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Richard Wolff: 'Capitalism Is Not Working'
Complete video at http://fora.tv/2012/02/14/Monthly_Update_with_Richard_D_Wolff_February_2012 Economics professor Richard Wolff attributes the global economic crisis to the failure of the capitalist system. He argues that the root cause of the problem is over-borrowing, and that capitalism runs on an unsustainable cycle.Collected in foratv's videos Feb 25, 2012 -
Solar Fuels: Beating Nature at Its Own Game
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/10/26/Reinventing_the_Leaf_Future_Sources_of_Fuel Dr. Nate Lewis, professor of chemistry at California Institute of Technology, discusses the potential of solar fuels to meet base load demand for the entire world.Collected in foratv's videos Nov 15, 2011 -
Stiglitz: Did US Economists Learn a Lesson from Collapse?
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/series/92y_business_finance Joseph Stiglitz believes that many economists haven't changed their perspectives on market efficiency since the financial collapse and worries that without new economic thinking and regulation, they are primed to make the same mistakes. ----- Experience talks, conversations and readings from the 92nd Street Y's vast archive, featuring Nobel Laureates and world leaders, giants of literature and science, legendary entertainers and artists, and tCollected in foratv's videos Jun 24, 2011 -
Has the Industrial Age Finally Run Out of Gas?
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/conference/ideas_economy_information Don Tapscott, author of Macrowikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World, argues that the hierarchical institutions of the industrial age are over, and that new models of participatory communication will usher in greater transparency and collaboration. ----- The Ideas Economy: Information is a fresh look at knowledge management for the information age.Collected in foratv's videos Jun 21, 2011 -
Will Rising Oil Prices Kill Globalization?
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/10/28/Jeff_Rubin_Oil_and_the_End_of_Globalization Economist Jeff Rubin says that triple-digit oil prices will affect more than consumer behavior at the pump in the coming years. Rubin predicts that the rising price of oil will spell the end of the globalization boom that cheap oil has fueled over the past few decades.Collected in foratv's videos Jun 6, 2011 -
Cotton: The Future of American High Tech?
Complete Premium video at: http://fora.tv/conference/wired_business_conference_2011 Planet Money host Adam Davidson reports on the surprising success of the cotton industry despite the economic recession. He says technological innovation makes cotton production so efficient in the United States, that we export cotton thread to China for the manufacture of clothing.Collected in foratv's videos May 16, 2011 -
What Drives Human Evolution and Innovation?
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/03/22/Matt_Ridley_Deep_Optimism Matt Ridley, journalist and author of The Rational Optimist, examines the driving force behind human evolution and technological innovation, especially over the past 100,000 years. Ridley argues the answer lies in the development of exchange, or trade.Collected in foratv's videos Apr 13, 2011 -
Stiglitz: Time to Rethink Fixation on GDP?
Complete Premium video at: http://fora.tv/series/92y_politics Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz argues that GDP falls short as a measurement of a country's economic well-being. "While GDP per capita was going up, most Americans were getting worse off.Collected in foratv's videos Apr 11, 2011 -
Fareed Zakaria: Are the Chinese the Better Capitalists?
Complete Premium video at: http://fora.tv/series/92y_politics Fareed Zakaria contrasts strategies China and the United States have each used to attempt to recover from the global economic crisis. "Who is the basket case third world country here, and who is the advanced industrial country that we were meant to think of as the model of capitalism?Collected in foratv's videos Apr 7, 2011 -
British PM Cameron Calls for Reindustrialization of Europe
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/01/28/David_Camerons_2011_World_Economic_Forum_Keynote British Prime Minister David Cameron argues that the path to economic recovery in the E.U. depends upon increasing exports and paying off public debt.Collected in foratv's videos Feb 4, 2011 -
Commerce and Virtue: Is Money the Root of All Good?
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/11/18/Uncommon_Knowledge_Matt_Ridley Matt Ridley, author of The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves, explains how commerce can actually help make people better. He cites numerous studies that conclude the more commercial interactions people are involved in the more they realize the importance of fairness.Collected in foratv's videos Jan 28, 2011 -
US: The Next USSR? Ferguson Says Economy on Edge of Chaos
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/07/08/The_Financial_Crisis_Will_It_Lead_to_Americas_Decline Harvard University history professor Niall Ferguson compares the United States economy to complex systems in nature. The U.S.Collected in foratv's videos Jan 25, 2011 -
Friedman: Rise of China Another "Sputnik" Moment for U.S.?
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/01/10/Thomas_Friedman_on_America_and_China New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman compares the economic rise of China on the world stage to the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik, a key moment that escalated the Cold War and sent the United States into crisis mode. ----- As the balance of energy, innovation, trade, wealth, power and influence continues to rapidly shift throughout the world, China and the US are finding themselves forced to confront a difficult proceCollected in foratv's videos Jan 20, 2011 -
2010: The Return of the 'Reagan Democrat'?
Complete Premium video at: http://fora.tv/series/monitor_breakfast In response to a question about Wisconsin's political climate, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) says the "Reagan Democrats are becoming Reagan Democrats again." Voter support of Republican candidates, he says, showed Wisconsinites taking a stand against the Obama Administration's approach to fiscal issues, spending and taxes.Collected in foratv's videos Dec 9, 2010 -
Does Extending Jobless Benefits Keep Unemployment High?
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/10/25/Arthur_Brooks_Free_Enterprise_vs_Big_Government American Enterprise Institute President Arthur Brooks accepts unemployment benefits as a "compromise" to offer relief to laid-off workers despite his objection to extending benefits for the long-term unemployed. He cites a study that found unemployment rates in the U.S.Collected in foratv's videos Dec 1, 2010 -
P.J. O'Rourke's Killer Stimulus Plan: Shoot Store Clerks
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/09/30/PJ_ORourke_Why_Voting_Just_Encourages_Politicians Libertarian political satirist P.J. O'Rourke makes a case for the economic benefits of gun violence, employing what he sees as the flawed political logic behind government spending.Collected in foratv's videos Oct 20, 2010 -
Is Social Security in a Crisis? - Richard Fisher
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/05/28/Richard_Fisher_The_Interaction_of_Fiscal_and_Monetary_Policy Richard Fisher, CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, discusses the effect of U.S. Government debt on the future of Social Security.Collected in foratv's videos Jul 10, 2008 -
Corn Prices and the Global Food Economy - Paul Roberts
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/06/18/Paul_Roberts_The_End_of_Food Paul Roberts discusses how biofuels have driven corn prices up, in turn, causing a "ripple effect" throughout the global economy. ----- More than 1.1 billion people worldwide are at risk of obesity-related illness, while roughly as many people are starving.Collected in foratv's videos Jul 8, 2008 -
How to Stimulate an Economic Recovery? - Laura Tyson
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/05/22/Its_the_Economic_Recovery_Plan_Stupid Laura Tyson, former National Economic Advisor to President Clinton, argues that infrastructure spending and health care reform should be two policies at the heart of the next President's economic recovery plan. ----- As debate on the recession moves from "if" to "when" to "how long," The New School's Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (SCEPA) and the New America Foundation host a panel entitled "It's the EconomicCollected in foratv's videos Jul 2, 2008 -
The Problem with Prosperity - Fareed Zakaria
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/05/27/Fareed_Zakaria_Thriving_in_a_Post_America-Centric_World Bestselling author Fareed Zakaria warns that as global prosperity levels continue to rise, competition over global resources will similarly increase. ----- The rise of other nations need not mean a decline of the U.S., says Zakaria.Collected in foratv's videos Jun 27, 2008
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foratv Complete video at http://fora.tv/2012/02/14/Monthly_U... Economics professor Richard Wolff attributes the global economic crisis to the failure of the capitalist system. He argues that the root cause of the problem is over-borrowing, and that capitalism runs on an unsustainable cycle.
Feb 25, 2012