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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2 mo on HNNoam Chomsky: "Free Markets?"
2 mo on HNThe riddle of experience vs. memory | Daniel Kahneman
2 mo on HNStrong Towns: Property Tax vs. Land Value "Tax" (LVT)
1 mo on HNRSA ANIMATE: The Truth About Dishonesty
1 mo on HNMilton Friedman - Illegal Immigration - PT 1
1 mo on HNMilton Friedman - I, Pencil
1 mo on HNMilton Friedman - Who Benefits From Licensing?
1 mo on HNMilton Friedman - Redistribution of Wealth
1 mo on HNPower of the Market - The Pencil
1 mo on HNThe Art Market is a Scam (And Rich People Run It)
1 mo on HNMilton Friedman - Case Against Equal Pay for Equal Work
1 mo on HNMilton Friedman justifies not recalling the ford pinto
1 mo on HNRichard Wolff: Marxism and Communism | Lex Fridman Podcast #295
1 mo on HNMaking Money Flow: The MONIAC
1 mo on HNMMO Economies - Hyperinflation, Reserve Currencies & You! - Extra Credits
1 mo on HNThis clock was famous, but the internet ruined it.
1 mo on HNHow Much Is a Human Worth? (according to engineers)
1 mo on HNProf. Timur Kuran on "The Portal", Episode #004: "The Economics of Revolution and Mass Deception."
Also discussed on Hacker News (17)
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...