One million dollars or all the world's knowledge of economics?

A friend asked about videos available on the internet useful for teaching Econ 101. Here is my list.

On top would be the Video Economics and Brad De long’s Morning Coffee Videocasts.

University of Munich has a great series of video lectures including this debate between James Buchanan and Richard Musgrave.

World Bank and IMF have a series of webcasts; their book presentations and special lecture series like the Global Seminar Series are quite good.

The UN also a series of videos like U-Thant lecture series, WIDER Annual Lecture, and Global Seminar Series.

Various events at places like Cato and AEI are great. Here’s just a sample; Undercover Economist, Moral Consequences of Economic Growth, How Economics Can Help Courts Devise Legal Standards for Dismissing Claims and Summary Judgment, Myths, Lies and Downright Stupidity.

University events are another source of material; start with University Channel, Princeton University webcasts, Harvard’s JFK School of Government’s video archive, MIT’s OpenCourseWare also has some of its lectures in video like this course in Differential Equations. Remember to visit MIT World™ ; free and open site that provides on-demand video of significant public events at MIT.

University of California Television is another great source; see under Teacher's Pet On-Demand Programs which includes Principles of Economics section. I didn’t quite understand why they included Jared Diamond’s presentation on Collapse under the ‘Principles of American Democracy’ category.

On world development themes there’re various events and series on the web; World Bank is best starting point, OECD has some webcasts (it’s not easy to find it on their website, they don’t even have an index on the website), World Economic Forum.

Miscellaneous; Some Economic principles books come with videos nowadays like Krugman’s, Hoover’s Uncommon Knowledge series, PBS programs like the Beautiful Mind, Foreign Exchange TV, A World Connected.

In case you need to convince students to study economics here’s initiative started by a UK group; “we challenged groups of students around the country (and beyond!) to make short films about what economics means to them, and to show us a glimpse of university life.”

One short film asks the question in the title; what would be your reaction? Would welcome comments, additions and thoughts.