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Economics

WECONOMICS: ITALY

Directed by Melissa Young and Mark Dworkin

Weconomics: Italy reports on the extensive and innovative cooperative economy in the region around Bologna.

The Emilia-Romagna region in northern Italy has one of the highest concentrations of cooperative businesses in the developed world. The capital, Bologna is an industrial powerhouse, where prosperity is widely shared, and cooperatives of teachers and social workers play a key role in the provision of government services.

DVD / 2016 / (Grades 9-12, College, Adult) / 19 minutes

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CAPITALISM

Capitalism has been the engine of unprecedented economic growth and social transformation. With the fall of the communist states and the triumph of "neo- liberalism," capitalism is by far the world's dominant ideology. But how much do we understand about how it originated, and what makes it work?

CAPITALISM is an ambitious and accessible six-part documentary series that looks at both the history of ideas and the social forces that have shaped the capitalist world.

Blending interviews with some of the world's great historians, economists, anthropologists, and social critics, with on-the-ground footage shot in twenty-two countries, CAPITALISM questions the myth of the unfettered free market, explores the nature of debt and commodities, and retraces some of the great economic debates of the last 200 years.

Each fifty-two minute episode is designed to stand alone, making these ideal for classroom use or as an additional resource for students:

Episode 1: Adam Smith, The Birth of the Free Market
Capitalism is much more complex than the vision Adam Smith laid out in The Wealth of Nations. Indeed, it predates Smith by centuries and took root in the practices of colonialism and the slave trade.

Episode 2: The Wealth of Nations: A New Gospel?
Adam Smith was both economist and moral philosopher. But his work on morality is largely forgotten, leading to tragic distortions that have shaped our global economic system.

Episode 3: Ricardo and Malthus: Did You Say Freedom?
The roots of today's global trade agreements lie in the work of stockbroker David Ricardo and demographer Thomas Malthus. Together, they would restructure society in the image of the market.

Episode 4: What If Marx Was Right?
Have we gotten Marx wrong by focusing on the Communist Manifesto instead of on his critique of how capitalism works - a critique that is relevant and as penetrating as ever?

Episode 5: Keynes vs Hayek: A Fake Debate?
The ideological divide between the philosophies of John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich Hayek has dominated economics for nearly a century. Is it time for the pendulum to swing back to Keynes? Or do we need a whole new approach that goes beyond this dualism?

Episode 6: Karl Polanyi, The Human Factor
An exploration of the life and work of Karl Polanyi, who sought to reintegrate society and economy. Could the commodification of labour and money ultimately be as disastrous as floods, drought and earthquakes?

CAPITALISM is an impressive series that makes economics accessible through an interdisciplinary approach that explores the work of great thinkers, while embedding economics in specific social, political, and historical contexts. The series can be watched as a whole, but each episode also stands alone.

The series features some of the world's top economists, historians, anthropologists, and sociologists, including Thomas Piketty, Noam Chomsky, Yanis Varoufakis, Nicholas Phillipson, Kari Polanyi Levitt, David Graeber, and Abraham Rotstein.

3 DVDs (Color, Closed Captioned) / 2014 / 320 minutes

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COTTON ROAD

By Laura Kissel

What does a rural town in South Carolina have to do with China?

Americans consume nearly twenty billion new items of clothing each year, and at least one billion of them are made in China. Cotton Road uncovers the transnational movement of cotton and tells the stories of workers lives in a conventional cotton supply chain. From rural farms in South Carolina to factory cities in China, we span the globe to encounter the industrial processes behind our rapacious consumption of cheap clothing and textile products.

Are we connected to one another through the things we consume? Cotton Road explores a contemporary landscape of globalized labor through human stories and provides an opportunity to reflect on the ways our consumption impacts others and drives a global economy.

DVD (Color, English and Mandarin Chinese with English subtitles) / 2014 / 72 minutes

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MONEY & LIFE

By Katie Teague

Money and Life is a compelling cinematic journey that examines the origins of money, how the role of money has changed over time, how it shapes our lives and world today, and the emerging movement to create new economic models that redefine our relationships with money.

The film presents a tapestry of expert interviews, narration, animated graphics and stories of individuals, communities, and small businesses who are seeking innovative ways to transform their relationship with money at the personal, local and global level. Experts include economists, authors, religious leaders, and a former JP Morgan executive.

Money and Life helps viewers understand the history and fundamentals of money in order to be more informed participants in the economic transformation happening around us.

Ultimately, the film asks, how can we move beyond being merely consumers, debtors and creditors, and create a more equitable and sustainable economy that meets the needs and realities of the 21st Century?

Among the experts and authors featured are:

John Perkins, best-selling author of Confessions of an Economic Hitman

Professor Jacob Needleman, author of Money and the Meaning of Life.

Vicki Robin, co-author of Your Money or Your Life

Bernard Lietaur, currency expert and author of The Future of Money

John Fullerton, founder of Capital Institute and former JP Morgan managing director.

Hazel Henderson, Futurist and author of Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy

Lynne Twist of the Soul of Money Institute

Charles Eisenstein, author of Sacred Economics

DVD (Region 1, Closed Captioned) / 2013 / (Grades 10 - Adult) / 143 minutes

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NEW ECONOMICS 101, THE: TRUE WEALTH IN THE NEW ECONOMY

Economist and bestselling author Juliet Schor lays out a positive vision for rethinking our relationship to consumer goods in this accessible and timely analysis of the devastating ecological, social, and personal costs of mass consumerism. Ranging from cutting-edge developments in economic theory, social analysis, and ecological design to real-world examples of these ideas being put into practice around the world, Schor makes a compelling case that preserving dwindling natural resources and enhancing economic security should have less to do with managing scarcity and learning to sacrifice than with envisioning new forms of plentitude. The result is a bold and practical vision for replacing the old dead-end, debt-financed, work-and-spend cycle with a new paradigm of sustainability fueled by the abundant and infinitely renewable resources of time, creativity, and community.

DVD (With English Subtitles) / 2013 / 46 minutes

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BIZ KID$ 34 - ECONOMIC CYCLES

Cycles in the economy go up and down. Learn how cycles can affect a business. Discover how you can protect yourself against negative effects and plan for the positive trends. Meet a young man who made paintball profitable and a family who mines for gold.

DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2011 / (Intermediate, High School) / 28 minutes

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BIZ KID$ 35 - THE GREEN ECONOMY AND YOU

Join the Biz Kids on a green mission and discover your impact on the environment. Explore different ways to become part of the green economy and learn how there's green to be made in thinking green. Take a ride on the "The Big Green Bus" and find out how to turn poop into profits with "Zoo Doo".

DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2011 / (Intermediate, High School) / 28 minutes

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MARX RELOADED

By Jason Barker

MARX RELOADED is a cultural documentary that examines the relevance of German socialist and philosopher Karl Marx's ideas for understanding the global economic and financial crisis.

The recent crisis triggered the deepest global recession in 70 years and prompted the US government to spend more than 1 trillion dollars in order to rescue its banking system from collapse. Today the full implications of the crisis in Europe and around the world still remain unclear. Nevertheless, should we accept the crisis as an unfortunate side-effect of the free market? Or is there another explanation as to why it happened and its likely effects on our society, our economy and our whole way of life?

Today a new generation of philosophers, artists and political activists are returning to Marx's ideas in order to try to make sense of the crisis and to consider whether a world without or beyond capitalism is possible. Is the severity of the ongoing recession a sign that the capitalist system's days are numbered? Ironically, 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, could it be that communism might provide the solution to the growing economic and environmental challenges facing the planet?

Written and directed by Jason Barker - himself an experienced writer, lecturer, translator and doctor of philosophy - MARX RELOADED includes interviews with leading thinkers on Marxism, including those at the forefront of a popular revival in Marxist and communist ideas. The film also includes interviews with leading skeptics of this revival as well as light-hearted animation sequences which follow Marx's adventures through the matrix of his own ideas.

Interviews with leading experts include: Norbert Bolz, Micha Brumlik, John Gray, Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri, Nina Power, Jacques Ranciere, Peter Sloterdijk, Alberto Toscano, and Slavoj Zizek.

DVD (Color, Closed Captioned) / 2011 / 52 minutes

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BIZ KID$ 20 - THE GLOBAL ECONOMY

Around the world with the Biz Kids! Join us and you'll follow the flow of imports and exports that make up the interconnected world economy. You will discover who makes the many things we use every day that come from all over the world. You'll also see how several entrepreneurs have made a success of their businesses, despite the pressures of the world economy.

DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2010 / (Intermediate, High School) / 28 minutes

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ALL ABOUT ECONOMICS & BUSINESS 1: HOW ECONOMIES WORK

This film looks at how economies work -- in particular, the market economy.

THE MARKET ECONOMY: This is an economy based on what's called "free enterprise" in which people are free to set up businesses to sell their goods or services and try to make profits. Economists divide the modern economy into primary, secondary and tertiary sectors. Some organisations are owned by the government - the public sector. The combination of private and public industries is called the mixed economy.

SO WHAT IS ECONOMICS? Economics is a social science. "Social" means it deals with people; it's a science in that it tries to explain how the economy works. Microeconomics looks at the way individuals and businesses make decisions, including factors like price, supply and demand, and the price elasticity of demand. Macroeconomics, meanwhile, looks at how the wider economy as a whole works, including theories such as those of Adam Smith and the "invisible hand" of the market.

BOOM & BUST: There are drawbacks to the market economy -- problems such as inflation and also cycles of "boom and bust". A spectacular example is the "credit crunch" of 2008, when US banks overstretched themselves by handing out too many mortgages to unreliable borrowers. A bust can lead to a slump, or recession, like the historic Wall Street Crash of 1929 in the US.

KEYNES V MONETARISM: John Maynard Keynes believed that governments could intervene to deal with a recession -- by stimulating demand. But in the 1970s, inflation became the big enemy and Margaret Thatcher tried a new economic theory - monetarism, which involved attempting to control the supply of money.

OTHER ECONOMIC MODELS: But the free market isn't the only economic model. Influenced by the ideas of Karl Marx, countries such as Russia and China, had revolutions and set up what they claimed to be communist economies. China is still, in theory, a communist country. In practice, it has embraced capitalism, including the exploitation of workers.

GLOBALISATION: To cut costs, companies are increasingly outsourcing their production to countries where workers are not given the same rights as in this country. In theory, multinational businesses support free trade - in other words, no barriers to selling goods. But in practice Europe and the US step in to protect their industries.

A BETTER MODEL? The market economy is based on growth and credit - but do economies have to be like this? Is it possible to develop an alternative model which doesn't depend on consumerism, waste and greed?

DVD / 2009 / 30 minutes

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WHAT'S THE ECONOMY FOR, ANYWAY?

Directed by John de Graaf

Ecological economist Dave Batker questions whether GDP is an adequate measure of society's well-being and suggests workable alternatives.

Fame, ecological economist Dave Batker presents a humorous, edgy, factual, timely and highly-visual monologue about the American economy today, challenging the ways we measure economic success--especially the Gross Domestic Product--and offering an answer to the question: What's the Economy for, Anyway?

Using Gifford Pinchot's idea that the economy's purpose is "the greatest good for the greatest number over the longest run," Batker compares the performance of the U.S. economy with that of other industrial countries in terms of providing a high quality of life, fairness and ecological sustainability, concluding that when you do the numbers, we come out near the bottom in nearly every category.

Batker shines a humorous light on such economic buzzwords as "productivity," and "consumer sovereignty," while offering ideas for "capitalism with a human face," a new economic paradigm that meets the real needs of people and the planet.

DVD / 2009 / (Grades 10-12, College, Adult) / 40 minutes

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WORLD'S NEXT SUPERMODEL, THE

By IJsbrand van Veelen

With America's version of capitalism seemingly heading for bankruptcy, is there a crisis-proof economic model that can shape the 21st century?

In THE WORLD'S NEXT SUPERMODEL, three prominent thinkers argue for competing economic models. Kishore Mahbubani, author of The New Asian Hemisphere, pitches the Asian model, characterized by the economic successes of China, India and Singapore. Wouter Bos, Dutch Minister of Finance, claims that the values of the European model are superior, while Brazilian economist Marcelo Neri praises the economic success of his country.

The proposals for these models are discussed by a jury consisting of macro-economist Willem Buiter, professor at the London School of Economics, New America Foundation's Parag Khanna, an expert analyst of global geopolitical issues, and author and Yale law and globalization professor Amy Chua.

These expert "judges," in a lively debate, examine the three models on the basis of issues such as social stability, environmental sustainability, government and market relationship, and their crisisproof nature. Their surprising decision is sure to provoke continued debates on this important global issue.

DVD (Color, Closed Captioned) / 2009 / 48 minutes

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CAPITALISM HITS THE FAN: RICHARD WOLFF ON THE ECONOMIC MELTDOWN

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 capitalism itself. Wolff traces the source of the economic crisis to the 1970s, when wages began to stagnate and American workers were forced into a dysfunctional spiral of borrowing and debt that ultimately exploded in the mortgage meltdown. By placing the crisis within this larger historical and systemic frame, Wolff argues convincingly that the proposed government "bailouts," stimulus packages, and calls for increased market regulation will not be enough to address the real causes of the crisis, in the end suggesting that far more fundamental change will be necessary to avoid future catastrophes.

Richly illustrated with graphics and charts, this is a superb introduction that allows ordinary citizens to comprehend, and react to, the unraveling crisis.

DVD (With English Subtitles) / 2008 / 57 minutes

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CONSUMER ECONOMIC SYSTEMS

Economics is not only about money or goods and services. It is about people. This Microsoft PowerPoint presentation addresses how governmental laws and services affect the consumer in criminal protection, taxes, free enterprise, global markets

CD-ROM (Win, PowerPoint Presentation (43 slides)) / 2004

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ECONOMIC CONCEPTS

Marketing is set in motion with a basic understanding of economic concepts. This Microsoft PowerPoint presentation illustrates and explains basic economic concepts, from economic wants and needs to goods and services. Students learn aspects of

CD-ROM (Win, PowerPoint Presentation (49 slides)) / 2004

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ECONOMIC PROCESS

This Microsoft PowerPoint presentation provides a basic introduction to the economic process by explaining the difference between microeconomics and macroeconomics, wants and needs and exploring supply and demand. The presentation illustrates

CD-ROM (Win, PowerPoint Presentation (42 slides)) / 2004

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ECONOMIC SYSTEMS

Today's economic systems include communism, socialism, capitalism, traditionalism and a mixture of the various systems. This presentation studies the various economic systems with an emphasis on the private enterprise system. Students also will learn the history of the United States economy, including its operation under Agricultural, Industrial, Service and Information economies.

CD-ROM (Win, PowerPoint Presentation (27 slides)) / 2004

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INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMICS, AN

This program presents economics as the study of choices people make and the costs of these choices. The video explains the fundamentals of economics, including supply and demand, opportunity cost, incentives, scarcity, and more. The program also explores the rise of capitalism and the ideas of Adam Smith.

DVD / 1994 / (Grades 5 or above) / 22 minutes

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SOCIAL SCIENCES: WHAT IS ECONOMICS?

A basic function of this program is to demonstrate that economics is indeed a coherent science. The program explains and illustrates the purposes of the discipline, outlines the major types of economic systems and explores the mechanisms, assumptions and values of our own economic system. The program characterizes economics as the science of choosing which of our resources we will use and which of our wants we will satisfy. Students review aspects of traditional economic systems and then examine our own. The program shows ho interrelated values and priorities shape the decisions which direct our economy.

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BIZ KID$ 57 - THE ECONOMICS OF ECONOMICS

Here's a lighter look at the complex science. Learn about everything from micro to macro economics, supply and demand, and economic indicators. See how business owners and even individuals use economic principles to make financial decisions. Meet a young entrepreneur who started her serving business up when the economy turned down. It's all economics!

DVD (Closed Captioned) / (Intermediate, High School) / 28 minutes

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ECONOMIC UTILITIES

Economic utility refers to the level of satisfaction a customer receives from using a company's product or service. Therefore, this concept is an important component to the success of a business. This presentation discusses how economic utility is measured, and how it factors into the various marketing efforts performed by companies. Various product categories are examined along with the marketing strategies used to help increase economic utility.

CD-ROM (Win, PowerPoint Presentation (90 slides))

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POLITICAL & ECONOMIC SYSTEMS

When working in an international environment, you must be conscious of the differences between America and other parts of the world. This presentation explores the different systems of politics offered and used in other countries along with different economic systems compared to the American system.

CD-ROM (Win, PowerPoint Presentation (42 slides))

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STANDARD DEVIANTS SCHOOL ECONOMICS: MACROECONOMICS

Recommended by university professors and teachers nationwide, The programs are the perfect resource for academic success. With videos ranging from English Composition to Organic Chemistry, The programs' entertaining and enjoyable teaching style breaks down difficult subjects into a clear, step-by-step format.

DVD / (Grade 9 or above) / 113 minutes

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STANDARD DEVIANTS SCHOOL ECONOMICS: MICROECONOMICS

Recommended by university professors and teachers nationwide, The programs are the perfect resource for academic success. With videos ranging from English Composition to Organic Chemistry, The programs' entertaining and enjoyable teaching style breaks down difficult subjects into a clear, step-by-step format.

DVD / (Grade 9 or above) / 135 minutes

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UNDERSTANDING ECONOMICS

This comprehensive resource kit is specifically designed to help students understand the different concepts of economics including supply and demand, the basics of our capitalist system, how the stock market works, and much more.

Marketplace:Explaining the Stock Market

An Introduction to Economic

2 DVDs (With Resource Guide) / (Grades 5 or above)

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