Is rising inequality necessarily bad? A discussion with Sal Khan.
A discussion of the virtues and/or vices of short selling. Created by Sal Khan.
An introduction to the Italian front in World War I
Italy backs out of Triple Alliance
An overview of Japanese Imperialism in the 19th and 20th centuries. Discussion of imperial powers in East Asia, the Opium Wars and the Meiji Restoration.
An introduction to Japan in World War I
Using Baker v. Carr to discuss judicial activism versus judicial restraint.
Overview of the Byzantine Empire under its greatest strength under Justinian and then eventual slow decline over the next 900 years. Code of Justinian. Hagia Sophia. Empress Theodora's role in putting down the Nika Riots.
Working through a calculation for K-Ar dating (good to have some prior experience with e and logarithms). Created by Sal Khan.
Analyzing planned expenditures versus actual output using the Keynesian Cross. Created by Sal Khan.
More on shifting aggregate planned expenditures. Connecting to the multiplier. Created by Sal Khan.
Contrasting Keynesian and Classical Thinking. Created by Sal Khan.
Overview of the Knights Templar and their role as international banking pioneers during the Crusades.
The origins and progress of the Korean War. Created by Sal Khan.
The origins and progress of the Korean War. Created by Sal Khan.
London InterBank Offer Rate. Created by Sal Khan.
How the theory of liquidity preference drives demand for money and the LM (liquidity preference-money supply) curve. Created by Sal Khan.
The basis of the labor supply curve is the tradeoff of labor and leisure. When wages increase, the opportunity cost of leisure increases and people supply more labor. Interestingly, this is not always the case! At higher wages, the marginal benefit of higher wages becomes lower and when it drops below the marginal benefit of leisure, people switch to more leisure and less labor. This leads to the rather unusual looking backward bending labor supply curve.
Overview of gene regulation in the Lac operon. Discussion of CAP, cAMP, lac repressor and allolactose in regulation of lac operon.
Lactic acid fermentation. How organisms like lactobacillus convert pyruvic acid to lactic acid and oxidize NADH to NAD+ in the process.