Dr Richard Florida, one of the world’s leading experts on economic competitiveness, demographic trends and cultural and technological innovation shows how developing the full human and creative…
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We all want to be financially stable and enjoy a well-funded retirement, and we don’t want to throw out our hard earned money on poor investments. But…
In the study of economics, the big questions recapitulate the little ones. If you think about the cost of a chocolate chip cookie or how airline ticket…
Steve exposes what many non-economists may have suspected and a minority of economists have long known: that economic theory is not only unpalatable, but also plain wrong….
An overview of the ideas, methods, and institutions that permit human society to manage risks and foster enterprise. Description of practices today and analysis of prospects for…
Harvard historian Niall Ferguson discusses his book, The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World. In the conversation, drawing on insights from the biological sciences,…
Radical sociologist David Harvey asks: is it time to look beyond capitalism towards a new social order that would allow us to live within a system that…
The full title of this talk is Advertising and the Perfect Storm: Global Warming, Peak Oil and Consumer Debt and explains the way in which producing products…
This is John Perkins’ extended interview given for the documentary Zeitgeist: Addendum. From the U.S. military in Iraq to infrastructure development in Indonesia, from Peace Corps volunteers…
There should no longer be any doubt: global capitalism is fast approaching its terminal crisis. In his latest book, Living in the End Times, Slavoj Zizek has…
A Resource-Based Economy in its working state is really quite simple, deceptively simple, given the complexity, imbalance confusion and uncertainty of the monetary-market system that we all…
