Intro to Economics: Crash Course Econ #1

Mr. Clifford: Hi, I'm Jacob Clifford and I'm the host of Crash Course economics. Stan! 

Adriene: Hi, I'm Adriene Hill and I'm the host of Crash Course economics. Stan!

Stan: You're a team! You're co-hosts.

Adriene: All right, awesome. Mr. Clifford: Yeah, whooo!

Adriene: Well anyways, we're making our Crash Course Economics series at the YouTube space

in lovely Los Angeles California because Mr. Clifford and I are both from Southern California.

Mr. Clifford: Yeah. Statler: Who are these no-names!?

Waldorf: Where are the Green brothers? If there aren't any Greens, I'm unsubscribing.

Statler: Wh-- how can you unsubscribe? What is this, some kind of a moving newspaper?

Mr. Clifford: Did we just get heckled by the muppets?

Adriene: It sounds like it.

Kermit: Hey guys, hey guys listen, don't feel bad about not being green, OK?

Adriene: It's Kermit!

Mr. Clifford: That's crazy!

Kermit: Hi guys, uh listen, being green is great and everything but being Adriene and

Mr. Clifford well, that's great, too! In fact, you know guys, it's not easy being green.

I think I could sing a song about that.

Adriene: Can I sing with you? Kermit: Oh course, yeah. 

Adriene: This is a dream. This is a dream.

Mr. Clifford: No, no, no, we  can't afford the licensing 

agreement for that song guys, economics. Sorry.

Kermit: Oh. Oh. Well, in that case, why don't you guys just introduce yourselves?

Mr. Clifford: OK. I'm Mr. Clifford, and I'm a high school economics teacher and YouTuber,

and I'm going to focus on  teaching you the theories 

and graphs of economics. You  know, the textbook stuff.

Adriene: And I'm Adriene Hill; I'm a senior reporter for the public radio show Marketplace,

and I'm gonna focus on showing you the real world applications of economics. You know,

the good stuff. The really fun stuff.

Mr. Clifford: Hey! We're  both fun! We're definitely 

not gonna teach economics like this:

Prof. Bunsen Honeydew: Welcome to CrashCourse Economics (Beaker yawns) I am thrilled to

be teaching you this fascinating subject. (Beaker moans)

Mr. Clifford: I'm sorry  Professor Honeydew, but that's 

why people hate economics  in high school and college.

Adriene: Anyway, Statler and Waldorf have a point, the most important question in economics

is "Where's John Green?" I mean everyone knows he won a bronze medal in economics at the

Alabama State Academic Decathlon. Well, John Green 

isn't hosting because  economics. We'll explain later.

[Theme Music]

Mr. Clifford: So let's start with the basics. What is economics? Well it might be easier