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ᐅ Is the NFL a cartel?

Economist Jonathan Gruber explains how the NFL operates as a legal cartel—selling national broadcast rights as a single entity, limiting competition, and driving up costs for viewers.

#NFL #Football #Sports #Microeconomics #Economics #MIT #Competition #Cartels

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ᐅ Do the rich deserve their wealth?

Professor Jon Gruber breaks down why some theories focus on ensuring a basic standard of living for all, regardless of inequality, and explores how views on opportunity, luck, fairness and equity shape debates around redistribution.

#Economics #Microeconomics #Wealth #Rich #Luck #Skill #HardWork #Fairness #Equity #Equality #Inequality

1 month ago | [YT] | 312

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New course! 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲

Master the fundamentals of discrete mathematics in this course designed for science and engineering students—especially those interested in computer science. Explore essential topics like logic, sets, graph theory, algorithms, induction, number theory, and discrete probability, while building strong skills in mathematical reasoning and proof techniques.

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ᐅ "Why so many cereals?"

Professor Jon Gruber explains how companies use product differentiation - such as in the breakfast cereal industry - to maintain profitability in highly competitive markets, in this segment from lecture 14 of Principles of Microeconomics.

#Competition #ProductDifferentiation #Monopolies #BreakfastCereal #Economy #Economics #MicroEconomics #ChoiceOverload #CournotModel #BertrandModel #MIT #IntroEconomics #IntroEconomicsCourse

1 month ago | [YT] | 198

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ᐅ LeBron vs. Lawncare: Why It’s All About Trade-Offs

Professor Jon Gruber explains that although LeBron James has an absolute advantage in both playing basketball and mowing his lawn, his comparative advantage is in basketball, illustrating that countries like Colombia and the U.S. should specialize where their opportunity cost is lower to gain from trade.

#NBA #LeBron #Economics #Microeconomics #ComparativeAdvantage #TradeOffs #NBA finals #AbsoluteAdvantage

2 months ago | [YT] | 72

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▷ Do You Still Need to Learn Python in the Age of AI?

Ana Bell explains, in this clip from the Chalk Radio® podcast!

View the full episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8918...

#Programming #Python #AI #ComputerScience #IntroProgrammingCourse #IntroProgramming #ArtificialIntelligence #GenAI #GenerativeAI

3 months ago | [YT] | 414

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▷ Ana Bell explains “rubber duck debugging," a technique in which a programmer explains their code to an inanimate object in order to uncover hidden errors, on the Chalk Radio® podcast!

View the full episode here: https://youtu.be/p8918BiV01c?si=mQkTO...

3 months ago | [YT] | 78

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▷ MIT Programmer Ana Bell talks about about Python, growth mindset, rubber ducks, the roll of creativity in programming, and much more on a brand NEW episode of the Chalk Radio® podcast!

#ComputerScience #Programming #Code #Coding #IntroToProgramming #GenAI #GenerativeAI #GrowthMindset #RubberDucks #MIT #Creativity

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▷ MIT Economist Andrew W. Lo addresses ChatGPT's viability as a financial advisor, and his efforts to make sound financial advice more affordable, in this clip from the Chalk Radio® podcast!

#Finance #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Podcast #ChalkRadio #ChatGPT #LLMs

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