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MRUniversity: Development Economics (Audio)

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Cowen/Tabarrok: Will Machines Take Our Jobs?

Technological innovation has long triggered fears of mass unemployment. In fact, we’ve been...

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Cowen/Tabarrok: Rent or Buy?

Owning a home is a huge part of the American Dream. But is the dream of homeownership really all...

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Econ Duel: Is Education Signaling or Skill Building?

What’s the point of education? Do you learn about things, because the learning itself matters,...

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Asymmetric Information and Used Cars

George Akerlof, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, analyzed the theory of adverse selection – which...

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Asymmetric Information in Health Insurance

In this video, we discuss asymmetric information, adverse selection, and propitious selection in...

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Moral Hazard

Imagine you take your car in to the shop for routine service and the mechanic says you need a...

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Solutions to Moral Hazard

What are some solutions to moral hazard? We could try to make information less asymmetric —...

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Signaling

A signal is an action that reveals information. Let’s look at higher education, for example. A...

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Public Goods and Asteroid Defense

While the probability of an asteroid hitting the planet is very low, its effect would be...

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A Deeper Look at Public Goods

What do we mean by “nonexcludable” and “nonrival” when talking about public goods? Public goods...

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Club Goods

In this video we discuss club goods. Club goods are nonrival and excludable. For instance, HBO is...

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The Tragedy of the Commons

In this video, we take a look at common goods. Common resources are nonexcludable but rival. For...

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Introduction to Price Discrimination

Price discrimination is common: movie theaters charge seniors less money than they charge young...

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The Social Welfare of Price Discrimination

Now that we’ve learned a little about price discrimination, we can begin to think about whether...

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Tying

What is tying and how is this a form of price discrimination? An example of a tied good is an HP...

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Bundling

Bundling refers to when two or more goods are sold together as a package. Microsoft Office, Cable...

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The Marginal Product of Labor

In this video on the marginal product of labor, we discuss some commons questions such as: How...

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Human Capital and Signaling

Wages in America differ greatly among workers. Why is that? One reason includes differences in...

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The Tradeoff Between Fun and Wages

If you had to choose, would you rather be a sewer inspector spending your days underground or a...

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