VOICES OF A NEW ECONOMICS

Gus Speth's E. F. Schumacher Lecture from New Economics Institute on Vimeo.

30th Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures were held November 20th
with Gus Speth, Neva Goodwin, Stewart Wallis
http://neweconomicsinstitute.org/

The global financial system has failed us in its promise, resulting in an environment and society in crisis. A movement for a new economics, one that supports people and the planet, is emerging as an inevitable response. The Thirtieth Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures will introduce three leading voices for a New Economics:
Gus Speth, prominent environmentalist who has been at the forefront of rethinking the connection between the health of the environment and the nature of our economic system.
Neva Goodwin, pioneer of contextual economics education at the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University.
Stewart Wallis, executive director of the influential New Economics Foundation of London.


"Banks, Shadow Banks, and the New Face of Wall Street"

UChannel

Andrew Ross Sorkin, chief mergers and acquisitions reporter and columnist for The New York Times, and Gary Gensler, Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, discussed "Banks, Shadow Banks, and the New Face of Wall Street" at 4:30 p.m. on Monday, November 22, in Bowl 016, Robertson Hall. They were joined by former New Jersey governor Jon Corzine, the John L. Weinberg/Goldman Sachs & Co. Visiting Professor at the Woodrow Wilson School. The discussion is the fifth in the School's Financial Market Regulation series.

Dr. Gabor Maté on ADHD, Bullying and the Destruction of American Childhood

A spike in diagnoses of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and other mental disorders has fueled an unprecedented reliance on pharmaceutical medications to treat children, with long-term effects that remain unknown. We speak with Canadian physician and best-selling author, Dr. Gabor Maté. He argues that these responses are treating surface symptoms as causes while ignoring deeper roots. Dr. Maté says children are in fact reacting to the broader collapse of the nurturing conditions needed for their healthy development.
http://www.democracynow.org/

Abe Osheroff, Bellevue 2006

Abe Osheroff, Bellevue 2006 from toddboyle on Vimeo.

Abe Osheroff, one of the last surviving veterans of the abraham lincoln brigade, the Americans who went to fight against fascism in Spain in the 1930s' Spanish Civil War.

He spoke candidly to a small group of veterans and antiwar activists in Bellevue 2006, I filmed it with my handy camcorder, released: creative commons sharalike noncommercial.

Abe Osheroff: One Foot in the Grave, the Other Still Dancing

http://www.mediaed.org/

Most people knew Abe Osheroff as an activist. For most of his 92 years - from the frontlines of the Spanish Civil War to the picket lines of the U.S. labor movement, from the struggles for civil rights in Mississippi to his work for human rights in Nicaragua - Osheroff threw himself into the fray with rare energy and enthusiasm. In this riveting and inspiring new film, Osheroff reflects on the meaning of his activism, exploring the ideas that animated his actions and sharing wisdom built up over a lifetime of commitment to the "radical humanism" that defined his politics and philosophy.

Herman Daly on Uneconomic Growth

WarrenWilsonELC

Herman E. Daly is currently Professor at the University of Maryland, School of Public Affairs. Previously, he was at The World Bank, where he was Senior Economist in the Environment Department, helping to develop policy guidelines related to sustainable development. While there, he was engaged in environmental operations work in Latin America. Before joining the World Bank, Daly was Alumni Professor of Economics at Louisiana State University. He is a co-founder and associate editor of the journal, Ecological Economics. His interest in economic development, population, resources, and environment has resulted in over a hundred articles as well as numerous books, including Steady-State Economics (1977; 1991), Valuing the Earth (1993), Beyond Growth (1996), and Ecological Economics and the Ecology of Economics (1999). He is co-author with theologian John B. Cobb, Jr. of For the Common Good (1989; 1994) which received the Grawemeyer Award for ideas for improving World Order. He is a recipient of the Honorary Right Livelihood Award (Sweden's alternative to the Nobel Prize), the Heineken Prize for Environmental Science from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Sophie Prize (Norway).

Bethany McLean, Author, "All The Devils Are Here"

CSPAN

Bethany McLean, author of "All The Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis," discusses life after the Enron scandal and the economic recession.