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Business & economics (other) Videos Recommended on Hacker News (50)
Business & economics (other) is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 50 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2008 and 2026 — 114 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Other business topics: industry case studies, logistics and supply chains, retail, bizarre business stories, publicity stunts and cautionary tales.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on The Economics of Airline Class: “Would highly recommend the YouTube video below [0] from Wendover” — an HN commenter, 2019.
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6 mo on HNThe Economics of Airline Class
Wendover Productions
6 HN recommender · 2017–2025
6 mo on HNI Tried To Make Something In America (The Smarter Scrubber Experiment) - Smarter Every Day 308
SmarterEveryDay
6 HN recommender · 2025–2026
6 mo on HNWhy Trains Suck in America
Wendover Productions
6 HN recommender · 2017–2022
5 mo on HNBig Plane vs Little Plane (The Economics of Long-Haul Flights)
Wendover Productions
8 HN recommender · 2017–2023
4 mo on HNYour Post Code Is the Directions, Not the Destination
CGP Grey
4 HN recommender · 2025–2025
3 mo on HNSmall Planes Over Big Oceans (ETOPS Explained)
Wendover Productions
4 HN recommender · 2017–2020
4 mo on HNWhy Trains are so Expensive
Wendover Productions
5 HN recommender · 2017–2022
4 mo on HNHow Overnight Shipping Works
Wendover Productions
4 HN recommender · 2018–2023
3 mo on HNThe Stealership Trap - Why We Need the Dealership "Rip Off"
FortNine
3 HN recommender · 2022–2024
3 mo on HNWhy Planes Don't Fly Faster
Wendover Productions
3 HN recommender · 2018–2022
3 mo on HNTimeshares: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
LastWeekTonight
3 HN recommender · 2023–2024
3 mo on HNI, Pencil: The Movie
I, Pencil
3 HN recommender · 2017–2021
2 mo on HNHow Budget Airlines Work
Wendover Productions
2 HN recommender · 2017–2019
2 mo on HNJones Act Debate | Center for Maritime Strategy & Heritage Foundation | Containerships & Dirigibles
What's Going on With Shipping?
2 HN recommender · 2024–2026
1 mo on HNIBM RFID Commercial-The Future Supermarket
David Preece
1 HN recommend · 2020–2024
1 mo on HNPower of the Market - The Pencil
LibertyPen
1 HN recommend · 2011–2019
1 mo on HNBulletball
zorak007
1 HN recommend · 2008–2021
1 mo on HNThe Art Market is a Scam (And Rich People Run It)
Wendover Productions
1 HN recommend · 2021–2022
1 mo on HNThis clock was famous, but the internet ruined it.
Tom Scott
1 HN recommend · 2022–2023
0 mo on HNother peoples money danny devito
barnseyoz
0 HN recommender · 2013–2020
0 mo on HNChina's Bonkers Bike-share Bubble
Asianometry
0 HN recommender · 2026–2026
0 mo on HNVerizonMath Original Recording of Verizon Customer Service C
Impulse Renegade
0 HN recommender · 2015–2025
0 mo on HNFight Club - The Recall Coordinator's Formula
Montag Beeblebrox
0 HN recommender · 2020–2026
0 mo on HNWhy Heathrow Airport Had Empty Flights to Nowhere
Half as Interesting
0 HN recommender · 2020–2022
0 mo on HNThe Doomed Cleveland Balloonfest of '86
The Atlantic
0 HN recommender · 2018–2021