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Worshippers of the Almighty Invisible Hand
Worshippers of the Almighty Invisible Hand
The fantasies of a faith-based neoliberal economics laid bare
Robert Parenteau · 1,602 views · 75%
Boom Bust Boom 2 min
Boom Bust Boom (trailer)
Terry Jones presents Boom Bust Boom. The result of a meeting between writer, director, historian and Python Terry Jones and economics professor and entrepreneur Theo Kocken. Co-written by Jones and Kocken and featuring John Cusack, Nobel Prize winners Daniel Kahneman, Robert...
239 views · unrated
Why Tribal Societies Work: An Introduction
Why Tribal Societies Work: An Introduction
An irony of modern life is that, in spite of spectacular increases in material abundance and centuries of technological progress, hunter-gatherers, people who have lived with almost no material possessions, have enjoyed lives in many ways as satisfying and rewarding as lives...
John Gowdy · 44,726 views · 96%
Why We Need Big Picture Activism
Why We Need Big Picture Activism
People are beginning to understand that something is fundamentally wrong, and that minor tinkering with the current system is not the answer. A critical mass is ready for fundamental change: what they need is a clear explanation of the root cause of the crises we face, and...
Helena Norberg-Hodge · 16,246 views · 100%
ENOUGHNESS: Restoring Balance to the Economy in the Most Awesome Way Ever 5 min
ENOUGHNESS: Restoring Balance to the Economy in the Most Awesome Way Ever
How we see the world determines how we act. Western thought sees us at war with each other over resources. In Indigenous philosophy, we are all related as individuals in balance with nature. This video juxtaposes these two world views and delivers some startling facts.
firstpeoples · 222,370 views · 87%
A Psychologist Explains Why People Don't Give a Shit About Climate Change
A Psychologist Explains Why People Don't Give a Shit About Climate Change
"We [should] tell new stories of the dream, not the nightmares. We must describe where we want to go, such as happier lives, and better cities."
Bill Kilby · 93,997 views · 75%
Real Estate 4 Ransom: Why Does Land Cost the Earth? 39 min
Real Estate 4 Ransom: Why Does Land Cost the Earth? (2012)
REAL ESTATE 4 RAN$OM outlines a genuine alternative to the global property speculation that forced so many into debt. Doubling the pressure, the tax game has become just that, with tax havens a favoured option for the wealthy. The result - we are taxing the wrong things...
49,735 views · 97%
16 Corporations or We the People? 3 min
16 Corporations or We the People?
Please note that the rapid increase in the national debt started in the 1980's, when we began allowing large corporations to contribute less than their share. With income levels for We the People stagnant — actually, after taxes, our income has decreased during this period —...
coffeepartyusa · 40,915 views · 92%
The Best Social Change Documentaries of 2011
The Best Social Change Documentaries of 2011
2011 will likely be remembered in America as the year that the nation's youth finally started to wake up - all that bubbling knowledge of the world's problems, all the discontent and disillusion with our broken system finally burst into a flurry of creative action. Our...
Tim Hjersted · 40,906 views · 100%
War, Propaganda and the Media: A Detailed Primer on the Tactics of Modern War Propaganda
War, Propaganda and the Media: A Detailed Primer on the Tactics of Modern War Propaganda
We must remember that in time of war what is said on the enemy’s side of the front is always propaganda, and what is said on our side of the front is truth and righteousness, the cause of humanity and a crusade for peace. — Walter Lippmann Probably every conflict is...
Anup Shah · 37,005 views · 100%
The Shocking Reason Why the Rich Are Getting Richer Explained Beautifully in 3 Minutes 3 min
The Shocking Reason Why the Rich Are Getting Richer Explained Beautifully in 3 Minutes
1. The current money system distributes money from the bottom 90% to the top 10% Because 97% of the money in the UK is created by banks, someone must pay interest on nearly every pound in the circulation. This interest redistributes money from the bottom 90% of the...
Positive Money UK · 27,783 views · 96%
Culture In Decline #3: C.V.D. - Consumption Vanity Disorder 30 min
Culture In Decline #3: C.V.D. - Consumption Vanity Disorder
A new disease epidemic is rapidly spreading across the world: "Consumption-Vanity Disorder" - a disease spread not through a mutating virus or genetic predisposition – but through cultural “memes” – turning the world into a reflection of the advertising images broadcast daily...
26,579 views · 89%
Richard Wilkinson: How Economic Inequality Harms Societies 17 min
Richard Wilkinson: How Economic Inequality Harms Societies
We feel instinctively that societies with huge income gaps are somehow going wrong. Richard Wilkinson charts the hard data on economic inequality, and shows what gets worse when rich and poor are too far apart: real effects on health, lifespan, even such basic values as trust.
Richard Wilkinson · 20,276 views · 94%
Black Gold: Your Coffee Will Never Taste The Same Again 2 min
Black Gold: Your Coffee Will Never Taste The Same Again (trailer)
Black Gold follows an Ethiopian coffee producer's epic journey around the world as he attempts to get a fair price for his high quality coffee. The film highlights that the solution for Africa is in equitable TRADE and NOT AID.
19,851 views · 100%
The Movement for Localization Is Growing Rapidly, Worldwide 7 min
The Movement for Localization Is Growing Rapidly, Worldwide
One no, many yeses. Look to join and grow the movement for localization where you live.
Local Futures (Economics of Happiness) · 17,422 views · 91%
Greece Shows What Can Happen when the Young Revolt against Corrupt elites
Greece Shows What Can Happen when the Young Revolt against Corrupt elites
At Syriza’s HQ, the cigarette smoke in the cafe swirls into shapes. If those could reflect the images in the minds of the men hunched over their black coffees, they would probably be the faces of Che Guevara, or
Paul Mason · 13,869 views · unrated
When The Government Shuts Down, Suddenly "Public" Land Isn't Public, but the Property of the State
When The Government Shuts Down, Suddenly "Public" Land Isn't Public, but the Property of the State
The government shutdown is teaching us a lot about the “public sector” — mainly that it doesn’t exist.
Grant Mincy · 13,132 views · 100%
GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth 3 min
GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth (trailer)
How do we become a sustainable civilization? GrowthBusters explores our society's worship of growth everlasting: Economic Growth, Population Growth, Increasing Consumption, and Urban Growth. I puts a spotlight on the powerful forces that keep us in pursuit of growth even...
11,838 views · 67%
Ghetto Physics 2 min
Ghetto Physics (trailer)
Ghetto Physics: Will the Real Pimps and Ho's Please Stand Up! examines the interplay between Pimps and Ho's and how that dynamic is the simplest expression of how power is wielded in the world. Through examples culled from the Hood to Wall Street, the film shows how the same...
9,745 views · 81%
Five Left-Libertarian Reforms Millennials Should Be Fighting For
Five Left-Libertarian Reforms Millennials Should Be Fighting For
A note of clarification: The "left" in left libertarian in the title exists to distinguish the solutions this article presents from the right-learning associations most people have of American libertarianism. If you're only used to reading
Kevin Carson · 9,723 views · 72%
The Conspiracy Theory Is True: Agents Infiltrate Websites Intending To "Manipulate, Deceive, And Destroy Reputations"
The Conspiracy Theory Is True: Agents Infiltrate Websites Intending To "Manipulate, Deceive, And Destroy Reputations"
In the annals of internet conspiracy theories, none is more pervasive than the one speculating paid government plants infiltrate websites, social network sites, and comment sections with an intent to sow discord, troll, and generally manipulate, deceive and destroy...
Tyler Durden · 9,018 views · 75%
Green Capitalism: The God That Failed
Green Capitalism: The God That Failed
The results are in: No amount of "green capitalism" will be able to ensure the profound changes we must urgently make to prevent the collapse of civilization from the catastrophic impacts of global warming.
Richard Smith · 8,929 views · 100%
Could These 3 Simple Changes to Banking Fix the Economy? 4 min
Could These 3 Simple Changes to Banking Fix the Economy?
If someone told you that a mountain of personal debt could be cleared via 3 simple changes to the way that money and banking works, would you like to know how? Would you like to see a more stable economy, with more jobs, less personal and government debt? Take action: Join...
Positive Money UK · 8,282 views · 75%
Life Inc. 9 min
Life Inc.
In Life Inc., award-winning writer, documentary filmmaker, and scholar Douglas Rushkoff traces how corporations went from a convenient legal fiction to the dominant fact of contemporary life. Indeed as Rushkoff shows, most Americans have so willingly adopted the values of...
Douglas Rushkoff · 8,148 views · 92%
Alternatives to Capitalism
Alternatives to Capitalism
The worsening social pains of government austerity programs now intensify the vast social suffering caused by the crisis since 2007. Beyond this especially severe business cycle, longer-term trends show capitalist mega-corporations moving blue and white collar work to lower...
Professor Richard D. Wolff · 7,469 views · 75%
What Is Money? 2 min
What Is Money?
We all use money, we all rely on money. But do we know how money works? Where does money come from? How is money created?
Positive Money UK · 6,127 views · 75%
Why Government is More Afraid of Debt than Depression 10 min
Why Government is More Afraid of Debt than Depression
University of Missouri Kansas City economics professor Michael Hudson compares the behavior of Wall Street to a parasite on the U.S. economy.
The Real News Network · 5,571 views · unrated
Peter Joseph: Defining Peace 90 min
Peter Joseph: Defining Peace
Peter Joseph gives a 1.5 hour lecture entitled "Defining Peace" at the end segment of the Tel Aviv, Israel / Mid-East TZM Event which occurred on Feb 6th 2012.
The Zeitgeist Movement · 4,867 views · 75%
Principled Societies Project Part I: Local Financial System 7 min
Principled Societies Project Part I: Local Financial System
This video introduces the Token Exchange System, a local monetary/financial system being developed by the Principled Societies Project, based on the book "Creating Sustainable Societies" by John Boik. The token system is an advanced form of local currency. It is designed to...
John Boik · 4,790 views · 92%
The Authoritarianism Of Elizabeth Warren
The Authoritarianism Of Elizabeth Warren
Throughout the US government “shutdown,” Democratic politicians have compared their Republican rivals to “anarchists” and argued that the “shutdown” proves government necessary. A recent speech by US Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on the Senate floor exemplifies this trend.
Nathan Goodman · 4,722 views · 75%
Diversidad: A Road Trip to Deconstruct Dinner 88 min
Diversidad: A Road Trip to Deconstruct Dinner (2011)
CAN YOUR EATING HABITS REALLY CHANGE THE WORLD?
4,458 views · 88%
Beyond Capitalism: Not-for-Profit Business Ethos Motivates Sustainable Behaviour
Beyond Capitalism: Not-for-Profit Business Ethos Motivates Sustainable Behaviour
For-profit capitalism has created social and economic inequality; successful not-for-profit businesses including Mozilla and the Big Issue point to an alternative path At the heart of the failing capitalist system is the “for-profit” ethic. Based on the myth that humans are...
Donnie Maclurcan and Jennifer Hinton · 4,307 views · 83%
How on Earth? Flourishing in a Not-for-Profit World by 2050 2 min
How on Earth? Flourishing in a Not-for-Profit World by 2050
Imagine a world where you know, regardless of the nature of your work, that your efforts provide you with a livelihood that contributes to the well-being of others - your family, your friends, and society as a whole - in a way that respects the ecological limits of the planet.
Post Growth Institute · 4,155 views · 75%
Open Up Your Eyes 11 min
Open Up Your Eyes
This 11 minute video manages to be informative, satirical, and poetic as it covers serious issues that affect all of humanity. It offers simple solutions to government and corporate involvement in unconstitutionally drugging the American people via the air we breathe and the...
Parthenia Grant · 3,750 views · 78%
Cheating & the Corporate Cannibals 7 min
Cheating & the Corporate Cannibals
Goldman Sachs struck a deal with politicians to avoid paying property tax. Subsidised by the small businesses and home owners of New York City, the financiers are enriched, leaving the homeless searching for shelter at night. Scott Baker argues that it doesn't make economic...
3,636 views · 100%
Peter Joseph's 15 Minute Critique of Anarcho-Capitalism 15 min
Peter Joseph's 15 Minute Critique of Anarcho-Capitalism
Peter's assessment of the talk with Stefan Molyneux on Sept. 23rd 2013 relating to several key anarcho-capitalist ideas. Please share. Part 2 is the full discussion.
music world · 3,588 views · 92%
Who Controls the Planet? This Parable About How a Second Earth Gets Colonized Will Make You Shudder 5 min
Who Controls the Planet? This Parable About How a Second Earth Gets Colonized Will Make You Shudder
Fewer than 10% of the world's population own and control all our land and natural resources.
TheIUorg · 3,229 views · 75%
Capital is Powerful, Not Rational 14 min
Capital is Powerful, Not Rational
Professor Panitch puts the current economic events into historical context.
The Real News Network · 3,050 views · unrated
Socialism Means Abolishing the Distinction Between Bosses and Employees
Socialism Means Abolishing the Distinction Between Bosses and Employees
Regulated private capitalism. State capitalism. Socialism. These three systems are entirely different from each other. We need to understand the differences between them to move beyond today's dysfunctional economies. With confidence waning in whether modern private...
Richard D. Wolff · 2,777 views · 75%
Thousands of students march the streets of Montreal, Québec, Canada. 3 min
Thousands of students march the streets of Montreal, Québec, Canada.
Thousands of CEGEP and university students march the streets of Montreal to demonstrate against hikes in tuition fees. Demands driving the strike in Québec are rooted in important struggles to ensure accessible education. « As the Québec student strike moves forward, however...
2,415 views · unrated
The Key to Prosperity and Eradicating Poverty Can Be Found in How We Share and Use Land 10 min
The Key to Prosperity and Eradicating Poverty Can Be Found in How We Share and Use Land
Economists say there is no 'Silver Bullet' -- but with such wealth in the world, why are so many still so poor?
TheIUorg · 2,312 views · 88%
Why Doesn't the Media Understand Money? 21 min
Why Doesn't the Media Understand Money?
Patrick Chalmers, former Reuters journalist (environment and later precious metals/FTSE correspondent) and the author of "Fraudcast News: How Bad Journalism Supports our Bogus Democracies", presented at the 3rd
Positive Money UK · 2,137 views · unrated
On "Reforms," Bad and Good
On "Reforms," Bad and Good
“Reformism” is one of those words that’s hard to pin down sometimes. It’s usually taken to mean advocating for “reform within the system” — in other words, the bad kind of reform.
Kevin Carson · 1,151 views · unrated
Humble Beauty: Skid Row Artists 57 min
Humble Beauty: Skid Row Artists (2013)
The powerful story of how art saved the lives of talented homeless and indigent men and women who, despite a daily struggle for survival, create art in the worst area of Los Angeles known as Skid Row, the homeless capital of America. It’s also about the ubiquity of art in...
992 views · unrated
Diagrams & Dollars: Modern Money Illustrated 4 min
Diagrams & Dollars: Modern Money Illustrated
An AWESOME MMT Video A big MMT thanks to Donna D’Souza aka Trixie aka @HaikuCharlatan. She has done an awesome job of animating J.D. Alt’s wonderful new ebook D
Data Ninja · 964 views · unrated
Money, Banking And The Federal Reserve 42 min
Money, Banking And The Federal Reserve (1996)
Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson understood "The Monster". But to most Americans today, Federal Reserve is just a name on the dollar bill. They have no idea of what the central bank does to the economy, or to their own economic lives; of how and why it was founded and...
912 views · unrated
Guaranteed Income? How About Guaranteed Job? 11 min
Guaranteed Income? How About Guaranteed Job?
Pavlina Tcherneva discusses her plan for a job guarantee program to reduce American unemployment.
David Pakman Show · 850 views · unrated
Spent: Looking For Change 40 min
Spent: Looking For Change (2014)
We all want to get the most out of life. A great family, an education, a business, a home... but for a growing number of Americans, the price of getting ahead is higher because of a financial system that leaves millions underserved. Despite his tough past, Justin's built a...
476 views · unrated
From Basic Income to Social Dividends: Sharing the Value of Common resources
From Basic Income to Social Dividends: Sharing the Value of Common resources
From basic income to social dividends: sharing the value of common resources
Rajesh Makwana · 389 views · unrated
I Set up the Greek Bailout Crowdfund to Show Politicians There Is Another Way
I Set up the Greek Bailout Crowdfund to Show Politicians There Is Another Way
You know when you just have a little idea, have a laugh to yourself and then move on with your day? I do that a lot, only on Sunday night, I didn’t let it pass but decided to try it out for real.
Thom Feeney · 250 views · unrated
Can a Corporation Thrive Without Bosses? Valve's Innovative Management Structure Says Yes
Can a Corporation Thrive Without Bosses? Valve's Innovative Management Structure Says Yes
You have read Valve’s survival manual for new employees. You have read Michael Abrash’s wonderful account of working at Valve. Now read my political economy analysis of Valve’s management model; one in which there are no
Yanis Varoufakis · 6,231 views · 100%
UN Plan to save Earth Is "fig Leaf" for Big Business
UN Plan to save Earth Is "fig Leaf" for Big Business
Why the new Sustainable Development agenda is “fundamentally compromised” by corporate interests
Nafeez Ahmed · 2,744 views · 100%
Money makes the world go round … and sometimes brings it to a shuddering halt. 48 min
Money makes the world go round … and sometimes brings it to a shuddering halt.
‘Free-market’ economics has been dominant for a generation and what is the result? The world economy is in crisis, the banks are casinos for the super-rich, public services are being sold to profiteers and the gap between rich and poor has become a chasm. A new economics is...
259 views · unrated
The Comprehensive Activist Guide to Dismantling Neoliberalism
The Comprehensive Activist Guide to Dismantling Neoliberalism
“The creation of today’s market society was not the result of a sequence of spontaneous events but rather of state interference and violence.” – Naomi Klein in The Shock Doctrine
Drew Serres · 64,751 views · unrated
In Transition 2.0: A Story of Resilience & Hope in Extraordinary Times 66 min
In Transition 2.0: A Story of Resilience & Hope in Extraordinary Times (2012)
This film is an inspirational immersion in the Transition movement, gathering stories from around the world of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. There are stories of communities printing their own money, growing food, localising their economies and setting up...
46,432 views · 94%
Films For Action Launches New Website, a "Learning Library for People Who Want to Change the World"
Films For Action Launches New Website, a "Learning Library for People Who Want to Change the World"
Lawrence, KS -- After 12 months in development, Films For Action has launched its new website - a head-to-toe redesign that lays the foundation for a vibrant community-powered news site dedicated to inspiring positive social change. At the heart of the new site is a...
Films For Action · 30,699 views · 80%
Flipping the Corruption Myth: Which is More Corrupt, the Petty Dictatorship or the Superpower that Installs It?
Flipping the Corruption Myth: Which is More Corrupt, the Petty Dictatorship or the Superpower that Installs It?
Corruption is by far not the main factor behind persisting poverty in the Global South.
Jason Hickel · 28,782 views · 97%
The Great Everything & the Nothing 111 min
The Great Everything & the Nothing (2016)
'This is the very definition of a film you MUST see before you die.' We all know that there's something odd about life. But we never really discuss it. 'The Great Everything & The Nothing' explores the world of social engineering, laying out our problems as a species and...
23,058 views · 95%
Anima Mundi: Permaculture, Deep Ecology & the Soul of the World 77 min
Anima Mundi: Permaculture, Deep Ecology & the Soul of the World (2011)
Many people do not realize that permaculture is much more than about growing fruit and vegetables, it is a whole view incorporating the environment, energy, resources, housing, technology, education, healthcare, the arts, spirituality, psychology, philosophy and agriculture...
21,496 views · 94%
Money As Debt: Revised Edition 47 min
Money As Debt: Revised Edition (2009)
This simple, low-fi video acts as an Economics 101 class for those of us who don't really understand the American system of money. If you'd like to know more about why and how the economy works watch this video.
17,835 views · 94%
10 Reasons Why Everyone Should Have a Guaranteed Livable Income 3 min
10 Reasons Why Everyone Should Have a Guaranteed Livable Income
The simplest most effective solution to poverty.
Matt Orfalea · 10,500 views · 99%
A Sustainability Renaissance Man 27 min
A Sustainability Renaissance Man
Earth needs humans to figure out our shared destiny, says Alan Seid, whose interest is both the outer and inner dimensions of sustainability. Outside there's ecology, social systems and economics (e.g., in Permaculture). Inside is the psychological dimension of personal and...
peakmoment · 8,160 views · 100%
Who Is to Blame for the Refugee Crisis? 30 min
Who Is to Blame for the Refugee Crisis? (2015)
Today 60 million human beings are displaced from war and extreme poverty. Many European countries are responding to the crisis with racist hysteria, polices and police state measures. Abby Martin exposes the facts that are left out of the mainstream reporting: the role of...
8,125 views · 95%
In Debt We Trust 3 min
In Debt We Trust (trailer)
This hard-hitting documentary from Emmy Award-winning producer Danny Schechter explores why so many Americans, young people in particular, are being strangled by consumer debt. Burrowing deep into the politics and economics of American debt culture, Schechter argues that the...
7,654 views · 75%
Eight Ways Less Is More - The Art of Strategic Slacking
Eight Ways Less Is More - The Art of Strategic Slacking
You’re busy, “crazy-busy” even, so why would taking more breaks and wandering off for walks during the working day help you become less busy and more successful? Because, when done properly, less is more says Christine Carter
Christine Carter · 7,526 views · 81%
The Great Global Slowdown: What’s Next?
The Great Global Slowdown: What’s Next?
If you have a pension, or a string of ISAs, then you are watching – for the second time in a decade – your wealth destroyed. European stock markets are now 20 per cent off their peak in the middle of last year.
Paul Mason · 7,382 views · 94%
Channel 4 News Ecomonics Editor Is Pissed Off With The Banks 2 min
Channel 4 News Ecomonics Editor Is Pissed Off With The Banks
Ever seen an angry economics editor? Paul Mason explains why he's sick of standing outside RBS's headquarters talking about banks doing something wrong.
Paul Mason on the news · 5,391 views · 94%
Cornel West and Richard Wolff Talk about Capitalism and White Supremacy 25 min
Cornel West and Richard Wolff Talk about Capitalism and White Supremacy
A conversation about capitalism with two brilliant minds, Cornel West and Richard D. Wolff, together in a rare joint appearance. Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, and author most recently of Capitalism's Crisis Deepens: Essays...
Laura Flanders & Friends · 5,232 views · 100%
The Love Police: Royal Wedding Megaphone Special 14 min
The Love Police: Royal Wedding Megaphone Special
Meeting Jesus Christ on Easter SundayMeeting Satan on Easter MondayOut and about in Cambridge with Jon from We Are Change Birmingham and showing Associated Press how we do things - of course they edited down the interview for maximum drama and juxtapositionSee the AP piece...
Charles Veitch · 4,214 views · 42%
How Economic Growth Has Become Anti-Life
How Economic Growth Has Become Anti-Life
An obsession with growth has eclipsed our concern for sustainability, justice and human dignity. But people are not disposable – the value of life lies outside economic development
Vandana Shiva · 4,071 views · unrated
Mind Over Money 53 min
Mind Over Money (2010)
In the aftermath of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, NOVA presents "Mind Over Money"—an entertaining and penetrating exploration of why mainstream economists failed to predict the crash of 2008 and why we so often make irrational financial decisions. The...
3,718 views · 75%
Rethinking modern schooling 2 min
Rethinking modern schooling
An edited sequence for our documentary The Economics of Happiness that ultimately did not make it into the film. It offers a critical look at modern schooling in both the global North and South. With Vandana Shjiva, Manish Jain (Coordinator of the Indian NGO Shikshantar)...
Local Futures · 2,654 views · unrated
The 'Climate Swerve' Didn't Just happen
The 'Climate Swerve' Didn't Just happen
In last week’s Sunday Review, psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton praised the “climate swerve” — a deep and dramatic shift in public opinion on the climate crisis. The shift is, as Lifton rightly states, “a major historical change in consciousness that is neither predictable nor...
Kate Aronoff · 2,631 views · 75%
Exploring Media and Propaganda in India
Exploring Media and Propaganda in India
The way The Telegraph and some other media houses in Kolkata are manipulating the public opinion on behalf of the big pocketed lobbyists, it's becoming more obvious than ever. When someone speaks of media manipulation, they can mean both manipulation by the media and...
Pash Zahid · 2,310 views · unrated
Helena Norberg-Hodge: An Overview of Localization 29 min
Helena Norberg-Hodge: An Overview of Localization
Helena Norberg-Hodge's plenary talk at Local Futures/ISEC's Economics of Happiness Conference, Berkeley, California, March 2012. For more information about the work of Local Futures/ISEC, go to
Local Futures · 2,125 views · unrated
Explaining Henry George 14 min
Explaining Henry George
A short history and profile of 19th century American economist Henry George, based on the writings of Agnes de Mille, George's grand daughter. Earthsharing Canada is an economics think-tank advocating government financing by collecting "economic rent" rather than with taxes...
Frank de Jong · 1,346 views · 62%
How The Economic Machine Works by Ray Dalio 30 min
How The Economic Machine Works by Ray Dalio
Economics 101 -- "How the Economic Machine Works." Created by Ray Dalio this simple but not simplistic and easy to follow 30 minute, animated video answers the question, "How does the economy really work?
1,106 views · unrated
Larry Summers: Goldman Sacked
Larry Summers: Goldman Sacked
Joseph Stiglitz couldn’t believe his ears.  Here they were in the White House, with President Bill Clinton asking the chiefs of the US Treasury for guidance on the life and death of America’s economy, when the Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Larry Summers turns to his boss...
Greg Palast · 984 views · 62%
Return to Doncatraz 111 min
Return to Doncatraz
From the creator of Escape from Doncatraz, media activist Jay Baker, equipped with with cameraphones and a limited budget, the grainy footage of guerilla documentary Return to Doncatraz brings us a look into the rise of right-wing agenda in his hometown of Doncaster, and...
962 views · unrated
Assumed growth and apocalyptic thinking
Assumed growth and apocalyptic thinking
The following is adapted from a post to an email discussion list: Regarding last week's post to this list on ecological economics, I alluded to but didn't go into detail on a fundamental concern about a basic assumption - growth - in the anthropogenic climate change models...
SER · 818 views · unrated
Richard Wolff: On Bernie Sanders and Socialism 26 min
Richard Wolff: On Bernie Sanders and Socialism
Sanders and Socialism. Is socialism still an American taboo? Not so much, says professor Richard Wolff; nor was it in the past, says Nation columnist John Nichols. Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, and a Visiting Professor in...
Laura Flanders & Friends · 544 views · 100%
Richard Heinberg: end of the line for economic growth 12 min
Richard Heinberg: end of the line for economic growth
This is Richard Heinberg's plenary talk at Local Futures/ISEC's Economics of Happiness conference, held in Berkeley, California in March, 2012. Richard is a Fellow with the Post Carbon Institute, and the author of numerous books, including "Peak Everything" and "The End of...
Local Futures · 242 views · unrated
One Community: Creating Transformational Global Change 3 min
One Community: Creating Transformational Global Change
http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/ One Community's non-profit strategy is transformational global change through designing, modeling, and open-sourcing holistic, virally-self-replicating, Highest Good of All solutions for all aspects of comprehensive, modifiable village...
One Community · 227 views · unrated
The Costs of Capitalism's Crisis: Who Will Pay? 95 min
The Costs of Capitalism's Crisis: Who Will Pay?
Economics Professor Richard Wolff details the problems of capitalism and urges our recognizing its obsolescence and replacing it with institutions that truly serve the people. Talk at Church of All Souls in New York City, January 24, 2012.
Joe Friendly · 208 views · unrated
Global Capitalism: December 2014 Monthly Update 84 min
Global Capitalism: December 2014 Monthly Update
Monthly Economic Update Co-sponsored by Democracy at Work, Left Forum, and Judson Memorial Church Richard D. Wolff Wednesday, December 10, 2014 at 7:30pm "The Economics of Facing Reality" Judson Memorial Church Assembly Hall 239 Thompson Street at Washington Square, Manhattan...
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Redefining Charity 13 min
Redefining Charity
The research documentary looks to investigate the UK’s existing economic and cultural attitudes towards charity and international development. With the “controversial pledge by the UK government to spend 0.7% of the UK’s income on foreign aid” the project looks to explore the...
198 views · unrated
Global Capitalism: February 2015 Monthly Update 85 min
Global Capitalism: February 2015 Monthly Update
Monthly Economic Update Co-sponsored by Democracy at Work, Left Forum, and Judson Memorial Church Richard D. Wolff Wednesday, January 14, 2015 at 7:30pm "The Economics of a New Year" Judson Memorial Church Assembly Hall 239 Thompson Street at Washington Square, Manhattan...
RichardDWolff · 197 views · unrated
Snow Days
Snow Days
A Basic Income Blizzard
Matt Orfalea · 195 views · unrated
Global Capitalism: March 2016 Monthly Update 107 min
Global Capitalism: March 2016 Monthly Update
Global Capitalism: Monthly Economic Update Richard D. Wolff Wednesday, March 9, 2016 at 7:30pm Economics and 2016's Presidential Politics Judson Memorial Church Assembly Hall 239 Thompson Street at Washington Square, Manhattan Co-sponsored by Democracy at Work, Left Forum...
RichardDWolff · 165 views · unrated
Beyond the Culture of Contest: Michael Karlberg - Subtítulos En Español 18 min
Beyond the Culture of Contest: Michael Karlberg - Subtítulos En Español
TEDxInnsbruck - Michael Karlberg - Beyond the Culture of Contest: A Critical Juncture of Human History. Michael Karlberg is a professor in the Department of Communication at Western Washington University. He completed his Ph.D. in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser...
Programa de Paz · 156 views · unrated
Keiser Report: Summer Solutions (E792 Ft. Prof. Steve Keen) 25 min
Keiser Report: Summer Solutions (E792 Ft. Prof. Steve Keen)
In this summer solutions episode of the Keiser Report, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert are joined by Professor Steve Keen, author of Debunking Economics, to discuss the problem of household debt and an overly large finance sector. They discuss possible solutions, such as perhaps...
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Richard Wolff: "Economy in Crisis: Fantasies, Realities, Possibilities" 78 min
Richard Wolff: "Economy in Crisis: Fantasies, Realities, Possibilities"
Richard Wolff, Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a Visiting Professor at the New School University in New York. Our economy's crises since 2008 continue. Millions face ever deeper income and wealth inequalities, ecological dangers...
Fairhaven College · 114 views · unrated
Defeat the Right in Three Minutes: A Practical Guide to Understanding Conservative Politics
Defeat the Right in Three Minutes: A Practical Guide to Understanding Conservative Politics
Have you got three minutes. Because that's all you need to learn how to defeat the Republican Right. Just read through this handy guide and you'll have everything you need to successfully debunk right-wing propaganda.
Conceptual Guerilla · 28,705 views · 88%
The Problem With Judgement
The Problem With Judgement
Many people have little trouble confessing to being hard on themselves, to being “my own worst critic” or to being a perfectionist. They are, after all, merely confessing to something that our culture upholds as a virtue: the struggle against the self. People are generally...
Charles Eisenstein · 11,596 views · 88%
Why Life in a 'Degrowth' Economy Would Be More Enjoyable and Prosperous Than Today's Infinite Growth Economy
Why Life in a 'Degrowth' Economy Would Be More Enjoyable and Prosperous Than Today's Infinite Growth Economy
What does genuine economic progress look like? The orthodox answer is that a bigger economy is always better, but this idea is increasingly strained by the knowledge that, on a finite planet, the economy can’t grow forever.
Samuel Alexander · 11,334 views · 100%
Marx Was Right: Five Surprising Ways Karl Marx Predicted 2014
Marx Was Right: Five Surprising Ways Karl Marx Predicted 2014
There's a lot of talk of Karl Marx in the air these days – from Rush Limbaugh accusing Pope Francis of promoting "pure Marxism" to a Washington Times writer
Sean McElwee · 8,072 views · 88%
Blockchain Revolution: Open Source Democracy for the 99%
Blockchain Revolution: Open Source Democracy for the 99%
"The revolution in this era may not need pitchforks, as the ‘peasants’ can just stop paying for the plutocracy." “The Pitchforks Are Coming ... For Us Plutocrats”! This is how self-proclaimed unapologetic capitalist Nick Hanauer addressed the explosion of global economic...
Nozomi Hayase · 5,847 views · unrated
On the Second Anniversary of OWS: Three Metamemes for the Future
On the Second Anniversary of OWS: Three Metamemes for the Future
Here at Adbusters, we see three big tactical breakthrough ideas, three metamemes, that have the power to veer this global trainwreck of ours from its date with disaster. Make no mistake, the crash is a brutal world – a barbarian reality. It’s a happening that none of us...
Adbusters · 2,107 views · 75%
Fairphone 2 - The Modular Conflict-Free Cellphone With Planned Longevity 4 min
Fairphone 2 - The Modular Conflict-Free Cellphone With Planned Longevity
With the rest of the mobile phone industry beginning to look into supply chain ethics, Fairphone has launched their second handset as the first fully modular smartphone to try and stay one step ahead The first batch of the Fairphone 2 – which aims to lead the way in more...
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Britain's Mafia State
Britain's Mafia State
Where does legitimate business end and organised crime begin?
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