Video and Audio Lectures in Principles of Microeconomics
Recorded videos from live online discussions, each lasting around half an hour, aiming "to increase understanding of the economy: what it is, and how it works, and all in Plain English". The first interviewees are Professor Graeme Roy, University of Glasgow; Professor Sir Dieter Helm, University of Oxford; and Dr Arun Advani, University of Warwick.
This is a collection of short YouTube videos that use narrated drawings and graphs to introduce basic concepts including market structures, comparative advantage and elasticity of demand.
This channel has more than fifty "Micro-lectures on Microeconomics", using spreadsheets and audio narration to explain topic in a few minutes. The spreadsheets themselves are downloadable from the video descriptions.
The videos on this YouTube channel are extracted from lectures in economics and in Managerial Finance, including some made direct to camera. They are organised into playlists around different themes including "Macroeconomics - basic models" and "Linear Demand Elasticities". The lecturer is based in an unspecified US institution.
A complete online course, adapted from a course delivered on-campus at MIT in the Spring of 2018. It includes a set of lecture videos, assigned readings, problem sets with the solutions explained in videos, and an exam. The course assumes a high-school knowledge of calculus and covers the principles of consumer behaviour, firm behaviour, market structure and policy relevance.
A series of YouTube animated videos explaining basic micro concepts such as prisoner's dilemma, public versus private goods, internal versus external costs, profit maximisation versus efficiency maximisation.
Clifford, an Advanced Placement Economics teacher based in California, uses YouTube to share many short videos of him explaining economic concepts, organised into playlists around micro and macro concepts. As of Summer 2016, his economics videos have had many millions of views, with the most popular getting around half a million each. They are freely reusable for non-commercial purposes.
An ongoing series of YouTube videos, of about ten minutes each, combining live presenters (a school teacher and TV presenter) with animation. Each video has closed captioning and suggested links for further study. The series was released from Summer 2015 to Summer 2016. There are 35 videos on topics including globalization, price signals, environmental economics, market failure, and the 2008 crash. Some of the content reflects the US origin of the videos. Crash Course is crowd-funded.
An introduction to microeconomics in the form of 114 cartoon-style video lessons, averaging 8 minutes long, divided into ten chapters. Watching the videos, reading the full text transcripts, or taking the self-test multi-choice quizzes, requires registration on the site. The authors are named in each section.
A playlist of 79 short videos, totalling around 12 hours, from an open online course for beginners. These videos first went online in 2015 and mostly combine slides with in-camera presentation, although a few make use of sophisticated animation. On the MRUniversity site for the course, the videos come with download options, self-test questions and a discussion facility.
Video and Audio from a public lecture given on 11 November 2015 by Nobel laureate Shiller.
"Ever since Adam Smith, the central teaching of economics has been that free markets provide us with material well-being, as if by an invisible hand. Robert Shiller delivers a fundamental challenge to this insight, arguing that markets harm as well as help us. As long as there is profit to be made, sellers will systematically exploit our psychological weaknesses and our ignorance through manipulation and deception. Rather than being essentially benign and always creating the greater good, markets are inherently filled with tricks and traps and will 'phish' us as 'phools.'"
Inspired by the 2005 paper "Do Economists Recognize an Opportunity Cost When They See One?", this 3-minute video presents a simple problem of identifying opportunity cost, albeit one on which most PhD economists in a survey performed worse than chance. The presenter blogs and creates YouTube videos and books about mathematics, logic and game theory.
Hundreds of videos (mostly in English, but some in Afrikaans) on economic principles. Some are in chalk-and-talk format, while others use narrated animation. They are organised by topic into playlists. The most popular videos are the Keynesian multiplier, the IS-LM model, and absolute and comparative advantage.
Seven sections subdivided into a total of 22 topics, each of which has a short playlist of YouTube videos, with accompanying transcripts.
A four minute video, with sophisticated animation, explaining Hotelling's Model of Spatial Competition and using spatial competition as an example of a Nash Equilibrium. There is an 8-question multi-choice test to reinforce the lesson of the video. TED Ed is a non-profit organisation.
In this 21-minute video lecture filmed in March 2007, a former senior economist with the World Bank outlines the importance of market infrastructure to the prosperity and happiness of Africans. She describes her plan to transform Ethiopia's economy by creating the ECEX commodities market. Part of the TED series of talks, this video is produced to a high quality, viewable online with a fullscreen option, and downloadable for offline viewing.
