Video and Multimedia Links

Watch and learn! Carefully selected videos will help bring key concepts and theories to life, preparing you for your studies and exams.

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Business Insider’s list of ridiculous government regulations

Description: Government regulations often have unintended consequences.

The demand letter presented by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) to McDonald’s in 2010 over its use of toys are part of its marketing campaign for the Happy Meal.

Description: The CSPI, an advocacy group on the political left, presents its argument. McDonald’s refuted the claims and the suit was dismissed in 2012.

1992 U.S. presidential candidate Ross Perot’s famous critique of NAFTA as having the potential to create a “giant sucking sound” (3 miuntes)

Description: Perot argued vehemently against NAFTA but both Democrats and Republicans supported the trade agreement. The free trade debate continues two decades later.

Milton Friedman presents a concise argument for capitalism in a 2-minute youtube video

Description: The late Milton Friedman is one of the most famous defenders of free-market economic principles in recent decades.

A counter argument on anthropogenic climate change presented in The American Thinker

Description: The notion of human-induced climate change is widely touted as established science, but many students will be surprised to discover that there is a vibrant opposition to this line of reasoning.