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Showing 1 - 10 of 94 titles with a criteria of Available to public libraries AND Subject is Economic Theory
Adam Smith, The Birth of the Free Market
Capitalism is much more complex than the vision Adam Smith laid out. Indeed, it predates Smith by centuries and took root in the practices of colonialism and the slave trade. (Episode 1 of the Capitalism series)
Icarus Films | 2014 | 53 minutes
Advertising Missionaries
Follows the mission of one theater company to bring the consumer revolution to the people of the highlands of Papua New Guinea.
Icarus Films | 1996 | 52 minutes
The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales
Abigail Disney looks at the Disney family legacy and asks why the American Dream has worked for the wealthy, yet is a nightmare for people born with less.
GOOD DOCS | 2022 | 87 minutes
Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace
Charts the story of a poor Scottish immigrant who sailed to America in the 1840s, and by the end of the century would be the richest man in the world.
Collective Eye Films | 2015 | 75 minutes
Argentina: Hope in Hard Times
The Argentine people, in the face of economic collapse, provide a hopeful example for the rest of us.
Bullfrog Films | 2005 | 74 minutes
Argentina: Turning Around
An intimate view of new models of work, politics and community development in Argentina.
Bullfrog Films | 2008 | 37 minutes
As Goes Janesville
As Goes Janesville follows two years in the lives of laid off workers and local leaders to tell the story of how an auto community brought to the brink reinvents itself amid America’s worst economic crisis since The Great Depression.
371 Productions | 2012 | 87 minutes
Backfired
Investigates the largest auto scam in the world, tracing VW's deliberate installation of defeat devices in their diesel cars to circumvent California and US vehicle emissions standards.
Bullfrog Films | 2018 | 61 minutes
Bank Job
Artist/filmmaker team Dan Edelstyn and Hilary Powell investigate how debt is created in our economy, and devise a clever plan to purchase and destroy over $1 million of private debt.
Bullfrog Films | 2021 | 87 minutes
Barber Shop - Ep 3: Detroit / USA
The car industry moved away to low-wage countries and over a million citizens left the city: ‘Motown’ became ‘Ghost town’. Barber Shop Detroit tells the story of nostalgia and pride against a background of economic recession.
First Hand Films | 2017 | 26 minutes
