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István Mészáros: The New Crisis of Capitalism
Published 2 years ago by adycousins
István Mészáros Opening and closing speech from the session: Credit Crunch, Food Riots and the New Capitalist Crisis.Speaking at "68 and all that" event. 10 May 2008.

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RSA Animate - Crises of Capitalism
Published 1 month ago by theRSAorg
In this RSA Animate, radical social theorist David Harvey asks if it is time to look beyond capitalism towards a new social order that would allow us to live within a system that really could be responsible, just, and humane? This is based on a lecture at the RSA (www.theRSA.org).

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Dan Pink - Drive
Published 4 months ago by theRSAorg
Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us Daniel Pink provides concrete examples of how intrinsic motivation functions both at home and in the workplace.

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Maynard's Revenge: Keynesianism and the Crisis

Google Tech Talk February 16, 2010 ABSTRACT Presented by Lance Taylor, Arnhold Professor of International Cooperation and Development at the New School for Social Research. Historically, financial crises have been commonplace. Over the past two decades the sector has staged the 1987 stock market crash, the Mexican crisis, the Asian crisis, Enron, the LTCM collapse, the end of the internet bubble, and 2007-09. Why did the latest episode almost derail the world economy? The macroeconomics developed by John Maynard Keynes and his close followers provides the only plausible set of answers, including rising income inequality which spilled over into debt accumulation at the same time as household consumption rose, low real interest rates, massive expansion of financial assets and liabilities as investors borrowed heavily (increased leverage) to buy assets with rising prices, and an ample supply of imports and capital inflows from the rest of the world. In an accommodating political economic environment these factors linked the real and financial sides of the economy to create the crisis.

Published 5 months ago

By GoogleTechTalks

Lord Adair Turner, Chair of the FSA, on Economics, Conventional Wisdom and Public Policy

Speaking at the Inaugural Conference of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, Lord Turner, Chair of the Financial Services Authority, gives a "fierce and witty assault on economic's most sacred tenets", according to Newsweek's Michael Hirsh.

Published 3 months ago

By INETeconomics

Michael Shuman Lecture: The Small-Mart Revolution

In a Local Economy lecture at Carnegie Mellon University, Michael Shuman, author of the The Small-Mart Revolution, talks about saving the world by eating locally. Featuring: Michael Shuman http://www.small-mart.org

Published 2 years ago

By CarnegieMellonU

Anatomy of casino capitalism

Jane D'Arista unravels the web of banking confidence schemes

Published 8 months ago

By TheRealNews

Steinhardt Lecture 2010 at Lewis & Clark College presents Dr. William Black

This year's department- sponsored lecture, The Steinhardt, features Dr. William Black, University of Missouri-Kansas City. It occurred Thursday, Feb. 18th, 2010, 7:30-9:00PM, at the Council Chamber. The title of Dr. Black's talk is: Why Elite Frauds Cause Recurrent, Intensifying Economic, Political and Moral Crises. Presented by the Department of Economics at Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR, USA

Published 4 months ago

By The Resource Lab

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RSA Animate - Crises of Capitalism

In this RSA Animate, radical social theorist David Harvey asks if it is time to look beyond capitalism towards a new social order that would allow us to live within a system that really could be responsible, just, and humane? This is based on a lecture at the RSA (www.theRSA.org).

Published 1 month ago

By theRSAorg