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The Age of Anxiety
The Age of Anxiety
I began to experience the crippling power of anxiety in my third year of university. The panic attacks were one thing, but the most horrifying thing about anxiety, the thing that sustains it, is the insomnia. I would wake up in the middle of the night, heart racing, and...
Grace Blakeley · 96,560 views · 96%
An Economy of Meaning - or Bust
An Economy of Meaning - or Bust
What economic system designs, out of all conceivable ones, might be among the best at helping us meet real needs?
John Boik, PhD · 651 views · 75%
The Sharing Economy: It Takes More Than a Smartphone
The Sharing Economy: It Takes More Than a Smartphone
I ran into my friend Rick the other day in a small town near our homes in northern Vermont. He was just coming out of the bookstore, holding a pink plastic bag that, I would soon learn, contained a dozen eggs from his flock of free range hens. After a bit of small talk, Rick...
Steven Gorelick · 7,617 views · 100%
Will the Poor Always Be With Us?
Will the Poor Always Be With Us?
Poverty as we know it is not and has never been the fate of humanity.
Jim Tull · 1,886 views · 75%
The Case for Individual Independence
The Case for Individual Independence
True democracy is a nation of Independent voters. Allegiance to any one political party is putting part of our identities into other people's hands. Selecting our best qualified representatives has been reduced to just another team sport; generations become indoctrinated like...
Michael Emero · 373 views · unrated
Aid in Reverse: How Poor Countries Develop Rich Countries
Aid in Reverse: How Poor Countries Develop Rich Countries
New research shows that developing countries send trillions of dollars more to the west than the other way around. Why?
Jason Hickel · 16,128 views · 100%
Basic Income Isn’t Just a Nice Idea. It's a Birthright
Basic Income Isn’t Just a Nice Idea. It's a Birthright
A basic income could defeat the scarcity mindset, instill a sense of solidarity and even ease the anxieties that gave us Brexit and Trump
Jason Hickel · 12,194 views · 100%
Stewart Lee's Reasons to Vote Conservative
Stewart Lee's Reasons to Vote Conservative
Stewart explains Conservative economic theory in 2 minutes.
2 min · 348,451 views · 100%
A New Economic Story: Real Prosperity Revolves Around the Sanctity of Life
A New Economic Story: Real Prosperity Revolves Around the Sanctity of Life
The economy is much more than a series of transactions: It’s about our relationships, who and what we think we are, and our view on the meaning of life itself. Our current global economy leaves too many of us struggling, and it is harming Earth’s ecosystems.
3 min · 2,155 views · 88%
Our Addiction to Economic Growth Is Killing Us - We Need Degrowth Now
Our Addiction to Economic Growth Is Killing Us - We Need Degrowth Now
In this Viewsnight, anthropologist Jason Hickel asks if economic growth really makes our lives better. He is the author of The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions.
2 min · 7,149 views · 100%
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 · 40,136 views · 100%
In Defense of Degrowth
In Defense of Degrowth
Why infinite growth on a finite planet is impossible, and why the alternative can actually be beautiful.
Jason Hickel · 6,074 views · 75%
Livin' the Screen Life
Livin' the Screen Life
Important official legal disclaimer: This is a short work of fiction. Any resemblances to real people, people you may know, people you think you may know, etc., is entirely deliberate.
John Savage · 1,185 views · 100%
Will Ruddick and Kenyan Community Currencies (HD)
Will Ruddick and Kenyan Community Currencies (HD)
This is a personal look at Community Currencies in Kenya and Will Ruddick. An amazing project that can inspire many of us who try to change the economic system from the botom up. Money creation without interest, locally governed and abundant where it's most needed. If you...
26 min · 250 views · unrated
Degrowth: A Call for Radical Abundance
Degrowth: A Call for Radical Abundance
When orthodox economists first encounter the idea of degrowth, they often jump to the conclusion that the objective is to reduce GDP.  And because they see GDP as equivalent to social wealth, this makes them very upset.
Jason Hickel · 32,632 views · 84%
Robert Reich: Why We Must Get Big Money Out of Politics
Robert Reich: Why We Must Get Big Money Out of Politics
Robert Reich explains why we must limit the influence of donors and lobbyists on Washington.
4 min · 1,005 views · unrated
Education, Jobs and Capitalism
Education, Jobs and Capitalism
American capitalism has a hate-love relationship with the nation’s schools. On the “hate” side is a stream of complaints from business leaders and organizations about the many students, particularly in city schools, who fail achievement tests, are high school dropouts or, if...
Gerald Coles · 1,183 views · unrated
How the IMF got it All Wrong...
How the IMF got it All Wrong...
Long-term economic data shows that neither increased investment nor deficit spending can provide sustained economic growth. They only create bubbles. On the other hand, we need growth to save the climate...
6 min · 212 views · unrated
Why the “Anthropocene” is not “Climate Change”
Why the “Anthropocene” is not “Climate Change”
“Anthropocene” is a widely proposed name for the geological epoch that covers human impact on our planet. But it is not synonymous with “climate change,” nor can it covered by “environmental problems.” Bigger and more shocking, the Anthropocene encapsulates the evidence that...
Julia Adeney Thomas · 1,464 views · 75%
Robert Reich: A Bold New Idea to Boost Wages
Robert Reich: A Bold New Idea to Boost Wages
Robert Reich explains how expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit would boost wages for millions of working Americans.
5 min · 1,780 views · unrated
How Bad Is Global Inequality, Really?
How Bad Is Global Inequality, Really?
Most everyone who’s interested in global inequality has come across the famous elephant graph, originally developed by Branko Milanovic and Christoph Lakner using World Bank data (see below). The graph charts the change in income that the world’s population have experienced...
Jason Hickel · 2,496 views · 62%
Growthism: Its Ecological, Economic and Ethical Limits
Growthism: Its Ecological, Economic and Ethical Limits
We have many problems – poverty, unemployment, environmental destruction, climate change, financial instability, etc. – but only one solution for everything, namely economic growth. We believe that growth is the costless, win-win solution to all problems, or at least the...
Herman Daly · 7,343 views · unrated
Robert Reich: Socialism for the Rich, Capitalism for the Rest
Robert Reich: Socialism for the Rich, Capitalism for the Rest
Robert Reich explains how government policies protect the wealthy and corporations, but leave ordinary Americans at risk.
5 min · 2,946 views · unrated
Book launch: The People’s Republic of Walmart w/Phillips, Rozworski
Book launch: The People’s Republic of Walmart w/Phillips, Rozworski
Book launch: The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’ Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism (Verso, 2019). Since the demise of the USSR, the mantle of the largest planned economies in the world has been taken up by the likes of Walmart, Amazon...
58 min · 59 views · unrated
The Farms of the Future
The Farms of the Future
Hou Xueying, a mother from Shanghai, was tired of food safety scares and of a city life disconnected from the land. So she moved her family to the country to learn about sustainable farming. Her parents disapproved; they had struggled to give her a comfortable life in the...
Isabel Marlens · 1,487 views · 100%
We Can’t Do It Ourselves: How Individual Change Has Limits That Can Only be Solved Collectively
We Can’t Do It Ourselves: How Individual Change Has Limits That Can Only be Solved Collectively
How to live a more sustainable life? This question generates a lot of debate that is focused on what individuals can do in order to address problems like climate change. For example, people are encouraged to shop locally, to buy organic food, to install home insulation, or to...
Kris De Decker · 11,043 views · 88%
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 · 5,067 views · 100%
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 · 1,258 views · unrated
Zero Weeks
Zero Weeks (2018)
Watch for free on Tubi.
87 min · 1,866 views · unrated
Neoliberalism: the Movement That Dare Not Speak Its Name - American Affairs Journal
Neoliberalism: the Movement That Dare Not Speak Its Name - American Affairs Journal
Reactions against the use of the term neoliberalism have usually taken one of two forms: first, that “neoliberalism” is nothing more than a fevered delusion or a mirage perhaps shared with a few other addled persons, and thus best ignored; and second, that if such a thing...
Philip Mirowski · 111 views · unrated
Naomi Klein’s “Hard-Money” Ideas Undermine Her Laudable Climate Action Goals
Naomi Klein’s “Hard-Money” Ideas Undermine Her Laudable Climate Action Goals
2014 Book Review: Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate
Michael Hoexter · 2,411 views · 75%
World Localization Day - full version. Be part of this inspirational movement for change!
World Localization Day - full version. Be part of this inspirational movement for change!
After COVID-19, we can return to stressful disconnected lives and climate catastrophe or we can slow down, scale down and rebuild our connections to each other and to the Earth. On June 21, we hosted an inspiring online festival of ideas and inspiration in celebration of...
259 min · 890 views · unrated
How to Account for the Future of Work: Automation, Blockchain, and the Knowledge Economy
How to Account for the Future of Work: Automation, Blockchain, and the Knowledge Economy
What's the problem with unfulfilled technological ideas and ideals? A critical perspective on the blockchain and DAOs that offers a better "Future of Work".
DisCO.coop · 125 views · unrated
The Confederacy Was a Con Job on Whites - and Still Is
The Confederacy Was a Con Job on Whites - and Still Is
I’ve lived 55 years in the South and I grew up liking the Confederate flag. I haven’t flown one for many decades — but for a reason that might surprise you.
Frank Hyman · 9,821 views · unrated
Do You Feel Nature’s Pain?
Do You Feel Nature’s Pain?
Centuries ago, we collectively experienced nature as a living and spiritual presence. Today, nature is in danger of becoming merely a utilitarian means to an end. Believing nature to be psychologically dead allows industry to freely consume and destroy it. We no longer feel...
Terence Sexton · 73 views · unrated
Who Actually Gets to Create Black Pop Culture? ❧ Current Affairs - filed 25 July 2021
Who Actually Gets to Create Black Pop Culture? ❧ Current Affairs - filed 25 July 2021
A closer look at the economics of Black pop culture reveals that most Black creators (outside music) come from middle-to-upper middle class backgrounds, while the Black poor are written about but rarely get the chance to speak for themselves.
Bertrand Cooper · 94 views · unrated
Critical Limits of the “New” History of Capitalism - Spectre Journal
Critical Limits of the “New” History of Capitalism - Spectre Journal
A REVIEW OF JONATHAN LEVY'S AGES OF AMERICAN CAPITALISM
JAMES PARISOT · 96 views · unrated
Out of Lockdown and Back Into the Long Depression - Spectre Journal - July 6, 2021
Out of Lockdown and Back Into the Long Depression - Spectre Journal - July 6, 2021
INTERVIEW WITH MICHAEL ROBERTS
ASHLEY SMITH · 84 views · unrated
Is Russia the REAL Target of Western Sanctions?
Is Russia the REAL Target of Western Sanctions?
Soaring oil prices, energy and food crises on the horizon…is it possible the REAL target of this economic war is us?
Kit Knightly · 39 views · unrated
The Laws of Capitalism
The Laws of Capitalism (2022)
The laws of capitalism have elevated the interests of the few above that of the many, but we can rewrite the code and restore balance to society. In this series, Professor Katharina Pistor (@Columbia Law School) breaks down the history, process, institutions, and participants...
60 min · 4,137 views · unrated
The 4 Biggest Political Lies About Inequality | Robert Reich
The 4 Biggest Political Lies About Inequality | Robert Reich
Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich debunks conservative myths about poverty, inequality, and the economy.
4 min · 612 views · unrated
Are You Paid What You’re Worth? | Robert Reich
Are You Paid What You’re Worth? | Robert Reich
The idea that everyone is "paid what they're worth" has proven to be a cruelly effective way to put the blame on workers for not getting ahead — while giving the rich and powerful cover to rig the game for their own benefit. Don't buy it.
5 min · 2,132 views · unrated
How do we get to UBI and Post-Labor Economics? Decentralized Ownership: the New Social Contract!
How do we get to UBI and Post-Labor Economics? Decentralized Ownership: the New Social Contract!
A fantastic brainstorming podcast on the future of automation, society and work, and how to ensure automation helps society rather than trigger an unemployment crisis.
40 min · 1,031 views · unrated
America Could Be a Utopia
America Could Be a Utopia
A rebuttal of popular perceptions of the United States.
39 min · 800 views · unrated
Finding the Money
Finding the Money (2023)
"A masterpiece! By far the most inspiring economics film I have ever seen. This film is a gift to humanity. Everyone should watch it." - Prof. Jason HickelAn intrepid group of economists is on a mission to flip our understanding of the national debt upside down.FINDING THE...
96 min · 2,418 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 · 3,825 views · unrated
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 · 10,871 views · 100%
Living in the Gift: on Retreat with Charles Eisenstein
Living in the Gift: on Retreat with Charles Eisenstein
Adam Parsons
Adam Parsons · 487 views · unrated
Commoning as a Transformative Social Paradigm
Commoning as a Transformative Social Paradigm
In facing up to the many profound crises of our time, we face a conundrum that has no easy resolution: how are we to imagine and build a radically different system while living within the constraints of an incumbent system that aggressively resists transformational change?...
David Bollier · 1,513 views · 100%
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 · 276 views · unrated
Steven Pinker's Ideas Are Fatally Flawed. These Eight Graphs Show Why.
Steven Pinker's Ideas Are Fatally Flawed. These Eight Graphs Show Why.
It’s time to reclaim the mantle of “Progress” for progressives. By falsely tethering the concept of progress to free market economics and centrist values, Steven Pinker has tried to appropriate a great idea for which he has no rightful claim.
Jeremy Lent · 8,658 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 f
Zoe Williams · 524 views · unrated
Money Puzzles - A Film About Money and Debt
Money Puzzles - A Film About Money and Debt
Money Puzzles is a documentary film about money and debt and the widespread misunderstanding about what they are and how they function to be found in the media, everyday life and even university economics departments.
17 min · 1,732 views · 100%
Money Puzzles
Money Puzzles (2016)
Money Puzzles is a documentary film about money and debt and the widespread misunderstanding about what they are and how they function to be found in the media, everyday life and even university economics departments.
130 min · 8,847 views · 88%
It's a "Story Problem": What's Behind Our Messed-Up Economy
It's a "Story Problem": What's Behind Our Messed-Up Economy
The peoples of earlier times prospered from the guidance of simple stories that offered answers to their deepest questions. We need those now more than ever.
David Korten · 2,304 views · 100%
Boom Bust Boom
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...
2 min · 211 views · unrated
Worshippers of the Almighty Invisible Hand
Worshippers of the Almighty Invisible Hand
The fantasies of a faith-based neoliberal economics laid bare
Robert Parenteau · 1,549 views · 75%
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 · 5,305 views · unrated
The Left Should Celebrate Brexit: The UK Just Kicked Neoliberalism in the Nuts
The Left Should Celebrate Brexit: The UK Just Kicked Neoliberalism in the Nuts
It is a sad and ironic indictment on the state of the global Left and the progressive agenda, that the very compelling reasons to support a Brexit have been lost amongst the rightful consternation with the racist views and actions of far Right political forces in the UK and...
Matt Ellis · 133,709 views · 85%
Joan Muysken Lecture: "The Eurozone, Groupthink and Denial on a Grand Scale"
Joan Muysken Lecture: "The Eurozone, Groupthink and Denial on a Grand Scale"
Bill Mitchell, Professor of Economics at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia and a notable proponent of Modern Monetary Theory spoke during the Joan Muysken Lecture on Monday 6 March at the Maastricht University School of Business and Economics
89 min · 477 views · unrated
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