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BARE shelves in food shops have been a sadly common sight in Zimbabwe or Venezuela, but are surely unimaginable in wealthy, well-run France? Yet in... (2017)
The Economist, 2017: "A weaker dollar and an energy boom are pushing up pay... "In 2015 median household income, adjusted for inflation, rose 5... (2017)
2017: "Bitcoin climbed as much as 10% on Zimbabwe’s Golix exchange on Wednesday after the country’s armed forces seized power. The price of th... (2017)
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)
A full-time job is increasingly rare... The conventional full-time job is disappearing. Survey research conducted by economists Lawrence Katz of H... (2017)
In the expensive U.S. coastal metros, home prices have detached from construction costs and can be almost four times as high as the cost of rebuild... (2017)
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)
The nominal price of a can of coke is a few cents. In actuality, it costs much more. The scientific consensus is that dietary sugar is a major con... (2017)
Argentina’s president is idolised by the Trumpian right. They should get to know him better | Leaders (2024)
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)
Special report, the world economy. Introducing industrial policy is a big mistake, argues Callum Williams | Special report (2023)
The new Brazil. It is a land of “roughs”, not playboys. The hinterland is getting political and cultural clout | The Americas (2023)
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)
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)
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)
An industrial arms race is underway. America, welcomes it, saying the world needs green technologies and a diversified supply of chips. But, Subsid... (2023)
Patricia Bullrich and Javier Milei are rising in the polls for this year’s presidential election | The Americas The annual inflation rate, of 11... (2023)
We calculate the continent’s exposure to China | International How should Europe handle China? The continent is trying to decide. After decades ... (2023)
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)
Rising rates are hurting some of its brightest economic stars. Some of the continent’s brightest economic stars are in serious trouble (2023)
It is struggling to use nearly €200bn of EU cash | Europe (2023)
Policymakers in Brussels ready their response to America’s protectionism | Finance & economics (2023)
Crunch time for a business model built on Russian gas and Chinese demand | Business (2022)
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)
How improvements in technology happen, and how they sustain growth in living standards (2022)
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)
As covid-19 rages, many poorer people can no longer afford enough food | The Americas Brazilians are increasingly going hungry… (2021)
Global GDP contracted by 3% last year, but that of Latin America and the Caribbean fell by 7% | The Americas (2021)
Supply shortages are acute in America | Leaders The coming global economic boom could have a sting in the tail… (2021)
Shortages in commodity markets offer a paradigm for the post-virus economy | Finance & economics (2021)
LastWeekTonight, 2016 "Puerto Rico is suffering a massive debt crisis. Lin-Manuel Miranda joins John Oliver to call for relief. (2017)
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)
Nigeria’s Growth Is Unsustainable. Here’s Why. (2024)
Why Indonesia's Economy Matters and Its Unexpected Growth | Indonesian Economy (2023)
Rampant inflation, a booming black market for US dollars and crippling debt - welcome to Argentina, one of the world's most dysfunctional economies... (2023)
French President Emmanuel Macron’s government invoked a special provision called Article 49 Thursday to push through a controversial pensions overh... (2023)
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 (2021)
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)
PolyMatter Published on Jul 13, 2018 (2018)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Marginal Revolution University Published on Feb 16, 2016 Throughout this section of the course, we’ve been trying to solve a complicated economic... (2018)
Marginal Revolution University Published on Feb 16, 2016 Throughout this section of the course, we’ve been trying to solve a complicated economic... (2018)
Marginal Revolution University Published on Dec 5, 2017 Tyler Cowen puts Keynesian, monetarist, real business cycle, and Austrian theories to w... (2018)
Marginal Revolution University Published on Jun 13, 2017 Think about what restricts your choices when it comes to buying goods and services. Yo... (2018)
A great visual explanation of how monetary systems work. (2018)
During the 1600’s, the exotic tulip became a nationwide sensation; som... (2018)
LastWeekTonight, 2016 "Puerto Rico is suffering a massive debt crisis. Lin-Manuel Miranda joins John Oliver to call for relief. (2017)
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)
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)
There was one time the U.S. federal government stopped borrowing and paid off every penny of national debt. It did not end well… (2021)
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)
An economist and his grad-school buddies tricked the people of Brazil into saving the country's economy. Twenty years ago, Brazil's inflation... (2018)
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 book. Read 107 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. 'A must-read. Acemoglu and Robinson are intellectual hea... (2020)
"The best explanation of the “institutional” school of economics. Why “inclusive institutions” promote growth and extractive ones don’t." - The Eco... (2018)
" 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)
"An essential book for understanding how modern trade works via global supply chains. An antidote to the protectionist nonsense being peddled by so... (2018)
"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)
"The best explanation of the “institutional” school of economics. Why “inclusive institutions” promote growth and extractive ones don’t." - The Eco... (2018)
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)