monthly Pension: Why States and Cities Are Short on Cash - The New York Times
Governments are struggling as mounting pension obligations crowd out the rest of their budgets. Oregon faces a severe, self-inflicted crisis. (2018)
The Bloody Grab for Gold in Venezuela’s Most Dangerous Town - Bloomberg
With free rein from Maduro, the military cuts a violent swath through the failing state. Dispatches from ground zero, El Callao. (2018)
Post-Scarcity Economics
Los Angeles Review of Books: "Why are some pundits and economists still enamored of austerity? ... It is a paradox: our ever-growing productivity a... (2018)
The U.S. Drops Out of the Top 10 in Innovation Ranking - Bloomberg
Score another one for Seoul while Silicon Valley slides. "South Korea remained the global-innovation gold medalist for the fifth consecutive yea... (2018)
India to be the world's fastest-growing major economy for the next three years | World Bank — Quartz
GDP growth in India, Asia's third-largest economy, is set to bounce back to rates exceeding 7% for the next three years, according to the World Ban... (2018)
The Line Between Aggressive and Crazy
The story of the Kelly Criterion: the magic formula that can tell investors when to use leverage and how much risk is too much. Suppose I offer you... (2017)
Almost all the US jobs created since 2005 are temporary
A full-time job is increasingly rare... The conventional full-time job is disappearing. Survey research conducted by economists Lawrence Katz of H... (2017)
America Has a Monopoly Problem—and It’s Huge
The Nation, By Joseph E. Stiglitz, "The Nobel Prize winner argues that an economy dominated by large corporations has failed the many and enriched ... (2017)
Javier Milei: “My contempt for the state is infinite”
Argentina’s president is idolised by the Trumpian right. They should get to know him better | Leaders (2024)
Egypt: a crisis deferred
After pushing its economy to the brink, Egypt gets a bail-out. But a record-setting investment from the UAE will not fix its chronic problems | ... (2024)
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)
Brazil’s hinterland now resembles Texas
The new Brazil. It is a land of “roughs”, not playboys. The hinterland is getting political and cultural clout | The Americas (2023)
Asian integration: What Asia’s economic revolution means for the world
Investing in the neighborhood. Asia’s economies are coming closer together. That will benefit them, and the world. Links between the region’s count... (2023)
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)
Chile is still haunted by the coup in September 1973
Latin American history. Half a century later. Chile is still haunted by the coup in 1973, and is at odds over how to mark it. Gabriel Boric, th... (2023)
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)
Lagos: Nigeria’s Growth Is Unsustainable. Here’s Why.
Nigeria’s Growth Is Unsustainable. Here’s Why. (2024)
Why Indonesia's Economy Matters and Its Unexpected Growth | Indonesian Economy
Why Indonesia's Economy Matters and Its Unexpected Growth | Indonesian Economy (2023)
Why is Argentina’s economy such a mess?
Rampant inflation, a booming black market for US dollars and crippling debt - welcome to Argentina, one of the world's most dysfunctional economies... (2023)
The Most Important Economic Schools of Thought | Economics Explained
The Most Important Economic Schools of Thought | Economics Explained (2023)
France’s Pension Reforms: Why Is There So Much Opposition? | WSJ
French President Emmanuel Macron’s government invoked a special provision called Article 49 Thursday to push through a controversial pensions overh... (2023)
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)
The Economy of Greece - How Not to Manage a Nation
The Economy of Greece - How Not to Manage a Nation (2021)
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)
The Economics of Uber
PolyMatter Published on Jul 13, 2018 (2018)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Indifference Curves
Marginal Revolution University Published on Jun 13, 2017 Think about what restricts your choices when it comes to buying goods and services. Yo... (2018)
What causes economic bubbles? - Prateek Singh
During the 1600’s, the exotic tulip became a nationwide sensation; som... (2018)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)