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| Page Last Updated: October 17, 2011 8:52 AM | |||||
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| For Fun | |||||
| Herding Cats | |||||
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| Kettle Math | |||||
| Ma and Pa Kettle (from the 1930s movie comedy team) teach "true math" | |||||
| Who's On First | |||||
| Classic comedy sketch | |||||
| Ginger Rogers at 92 | |||||
| Rogers dancing with her great grandson. (Watch past the first 2 minutes.) | |||||
| The Virtual Choir | |||||
| Eric Whitacre's amazing choir | |||||
| Ed Ames on the Tonight Show | |||||
| Live T. V.'s longest sustained audience laugh | |||||
| The Standup Economist | |||||
| The European Union | |||||
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| Video Clips | |||||
Economic Growth |
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| 200 Counties, 200 Years, 4 minutes | |||||
| Economic growth and the extension of life spans | |||||
| The Magic Washing Machine | |||||
| How economic growth seems miraculous when it occurs | |||||
| The 1900 House (In Four Parts) | |||||
| Living in a house built andmantained using 1900 specs -- with all the amenities | |||||
| The Model T | |||||
| The American system of interchangeable parts and continuous process manufacturing | |||||
| Saving the World Using 1996 Technology | |||||
| Parody of Jack Bower, of the TV series "24," using the technology available in the mid 1990s . | |||||
| Making Space Pay and Having Fun Doing It. | |||||
| Jeff Greason, a rocket scientist, on the business of building a profitable rocket to space. | |||||
| The Morality of Profit | |||||
| Discussion of whether profit makes others better off or if it is earned by exploiting people. | |||||
| Comparative Advantage and Trade | |||||
| How I Built a Toaster from Scratch | |||||
| Self sufficiency is the formula for poverty, want, and drudgery | |||||
| Economic Institutions | |||||
| Constitutionality of the Health Care Law | |||||
| C_Span Coverage of the hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on February 1, 2011. The clip lasts 2 and a half hours. Move to minute 17 to get to get past the senators to the witnesses. | |||||
| Public Choice and Government Spending | |||||
| This short video (2 minutes) shows why Public Choice economists beleive it is so difficult for Congress to cut spending. | |||||
| Macroeconomics | |||||
| The Keynes vs. Hayek Rap Series | |||||
| "Fear of Boom and Bust" a Hayek vs. Keynes Rap Anthem | |||||
| Fight of the Century: Keynes vs. Hayek Round Two | |||||
| From Dorian Electra | |||||
| My Date With Keynes | |||||
| I'm In Love With Friedrich Hayek | |||||
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| Blogs and Opinion on Economics and Politics | |||||
| The Wall Street Journal Editorial Page | |||||
| Some of the articles are gated, but you can find them using ProQuest on the Dixie State College's library's database portals. | |||||
| The New York Times Editorial Page | |||||
| Find Paul Krugman (2009 Nobel Prize in Economics), David Brooks, Ross Douthat | |||||
| The Washington Post Editorial Page | |||||
| Find Robert J. Samuelson, George Will, Charles Krauthammer | |||||
| cafe hayek (Russ Roberts and Don Boudreaux at George Mason University) | |||||
| marginal revolution (Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok at George Mason University) | |||||
| greg mankiw (Harvard University) | |||||
| Mankiw's textbook, Greg Mankiw, Principles of Economics, ISBN 978-0324589979, is the best introduction to the principles of economics you can find. It is well organized, clearly written, and avoids jargon. | |||||
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| the big questions (Steve Landsburg at the University of Rochester) | |||||
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| Maps and Tables | |||||
| Link to the U.S. debt clock | |||||
| Link to the interactive version of the map below | |||||
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| Charts from Walton and Rockoff, Chapter One | |||||
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