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3. Capitalism and Political Economy     4. Sundry Political Economy     5. Politics

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1. Microeconomics from You Tube 

1. Moving vs. Shifting Demand
2: Algebra of Supply and Demand

3: Producer Taxes and Consumer Taxes Have Same Effect

4: Normative vs. Positive (The Wide Scope of Economics)
5: Introduction to Preferences
6: Marginal Rate of Substitution and Marginal Utility
6A: Marginal Rate of Substitution and Marginal Utility
7: Budget Constraints and Utility Maximization
8: An Example of Indifference Curve Analysis
9: Where do demand curves come from?
9A: Deriving Demand using Calculus
10: Income and Substitution Effects
11: The Giffen Good (When Demand Slopes Upward)
11A: The Slutsky Equation and Demand Curves
 12: Diminishing M U Doesn't Mean Down Sloping demand
13. Basics of Elasticity
14: Inelastic Means Paying More Taxes
15A: Budget Constraint Elasticity's (Calculus-Based)
16: Compensating Variation and Equivalent Variation
16A: More on CV and EV
17A: Cost Minimization, Production and Lagrangians
17: Mapping Consumer Theory to Producer Theory
18: Marginal Benefit Equals Marginal Cost
19: Short Run Production, Marginal and Average Product
20: Short Run Cost Curves from Short Run Production
21: Price-taking firms, supply and marginal cost
22: Industry supply, and the role of entry and exit
23: Relating short run and long run cost curves
24A: The Envelope Theorem (Part I)
24B The Envelope Theorem (Part 2)
25: Adding Demand and Supply Curves Horizontally
 26: Consumer Surplus and Producer Surplus
27 Deadweight Loss and The Efficiency Criterion
28: International Trade and Efficiency
31: Intuition for Monopoly and Elasticity
29: Monopoly Basics
29A: Marginal Revenue for a Monopolist
29B: Monopoly on the Elastic Portion of Demand
30: The Deadweight Loss of Monopoly

2. Topics for Economic Discussions
 A From Kingston Univ. London Written by John Lounsbury

1. Why Economist Disagree? 1 hr 8 min

Lecture 2  The Mainstream and Why General Equilibrium is Unstable

Lecture 3 The Austrians. Real Knowledge, Disequilibrium Credit

Lecture 4 The Post Keynesians: Realism Uncertainty, Endogenous Money and
Financial Instability

Lecture 5 The Common Blind spot on the Environment

Lecture 6 Minsky, Financial Instability, The Great Depression and the Global Financial Crisis

Lecture 7 Why the Euro is Destroying Europe

Lecture 8 The Fallacies Underlying Quantitative Easing

Lecture 9 Austerity, Budget Surpluses and "Sound Finance"

Lecture 10 Not Learning From the History of Money

Lecture 11 Inequality

 B. Modern Monetary Theory

Demystifying Modern Monetary
What Modern Monetary Theory Tells Us About Economic Policy
Why the Elite are Living In an Economic Fantasy
MMT vs. Austrian School Debate

C. Modern Money & Public Purpose
1: The Historical Evolution of Money and Debt
2: Governments Are Not Households
3: The Eurozone
 4. Real vs. Nominal Economy

D. Debt
Debt Caused Recession Coming 7 min video
 Ray Dalio On Debt Cycle 25 min video

4. Sundry Political Economy

 
Micro
 Absolute and Comparative Advantage

Ecological Macroeconomics Part 1  

Part 2
   
Part 3  

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man   Part 2  

 

Macro
 In Defense of Keynes

Macroeconomic Disasters since 1870, Henry George Lecture

 Akerlof-Critique of Neoclassical Macroeconomics Part 1     Part 2 

Monetary Theory and Policy Course from University of Oregon 18 videos
 

Problems with GDP as an Economic Barometer - J. Stiglitz

History of Trade Wars from 1500’s Mercantilists Thru Today 39 min video

Trump's Trade War Affects Working-class Americans from The Conversation

 

4. Politics

Century of Enslavement: The History of The Federal Reserve

Nazism And Neoliberal Mythmaking, Part I: German Reconstruction As State-Phobia

Part II: The State As Killer

Part III – Europe and the Centre-Left Fall under Hayek’s Spell

Part V -A Map of Hayeks Delusion

5. For a little humor try

Principles of Economics, Translated
Rodney Dangerfield's First Economics Class

Ali G - Economics and Selling Stocks High