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This is a list of courses on economics — from the UBI debate to post-scarcity thinking and the future of money. Let us know if you find these useful!
Earth's Economy in Star Trek EXPLAINED
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The tour that opens the whole thought experiment: how the Federation actually functions without money — replicators, the New World Economy, and what people work for when nobody gets paid. Part of our Beyond Currency series. @OrangeRiver
See the full series on BeyondCurrencyHayek and the Socialist Calculation Problem
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Marginal Revolution University explains the classic case against every planned economy: prices as a compression algorithm for dispersed, tacit knowledge that no central planner can gather. The objection any honest post-monetary proposal has to answer first. Part of our Beyond Currency series. @MarginalRevolutionUniversity
See the full series on BeyondCurrencyCharles Eisenstein on the Gift Economy
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The Guardian's interview with theorist Charles Eisenstein on the core principle of a gift economy — status flows from what you give away, not what you hoard, so the more you give, the richer you are. Part of our Beyond Currency series. @theGuardian
See the full series on BeyondCurrencyDrive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
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The famous RSA Animate of Dan Pink's talk on autonomy, mastery, and purpose — the research behind why people do world-class creative work without a paycheck, once survival is already covered. Part of our Beyond Currency series. @rsaorg
See the full series on BeyondCurrencyCommunity Land Trusts Are Expanding
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PBS SoCal on how community land trusts keep housing permanently affordable by taking land off the speculative market — the land fix for the positional-goods problem, already working in hundreds of cities today. Part of our Beyond Currency series. @PBSSoCal
See the full series on BeyondCurrencyTrekonomics: The Economics of Star Trek
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Trekonomics author Manu Saadia interviewed on The Zero Hour about the economics of Star Trek — the deepest serious treatment of how a post-scarcity, post-money Federation could actually hold together. Part of our Beyond Currency series. @TheZeroHourwithRJEskow
See the full series on BeyondCurrencyAn Introduction to a Resource-Based Economy
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Peter Joseph's TEDxOjai talk — the most prominent activist articulation of the open-source resource tracker idea, from the founder of the Zeitgeist Movement. A lineage with its own controversies; judge the argument on its merits. Part of our Beyond Currency series. @LinguisticTeamIntl
See the full series on BeyondCurrencyThe Gift Economy: A Resilient Alternative to Consumer Culture
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A deeper dive into the motivation pillar: what an economy looks like when it runs on relationships and reciprocity instead of money, consumerism, and scarcity. Part of our Beyond Currency series. @ParkrosePermaculture
See the full series on BeyondCurrencyPower to the People: Community Land Trusts
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The civil-rights-era origins of community land trusts, in depth — how the single highest-leverage transition institution in the post was invented, and why it works. Part of our Beyond Currency series. @WeActRadioDC
See the full series on BeyondCurrencySam Altman Gave Thousands of People Free Money — Here's What Happened
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The inside story of the OpenResearch study, one of the largest unconditional cash experiments in US history: 1,000 participants, $1,000 a month, three years — and results that both UBI's champions and skeptics claimed as vindication. Part of our Silicon Safety Nets series. @Forbes
See the full series on SiliconSafetyNetsMusk and Other Tech Leaders Signal Support for UBI Amid AI-Fueled Layoffs
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CBS News on the 2026 moment tech billionaires lined up behind universal basic income — including Elon Musk's call for a "Universal High Income" — and why lawmakers question whether the moguls would ever accept the taxes to fund it. Part of our Silicon Safety Nets series. @CBSNews
See the full series on SiliconSafetyNetsSam Altman on UBI: "I'm Very Much in Favor"
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Altman explains why he backs a cash floor — and why he suspects the AI era may demand something different: "universal basic compute," giving every citizen a slice of AI capacity rather than a check. The seed of his later collective-ownership proposals. Part of our Silicon Safety Nets series. @UBIWorks
See the full series on SiliconSafetyNetsAI Is "Juicing Up" Inflation, Says Moody's Mark Zandi
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Moody's chief economist on CNBC explaining how the AI buildout's demand for chips and electricity is feeding inflation right now — while the promised productivity payoff lags behind. Essential context before anyone proposes adding stimulus checks on top. Part of our Silicon Safety Nets series. @CNBCtelevision
See the full series on SiliconSafetyNetsWarning: The Inevitable Collision of AI, Jobs, and Inflation
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An economist's warning about the squeeze coming for policymakers: AI-driven job losses on one side, AI-driven inflation on the other — and central banks with tools that can only fight one at a time. Part of our Silicon Safety Nets series. @RichardJMurphy
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Economist Daniel Susskind on the world after work — why the outcome of the AI transition is a choice we make rather than a fate we accept, and what a meaningful human life looks like when labor is no longer at the center of it. Part of our Silicon Safety Nets series. @futureoflifeinstitute
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Bloomberg traces exactly how AI data center demand flows through the grid and onto household electric bills — the reporting behind this post's central claim. Part of our Ratepayers Subsidizing Tech's Power Boom series. @business
See the full series on RatepayersSubsidizingTechPowerBoomAI Demand Driving Up Energy Costs for Everyday Americans, Bloomberg News Finds
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CBS News covers the same Bloomberg reporting, connecting AI data center growth directly to rising household electricity costs. Part of our Ratepayers Subsidizing Tech's Power Boom series. @CBSNews
See the full series on RatepayersSubsidizingTechPowerBoomWhy America Is Struggling With EVs
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MotorTrend's documentary on the U.S. EV transition, including the charging-infrastructure and electric-grid chapters behind this post's EV fast-charging section. Part of our Ratepayers Subsidizing Tech's Power Boom series. @MotorTrendWatch
See the full series on RatepayersSubsidizingTechPowerBoomThe Grid Doesn't Need More Power Plants (It Needs This)
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Matt Ferrell makes the case for decentralized generation and storage — the technical backbone of the "Bring Your Own Clean Power" argument in this post. Part of our Ratepayers Subsidizing Tech's Power Boom series. @UndecidedTechnology
See the full series on RatepayersSubsidizingTechPowerBoomEVs - Can The Grid Cope?
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A British perspective on whether the grid can handle accelerating EV adoption — a reminder that the oil-shock-driven EV surge is straining grids on both sides of the Atlantic. Part of our Ratepayers Subsidizing Tech's Power Boom series. @theelectrictransition
See the full series on RatepayersSubsidizingTechPowerBoomI Didn't Want to Make This Video.
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Astrum Earth's clear-eyed look at where the world actually stands on the 1.5°C target — the climate stakes behind requiring growth to bring its own clean power. Part of our Ratepayers Subsidizing Tech's Power Boom series. @AstrumEarth
See the full series on RatepayersSubsidizingTechPowerBoomYin-Yang Is Not About "Balance" | What the Original Actually Says
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TangSaying revisits the original Chinese philosophy behind the yin-yang symbol — arguing it was never about static balance, but about one force continuously transforming into its opposite. A closer fit for this series' "engine" metaphor than a simple scale. Part of our Global Economic Engine series. @TangSaying
See the full series on GlobalEconomicEngineEconomic Systems and Macroeconomics: Crash Course Economics #3
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Jacob Clifford and Adriene Hill lay out planned economies, market economies, and communism, then land on the point this series builds on: most countries end up choosing a mixed economy in practice. Part of our Global Economic Engine series. @crashcourse
See the full series on GlobalEconomicEngineChina Does Capitalism Better Than America
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A structured debate — from the organization formerly known as Intelligence Squared U.S. — on whether China's state-directed model actually out-executes America's market-driven one. Part of our Global Economic Engine series. @OpentoDebate
See the full series on GlobalEconomicEngineThe Space Race (Back) to the Moon: Artemis, Moon Bases & Competition Beyond Orbit
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Perun's long-form, analytical breakdown of the modern space race — Artemis, lunar bases, and the US-China rivalry — including a dedicated chapter on whether this is really a "competition." Part of our Global Economic Engine series. @PerunAU
See the full series on GlobalEconomicEngineThe hidden meanings of yin and yang - John Bellaimey
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The classic explainer of the yin-yang concept's origins in Taoism — referenced as further reading since the channel disables embedding. Part of our Global Economic Engine series. @TEDEd
See the full series on GlobalEconomicEngineWhy Understanding Yin Yang Will Change Your Life | Taoism
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A straightforward balance-and-harmony framing of yin-yang, closer to this series' own wording than the embedded TangSaying video. Part of our Global Economic Engine series. @InsightJunky
See the full series on GlobalEconomicEngineWhat are Capitalism, Socialism & Mixed Economic Systems?
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A plain-language rundown of capitalism, socialism, and mixed economic systems, covering the same ground as this series' embedded CrashCourse video. Part of our Global Economic Engine series. @SociologyVibes
See the full series on GlobalEconomicEngineThe Purpose of Mixed Economies
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Another solid rundown of the free-market/command/mixed-economy spectrum, with Professor Dave's usual deadpan delivery. Part of our Global Economic Engine series. @ProfessorDaveExplains
See the full series on GlobalEconomicEngineSocialists vs Capitalists | Middle Ground
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Participants across the capitalist/socialist divide try to find common ground — a structured-discussion format rather than a debate. Part of our Global Economic Engine series. @jubilee
See the full series on GlobalEconomicEngineThe Complete Guide to Socialism vs Capitalism (Myths Explained)
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A market-libertarian take on common capitalism-vs-socialism myths, from John Stossel's channel. Part of our Global Economic Engine series. @StosselTV
See the full series on GlobalEconomicEngineCapitalism vs. Socialism: A Soho Forum Debate
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A formal Oxford-style debate on capitalism vs. socialism, hosted by the libertarian Reason Foundation. Part of our Global Economic Engine series. @ReasonTV
See the full series on GlobalEconomicEngineCapitalism vs. Socialism: Which Works Better? [Deep Dive into Public Data Analysis]
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A data-driven comparative breakdown of capitalist and socialist economies using public data. Part of our Global Economic Engine series. @sprouts
See the full series on GlobalEconomicEngineCapitalism Vs Socialism: Hasan Piker and Tom Bilyeu Debate Modern Economics
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A left-vs-center commentator debate on modern economics between Hasan Piker and Tom Bilyeu. Part of our Global Economic Engine series. @TomBilyeu
See the full series on GlobalEconomicEngineTop White House Advisor: The US Empire Is Declining And Socialism Is Coming Next! | David Friedberg
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An interview with a White House economic advisor on the US economic trajectory and the case for expanded social programs. Part of our Global Economic Engine series. @TheDiaryOfACEO
See the full series on GlobalEconomicEngineWhat Is Democratic Socialism?
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Commentary on the democratic-socialist movement specifically — narrower than this series' mixed-economy framing, but a useful contrast. Part of our Global Economic Engine series. @touretube
See the full series on GlobalEconomicEngineWhat democratic socialism is and how it's different from communism
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A mainstream-news explainer distinguishing democratic socialism from communism. Part of our Global Economic Engine series. @GMA
See the full series on GlobalEconomicEngineThe Simple Question Socialism Couldn't Answer
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A critical, rhetorically framed take skeptical of socialism. Part of our Global Economic Engine series. @Maxinomics
See the full series on GlobalEconomicEngineWhy No One in America Understands Socialism
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Independent commentary on why socialism is so widely misunderstood in American political discourse. Part of our Global Economic Engine series. @kraftythinking
See the full series on GlobalEconomicEngineCapitalism vs. Socialism: Coleman Hughes and Bhaskar Sunkara Debate
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A substantive debate on capitalism vs. socialism between two well-known commentators. Part of our Global Economic Engine series. @ColemanHughesOfficial
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Independent spaceflight journalism arguing the US-China "race" framing is largely overblown — a sharp thesis, though parts of the video now read as dated (recorded before Artemis II flew). Part of our Global Economic Engine series. @NASASpaceflight
See the full series on GlobalEconomicEngineUS vs China: Who is leading the race to the Moon? - Asia Specific podcast, BBC World Service
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A chaptered, current interview covering Artemis II, China's state-led model vs. US private space companies, and why both countries are racing back to the Moon at all. Part of our Global Economic Engine series. @BBCWorldService
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