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Economics Within One Square Kilometer
Think Like an Economist
Completed · 39 episodes
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Audio in Chinese
Wei Sen: Field Research and Real Cases Offer Another Way to Understand Economics Gao Quanxi: Understanding Economics Through the History of Economic Thought Leung Man-tao: Finding Great Economic Principles in Everyday Life The Most Important Thing Is to Understand Economics Through Life 01. Everyone at a Late-Night McDonald's Has a Story | The Difficulty of Obtaining Data 02. Comfortable Landlords Versus Struggling Tenants | Fairness and Efficiency 03. How Can Companies Stop Employees Slacking Off? | Incentives 04. Is International Trade Just Importing Local Specialties? | Inseparable Global Trade 05. Where Does the Wealth Gap Come From? | Distribution of Value 06. Are You Sure Your Milk Is 100 Percent Milk? | Division of Labor and Trust 07. When a Street Scallion Pancake Becomes a Luxury | Supply and Demand 08. A Transaction Is More Than Simply Buying and Selling | Matching 09. How Did Uniqlo Rise So Quickly in a Crowded Market? | Costs and Cost Accounting 10. Why Do Luxury Goods Never Go on Sale? | Price Elasticity of Demand 11. The Reliably Profitable Tobacco and Alcohol Business | Monopoly 12. Does a Raise Mean You Can Buy More? | Prices 13. From Paper Money to Mobile Payments | Currency Bonus | What Does the Renminbi Falling Past Seven Mean for Us? 14. Centuries of Street Wisdom | Bargaining 15. Do White-Collar Workers Really Earn More? | Wages and Discrimination 16. International Migrants Who Disappear into the Crowd | Migration 17. Is Overcharging Tourists a Global Taxi Custom? | Price Discrimination 18. Noisy Late-Night Bars and Sleepless Neighbors | Externalities and the Coase Theorem 19. Should Parks Charge Admission? | Public Goods and Common Resources 20. You Cannot Always Exchange Currency When You Want | Foreign Exchange and Rates 21. The Lipstick Boom During an Economic Downturn | Economic Fluctuations 22. Will Housing Prices Fall? | Real Estate Prices 23. Does an Annual Gym Membership Make You Exercise More? | Behavioral Economics 24. A Child Could Paint That—Why Did It Sell for Millions? | The Art Market Bonus | Liang Jie × Leung Man-tao: Can Economics Prescribe a Cure for Every Problem? 25. Controversial Markets and the Unsolved Problem of Universal Health Insurance | Health Economics 26. Is Education the Best Investment? | Human and Social Capital 27. Are Children's Extracurricular Skills a Manufactured Need? | Signaling 28. Who Will Pay the Pensions of the Elderly? | Population Aging 29. Shanghai: From a City of Waterways to a Concrete Forest | Urbanization 30. Does More Money Make Us Happier? | The Happiness Index Bonus | Smooth Travels Across the Millions of Kilometers Ahead Bonus | Where Is the Street-Stall Economy Headed? Bonus | Village Relocation Within One Square Kilometer