New technology is transforming entertainment at lightning speed. Learn how to leverage AI, AR, VR, and other innovations to elevate your projects and future-proof your career.

Get ready to transform your career. Learn what to expect from this course and how to leverage these lessons to navigate and succeed in the ever-evolving media and entertainment industry.

Your personal brand is your most powerful asset. Learn how to build, manage, and leverage your digital identity to create opportunities, establish credibility, and stay relevant in a competitive space.

A New York City Deputy Mayor, supported by an unusual staff, must constantly bail out the Mayor who never knows what is going on.

Two case studies involving tragic fires help you grasp two classic economic situations—the Tragedy of the Commons and the difficulties of providing a public good. Then, apply what you have learned to see how an economist would think about the even larger problem of global climate change.

Time can be one of the most important factors in economic thought; when events occur matters. This lecture looks at how economists deal with this critical factor, introducing you to concepts such as nominal versus real value and present versus future value.

How do economists think about the rights and rules that govern human interactions? Using real-life examples and classic problems like the Prisoner's Dilemma, plunge into questions of ownership, trade, and compensation and how ideas like incentives and responsibilities are intimately connected to them.

Safety, like everything, has a cost; at some point, being a little safer costs more than it is worth. By studying how economists evaluate risk, learn how the concept of expected value permits rational decision making in situations with risk, but also brings its own set of dangers.

Despite the predictive power of conventional economic presumptions about fundamental rationality, behavioral economists are showing that we sometimes do things that indeed seem irrational. Delve into several examples of this and possible means of overcoming these behaviors.

Apply what you've learned by thinking like an economist about three different issues: doing a cost-benefit analysis of crime from a criminal's perspective; altering our own structure of incentives to motivate healthier behaviors; and finding policy solutions to traffic congestion and its resulting pollution.