Game Theory
Rigorous undergraduate introduction to strategic reasoning: dominance, Nash equilibrium, backward induction, subgame perfection, evolutionary games, asymmetric information, and auctions.
Economics & Finance
Game theory, microeconomics, macroeconomics, financial theory, market microstructure, and mechanism design.
All EconomicsFinancial Theory & Markets (60)Micro & Macroeconomics (59)Game Theory & Mechanism Design (57)Statistical Learning & Causality (21)Language Models & NLP (14)Development Economics (11)Nash Equilibrium (11)Moral & Political Philosophy (10)Probability & Information Theory (10)Calculus & Analysis (9)
Essential Economics courses
Complete university lecture courses in economics & finance.
Using Big Data to Solve Economic and Social Problems
Applies administrative tax, education, and census datasets to intergenerational mobility, neighborhood effects, innovation, health disparities, and tax policy.
Financial Markets
Nobel laureate Robert Shiller examines the theory, history, and behavioral foundations of risk management, portfolio diversification, efficient markets, real estate, banking, and regulation.
The Challenge of World Poverty
Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee analyze poverty traps, randomized controlled trials, nutrition, preventive health, education incentives, microcredit, insurance, and institutional governance.
Finance Theory I
Andrew Lo's foundational financial economics sequence covering framework of financial analysis, present value relations, yield curves, fixed-income securities, equities, portfolio theory, and market efficiency.
Corporate Valuation
Intrinsic discounted cash flow valuation, equity risk premiums, cost of capital, growth estimation, terminal value, relative multiples, and valuing private and distressed firms.
Economics Double Feature
Two complementary economics talks paired around a central intellectual tension.
Double Feature2 talks · 106m total
Macro Institutions vs. Field Experiments
Two Nobel-winning MIT perspectives on global prosperity: centuries-long political institutions from above versus randomized empirical interventions on the ground.
Part I · Inclusive vs. extractive states1:10:50
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Part II · Randomized field trials35:00
Field Experiments and the Fight Against Global Poverty (Nobel Lecture)
Standalone Economics talks
35Self-contained lectures, Nobel addresses, and research colloquia you can watch in one sitting.
Prize Lecture: Simon Johnson – Disease Environments, Mortality of Europeans, and Creation of Institutions in the Colonial Era
Simon Johnson presents his Nobel Prize lecture, elucidating the long-term impact of disease environments and European mortality rates on the formation of institutions and subsequent economic prosperity in former colonial territories. This work connects historical epidemiological conditions to modern institutional development.
Derivatives of Elementary Functions
The first lecture in Unit II of MIT's "Calculus Revisited" series, focusing on the derivation of basic functions.
Restoring the American Dream Through Higher Education: New Insights from Big Data
Professor Raj Chetty delivers a keynote address on leveraging large-scale data to analyze and inform policies for improving economic mobility through higher education.
Who Gets What — and Why: Market Design and Kidney Exchange
Shows how deferred-acceptance matching algorithms redesign markets where prices cannot clear—including medical residency matching, public school choice, and paired kidney transplants.
Nobel Lecture: An Evolving Economic Force — Women in the Labor Market
Traces two centuries of archival data on female labor participation, marriage bars, birth-control timing, and 'greedy jobs' driving persistent earnings gaps.
Field Experiments and the Fight Against Global Poverty (Nobel Lecture)
Shows how randomized field evaluations transform development economics from sweeping ideological debates into cumulative empirical engineering.
Economics study paths
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Constitutional Structure, Strategic Incentives & Public Finance
Written text, unwritten constitutional norms, game-theoretic dominance, and externalities
Yale University · MIT
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Behavioral Choice, Upward Mobility & Labor Economics
Cognitive heuristics, nudges, neighborhood causal inference, and gender history
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Markets, Political Institutions & Global Development
Microeconomic incentives, macro policy, institutional divergence, and RCT poverty research
MIT
6 curated lecturesOpen path →
5 steps · 6h3 universities
Strategic Reasoning, Equilibrium & Social Choice
Game theory across economics, evolutionary biology, and public ethics
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15.401 · Lec 1 · Andrew Lo · MIT Sloan
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ECON 159 · Lec 1 · Ben Polak · Yale University
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ECON 1152 · Lec 1 · Raj Chetty · Harvard University
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14.73 · Lec 1 · Esther Duflo & Abhijit Banerjee · MIT
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18.S096 · Lec 1 · Peter Kempthorne, Jake Xia & Vasily Strela · MIT
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SIMONS-TCS-ML · Lec 15 · Nina Balcan · UC Berkeley / Simons Institute
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ECON 252 · Lec 15 · Robert Shiller · Yale University
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