A new groundbreaking feature documentary about the roots of the American economic crisis, and the continuing assault on working and middle class people in the United States. “Heist” boldly reveals the crumbling structure of the U.S. economy – the result of four decades of deregulation, massive job outsourcing, and tax policies favoring mega-corporations and wealthy elites. Through expert testimony, investigative filmmaking and key archival footage, “Heist” unfolds critical historical background, beginning with the dismantling of FDR’s New Deal, uncovering the ideological influence of the infamous Powell Memo and the Heritage Foundation’s Mandate for Leadership on government reform, and traces both Republican and Democratic allegiance to big business. A movie with its pulse on the most urgent issues of our time.
Subjects: Economics
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Teaching Systems U.S. History: Super Pack
The complete history set provides a thematic overview of Presidential policies from 1789-1869, women’s rights, civil reforms, U.S. conflicts from 1689-1865, and economic shifts. Programs in the Series – 1 PRESIDENTIAL ADMINISTRATIONS (1789-1869), 2 WOMEN’s MOVEMENT, 3 CIVIL REFORMS, 4 AMERICA AT WAR (1689-1865), and 5 ECONOMIC CHANGES
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Microeconomics
A fundamental proposition in economics is that people have unlimited wants, but there are limited resources, which leads to the problem of scarcity. Hence the central question in economics is how best to allocate limited resources to produce goods and services. In this program we introduce the market system, the law of demand and supply, price elasticity, market structures, market failures and government response, and many more key concepts. Featuring clear explanations, excellent graphics and examples from all over the world, this program introduces the classic concepts of microeconomics in an engaging and thought-provoking way.
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Economics
Thematic DVD collection of PBS NewsHour clips, including:
Behavioral Economist on Money, Morality and Rationality
Bargain Hunting Adds Up to Unexpected Costs
Keynes vs Hayek: Late Economists’ Hip-Hop Legacy
Hallelujah! How Handel Orchestrated a Classical Financial Portfolio
In Mexico, a Plan to Beat Poverty With Health Care and Education
Unmasking Interest Rates, Hony-Tonk Style
Stand-Up Economist Finds the Lighter Side of a “Dismal Science” -
Unmasking Interest Rates, Hony-Tonk Style
In the latest installment in his series of reports making sense of financial news, Paul Solman explains how interest rates are set, with a little help from economic country musician Merle Hazard.
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Stand-Up Economist Finds the Lighter Side of a “Dismal Science”
Economics isn’t exactly a side-splitting discipline, but at a recent economics convention in Atlanta, self-proclaimed “stand-up economist” Yoram Bauman showed it’s possible to infuse the sober science with monetary mirth.
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Behavioral Economist on Money, Morality and Rationality
In the latest in economics correspondent Paul Solman’s ‘Making Sense’ series, behavioral economist Dan Ariely mulls decision-making mechanisms in finance and they ways in which many people rationalize their unethical actions.
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I.O.U.S.A – Home Use
America is on the brink of a financial meltdown. I.O.U.S.A. boldly examines the rapidly growing national debt and its consequences for the United States. Burdened with an ever-expanding government and military, increased international competition, overextended entitlement programs, and debts to foreign countries that are becoming impossible to honor, America must mend its spendthrift ways or face an economic disaster of epic proportions.
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FRONTLINE: Cliffhanger
This February, as the nation faces yet another round of fiscal crises, FRONTLINE investigates the inside history of how Washington has failed to solve the country’s problems of debt and deficit. Drawing on interviews with key players in Congress and the White House, FRONTLINE goes behind the scenes to show how a clash of politics and personalities has taken the nation’s economy to the edge of the “fiscal cliff,” and now to a second round of standoffs over the debt ceiling and sequestration. The film explores the deep ideological divide inside the Republican Party and the struggle between House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and House Speaker John Boehner as they take on President Obama and the Democrats.