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The Campaign to Change Economics Education (Reupload)

Hey, it was drawn to my attention that making these little videos members-only on YouTube killed the link for Patrons, so I'm reuploading a few. Many of you may not have seen them - bear in mind th...

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Behavioural Economics (Reupload)



Hey, it was drawn to my attention that making these little videos members-only on YouTube killed the link for Patrons, so I'm reuploading a few. Many of you may not have seen them - bear in...

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Health & Economics (Reupload)

Hey, it was drawn to my attention that making these little videos members-only on YouTube killed the link for Patrons, so I'm reuploading a few. Many of you may not have seen them - bear in mind th...

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Everything Was Already AI (Rough Cut)

Feedback welcome, hope you enjoy this video which was a lot of fun to make!

References (in rough order of appearance)

How to Make Realistic Predictions About AI, Tantha...

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Online Toxicity: A Hypothesis (Patreon-Only)

Let me know if it's worth making more effortful Patreon videos by liking/commenting so I can get an idea of audience

I'm not interested in drama, I am merely a passive observer of online dyna...

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Free Trade is Dead. This is What Should Replace It. (Rough Cut)

Thumbnail and title are WIP.

Suggestions also welcome, ideas so far:

  • The Death of Free Trade

  • Is Free Trade Dead/Finished/Over?

ly xoxo

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Everything Was Already AI (Script)

howdy all, I'd really appreciate any feedback on this early draft!

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Downton Abbey and the Origin of Capitalism

Hey guys, this is the patreon version, you may prefer to watch this as I may have to distort/cut clips for YouTube.

Any feedback on explanations is welcome, as this is mostly voiceover I can ...

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Anti-trust, Enshitification, Privacy, and "You're the Product": a Hypothesis

Sorry about the sweat, it is so fucking hot here!

Cory Doctorow on enshitification: https://www...

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Behavioural Freakonomics: A Non-Rant

(Mic is peaking, sorry I recorded twice lol)

Behavioural econ evidence they should have engaged with

Prospect Theory in the Wild: Evidence from the Field 2025-05-13 13:52:36 +0000 UTC View Post

Means TV Announcement/Question

Hey, pls watch this and give me your thoughts I need feedback xoxo

Downton Abbey script (unrelated):

2025-05-09 10:09:40 +0000 UTC View Post

The Death of Freakonomics (Draft)

Hey guys, hope you like it - LMK in particular how you feel about the intro (not the first minute, obvs that's lit, I mean the part before the first proper section as we rejigged it a lot).

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Why Don’t Markets Provide Social Insurance? (Sowell Follow-Up #2)

References (in rough order of appearance)

The Welfare State as Piggy Bank, Barr

The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, Keynes

2025-03-26 12:54:59 +0000 UTC View Post

Why We're Getting Poorer Release!

Yo everyone, WWGP is out on 13th March, use the code ECON25 to get a discount only before release date. Preorders really help so please consider it!

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Poverty, Needs, and Inequality (Sowell Follow-Up #1)

An open conversation!

References (in rough order of appearance)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yC0dsTtR...

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Freakonomics: A Retrospective (Draft)

Recording this soon, penny for your thoughts

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Thomas Sowell and the American Dream

Howdy y'all

This could have used another sweep but I thought I'd give you this version before the Xmas break. In particular, I think the intro needs a bit more work; FD Signifier's cameo is ...

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Astonishingly Poor Empirics, Cockshott Edition

If you want to revisit some basic statistics to understand why Paul Cockshott's tests of the Labour Theory of Value suck, I wrote this!

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Freakonomics and Race: A Rant

Me losing my shit xoxo

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Quantitative Analysis of the Labour Theory of Value (Marxism pt 2)

Hope this helps y'all understand

Blair Fix post 2024-10-31 19:38:12 +0000 UTC View Post

Thomas Sowell and the American Dream (Script)

Hi everyone, I'm looking for feedback on part two of the Sowell trilogy. I'd really appreciate any comments you have.

It's a long 'un, probably similar in length to the first one, but ...

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Why is Labour the Source of Value? (Marxism pt 1)

My value video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z2LCNAVfMw&


Viktor's video: 2024-09-30 18:53:17 +0000 UTC View Post

READING GROUP ANNOUNCEMENT

Hello to everyone who has signed up since the new video and thank you for your support, it's been incredible.

If you are on £5/month or above, you will be able to access the reading group. I...

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NEW VIDEO: The Air We Breathe (Draft)

Hello everyone!! Here is my latest video, I tried something a bit different, hope you like it!

Any feedback welcome before I put it out on the main channel :)

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UE Scripts Now Available in Readable Form!

Hey all, whenever I get a spare moment I've been editing old scripts into a readable form so I can upload them for you all. So far I've done my first four videos, which together are about as long a...

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Patron-Only Vid: 'Coming Out' as an Institutional Economist

References:

Fischer, Liliann, Joe Hasell, J. Christopher Proctor, David Uwakwe, Zach Ward-Perkins, and Catriona Watson. Rethinking economics. Taylor & Francis, 2017.

Hodgso...

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Patron-Only Vid: the Myth of Market Failure

Hey all, the angle is a bit strange for some reason - we moved the living room around, possibly for the worse. Plus the mic is peaking a bit at the start.

Anyway, hope you enjoy it! xo...

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Draft Script: The Air We Breathe

Hello everyone, I've been working on this script while I finish off my book. It's a bit shorter than the Sowell vids - though as you'll see it's a kind of covert Sowell part 1.5.

I'd REALLY ...

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Why I Left Academia (Patron-Only)

Hello everyone, hope these reflections are interesting xoxo

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NEW VIDEO: Thomas Sowell is Worse Than I Thought Pt. 1 (Draft, No Sponsor)

IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME COMING HERE IT IS 

Lemme know any issues or feedback before I release it to the unwashed masses xoxox


UPDATE: thanks for so many help comments, jus...

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