Unlearning Economics

The Campaign to Change Economics Education (Reupload)

Hey, it was drawn to my attention that making these little videos members-only on YouTube killed the link for Patrons, so I'm reuploading a few. Many of you may not have seen them - bear in mind they're from years ago. But I think they're pretty good! This one is about my role in a movement to transform the moribund economics education we received.

References (in rough order of appearance)
The Econocracy book: 2025-12-02 11:48:04 +0000 UTC View Post

Behavioural Economics (Reupload)

Hey, it was drawn to my attention that making these little videos members-only on YouTube killed the link for Patrons, so I'm reuploading a few. Many of you may not have seen them - bear in mind they're from years ago, before I showed my face. This one details my views on my own feild of behavioural economics, which is something I don't talk enough about.

References (in rough order of appearance)
How Do Economists Think About Rationality?, Cowen 2025-12-02 11:44:33 +0000 UTC View Post

Health & Economics (Reupload)

Hey, it was drawn to my attention that making these little videos members-only on YouTube killed the link for Patrons, so I'm reuploading a few. Many of you may not have seen them - bear in mind they're from years ago, before I showed my face. This one deals with a topic I've long been curious about: how economics is applied to health. It's an area of econ I have a surprising amount of sympathy for.

References (in rough order of appearance)
Arrow's paper: 2025-12-02 11:41:31 +0000 UTC View Post

Everything Was Already AI (Rough Cut)

Feedback welcome, hope you enjoy this video which was a lot of fun to make!

References (in rough order of appearance)

How to Make Realistic Predictions About AI, Tantham https://curveshift.net/p/how-to-make-realistic-predictions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8enXRDlWguU&<...

Online Toxicity: A Hypothesis (Patreon-Only)

Let me know if it's worth making more effortful Patreon videos by liking/commenting so I can get an idea of audience

I'm not interested in drama, I am merely a passive observer of online dynamics 👀

References (in rough order of appearance)

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/an-invitation-to-a-secret-society

2025-10-23 18:18:47 +0000 UTC View Post

Free Trade is Dead. This is What Should Replace It. (Rough Cut)

Thumbnail and title are WIP.

Suggestions also welcome, ideas so far:

• The Death of Free Trade

• Is Free Trade Dead/Finished/Over?

ly xoxo

Everything Was Already AI (Script)

howdy all, I'd really appreciate any feedback on this early draft!

Downton Abbey and the Origin of Capitalism

Hey guys, this is the patreon version, you may prefer to watch this as I may have to distort/cut clips for YouTube.

Any feedback on explanations is welcome, as this is mostly voiceover I can re-record parts if necessary!

Anti-trust, Enshitification, Privacy, and "You're the Product": a Hypothesis

Sorry about the sweat, it is so fucking hot here!

Cory Doctorow on enshitification: https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/

Lina Khan on Amazon: https://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/amazons-antitrust-paradox

Knowledge and Decisions, Sowell

Behavioural Freakonomics: A Non-Rant

(Mic is peaking, sorry I recorded twice lol)

Behavioural econ evidence they should have engaged with

Prospect Theory in the Wild: Evidence from the Field https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781400829118-008/pdf?licenseType=restricted

Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases 2025-05-13 13:52:36 +0000 UTC View Post

Means TV Announcement/Question

Hey, pls watch this and give me your thoughts I need feedback xoxo

Downton Abbey script (unrelated):

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LmoR2EZv9nSPzTH3uwHWodrU9RYighmc/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=112223828256290962231&rtpof=true&sd=true

The Death of Freakonomics (Draft)

Hey guys, hope you like it - LMK in particular how you feel about the intro (not the first minute, obvs that's lit, I mean the part before the first proper section as we rejigged it a lot).

Why Don’t Markets Provide Social Insurance? (Sowell Follow-Up #2)

References (in rough order of appearance)

The Welfare State as Piggy Bank, Barr

The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, Keynes

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/a-cautious-case-for-socialism/

Governing the Commons, Ostrom

Why We're Getting Poorer Release!

Yo everyone, WWGP is out on 13th March, use the code ECON25 to get a discount only before release date. Preorders really help so please consider it!

https://bio.to/WWGP

Poverty, Needs, and Inequality (Sowell Follow-Up #1)

An open conversation!

References (in rough order of appearance)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yC0dsTtRVo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZjSXS2NdS0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo2gwS4VpHc&

2025-02-19 17:45:57 +0000 UTC View Post

Freakonomics: A Retrospective (Draft)

Recording this soon, penny for your thoughts

Thomas Sowell and the American Dream

Howdy y'all

This could have used another sweep but I thought I'd give you this version before the Xmas break. In particular, I think the intro needs a bit more work; FD Signifier's cameo is missing; and I may omit a couple of the really detailed bits like Creedy, Neumark & Wascher, and the criminal record stuff, from the final version for brevity.

However, I'm really happy with it. Let me know what you think, I won't release it until Jan now so feedback appreciated!
2024-12-23 11:21:02 +0000 UTC View Post

Astonishingly Poor Empirics, Cockshott Edition

If you want to revisit some basic statistics to understand why Paul Cockshott's tests of the Labour Theory of Value suck, I wrote this!

Freakonomics and Race: A Rant

Me losing my shit xoxo

Quantitative Analysis of the Labour Theory of Value (Marxism pt 2)

Hope this helps y'all understand

Blair Fix post https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2021/09/11/how-the-labor-theory-of-value-emerges-from-egalitarianism/

Explainer of production function estimation:

2024-10-31 19:38:12 +0000 UTC View Post

Thomas Sowell and the American Dream (Script)

Hi everyone, I'm looking for feedback on part two of the Sowell trilogy. I'd really appreciate any comments you have.

It's a long 'un, probably similar in length to the first one, but if you can't read it all just pick a section at random! They should largely stand alone :)

Filming the first half in a week FWIW, then the second half the week after.

Why is Labour the Source of Value? (Marxism pt 1)

My value video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z2LCNAVfMw&

Viktor's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q3qsa5xYz8&

Matthjus Krul post: http://mccaine.org/2012/12/22/why-a-theory-of-value/

READING GROUP ANNOUNCEMENT

Hello to everyone who has signed up since the new video and thank you for your support, it's been incredible.

If you are on £5/month or above, you will be able to access the reading group. It is in a channel on the Discord (linked above) so join and get familiar with it if you aren't already - it can be a bit of a pain to get to grips with so do some tests!

We are reading The Heretic’s Guide to Global Finance by Brett Scott to begin with. This is an accessible, well written acc...

NEW VIDEO: The Air We Breathe (Draft)

Hello everyone!! Here is my latest video, I tried something a bit different, hope you like it!

Any feedback welcome before I put it out on the main channel :)

UE Scripts Now Available in Readable Form!

Hey all, whenever I get a spare moment I've been editing old scripts into a readable form so I can upload them for you all. So far I've done my first four videos, which together are about as long as the first chapter of the Thomas Sowell video. This is the 'early UE arc' when vids were small and more focused on economics as a discipline. Next is the 'breadtube' arc where I criticised people to get popular. More will come in the same folder so check in every so often. You are also free to comm...

Patron-Only Vid: 'Coming Out' as an Institutional Economist

References:

Fischer, Liliann, Joe Hasell, J. Christopher Proctor, David Uwakwe, Zach Ward-Perkins, and Catriona Watson. Rethinking economics. Taylor & Francis, 2017.

Hodgson, Geoffrey M. "The approach of institutional economics." Journal of economic literature 36, no. 1 (1998): 166-192.

https://www.exploring-economics.org/en/discover/agents...

Patron-Only Vid: the Myth of Market Failure

Hey all, the angle is a bit strange for some reason - we moved the living room around, possibly for the worse. Plus the mic is peaking a bit at the start.

Anyway, hope you enjoy it! xoxo

Draft Script: The Air We Breathe

Hello everyone, I've been working on this script while I finish off my book. It's a bit shorter than the Sowell vids - though as you'll see it's a kind of covert Sowell part 1.5.

I'd REALLY appreciate help from anyone with knowledge of medicine and science because I don't want any major misinformation out there.

Also any thoughts on the opening would be welcome...too much Futurama? Too little? Who knows!

Feel free to comment or message me directly.

Why I Left Academia (Patron-Only)

Hello everyone, hope these reflections are interesting xoxo

NEW VIDEO: Thomas Sowell is Worse Than I Thought Pt. 1 (Draft, No Sponsor)

IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME COMING HERE IT IS 

Lemme know any issues or feedback before I release it to the unwashed masses xoxox

UPDATE: thanks for so many help comments, just FYI we're doing the final version now so if you spot any glaring errors keep them to yourself!