| |
Search videos for Capitalism |
|
|
|
|
Divide widens under Russian capitalism - 4 0ct 08
Since the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia has embraced a capitalist system.
Within 17 years, the Russian capital boasted more billionaires than any other city in the world.
But, as Al Jazeera's Neave Barker reports, not everybody is getting a share of the profits.
Length: 179
Rating: 4.60 (13 ratings)
Tags: Neave Barker al jazeera english russia capitalism rich poor gap billionaire economy europe profit
|
Play |
|
|
Naomi Klein: Disaster Capitalism
Nation columnist Naomi Klein explores a key argument from her new book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism: After 9/11 the Bush Administration launched a new economy, driven by the notion of an endless war against an undefined notion of evil. Read more in her 2005 Nation column "The Rise of Disaster Capitalism."
Length: 515
Rating: 4.30 (574 ratings)
Tags: Naomi Klein Shock Doctrine Disaster Capitalism
|
Play |
|
|
Marx on Capitalism
Karl Marx expounds on Capitalism and free enterprise. From play Marx in Soho
Length: 154
Rating: 4.40 (120 ratings)
Tags: Marx Capitalism Free Enterprise
|
Play |
|
|
Capitalism (1948)
Another winner from Coronet Instructional Films! In this one, a group of teenagers on a high-school radio program discuss just what capitalism is, seizing onto the example of the butcher who supplies the weenies for their picnic. A bona fide capitalism love-in! Weenie references fly fast and furious here.
Capitalism is one of many "free-enterprise education" films released in the first few years of the Cold War. Unlike many films produced under corporate sponsorship, it avoids taking jabs at socialism, Russia or New Deal government programs. Nonetheless, it uses the common Coronet device of showing a group collectively engaged in coming to terms with an idea -- a process with predetermined conclusions. In this respect, I imagine that it's not so different from Soviet educational films.
Length: 563
Rating: 4.50 (34 ratings)
Tags: capitalism economics cold war propaganda anti-communism weenie roast 1950s coronet educational
|
Play |
|
|
Noam Chomsky: Is Capitalism Making Life Better?
A simple Chomsky interview.
Question: Is the current material prospects of capitalism justification for its brutal methodology?
Length: 608
Rating: 4.60 (906 ratings)
Tags: Capital Capitalism Slavery Wage Society Noam Chomsky
|
Play |
|
|
Is Capitalism Always Good for Democracy? - Robert Reich
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=1587
Former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich argues that certain aspects of capitalism are often at odds with the best interests of democracy.
-----
Robert Reich discusses "Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life."
In his newest book, "Supercapitalism," Reich explores the clash between capitalism and democracy. Our economy has become more efficient than ever, with turbocharged, web-based global capitalism morphing into supercapitalism. While supercapitalism is working well to enlarge the economic pie, democracy - charged with caring for all its citizens - is becoming less and less effective under its influence. He makes clear how the tools traditionally used to temper America's societal problems have withered as supercapitalism has burgeoned, and sets out a clear course that can lead the nation to a vibrant capitalism and a concurrent, equally vibrant democracy - Cody's@FCCB
Robert B. Reich is Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He has served in three national administrations, most recently as secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton. He has written eleven books, including The Work of Nations, which has been translated into 22 languages; the best-sellers The Future of Success and Locked in the Cabinet, and his most recent book, Supercapitalism. His articles have appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal. Mr. Reich is co-founding editor of The American Prospect magazine. His weekly commentaries on public radio's "Marketplace" are heard by nearly five million people.
As the nation's 22nd Secretary of Labor, Reich implemented the Family and Medical Leave Act, led a national fight against sweatshops in the U.S. and illegal child labor around the world, headed the administration's successful effort to raise the minimum wage, secured worker's pensions, and launched job-training programs, one-stop career centers, and school-to-work initiatives. Under his leadership, the Department of Labor won more than 30 awards for innovation. A 1996 poll of cabinet experts conducted by the Hearst newspapers rated him the most effective cabinet secretary during the Clinton administration.
Reich has been a member of the faculties of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government and of Brandeis University. He received his B.A. from Dartmouth College, his M.A. from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and his J.D. from Yale Law School.
Length: 258
Rating: 4.50 (35 ratings)
Tags: citizenship lobbyists lobbying politicians politics corporate corporations influence laws special interests public money
|
Play |
|
|
