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Market failure of salmon farming in Chile | Simon Reeve's South America

Market failure of salmon farming in Chile | Simon Reeve's South America

BBC Two | 2022 | 8'32''

Externalities caused by salmon farming.

Tax the Fat | Panorama

Tax the Fat | Panorama

BBC One | 2010 | 28'43''

With Britain now the fattest nation in Europe, reporter Shelley Jofre investigates the idea of a tax on junk food, travelling to Denmark where it has ...

Negative externalities from water spills | Joe Lycett vs Sewage

Negative externalities from water spills | Joe Lycett vs Sewage

Channel 4 | 2024 | 1'16''

Human and animal illnesses that are caused by dirty water spills.

Spillover costs from growth | World's Busiest Cities

Spillover costs from growth | World's Busiest Cities

BBC Two | 2017 | 4'39''

Looking at the problem of rubbish pollution in Delhi.

Positive externalities in Brazil | Simon Reeve's South America

Positive externalities in Brazil | Simon Reeve's South America

BBC Two | 2022 | 4'27''

Learn about a local charity's efforts to stop land slides and improve education in Brazil.
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Make Up | The World, My Stuff and Me

Make Up | The World, My Stuff and Me

BBC Two | 2021 | 5'15''

Short film exploring the secret life of a teenager's stuff - relating global consumer and economic issues to their everyday things.

Cash | The World, My Stuff and Me

Cash | The World, My Stuff and Me

BBC Two | 2021 | 5'43''

Short film exploring the secret life of a teenager's stuff - relating global consumer and economic issues to their everyday things.

Jeans | The World, My Stuff and Me

Jeans | The World, My Stuff and Me

BBC Two | 2021 | 6'06''

Short film exploring the secret life of a teenager's stuff - relating global consumer and economic issues to their everyday things.

Cigarettes | The World, My Stuff and Me

Cigarettes | The World, My Stuff and Me

BBC Two | 2021 | 5'47''

Short film exploring the secret life of a teenager's stuff - relating global consumer and economic issues to their everyday things.

Phone | The World, My Stuff and Me

Phone | The World, My Stuff and Me

BBC Two | 2021 | 5'47''

Short film exploring the secret life of a teenager's stuff - relating global consumer and economic issues to their everyday things.

Renewable energy and policy targets | Panorama

Renewable energy and policy targets | Panorama

Climate change mitigation and adaptation | BBC One | 2025 | 3'20''

Meeting energy targets with renewable energy.

01. The Prophets and Promise of Classical Capitalism | The Age of Uncertainty

01. The Prophets and Promise of Classical Capitalism | The Age of Uncertainty

Economics | BBC Two | 1977 | 53'59''

John Kenneth Galbraith tells the story of the men who laid the foundations of economics, includ...

The rising costs of vet bills | Panorama

The rising costs of vet bills | Panorama

Economics | BBC One | 2026 | 2'40''

Vet bills price inelastic good.

The Water Company’s Murky Business | Panorama

The Water Company’s Murky Business | Panorama

Business and Management | BBC One | 2024 | 28'50''

Reporter Joe Crowley investigates how Severn Trent hits environmental targets while dumping large quantities of sewage and as...

Lord Mervyn King Remembers… The Age of Uncertainty | Remembers…

Lord Mervyn King Remembers… The Age of Uncertainty | Remembers…

Business and Management | BBC Four | 2025 | 19'19''

Former governor of the Bank of England Mervyn King looks back on the BBC's 1977 series on the history...

Irrational Humans: How Our Behaviour Shapes the Economy (Professor Richard Thaler) | Radical with Amol Rajan

Irrational Humans: How Our Behaviour Shapes the Economy (Professor Richard Thaler) | Radical with Amol Rajan

Business and Management | BBC Radio 4 | 2025 | 27'48''

A Nobel Prize winning behavioural economist tackles some of the ...

RBS: Inside the Bank That Ran Out of Money

RBS: Inside the Bank That Ran Out of Money

Economics | BBC One Scotland | 2011 | 59'01''

Charting how the Royal Bank of Scotland nearly collapsed in 2008, suffering a record corporate loss of 24 billion pounds. Featurin...

Beyond Utopia: Escape from North Korea

Beyond Utopia: Escape from North Korea

Cold War conflicts | BBC Four | 2024 | 1'44'23''

A documentary that takes a suspenseful, immersive look at the lengths to which people will go to gain freedom, following various indiv...

Rewiring Britain: The Race to Go Green | Panorama

Rewiring Britain: The Race to Go Green | Panorama

Climate change mitigation and adaptation | BBC One | 2025 | 29'03''

With huge clean energy projects stirring anger across Britain, Justin Rowlatt meets the people taking sides in the battle o...

Communism | A-Z of Belief

Communism | A-Z of Belief

Economics | BBC Two | 1990 | 29'03''

Six young people in a warehouse in Belfast pose many questions about communism to Mary Browning. Simon Booth also shares his ideas on the subject.

What’s on Your Supermarket Shelves? The Dark Side of the Tomato Trade | Panorama

What’s on Your Supermarket Shelves? The Dark Side of the Tomato Trade | Panorama

Food security | BBC One | 2024 | 28'39''

Runako Celina investigates whether products made using forced Uyghur labour in the Chi...

02: Power | Thatcher: A Very British Revolution

02: Power | Thatcher: A Very British Revolution

Britain’s changing role in the world | BBC Two | 2019 | 59'00''

Mrs Thatcher struggles to cling to power as the economy collapses, riots break out and she is subverted by members of her own...
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