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Other Economies are Possible! Organizing Toward an Economy of Cooperation and Solidarity
Other Economies are Possible! Organizing Toward an Economy of Cooperation and Solidarity
Consider this: thousands of diverse, locally-rooted, grassroots economic projects are in the process of creating the basis for a viable democratic alternative to capitalism.   It might seem unlikely that a motley array of initiatives such as worker, consumer, and housing...
Ethan Miller · 10,813 views · 5 stars
The Revolution Is Love! Our Movement is for the 100%
The Revolution Is Love! Our Movement is for the 100%
"Love is the felt experience of connection to another being. An economist says 'more for you is less for me.' But the lover knows that more of you is more for me too. If you love somebody their happiness is your happiness. Their pain is your pain. Your sense of self expands...
4 min · 35,905 views · 5 stars
The Mona Lisa Curse (2008) (trailer)
The Mona Lisa Curse (2008) (trailer)
In The Mona Lisa Curse, art critic Robert Hughes subjected present-day commercialisation of art to a withering criticism. It's a damning indictment of the general tendency of art to degenerate into flashy triviality to the degree that it subordinates itself to money-making...
5 min · 15,164 views · 4 stars
Coming Home: The Reinvention of the Local Economy
Coming Home: The Reinvention of the Local Economy (2009)
In 1973, British economist E.F. Schumacher wrote “Small is Beautiful – Economics as if People Mattered”, – a book that offered a vision of an economy driven by a desire for harmony, not greed; an economy based on community and ecological values, not global financial...
37 min · 26,960 views · 4.6 stars
Peter Joseph: When Normality Becomes Distortion
Peter Joseph: When Normality Becomes Distortion
Oct 8th 2011, Marina Del Rey California. This program considers the quality of our beliefs, actions and intents within the overarching context of what supports good public health, prosperity and sustainability and what does not. The subjects of Politics, Economics and...
43 min · 12,807 views · 4.8 stars
War By Other Means
War By Other Means (1992)
John Pilger travels to many third world countries to investigate the devastating results of loans from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF). This film shows how many wars today are not carried out at the barrel of a gun, but by the monetary policies of global...
52 min · 43,953 views · 4.5 stars
The Killing Fields: How Land Taxation Can Support Wildlife Conservation In a Radical Way
The Killing Fields: How Land Taxation Can Support Wildlife Conservation In a Radical Way (2013)
The Killing Fields is a documentary highlighting the importance that economics and taxation plays in wildlife conservation.
25 min · 6,000 views · 4.8 stars
Veggie Oil Car from iTurnedGreen
Veggie Oil Car from iTurnedGreen
Economics professor Matt collects waste vegetable oil to fuel his converted diesel car. He saves money and helps to minimize his impact on the earth by using his veggie car.
8 min · 836 views · unrated
Capitalism and Other Kids' Stuff
Capitalism and Other Kids' Stuff
Capitalism and Other Kids' Stuff powerfully debunks the myth that a so-called immutable 'human-nature' prevents our transition to a society of abundance and free-access for all.
52 min · 127 views · unrated
How a Land High in the Western Himalayas Can Help Us Understand The Crisis of The Modern World
How a Land High in the Western Himalayas Can Help Us Understand The Crisis of The Modern World
This is a clip from The Economics of Happiness. Watch it here (skip to the 10-minute mark to pick up where this clip ends)
9 min · 86,274 views · 4.3 stars
Creating Wildwood & How Can We Rewild Britain
Creating Wildwood & How Can We Rewild Britain
Wildwood Trust's Peter Smith explains the History of why Wildwood Trust was formed and our mission to Rewild Britain. In this lecture Peter explains the complex issues that will challenge us as we try to rewild Britain and make a space for nature. At the heart of the problem...
42 min · 63 views · unrated
Bayo Akomolafe: An Oriki for the Times
Bayo Akomolafe: An Oriki for the Times
Bayo Akomolafe is a researcher, lecturer and author, as well as Coordinator of the International Alliance for Localization. This is his plenary talk at the Economics of Happiness conference, held in Portland, Oregon, in February 2015. The conference was organized by Local...
23 min · 472 views · 4 stars
Australia's Tax Reform Unicorn and Other Mythical Beasts
Australia's Tax Reform Unicorn and Other Mythical Beasts
In which Trickle Down Economics collides with Impotent Tax Reform to create a super-massive Budget Black Hole.
4 min · 2,115 views · 5 stars
Paul Mason on Postcapitalism and What The Future Might Hold
Paul Mason on Postcapitalism and What The Future Might Hold
A new way of living is in the process of formation. Capitalism as we know it has reached the limits of its ability to adapt. A networked Alternative is already in the works- You can see it in the cooperative businesses on the rise and the tough time traditional parties are...
11 min · 12,807 views · 5 stars
Richard Wolff - What Is Public Debt? How Is Money Printed? and How Do Governments Pay for Wars?
Richard Wolff - What Is Public Debt? How Is Money Printed? and How Do Governments Pay for Wars?
In this educational video Professor of Economics Emeritus (University of Massachusetts), Marxist economist and founder of Democracy at Work,
9 min · 217 views · unrated
Richard D. Wolff - What Is the State of Economic Education Today? How Can We Get People Engaged?
Richard D. Wolff - What Is the State of Economic Education Today? How Can We Get People Engaged?
8 min · 432 views · unrated
Richard D. Wolff - Should Bernie Sanders Stay in the Democratic Party?
Richard D. Wolff - Should Bernie Sanders Stay in the Democratic Party?
In this educational video Professor of Economics Emeritus (University of Massachusetts), Marxist economist and founder of Democracy at Work, Richard Wolff, talks about the US political system and Bernie Sander's role in the Democratic Party. 
5 min · 110 views · unrated
Doug Casey on Why Millennials Favor Communism
Doug Casey on Why Millennials Favor Communism
Justin’s note: Communism is better than capitalism.
Doug Casey, Justin · 202 views · unrated
Robert Reich: The Big Economic Switcheroo
Robert Reich: The Big Economic Switcheroo
Robert Reich explains why the growing federal debt enriches Wall St. bankers and wealthy Americans.
3 min · 956 views · unrated
Scaling up Permaculture in the City | Andrew Faust
Scaling up Permaculture in the City | Andrew Faust
Learn how to become more regionally resilient with bioregional economics and ecological city design.
35 min · 2,364 views · unrated
Share This With Your Governor: 12 Ideas for How States Can Respond to the Covid-19 Crisis
Share This With Your Governor: 12 Ideas for How States Can Respond to the Covid-19 Crisis
Everyone knows that the three, multi-trillion-dollar stimulus bills passed by Congress fall way short.  For most local businesses—the lifeblood of our economy—these bills offer too little relief, too late.  I’m hopeful though that the states (and maybe, in some places...
Michael Shuman · 1,117 views · unrated
Capitalism Hits The Fan
Capitalism Hits The Fan (2008)
With breathtaking clarity, renowned University of Massachusetts Economics Professor Richard Wolff breaks down the root causes of today's economic crisis, showing how it was decades in the making and in fact reflects seismic failures within the structures of American-style...
57 min · 2,512 views · unrated
How to Stop WORLD WAR III
How to Stop WORLD WAR III
The original goal of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), according to its first Secretary General, was "to keep the Soviets out, the Americans in, and the Germans down.” Today, the Soviet Union is gone, the United States is dominant, and Germany is...
15 min · 510 views · unrated
To Leave or Remain: Dichotomy or Distraction?
To Leave or Remain: Dichotomy or Distraction?
Ever since the Brexit referendum was first announced, we have been bombarded by an array of starkly contradictory pronouncements – from the Leave camp’s now infamous claim that withdrawal from the EU would release £350 million a week for the NHS to the former Chancellor...
Helena Norberg-Hodge · 6,422 views · 4.2 stars
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 · 3,867 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 · 1,934 views · 4 stars
Ross Perot Is an Income Inequality Prophet
Ross Perot Is an Income Inequality Prophet
Ross Perot is no joke. The 1992 presidential candidate was mocked for his views, but he's having the last laugh. His central prediction has largely come true...
5 min · 197 views · unrated
Economic System Reform: Saving The Planet; Salvaging The Human Prospect
Economic System Reform: Saving The Planet; Salvaging The Human Prospect
Economic systems include elements of design. Economic systems are not the progeny of happenstance, nor are they beyond our powers, like the sun and moon and stars above. And based on how things have worked out, nor are they the fruit of unimpeachable wisdom. In any case, they...
Robert Snefjella · 64 views · unrated
The Vision of Wellbeing Economies
The Vision of Wellbeing Economies
The concept of Wellbeing Economies (WE) does not attempt to explain the world through a central foundational economic model, nor does it recommend a particular path for achieving its goals. Rather, it is essentially a very pragmatic approach that begins not with a “system”...
Martin Oetting · 1,278 views · unrated
Food Inc.
Food Inc. (2008)
For most Americans, the ideal meal is fast, cheap, and tasty. Food, Inc. examines the costs of putting value and convenience over nutrition and environmental impact.
93 min · 226,874 views · 4.6 stars
16 Corporations or We the People?
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 —...
3 min · 40,619 views · 4.7 stars
A New Story of the People | Charles Eisenstein
A New Story of the People | Charles Eisenstein
The old story of our culture is losing its meaning for more and more people. Perhaps almost everyone can feel it these days. But a new story is emerging too - one that recognizes some long forgotten truths about who we are and our relationship to the world.
8 min · 38,515 views · 4.9 stars
Richard Wolff on the Economic Meltdown
Richard Wolff on the Economic Meltdown (2008)
With breathtaking clarity, renowned University of Massachusetts Economics Professor Richard Wolff breaks down the root causes of today's economic crisis, showing how it was decades in the making and in fact reflects seismic failures within the structures of American-style...
105 min · 14,433 views · 4.8 stars
Soul Food Junkies: Family, Food & Tradition
Soul Food Junkies: Family, Food & Tradition (2012) (trailer)
Award-winning filmmaker Byron Hurt offers a fascinating exploration of the soul food tradition, its relevance to black cultural identity, and its continuing popularity despite the known dangers of high-fat, high-calorie diets.
2 min · 5,954 views · 4 stars
Why the Future Economy has to be a Wellbeing Economy | Katherine Trebeck
Why the Future Economy has to be a Wellbeing Economy | Katherine Trebeck
Katherine is the Policy and Knowledge Lead for the Wellbeing Economy Alliance. She has over eight years’ experience in various roles with Oxfam GB - as a Senior Researcher for the Global Research Team, UK Policy Manager, and Research and Policy Advisor for Oxfam Scotland.
16 min · 1,157 views · unrated
Richard D. Wolff - What Is Politics? What Are Conservatives, Liberals, Socialists and Communists?
Richard D. Wolff - What Is Politics? What Are Conservatives, Liberals, Socialists and Communists?
9 min · 143 views · unrated
Real Value
Real Value (2013)
Award-winning filmmaker Jesse Borkowski delivers a refreshing meditation on how business can be used to create value beyond profit; connecting motivational stories from social entrepreneurs working in agriculture, apparel, insurance, and biofuel, with the captivating science...
70 min · 13,857 views · 4.9 stars
In The Eye Of The Storm: The Political Odyssey Of Yanis Varoufakis
In The Eye Of The Storm: The Political Odyssey Of Yanis Varoufakis (2024)
'In the Eye of the Storm' is a six-part documentary series about the dramatic journey and inspiring vision of one of the foremost political figures of our age, the maverick Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis.
258 min · 3,596 views · unrated
Laissez-Faire: a Critique of Neoliberalism
Laissez-Faire: a Critique of Neoliberalism
Laissez-faire is a documentary by Ruggero Arenella dedicated to the critical analysis of neoliberalism: genesis, decline and revenge of the ideology that is impoverishing the world. The film briefly exposes the main economic theories of the contemporary age, from Adam Smith...
Ecopol · 6,000 views · 5 stars
Secret City - A film about the City of London, the Corporation that runs it.
Secret City - A film about the City of London, the Corporation that runs it. (2014)
(This is a Non-APB related film) (August 2015) -Click here to support the follow up to Secret City https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/money-puzzles http://secretcity-thefilm.com/ https://www.facebook.com/SecretCityFilm?fref=ts https://twitter.com/SecretCityDoc...
72 min · 179 views · 5 stars
Grading is a Scam (and Motivation is a Myth) | A Professor Explains
Grading is a Scam (and Motivation is a Myth) | A Professor Explains
Grading is a scam and motivation is a myth. Those sound like bold words, but today we're going to dive down the rabbit hole and prove, once and for all, that our current state of schooling (and of...well..._everything_) is rotten to its core. ...that's all a little dramatic...
53 min · 4,764 views · 5 stars
~286~ The Shock Doctrine Is Here, Joe Biden Disaster, Let’s Fight Back
~286~ The Shock Doctrine Is Here, Joe Biden Disaster, Let’s Fight Back
Watch Lee's newest Stand-Up Comedy Special for free here – https://LeeCampAmerican.com Naomi Klein released “The Shock Doctrine” in 2007. In it she looked back at how powerful people have systematically used crises to implement draconian austerity politics and plunder...
29 min · 82 views · unrated
'Universal Basic Income is a Brilliant Idea'. Here's Why. | Yanis Varoufakis
'Universal Basic Income is a Brilliant Idea'. Here's Why. | Yanis Varoufakis
The welfare state is an ineffective and expensive system that hurts and targets the poor more than it helps. Universal basic income is a better alternative that could work. The question becomes, then, where would the money for UBI come from? There are a myriad of reasons why...
4 min · 3,384 views · unrated
Health Care Debate Destroyed, Voter Purge Revealed, Boy Scouts Abuse Comes Out
Health Care Debate Destroyed, Voter Purge Revealed, Boy Scouts Abuse Comes Out
A new Yale study says what we already knew about universal healthcare. It's a lot cheaper than the US's for-profit healthcare system and it saves significant numbers of lives. Lee looks at what forces are keeping the horrific system that we live under alive. In "Taking The...
29 min · 55 views · unrated
Nowtopia: A Documentary About Economic Alternatives
Nowtopia: A Documentary About Economic Alternatives (2020)
The term ‘Nowtopia’ is increasingly used by both activists and academics to describe a variety of interconnected tendencies. It can, for instance, apply to seeking freedom outside the confines of wage labour, or the creation of liberated common space in the here and now.
32 min · 9,118 views · 4 stars
In Transition 2.0: A Story of Resilience & Hope in Extraordinary Times
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...
66 min · 45,101 views · 4.8 stars
Princes of the Yen: Central Banks and the Transformation of the Economy
Princes of the Yen: Central Banks and the Transformation of the Economy (2014)
"Only power that is hidden, is power that endures."
132 min · 6,759 views · 4.2 stars
Lean Logic: a Dictionary for the Future
Lean Logic: a Dictionary for the Future
Excerpts from the late David Fleming’s 'Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It', chosen by the book’s editor, Shaun Chamberlin.
David Fleming & Shaun Chamberlin · 173 views · unrated
Is the Left in Britain Still Alive and Well?
Is the Left in Britain Still Alive and Well?
As mainstream politics moves to the centre, what has happened to the beating heart of the left? Zoe Williams takes a road trip in search of 21st-century socialists.  Rosie Rogers, political adviser
Zoe Williams · 458 views · unrated
Inside the New Economic Science of Capitalism's Slow-Burn Energy Collapse
Inside the New Economic Science of Capitalism's Slow-Burn Energy Collapse
And why the struggle for a new economic paradigm is about to get real
Nafeez Ahmed · 3,609 views · unrated
The Pamela Denoon Lecture 2015
The Pamela Denoon Lecture 2015
Professor Marilyn Waring lecture:
45 min · 73 views · unrated
Strengthening Local Economies Worldwide - Helena Norberg-Hodge
Strengthening Local Economies Worldwide - Helena Norberg-Hodge
Helena Norberg-Hodge, speaking live from Beyond The Great Reset: The Systems Change Summit, May 2021
49 min · 2,665 views · 3 stars
An Epidemic of Control: Charles Eisenstein
An Epidemic of Control: Charles Eisenstein
Charles Eisenstein is one of the most celebrated writers and speakers about the intersection of systems change and personal growth, in his books including Sacred Economics and The More Beautiful World our Hearts Know is Possible. In the wake of the pandemic crisis he wrote a...
60 min · 3,696 views · 5 stars
Marxism 101: How Capitalism Is Killing Itself With Dr. Richard Wolff
Marxism 101: How Capitalism Is Killing Itself With Dr. Richard Wolff
Despite a concerted effort by the U.S. Empire to snuff out the ideology, a 2016 poll found young Americans have a much more favorable view of socialism than capitalism. Though he died 133 years ago, the analysis put forward by one of the world's most influential thinkers...
35 min · 13,408 views · 4.6 stars
How Big Banks Launder Money and Get Away With It
How Big Banks Launder Money and Get Away With It
'I wrote about how money laundering was actually done... they spiked it.' Parliamentary Candidate David Malone was a popular second choice in the UK Green Party leadership election. As a scientist, author and journalist, Malone says he wants the Greens to have a 'difficult...
9 min · 4,956 views · unrated
A Science of Behavior Applied to Society
A Science of Behavior Applied to Society
This film covers cutting-edge perspectives in the areas of child development, education, sustainability, cultural change, and economics. It was produced for the 11th International Conference on Behavior Studies, November 2014.
20 min · 7,394 views · 3.8 stars
The End of Poverty
The End of Poverty (2009)
Global poverty did not just happen. It began with military conquest, slavery and colonization that resulted in the seizure of land, minerals and forced labor. Today, the problem persists because of unfair debt, trade and tax policies — in other words, wealthy countries taking...
105 min · 33,606 views · 4.8 stars
Real Estate 4 Ransom: Why Does Land Cost the Earth?
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...
39 min · 48,605 views · 4.9 stars
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 · 7,831 views · 4.5 stars
Leave It to Beaver - How Rewilding Stops Flooding
Leave It to Beaver - How Rewilding Stops Flooding
LEAVE IT TO BEAVER -NATURE`S ROLE IN FLOOD DEFENSE Peter Smith - Rewilding Expert: Speaking at The Flood Expo 2015 Beavers, wild horses and even wolves can cut the costs of flood defence and all this can be achieved by saving the taxpayer a fortune
40 min · 67 views · unrated