Microeconomics & behavioral economics Videos Recommended on Hacker News (68)
Microeconomics & behavioral economics is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 68 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2009 and 2026 — 203 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Economic reasoning: markets, incentives, supply and demand, pricing, tipping, Dan Ariely, Kahneman, nudges, Freakonomics, Milton Friedman, Thomas Sowell, economics explainers.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on Fear the Boom and Bust: Keynes vs. Hayek - The Original Economics Rap Battle!: “the Keynes vs. Hayek rap is incredibly well informed about both positions, and it's pretty easy to follow and entertaining” — an HN commenter, 2010.
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10 mo on HNFear the Boom and Bust: Keynes vs. Hayek - The Original Economics Rap Battle!
8 mo on HNDebt: The First 5,000 Years | David Graeber | Talks at Google
7 mo on HNThe Machinery Of Freedom: Illustrated summary
6 mo on HNThe Psychology of Human Misjudgement - Charlie Munger Full Speech
6 mo on HNThe Economics of Airline Class
7 mo on HNPeter Thiel on "The Portal", Episode #001: "An Era of Stagnation & Universal Institutional Failure."
7 mo on HNLonger-lasting light bulbs: it was complicated
6 mo on HNDemocracy at Work: Curing Capitalism | Richard Wolff | Talks at Google
6 mo on HNThe Lottery: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
6 mo on HNMilton Friedman - The Negative Income Tax
5 mo on HNThe Carbon Offset Problem
5 mo on HNA Selfish Argument for Making the World a Better Place – Egoistic Altruism
4 mo on HNEconomics of Nuclear Reactor
4 mo on HNWhy Tipping Should Be Banned - Adam Ruins Everything
4 mo on HNThe paradox of choice | Barry Schwartz | TED
4 mo on HNThis is why we can't have nice things
4 mo on HNMilton Friedman - The Real World Effects Of Unions
3 mo on HNWhy do competitors open their stores next to one another? - Jac de Haan
3 mo on HNMilton Friedman Speaks: Money and Inflation (B1230) - Full Video
3 mo on HNThinking, Fast and Slow | Daniel Kahneman | Talks at Google
3 mo on HNAbolish Copyrights and Patents? A Soho Forum Debate
3 mo on HNMilton Friedman - Why Tax Reform Is Impossible
3 mo on HNDominic Frisby. A simple guide to land value tax
3 mo on HNRSA ANIMATE: First as Tragedy, Then as Farce
3 mo on HNThe Stealership Trap - Why We Need the Dealership "Rip Off"
3 mo on HNThe puzzle of motivation | Dan Pink | TED
3 mo on HNI, Pencil: The Movie
3 mo on HNGabe Newell: On Productivity, Economics, Political Institutions, and the Future of Corporations
3 mo on HNPrinciples of economics, translated
3 mo on HNUnlocking UAP Mysteries: Economics, Aliens, and The Great Filter | Merged EP0109
3 mo on HNInduced Demand & Roadway Widening: Everything You Always Wanted to Know (and Weren't Afraid to Ask)
2 mo on HNDeath to Pennies
2 mo on HNThe Myth of the Robber Barons with Burt Folsom
2 mo on HNAre we in control of our decisions? | Dan Ariely
2 mo on HNThe Psychology of Human Misjudgement - Charlie Munger Full Speech
2 mo on HNPounds, shillings, and pence: a history of English coinage
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Mentioned in HN threads about microeconomics & behavioral economics, though never formally recommended:
Capuchin monkey fairness experiment · Milton Friedman - Your Greed or Their Greed? · Choice, happiness and spaghetti sauce | Malcolm Gladwell · Milton Friedman - Monopoly · Reservoir Dogs Tipping/Gratuity Scene 720p HD · Star Trek Economy · Rodney Dangerfield's First Economics Class · Milton Friedman talks about property taxes · Milton Friedman on the free-market case for taxing pollution · The high cost of free parking · What Happened When This City Banned Housing Investors · The magic washing machine | Hans Rosling · Capt. Picard "economics of the future are somewhat different" · Juking the Stats · Thomas Sowell on the Myths of Economic Inequality · Thomas Sowell: Global Warming Manufactured by Intellectuals? · The Wire: Fix The Crime Statistics...or...