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Economics 101 and Ecological Collapse
Economics 101 and Ecological Collapse
“The collapse of our civilisations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon.” – David Attenborough
Edward Fullbrook · 2,097 views · 100%
Economics for People 385 min
Economics for People (2019)
“It is extremely important for our democracy to function that ordinary citizens understand the key issues and basic theories of economics.” – Ha-Joon Chang
13,854 views · 100%
The Economics of Climate Change
The Economics of Climate Change
Shifting away from an emphasis on global economic growth toward local economies provides a means to increase meaningful employment, shrink the gap between rich and poor, and tackle climate change.
Helena Norberg-Hodge · 7,442 views · 83%
Trickle-Down Economics Must Die, Long Live Grow-Up Economics - Basic income
Trickle-Down Economics Must Die, Long Live Grow-Up Economics - Basic income
The myth of inequality-driven economic growth and how to achieve real prosperity for all.
Scott Santens · 359 views · unrated
Economics of Cyberpunk 2077 | How to Resist the Mega-Corp [Video Essay] 28 min
Economics of Cyberpunk 2077 | How to Resist the Mega-Corp [Video Essay]
Mini-review and analysis of the game and theory behind it. I put a lot of love into this video because it covers two of my favourite things; Cyberpunk aesthetics and economics.
Trev Ken · 217 views · unrated
The Economics of Happiness 65 min
The Economics of Happiness (2011)
Economic globalization has led to a massive expansion in the scale and power of big business and banking. It has also worsened nearly every problem we face: fundamentalism and ethnic conflict; climate chaos and species extinction; financial instability and unemployment. There...
Local Futures · 394,212 views · 94%
The Economics of Revolution 29 min
The Economics of Revolution
4,702 views · 88%
Buddhist Economics: How to Stop Prioritizing Consumption Over People and Creativity
Buddhist Economics: How to Stop Prioritizing Consumption Over People and Creativity
“Work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living process and cannot be separated without destroying the joy of work and the bliss of leisure.”
Maria Popova · 17,078 views · 100%
Big Idea: We need a New Science of Physical Economics
Big Idea: We need a New Science of Physical Economics
It’s time we put economics into some sort of physical scientific context that makes sense.
Richard Register · 5,862 views · unrated
The Moral Calculus of Mega-Economics
The Moral Calculus of Mega-Economics
March 14, 2011 (1400 hrs) - Watching scenes of the devastation is emotionally taxing. Bodies continue to be found everywhere. The body count in Miyagi Prefecture alone is now over 10,000. Whole towns completely wiped off the map. Even if people escaped with their lives, those...
Rice Farmer · 4,967 views · 100%
The Economics of Happiness (Abridged Version) 19 min
The Economics of Happiness (Abridged Version)
This is a shortened version of the award-winning feature-length documentary film, The Economics of Happiness. Cut down from 68 minutes to less than 20, it provides an introduction to the concept of localization - a systemic alternative to corporate capitalism - and shows how...
Local Futures · 40,859 views · 97%
The Economics of Revolution & Universal Basic Income 13 min
The Economics of Revolution & Universal Basic Income
In tonight's "Conversations with Great Minds" Thom talks with Journalist David DeGraw, author of the upcoming book "The Economics of Revolution."
955 views · unrated
Big Idea: Ecocity Economics
Big Idea: Ecocity Economics
The ongoing economic crisis that began with the unraveling of wildly inflated real estate prices and the Wall Street derivatives bubble in 2007 and the crash into near depression in October of 2008 resulted in trillions of dollars of public bail out money for banks and...
Richard Register · 8,968 views · 100%
Dodgy Economics 11 min
Dodgy Economics
Dodgy theories and discredited statistics which are used by agencies like the OECD camouflage the trends that determine the health of the economy -- and people's welfare. Prof. Mason Gaffney explains why we should treat GDP data with extreme caution, and he identifies holes...
813 views · unrated
From Education to Economics: These Are The 40 Best Social Change Documentaries You Have to See
From Education to Economics: These Are The 40 Best Social Change Documentaries You Have to See
Over the last 7 years, Films For Action has been cataloging an online library of the best social change films that can be watched free online. Opting for quality over quantity, the site has grown slowly to include 500 documentaries and 900 short films, trailers and...
Tim Hjersted · 47,544 views · 92%
Sacred Economics with Charles Eisenstein (2019 Remix) 12 min
Sacred Economics with Charles Eisenstein (2019 Remix)
Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and scarcity, destroyed community, and necessitated endless growth.
Transparent Film · 32,596 views · 91%
The Top 10 Flaws of Neoclassical Economics
The Top 10 Flaws of Neoclassical Economics
Neoclassical economics has severe flaws.  But since the field is captive to the monopolistic money and banking system, it is very difficult for economists who are aware of this to speak up.  If they were to speak about the flaws, their careers would be severely limited.  Only...
Damon Vrabel · 24,098 views · 94%
13 Films about Post-Growth Economics
13 Films about Post-Growth Economics
A Post-Growth economy is not only necessary for planetary survival, but will make our lives way better, too. These films explain why.
Films For Action · 18,240 views · 88%
Steady-State Economics: It's The Answer To The Failed Endless-Growth Paradigm 9 min
Steady-State Economics: It's The Answer To The Failed Endless-Growth Paradigm
What is a steady-state economy and how could it positively impact human behavior and our survival on the planet?
Prosocial Progress Foundation · 14,368 views · 100%
Limited Wants, Unlimited Means: an Intro to Hunter-Gatherer Economics
Limited Wants, Unlimited Means: an Intro to Hunter-Gatherer Economics
Richard B. Lee · 14,003 views · 75%
Wall Street's War for Drug Money: A Basic Lesson in Real Economics 86 min
Wall Street's War for Drug Money: A Basic Lesson in Real Economics
In December, 2000 at the request of Professor David Andrus of USC's School of International Relations, Michael C. Ruppert gave a lecture on economics that rocked the foundations of about 70 upper classmen. There is the economics that is taught in most college curricula and...
13,537 views · 92%
Life After Growth - Economics for Everyone 25 min
Life After Growth - Economics for Everyone (2010)
The economic crash of 2008 revealed not only the frailty and vulnerability of the economic system, it also showed the false basis that the growth economy is built on – the financial bubble grows bigger and crashes bigger, but we don't seem to be getting any happier. To the...
11,108 views · 92%
Conventional Economics Is A Form Of Brain Damage | David Suzuki 5 min
Conventional Economics Is A Form Of Brain Damage | David Suzuki
An "externality" is an effect of an industry whose costs are born by society, rather than by the company. Cancer is an externality of the tobacco industry. Climate change is an externality of the fossil fuel and animal agriculture industries. Water pollution is an externality...
Sustainable Human · 11,107 views · 92%
Culture in Decline #2: Economics 101 33 min
Culture in Decline #2: Economics 101
Please help support this Free Media Project: http://www.cultureindecline.com/support.html Subttitles: Croatian, Czech , Danish, English , Finnish , French, Greek, Hungarian , Italian , Polish , Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Swedish Culture in Decline | Episode #2 "Economics...
Episode #2 "Economics 101" by Peter Joseph · 8,006 views · 83%
Pretty, Pretty, Pretty Funny Intro to Participatory Economics 7 min
Pretty, Pretty, Pretty Funny Intro to Participatory Economics
This is a short animated introduction to Participatory Economics. It's made about 10 times more hilarious and enjoyable to watch thanks to the laugh track and frequent jokes.
Divergent Art Preservation Society · 7,211 views · 78%
Kick It Over (Neoclassical Economics)
Kick It Over (Neoclassical Economics)
Deep in a recession and with scary ecological scenarios looming, now may be the ripest moment we’ll ever have to power-shift global capitalism onto a new path. Adbusters #85 asks economics students around the world to join the fight to revamp Econ 101 curriculums and...
Films For Action · 6,798 views · 75%
Earth Trek / The Economics of the Future 4 min
Earth Trek / The Economics of the Future
A beautiful and inspiring lesson in sustainable Star Trekonomics featuring Charles Eisenstein, George Carlin, Martin Luther King Jr. and a couple captains of the Enterprise...  "We have it within our reach--now--to achieve nearly every dream of mankind." -Gene Roddenberry
Sustainable Human · 5,796 views · 85%
Win7 Economics: Restoring Natural Order as If People Mattered | Gary Hirshberg 33 min
Win7 Economics: Restoring Natural Order as If People Mattered | Gary Hirshberg
If we can make radical changes in how we think about our relationship to nature and economic growth, we will see restored, vibrant ecosystems and healthy, prosperous farmers, cows, consumers, employees, investors and future children. So says the iconic food entrepreneur Gary...
Gary Hirshberg · 5,632 views · 67%
22 Ways to Foster an Economics of Happiness
22 Ways to Foster an Economics of Happiness
Transition Sarasota · 5,168 views · 100%
Noam Chomsky On the Fallacy of Mixing Economics and Darwinism 3 min
Noam Chomsky On the Fallacy of Mixing Economics and Darwinism
It was Herbert Spencer who first coined the term \"survival of the fittest\" but that is not the optimum way a society should function.
Renegade Inc. · 4,296 views · unrated
Commerce or Corruption? The Economics of Mega-Dams 10 min
Commerce or Corruption? The Economics of Mega-Dams
this film exposes how officials in the Malaysian government are making huge profits on "development" projects that are forcibly relocating local people in Sarawak. The plan to build twelve additional mega-dams is excessive as Sarawak already has abundant electricity. Dam...
The Borneo Project · 728 views · unrated
Charles Eisenstein at the 2013 Economics of Happiness Conference 13 min
Charles Eisenstein at the 2013 Economics of Happiness Conference
This is Charles Eisenstein's plenary talk at Local Futures/ISEC's Economics of Happiness conference held in Byron Bay, Australia in March 2013. Charles is the author of The Yoga of Eating, The Ascent of Humanity and Sacred Economics. Note: The audio improves at the 0:50...
Local Futures · 619 views · unrated
Who's Counting? Marilyn Waring On Sex, Lies And Global Economics 94 min
Who's Counting? Marilyn Waring On Sex, Lies And Global Economics (1995)
In this feature-length documentary, Marilyn Waring demystifies the language of economics by defining it as a value system in which all goods and activities are related only to their monetary value. As a result, unpaid work (usually performed by women) is unrecognized while...
4,542 views · 100%
UK's First 'Share Shop' Opens for business
UK's First 'Share Shop' Opens for business
A new kind of shop is aiming to transform the future of retail by lending rather than selling items and fostering more meaningful connections with the things we use
Lucy Purdy · 23,164 views · 100%
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 · 9,811 views · 100%
Work Less, Play More
Work Less, Play More
The 40-hour work week is an ingrained part of our culture, but it does very little to enrich our lives. Lucy Purdy explores alternative working models that do away with the idea of the nine-to-five
Lucy Purdy · 3,630 views · unrated
7 Billion for Dinner? Here's How to Feed Them
7 Billion for Dinner? Here's How to Feed Them
Most people – even many of those who support small farms and eat organic food – believe that there’s no way to feed the global population without the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, fossil fuels, biotechnology, heavy equipment, and the rest of the agribusiness arse
Steven Gorelick · 9,167 views · 75%
Alternatives Emerging from the Greek crisis
Alternatives Emerging from the Greek crisis
Greece is gripped by an official self-fulfilling rhetoric that ‘there is no alternative’ to a hard-line, socially divisive, austerity-driven return to business-as-usual. It’s a policy in which, to misquote a famous ditty ‘it’s the rich who get the pleasure and the poor who...
ANDREW SIMMS · 1,757 views · unrated
Right to Buy, or the Right to Lifelong Debt?
Right to Buy, or the Right to Lifelong Debt?
With news this week that one in seven over 70 year olds are using their pensions to pay off their mortgage debt, the prospect of home ownership has got a whole lot less appealing. The fact that so many people
Alice Martin · 1,461 views · 75%
Capitalism and Other Kids' Stuff 52 min
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.
320 views · unrated
Ross Perot Is an Income Inequality Prophet 5 min
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...
MoFreedomFoundation · 248 views · unrated
John Perkins Explains How Economic Hitmen Rob The World In Service of Corporate Profit 2 min
John Perkins Explains How Economic Hitmen Rob The World In Service of Corporate Profit
In two minutes, John Perkins explains how the globalized economy works today. It's pretty important that people understand what's driving the economic cancer that has now taken over the planet.
SENTIENTMIND · 72,546 views · 97%
Yes, There Is An Alternative to Capitalism: Mondragon Shows the Way
Yes, There Is An Alternative to Capitalism: Mondragon Shows the Way
There is no alternative ("Tina") to capitalism?
Richard Wolff · 55,964 views · 92%
The Secret of Oz 110 min
The Secret of Oz (2009)
Thirteen years ago, in a documentary called "The Money Masters", we asked the question why is America going broke. It wasn't clear then that we were, but it is today. Now the question is how can we get out of this mess. Foreclosures are everywhere, unemployment is...
51,656 views · 89%
The End of Capitalism Has Begun
The End of Capitalism Has Begun
Without us noticing, we are entering the postcapitalist era. At the heart of further change to come is information technology, new ways of working and the sharing economy. The old ways will take a long while to disappear, but it’s time to be utopian
Paul Mason · 43,813 views · 97%
A New Story of the People | Charles Eisenstein 8 min
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.
Sustainable Human · 39,357 views · 94%
An Economic Hit Man Speaks Out: John Perkins on How Greece Has Fallen Victim to ''Economic Hit Men''
An Economic Hit Man Speaks Out: John Perkins on How Greece Has Fallen Victim to ''Economic Hit Men''
John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, discusses how Greece and other eurozone countries have become the new victims of "economic hit men."
Michael Nevradakis · 37,191 views · 94%
The Revolution Is Love! Our Movement is for the 100% 4 min
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...
Transparent Film · 36,638 views · 100%
You Are Still Being Lied To: Columbus and the Myth of Human Progress
You Are Still Being Lied To: Columbus and the Myth of Human Progress
The following is an excerpt of “Columbus and Western Civilization” written by Howard Zinn that appears in the Disinformation anthology You Are Still Being Lied To edited by Russ Kick.
Howard Zinn · 32,219 views · 94%
The French Are Right: Tear Up Public Debt - Most Of It Is Illegitimate Anyway
The French Are Right: Tear Up Public Debt - Most Of It Is Illegitimate Anyway
As history has shown, France is capable of the best and the worst, and often in short periods of time. On the day following Marine Le Pen's Front National victory in the European
Razmig Keucheyan · 27,624 views · 100%
The Case For A 21-Hour Work Week
The Case For A 21-Hour Work Week
To save the world—or really to even just make our personal lives better—we will need to work less.
Michael J. Coren · 27,052 views · 92%
Chasing Madoff 91 min
Chasing Madoff (2010)
The story of how a group of investigators pursued and exposed Bernie Madoff and his elaborate ponzi scheme which defrauded investors out of $50 billion. The film includes interviews with Markopolos and fellow investigators Frank Casey, Neil Chelo, Michael Ocrant, and Gaytri...
26,174 views · 71%
What Would It Look Like? 25 min
What Would It Look Like? (2009)
What if the world embodied our highest potential? What would it look like? As the structures of modern society crumble, is it enough to respond with the same tired solutions? Or are we being called to question a set of unexamined assumptions that form the very basis of our...
18,628 views · 97%
Moyers & Company: This Economist Will Blow Your Mind 44 min
Moyers & Company: This Economist Will Blow Your Mind
Economist Richard Wolff joins Bill Moyers to shine light on the disaster left behind in capitalism's wake, and discusses how to battle for economic justice. A noted professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and now visiting professor at Manhattan's New...
BillMoyers.com · 14,701 views · 96%
Marxism 101: How Capitalism Is Killing Itself With Dr. Richard Wolff 35 min
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...
Empire Files · 14,092 views · 91%
We Need an International Minimum Wage
We Need an International Minimum Wage
The deadly collapse of a garment factory in Bangladesh has sparked calls for better worker treatment. The revelation that Apple manages to
Hamilton Nolan · 14,063 views · 83%
Can Civilization Survive "Really Existing Capitalism"? An Interview With Noam Chomsky
Can Civilization Survive "Really Existing Capitalism"? An Interview With Noam Chomsky
For decades now, Noam Chomsky has been widely regarded as the most important intellectual alive (linguist, philosopher, social and political critic) and the leading US dissident since the Vietnam War. Chomsky has published over 100 books and thousands of articles and essays...
C.J. Polychroniou · 11,792 views · 94%
PROUT's Concept of Economic Democracy 10 min
PROUT's Concept of Economic Democracy
10 minutes of plain-spoken awesome. Economic Democracy is the BIG IDEA of our time. Make sure you don't miss the awesome moment starting at 2:30 that goes until 3:25!
PROUT Globe · 9,086 views · 75%
The Story of Broke 8 min
The Story of Broke
The United States isn't broke; we're the richest country on the planet and a country in which the richest among us are doing exceptionally well. But the truth is, our economy is broken, producing more pollution, greenhouse gasses and garbage than any other country. In these...
The Story of Stuff Project · 7,607 views · 75%
Embracing Markets, Opposing "Capitalism"
Embracing Markets, Opposing "Capitalism"
Being a libertarian means opposing the use of force to restrain peaceful, voluntary exchange. That doesn’t mean it should be understood as involving support for capitalism.
Gary Chartier · 7,537 views · 75%
What's the Economy for, Anyway? 40 min
What's the Economy for, Anyway? (2010)
Ecological economist Dave Batker questions whether GDP is an adequate measure of society's well-being and suggests workable alternatives. In this film produced by John de Graaf of AFFLUENZA fame, ecological economist Dave Batker presents a humorous, edgy, factual, timely...
7,440 views · 100%
TEDx - Peter Joseph: An Introduction to a Resource-Based Economy 18 min
TEDx - Peter Joseph: An Introduction to a Resource-Based Economy
This was a live March 21st, 2011 TEDx [Portugal] talk by Peter Joseph called: "An Introduction to a Resource-Based Economy."
TZMOfficialChannel · 7,201 views · 100%
Holistic Eco-Nomics 11 min
Holistic Eco-Nomics
A short film about the interconnected issues of money, growth, poverty and climate change.
Fraser Durham · 6,840 views · 88%
State, Private or Commons and The Public Choice Theory
State, Private or Commons and The Public Choice Theory
When Professor Elinor Ostrom became the first women to win a Nobel Prize for economics in 2009, or to be precise, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences that she shared with Richard Williamson, most economists probably sighed with surprise and said something along...
Derek Wall · 6,205 views · 50%
What Happens When You Expose Corporate Corruption From The Inside? She Knows All Too Well. 2 min
What Happens When You Expose Corporate Corruption From The Inside? She Knows All Too Well.
Sherron Watkins called out corporate corruption before whistle-blowing was cool. So why do decent folks sometimes get awkward around her?
6,006 views · 75%
Tired of Capitalism? There Could Be a Better Way.
Tired of Capitalism? There Could Be a Better Way.
Capitalism is a coercive economic system that creates persistent patterns of economic deprivation.
Matt Bruenig · 5,641 views · 94%
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 · 5,630 views · 94%
Karma Kitchen 2 min
Karma Kitchen
What is the value of something that doesn't have a price? That is the fundamental question raised every week at Karma Kitchen, a volunteer-run restaurant in Berkeley. Based on an experiment in generosity, guests are presented with a $0 bill at the end of each meal. Found and...
Global Oneness Project · 5,249 views · 100%
Martin Luther King - At the Mountain Top Speech 20 min
Martin Luther King - At the Mountain Top Speech
This is a video compiled of footage and images from various sources of Martin Luther Kings Last speech known as 'At the mountain top'. It is supplemented with a selection of thought provoking music.
Dejavusion Productions · 4,651 views · 75%
April 15: Funding the Empire
April 15: Funding the Empire
Tax day, April 15th, is a day of celebration in the United States. On this day we citizens of the great republic take pride in the fact that we can come together in a democratic society and make decisions cooperatively with one another. The fruits of our labor, beholden to...
Grant Mincy · 4,573 views · 75%
The Counter Economy (2013) (trailer) 1 min
The Counter Economy (2013) (trailer)
THE COUNTER ECONOMY: A WHOLE NEW WORLD IS GROWING UP FROM THE ASHES - A presentation by Katie Patrick. The Counter Economy; a self sustaining ethical economy that respects the boundaries of nature. It is growing on top of the existing polluting economy.
4,534 views · 31%
On the Meaning of Capitalism, We Don't Agree
On the Meaning of Capitalism, We Don't Agree
Within conversations on the left, many of us use the term "capitalism," but we aren't all using it to mean the same thing. Among both its champions and opponents, capitalism acquired too many different meanings over the 200 to 300 years of its global ascendancy. I am...
Richard D. Wolff · 3,887 views · 88%
At The River I Stand 5 min
At The River I Stand (trailer)
This video is about race, class, politics, workers rights, the civil rights and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr's. last speech on April 3rd, 1968 and his assassination on April 4th, 1968 at the Lorraine Motel.
3,491 views · unrated
Occupy Wall St - The Revolution Is Love
Occupy Wall St - The Revolution Is Love
A taste of the upcoming feature documentary, Occupy Love. This is a community funded film. We are in the LAST WEEK of our crowd funding campaign at http://www.indiegogo.com/Occupy-Love Please check it out! We can't do it without you... \"Love is the felt experience of...
http://www.youtube.com/user/fiercelightfilms · 3,030 views · unrated
How the U.S. Can Sustainably Become the World's Top Economy Again
How the U.S. Can Sustainably Become the World's Top Economy Again
China has overtaken the U.S. as the world’s top economy. But in taking a few examples from China, as well as investing in jobs that stay in America and taking steps to insure economic stability for the majority of American workers, the U.S. can come out on top again. And we...
Carl Gibson · 2,770 views · 100%
This Economic Collapse Is a 'Crisis of Bigness'
This Economic Collapse Is a 'Crisis of Bigness'
Leopold Kohr warned 50 years ago that the gigantist global system would grow until it imploded. We should have listened
Paul Kingsnorth · 2,453 views · 100%
Capitalism's Stormy Sea
Capitalism's Stormy Sea
Richard Swift begins his journey through political alternatives to capitalism by looking at the nature of the beast they seek to oppose.
Richard Swift · 1,285 views · unrated
Hyperinflation Nation 28 min
Hyperinflation Nation (2010)
Hyperinflation Nation starring Peter Schiff, Ron Paul, Jim Rogers, Tom Woods, Gerald Celente, and others. Prepare now before the US dollar is worthless.
1,116 views · 50%
The Revolution Will Be Televised - Series 3 174 min
The Revolution Will Be Televised - Series 3
Satirical series filmed in the USA and UK. It features bite-sized comedy hits, from fictionalised characters to stunt-led sketches, which brings the corruption, greed and hypocrisy of politicians, avariciousmultinationals and tax-shy corporations who have been taking the...
870 views · 100%
"The Job Guarantee" featuring Pavlina Tcherneva 14 min
"The Job Guarantee" featuring Pavlina Tcherneva
The reaction to Jesse Myerson’s Rolling Stone piece “Five Economic Reforms Millennials Should Be Fighting For” went beyond anyone’s expectation. Many conservative commentators
Jacobin · 864 views · 58%
DIAGRAMS & DOLLARS: modern money illustrated (Part 1)
DIAGRAMS & DOLLARS: modern money illustrated (Part 1)
J.D. ALT · 798 views · unrated
Theft By Deception: Deciphering The Federal Income Tax 88 min
Theft By Deception: Deciphering The Federal Income Tax (2002)
The misrepresentation and misapplication of the United States federal income tax constitutes the largest acquisition of wealth by way of deception in history.
779 views · unrated
Enraizando | Finding Our Roots 4 min
Enraizando | Finding Our Roots (trailer)
FINDING OUR ROOTS: community, culture, and sustainability Our project was born with two desires at heart: to take root in a new culture and to experience reality outside of the big metropolis.
751 views · unrated
Ghost Town 3: USA 8 min
Ghost Town 3: USA
Clusters of vacant dwellings across America reveal the reasons why the banking system exploded in the sub-prime mortgage crisis. Fred Harrison exposes the financial logic that drove the boom/bust, and identifies the tax reform that would stave off the next cyclical economic...
738 views · unrated
Max Does Westminster 65 min
Max Does Westminster (2012)
Max Keiser is a world renowned economic commentator and gives his breakdown of the history of ‘bubbles’ and how the City continues to game a system to breaking point. He is flanked by Respect MP George Galloway.
735 views · unrated
Monopoly Men 47 min
Monopoly Men (1999)
The Federal Reserve, or the Fed as it is lovingly called, may be one of the most mysterious entities in modern American government. Created during Wilson's presidency to protect the economy in times of financial turmoil, its real business remains to be discovered.
703 views · unrated
DIAGRAMS & DOLLARS: modern money illustrated (Part 2)
DIAGRAMS & DOLLARS: modern money illustrated (Part 2)
5. TREASURY BONDS—Are they really what we think they are?
J.D. Alt · 681 views · unrated
Debtland 45 min
Debtland (2008)
Mortgages doled out to people on the breadline, loans to refugees with no English and no jobs, reams of maxed out credit cards; welcome to Debtland. But this is not America’s sub-prime meltdown. We are in Australia, investigating the country's own subprime crisis, every bit...
620 views · unrated
The Banksters: Madoff With America 125 min
The Banksters: Madoff With America (2013)
Bernie Madoff is at the hub of the biggest conspiracy the world has ever known, according to Mr. X. Dave Edmund, a small Independent film maker puts it all on the line to bring the world the truth.
473 views · unrated
Greece and Spain helped postwar Germany recover. Spot the difference.
Greece and Spain helped postwar Germany recover. Spot the difference.
Sixty years ago, half of German war debts were cancelled to build its economy. Yet today, debt is destroying those creditors. The "strategy" in Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain today is to put the burden of adjustment solely on the debtor country to make its economy more...
Nick Dearden · 340 views · unrated
Gravy Trains: 7 min
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...
261 views · unrated
Andrew Kliman - The Failure of Capitalist Production Pt 1 58 min
Andrew Kliman - The Failure of Capitalist Production Pt 1
One of the few genuinely Marxist economists presents his views on the recession and Keynesianism.
The Socialist Party of Great Britain · 206 views · unrated
Russell Brand Vs Mcdonalds & Monsanto TTIP Globalisation 14 min
Russell Brand Vs Mcdonalds & Monsanto TTIP Globalisation
Russell Brand - The Trews Economics of Happiness
191 views · unrated
Time Is Art (Official Trailer) 2 min
Time Is Art (Official Trailer)
The feature documentary film follows the journey of a writer, compelled to make sense of the mysterious and powerful energy she felt at her aunt’s deathbed. Considering herself a skeptic, a series of strange coincidences leads her on an exploration of synchronicity – the...
175 views · unrated
Five Examples of How Monsanto Brainwashes School Children with Propaganda
Five Examples of How Monsanto Brainwashes School Children with Propaganda
Monsanto has a lot of money invested in the genetically modified seed, farm chemical and many other industries, but they also have a lot invested the hearts and minds of the next generation.
Nick Meyer · 140 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 · 10,907 views · 100%
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