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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 74 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Español
Description
Gloria is one of the 700,000 Spanish people who have left Spain since the economic crisis started. The film portraits the experience of intra-European exiles tackled by Spain’s highest-profile female director, Icíar Bollaín (Even the Rain, Take My Eyes). Gloria is a 32 year old native of Almería Spain. A teacher without a posting, and a shop assistant in an Edinburgh store for the past two years. Gloria has set up a collective with the motto...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 90 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Beginning in 1977, Andrew Kolker and Louis Alvarez produced a series of half-hour documentaries about New Orleans' challenges called Being poor in New Orleans. The programs were broadcast on WGNO-TV (Channel 26) and produced under the auspices of NOVAC, the New Orleans Video Access Center. Presenting some of the first independent TV documentaries made in New Orleans, the series was a pathbreaking look at New Orleans' problems and raised a number of...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 22 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Combined technology spending in today's global economy now tops {dollar}4.2 trillion dollars, a number larger than the gross domestic product of most nations. This rising global "Technology Economy" is most certainly a driving force in business today. In this program, IT benchmarking expert, Dr. Howard Rubin, introduces us to "Technology Economics," and explains how by "recognizing, mapping and understanding the interaction of technology investment...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 24 min., 24 sec.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Meet Randall, one of 20 million people worldwide shopping for a shirt on any given day. Amazingly, he and the 19,999,999 others find a shirt they want to buy. Who's behind this remarkable system that supplies shirts, food, shelter and most other desires of daily life?
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 29 min. 37 sec.) : digital, stereo., sound, color
Language
English
Description
What is a market economy? How does it work? This lively, wide-ranging film examines the theory and reality of economics. --THE MARKET ECONOMY: Economists divide the modern economy into primary, secondary and tertiary sectors. Some organisations are owned by the government - the public sector. Some are based on free enterprise. The combination of private and public industries is called the mixed economy. What can microeconomics and macroeconomics tell...
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (90 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Just a few years ago, an unconditional basic income was considered a pipe dream. Today, this utopia is more imaginable than ever before—intense discussions are taking place in all political and scientific camps. FREE LUNCH SOCIETY provides background information about this idea and searches for explanations, possibilities and experiences regarding its implementation. Featuring internationally renowned social scientist, scholar, and activist Frances...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (1,473 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Economics created our world. As the process through which societies provide for their citizens, it has driven everything from trade and politics to warfare and diplomacy. There's not a single aspect of history that has not been influenced by economics. Discover a riveting, centuries-long story of power, glory, and ideology that reveals how economic ideas emerged, evolved, and thrived or died.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 23 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
With humor and compassion, Mama earth provides an inspiring introduction to the concepts of environmental economics, sustainability and new paths to healthier communities and protecting natural resources, all while attaining a more profitable bottom line.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 32 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
How much data do we create every day? Well, experts estimate that a massive 2.5 quintillion bytes of data is amassed on a daily basis and that 90% of the world's global data glut is the product of only the last 2 years! In order for this accumulated data to yield any tangible benefits for organizations it must not only be collected, but then stored, organized, and interpreted. In this program data management expert Puneesh Chaudhry, discusses the...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 24 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Are you a nurse going into a client's home for the first time? Not sure what a home safety check is? Not sure where to start in managing the home or working with the family? Do you need to learn time management? If these thoughts have ever entered your mind then this program is a must have. Household management is a skill everyone should learn. Knowledge of such things as home organization, house cleaning, laundry, and chores are essential for a happy...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 46 min.)
Language
English
Description
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...
12) Green
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 48 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Multi award winning. Her name is Green, she is alone in a world that doesn't belong to her. She is a female orangutan, victim of deforestation and resource exploitation. This film is an emotional journey with Green's final days. It is a visual ride presenting the devastating impacts of logging and land clearing for palm oil plantations, the choking haze created by rainforest fires and the tragic end of rainforest biodiversity. We watch the effects...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 23 min., 44 sec.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Economics is a study of how we use opportunities, spend time, make choices, respond to incentives, and share limited resources. Join us in this lively exploration of basic economic ideas we use everyday. Learn about cost, supply and demand, prices, profits and losses, and trade using everyday examples from making a bed to buying an ice cream cone to sharing housework. Discover how "the invisible hand" guides everyday decisions.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 21 min., 40 sec.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Everything has a price tag, but who sets all these prices? What hides behind a price tag? How does price control your life? We all know "the best things in life are free" and "you can't buy happiness", right? So why do we insist on putting a price on just about everything? Well, we don't. That's the first of many surprising lessons viewers learn in What Is a Price?: a price is not an arbitrary number someone "puts" on something. Viewers learn that...
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (54 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
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.
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (54 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
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?
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (54 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
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.
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (54 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
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.
19) American Winter
Publisher
Collective Eye Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (90 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A timely documentary that follows the personal stories of eight families struggling in the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. AMERICAN WINTER reveals the devastating effects of the mortgage meltdown, high unemployment, the health care crisis, and budget cuts to the social safety net through the eyes of families in crisis. Nominated for Outstanding Business and Economic Reporting - Long Form at the **News & Documentary Emmy Awards**....
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (54 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
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?
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