508 Videos
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A Market for Votes?
Nov 16, 2018
Michael Sandel and Joe Stiglitz discuss why selling votes is bad for democracy, and how individual self-interest doesn’t always serve the public good
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Money Matters
Nov 7, 2018
Neoclassical economics dismisses the role of money and the state in the economy. Keynes scholar Robert Skidlesky says it’s time for a re-evaluation.
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The Rise of Fake News
Nov 2, 2018
Right-wing news sources have stopped playing by the rules of journalism
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The Rise of China and the Future of Work
Oct 29, 2018
The Rise of China and the Future of WorkArtificial intelligence could replace routine jobs but allow us to “pursue dreams”
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Can America Survive the Rule of a “Stupified Plutocracy”?
Oct 24, 2018
Donald Trump, democracy, and how the wealthy crush the American Dream
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New Economic Thinking Needs Old Ideas
Oct 17, 2018
Investigating the history of economic thought fuels innovative thinking
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Can AI Free Humans from ‘Routine’ Work?
Oct 10, 2018
Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to replace routine jobs, says Dr. Kai-Fu Lee. But done right, that process could allow us to “pursue dreams, spend time with our loved ones and find out why we exist as humans”
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The End of American Exceptionalism
Oct 3, 2018
“We don’t look after each other at all,” says Jeffrey Sachs on America today
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How Economics Became a Cult
Sep 26, 2018
Steve Keen: “What an education in economics does is make you into a zealot
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How Despair Fueled Trump
Sep 19, 2018
Trump’s surprise win areas looked like a drug overdose map
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George Soros: 10 Years After the Crash
Sep 15, 2018
George Soros and Rob Johnson Discuss the Causes and Consequences of the 2008 Financial Crisis
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The Economy’s Cuban Missile Crisis
Sep 12, 2018
In 2008 a global financial meltdown was just barely contained. But Adam Tooze says that the crisis of confidence has had long aftershocks
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Why Economists Failed to Predict the Financial Crisis
Sep 5, 2018
10 years later, Nobel laureate George Akerlof says the walls within economics need to come down
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Global Inequality is a Threat to Democracy
Aug 29, 2018
Winnie Byanyima shows how we all suffer when corporations evade taxes
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What Economists Can Learn from Hippies
Aug 22, 2018
Behind sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll were moral values, says music industry veteran Danny Goldberg