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Money, Banking And The Federal Reserve
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...
42 min · 731 views · unrated
Guaranteed Income? How About Guaranteed Job?
Guaranteed Income? How About Guaranteed Job?
Pavlina Tcherneva discusses her plan for a job guarantee program to reduce American unemployment. 
11 min · 808 views · unrated
Stop Spending Money: How Consumerism Takes Its Toll on Our Happiness
Stop Spending Money: How Consumerism Takes Its Toll on Our Happiness
There’s no doubt that the U.S. culture is famous for its promises of happiness. As age-old as the idea of the “American dream” is the idea that working hard and making money to create the life you want will lead you to happiness and bliss. It’s made painfully obvious in...
Jennifer Kongs · 9,704 views · 5 stars
Planet Local: A 7-Part Film Series about the Regenerative Food Movement
Planet Local: A 7-Part Film Series about the Regenerative Food Movement
Good food is key to our survival and well-being. Eating local food is a powerful solution-multiplier — it reduces our carbon footprint, pollution, and waste, while creating dignified livelihood opportunities, strengthening communities and local economies, and strengthening...
Local Futures · 18,657 views · 4.5 stars
Money makes the world go round … and sometimes brings it to a shuddering halt.
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...
48 min · 91 views · unrated
Cut the Working Week to a Maximum of 20 Hours, Urge Top Economists
Cut the Working Week to a Maximum of 20 Hours, Urge Top Economists
Job sharing and increased leisure are the answer to rising unemployment, claims thinktank
Heather Stewart · 5,483 views · 4.8 stars
Ghetto Physics
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...
2 min · 9,104 views · 4.2 stars
Global Capitalism: February 2015 Monthly Update
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...
85 min · 150 views · unrated
Dr. Michael Hudson: Economic Lessons for 2020
Dr. Michael Hudson: Economic Lessons for 2020
Despite low unemployment rates and a rising stock market, 3 out of 4 economists are expecting a recession by 2021. We are already facing a #crisisofpoverty and economic precarity, where 140 million people are poor or low-income, the costs of living are going up and the...
85 min · 1,411 views · 4.5 stars
Don’t Be Scared About the End of Capitalism—Be Excited to Build What Comes Next
Don’t Be Scared About the End of Capitalism—Be Excited to Build What Comes Next
Instead of fixating on a fight between capitalism and socialism, imagine innovating a future economy that transcends old binaries.
Jason Hickel and Martin Kirk · 39,318 views · 5 stars
Worshippers of the Almighty Invisible Hand
Worshippers of the Almighty Invisible Hand
The fantasies of a faith-based neoliberal economics laid bare
Robert Parenteau · 1,445 views · 4 stars
Husbandry: a Reclamation of Men's Responsibility to Care
Husbandry: a Reclamation of Men's Responsibility to Care
To stop the economy’s advance towards greed and destruction, we need new metaphors and images that inspire a radically different alternative.
Julie A. Nelson · 5,178 views · unrated
Russell Brand Vs Mcdonalds & Monsanto TTIP Globalisation
Russell Brand Vs Mcdonalds & Monsanto TTIP Globalisation
Russell Brand - The Trews Economics of Happiness 
14 min · 114 views · unrated
Why Government is More Afraid of Debt than Depression
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.
10 min · 5,520 views · unrated
Prout: Economic Democracy in Practice
Prout: Economic Democracy in Practice (2004)
Economics of Prout covers the basic economic principles of Prout, which offers a viable alternative to the materialistic, anti human philosophies of Capitalism and Communism.
30 min · 26,877 views · 3.6 stars
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 · 2,516 views · 4 stars
Money Can't Buy Life
Money Can't Buy Life
The Economic Enigma of Money vs Life: [A Social Value Disorder]
Craig Bridges · 1,197 views · 4 stars
When Climate Met COVID: 7 Reasons We Should Tackle These Challenges Together
When Climate Met COVID: 7 Reasons We Should Tackle These Challenges Together
We face not one but three simultaneous inter-connected crises: the COVID-19 Emergency, the Climate and Biodiversity Emergency, and the Crisis of Capitalism. We urgently need connected constructive responses.
Guy Dauncey · 3,423 views · unrated
This Is Water (Or Is It Neoliberalism?)
This Is Water (Or Is It Neoliberalism?)
A meditation on Vercelli, Vernengo and Levitt & Seccareccia
Philip E. Mirowski · 82 views · unrated
Is the Solution Reform or Revolution?
Is the Solution Reform or Revolution?
In this educational video we talk to Professor of Economics Emeritus (University of Massachusetts) and founder of Democracy at Work, Richard D. Wolff,
11 min · 351 views · 5 stars
Is Libertarianism compatible with Capitalism? | With Richard D. Wolff
Is Libertarianism compatible with Capitalism? | With Richard D. Wolff
In this educational video we talk to the founder of Democracy at Work and Professor of Economics Emeritus (University of Massachusetts), Richard D. Wolff, about whether libertarianism is compatible with capitalism.
8 min · 123 views · 5 stars
Richard D. Wolff on the Role of Banks & Insurance Corporations & How to Reform them
Richard D. Wolff on the Role of Banks & Insurance Corporations & How to Reform them
In this educational video Professor of Economics Emeritus (University of Massachusetts), Marxist economist and founder of Democracy at Work, Richard Wolff, talks about the role of banks and insurance corporations in our society and how to reform them.
4 min · 307 views · unrated
Richard D. Wolff on the Basic Universal Income & Role of Technology in Capitalism
Richard D. Wolff on the Basic Universal Income & Role of Technology in Capitalism
In this educational video we talk to Professor of Economics Emeritus (University of Massachusetts), Marxist economist and founder of Democracy at Work, Richard Wolff, about the Basic Universal Income and whether it poses any dangers. In addition we discuss the role of...
9 min · 319 views · unrated
Richard D. Wolff - What Is Happening in Europe? What Makes Jeremy Corbyn Different?
Richard D. Wolff - What Is Happening in Europe? What Makes Jeremy Corbyn Different?
In this educational video Professor of Economics Emeritus (University of Massachusetts), Marxist economist and founder of Democracy at Work, Richard Wolff, talks about the state of the European political system and whether there are any examples to draw from that could...
8 min · 204 views · unrated
Richard D. Wolff - When and Why Will Capitalism End?
Richard D. Wolff - When and Why Will Capitalism End?
In this educational video Professor of Economics Emeritus (University of Massachusetts), Marxist economist and founder of Democracy at Work, Richard Wolff,
17 min · 93 views · unrated
Our Obsession With the Economy Is Destroying Democracy
Our Obsession With the Economy Is Destroying Democracy
The words 'the economy' weren't mentioned in a winning British election manifesto before 1950. But today, says Catriona Watson of Rethinking Economics, politicians put it front and centre of their politics. This is undemocratic, she argues, when it is discussed in terms most...
2 min · 6,731 views · 5 stars
Questioning Socialism – A Constructive Debate with Marxist Richard D. Wolff
Questioning Socialism – A Constructive Debate with Marxist Richard D. Wolff
In this interview we talk to Professor of Economics Emeritus (University of Massachusetts), Marxist economist and founder of Democracy at Work, Richard D. Wolff, about neoliberalism, capitalism & socialism. In addition we question the underlying principles and methods of...
48 min · 172 views · unrated
The Dirty Secret of Capitalism -- and a New Way Forward / Nick Hanauer
The Dirty Secret of Capitalism -- and a New Way Forward / Nick Hanauer
Rising inequality and growing political instability are the direct result of decades of bad economic theory, says entrepreneur Nick Hanauer. In a visionary talk, he dismantles the mantra that "greed is good" -- an idea he describes as not only morally corrosive, but also...
18 min · 4,430 views · 5 stars
Why Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs Matters
Why Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs Matters
Maslow's Hierarchy, (or Pyramid), of Needs is one of the central ideas in modern economics and sociology. The work of a once little-known American psychologist, it has grown into an indispensable guide to understanding the modern world. This film explains who Maslow was, what...
7 min · 7,590 views · 4 stars
The Medical Industrial Complex & Technology | With Richard D. Wolff
The Medical Industrial Complex & Technology | With Richard D. Wolff
In this educational video we talk to the founder of Democracy at Work and Professor of Economics Emeritus (University of Massachusetts), Richard D. Wolff, about the healthcare system of the United States and what possible durable e
14 min · 113 views · 5 stars
Modern Monetary Theory & Economic Education | With Stephanie Kelton - Part 1
Modern Monetary Theory & Economic Education | With Stephanie Kelton - Part 1
In this interview we talk to Stephanie Kelton, Professor of Public Policy & Economics, author and economic advisor to Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign in 2016, about Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) and the basic economic concepts related to it.
16 min · 204 views · unrated
Richard D. Wolff on George Orwell, the Military Industrial Complex & the Emancipation of Labour
Richard D. Wolff on George Orwell, the Military Industrial Complex & the Emancipation of Labour
In this video we talk to Professor of Economics Emeritus (University of Massachusetts), Marxist economist and founder of Democracy at Work, Richard D. Wolff, about George Orwell's famous book called "1984", and in particular, the excerpts pertaining to the military...
12 min · 100 views · unrated
The Political Economy of Marijuana | Interview with Prof. Richard D. Wolff
The Political Economy of Marijuana | Interview with Prof. Richard D. Wolff
In this video we talk to Professor of Economics Emeritus (University of Massachusetts), Marxist economist and founder of Democracy at Work, Richard D. Wolff, about the history & political economy behind the legalisation of marijuana.
10 min · 934 views · 4 stars
All the Financial Advice You’ll Ever Need Fits On a Single Index Card
All the Financial Advice You’ll Ever Need Fits On a Single Index Card
At first glance, fiscal planning can seem more complex and time-consuming than it’s worth. But according to Professor Harold Pollack of the University of Chicago, you can fit all the financial advice you’ll ever really need on a single index card. Economics correspondent Paul...
8 min · 4,508 views · unrated
How a New Aristocracy's Segregation Puts Stress on Society
How a New Aristocracy's Segregation Puts Stress on Society
Growing class division is destabilizing our society, argues author and philosopher Matthew Stewart in a provocative Atlantic magazine cover story. He says there's a group in between the top 0.1 percent and bottom 90 percent that plays an important role in running the economy...
8 min · 1,160 views · 1.8 stars
Why Africa is actually a Net Creditor to the Rest of the World | Part 1
Why Africa is actually a Net Creditor to the Rest of the World | Part 1
In the first part of the interview series with Léonce Ndikumana, Professor of Economics, Director of the African Development Policy Program and member of the United Nations Committee on Development Policy, we examine how foreign direct investment, odious debt and capital...
17 min · 55 views · 4 stars
Astoria - A Syrian Refugee's Journey Connects to Europe's Past
Astoria - A Syrian Refugee's Journey Connects to Europe's Past
Written and directed by Paul Mason, former Economics Editor of Channel 4 News and BBC's Newsnight, Astoria follows a Syrian refugee's journey to the West. Once there, an encounter with the past in a Budapest hotel draws a parallel between Europe's historical and current...
8 min · 2,404 views · unrated
Zeitgeist Movement and Esoteric Truth Revealed With Peter Joseph
Zeitgeist Movement and Esoteric Truth Revealed With Peter Joseph
The Zeitgeist Movement's Peter Joseph shares the truth about economics, society, and the social orders implemented to undermine the true value of life on Earth, in this uncensored interview on Buzzsaw. How globalization, exploitation, and social philosophy are manipulated to...
45 min · 279 views · unrated
Global Capitalism: March 2016 Monthly Update
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...
107 min · 77 views · unrated
Richard: A Piano Tuner Who Chooses to Live on the Streets in London
Richard: A Piano Tuner Who Chooses to Live on the Streets in London
The film Richard is a portrait of wandering piano tuner Richard Roberts while he explores the adventures of living without a fixed address. He classes himself as working homeless – a growing group who sleep rough by night, but then get up in the morning to go to work. Richard...
5 min · 764 views · 4 stars
One Community: Creating Transformational Global Change
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...
3 min · 155 views · unrated
Keiser Report: Summer Solutions (E792 Ft. Prof. Steve Keen)
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...
25 min · 75 views · unrated
Richard Wolff: On Bernie Sanders and Socialism
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...
26 min · 373 views · 5 stars
Cornel West and Richard Wolff Talk about Capitalism and White Supremacy
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...
25 min · 5,000 views · 5 stars
Richard Wolff: "Economy in Crisis: Fantasies, Realities, Possibilities"
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...
78 min · 76 views · unrated
Who Is to Blame for the Refugee Crisis?
Who Is to Blame for the Refugee Crisis?
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...
30 min · 7,849 views · 4.8 stars
Channel 4 News Ecomonics Editor Is Pissed Off With The Banks
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.
2 min · 5,120 views · 4.8 stars
Gravy Trains:
Gravy Trains:
The phantom tram in Washington DC exposes the economics of infrastructure. Railways ought to have combined profits for investors with cutting costs to serve the interests of passengers. Instead, the net gains - the value that is crystallised in the land market as rents - were...
7 min · 150 views · unrated
Global Capitalism: December 2014 Monthly Update
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...
84 min · 138 views · unrated
The Costs of Capitalism's Crisis: Who Will Pay?
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. 
95 min · 144 views · unrated
Richard Heinberg: end of the line for economic growth
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...
12 min · 195 views · unrated
Helena Norberg-Hodge: An Overview of Localization
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
29 min · 1,701 views · unrated
Rethinking modern schooling
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)...
2 min · 2,589 views · unrated
The Movement for Localization Is Growing Rapidly, Worldwide
The Movement for Localization Is Growing Rapidly, Worldwide
One no, many yeses. Look to join and grow the movement for localization where you live.
7 min · 16,796 views · 4.6 stars
How The Economic Machine Works by Ray Dalio
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?
30 min · 1,034 views · unrated
Mind Over Money
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...
53 min · 3,468 views · 4 stars
Explaining Henry George
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...
14 min · 1,270 views · 3.5 stars
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 · 721 views · unrated
A Sustainability Renaissance Man
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...
27 min · 7,930 views · 5 stars
Money As Debt: Revised Edition
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.
47 min · 16,896 views · 4.8 stars