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All About Economics and Business 1 (51:01) Examining the nature of a market economy and how it works. This program discusses primary, secondary, and tertiary sectors of the economy. It looks at different economic models, from free market to communism and considers the effects of globalization.
Global Economies (22:00) Global economies are evolving at different speeds and facing both opportunities and challenges. Knowing the major markets and the stage of development for each allows businesses to determine how best to enter and expand. This video will review what is meant by the developed and developing worlds and will help viewers understand how to evaluate the expanding set of emerging market countries, which started as BRICs and has now expanded to include twenty-eight countries or more depending on the classifications used.
Intro to Economics (12:00) In which Jacob Clifford and Adriene Hill launch a brand new Crash Course on Economics! So, what is economics? Good question. It's not necessarily about money, or stock markets, or trade. It's about people and choices. What, you may ask, does that mean. We'll show you. Let's get started!
Is There a Relationship Between Anti-Trust Law, Economic Growth, and Democratic Development? (10:00) By means of a panel data analysis presented in this interview, NIELS PETERSEN explores the relation between anti-trust institutions, the level of democracy, and economic development. Panel data from 154 states dating from 1960 to 2005 cannot substantiate a positive relation between the existence of anti-trust law and democratic development; the empirical findings even suggest that there is only a weak link between anti-trust law and economic growth.
Resources and Scarcity—Economics U$A: 21st Century Edition (27:51) DESCRIPTION Faced with dwindling resources, Congress fiercely debated whether to preserve 100 million acres of Alaskan land as a national park, or open the land for mineral exploration. World War II saw an unprecedented period of economic growth. The need to mobilize resources overseas quickly was palpable. In the 1970s U.S. textile industries risked competitive advantage in increasingly active Asian markets by investing more in the health of their workers. In all investments there are trade-offs and choices. These stories show how the cost of using some resources sometimes comes at the expense of others.
What Role Does Life Expectancy Play for the Economic Development of Countries? (12:00) The findings on the relation between economic development and life expectancy at birth have long been contradictory. In the theoretical model and data analysis presented in this video it is shown that prolongation of life expectancy is a turning point for economic development: As UWE SUNDE explains, the effect of life expectancy on income is negative before the transition to low birth and death rates, and positive afterwards. The findings show that investments in health are crucial to trigger the development of countries.
[Series] Global Economics This four-part series provides a foundation for studying the political economy of international trade, finance, development, and natural resource competition. 4-part series, 33-39 minutes each.

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Economic Development: A Global Challenge (36:13)