Inflation (1933)

This film attempts to explain what a "wonderful" thing inflation is.

Let's have the government borrow and borrow, it'll make us all rich!

Keynesian Economics http://www.economicshelp.org/

Vermeend (PvdA, windmill lobbyist) vs. Agema (PVV).

Argues that neoconservative policy helped get us to the place where we need a bailout and that Keynes was the first to explain the economy as a system.

why these two schools of economic thought disagree on the shape of the LRAS curve - a disagreement borne out of their differing views on the ability of labour markets to clear during recssions.

Are you a Keynesian?
White Lake, Michigan

Rap meets economics, lavishly mounted. Sure it isn't the best video ever, but it is my first experiment at shooting something. Hopefully much more to come.

"[W]e must reorganize relations among states according to what can be described as a Franklin Roosevelt Bretton Woods system, not a Truman, nor a Keynesian counterfeit. The former policy means building up science-driven, power-dense restoration of formerly industrialized nations to their former, pre-1968-1971 roles in the planet as a whole, this in order to generate a long wave of increase of per-capita density of infrastructure and net output per square kilometer of territory."
Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. "A NEW DARK AGE IS NOW NEAR: Today's Brutish Imperialism"

Taken From Chapter 9 of Murray Rothbard's 1978 book "For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto"
As read by Jeff Riggenbach
Full book available for purchase at mises.org (Check out their YouTube channel-misesmedia)

During an examination of the failures of Keynesian economics Rothbard investigates the chronic inflation that has plagued The United States since World War II and the danger of a fiat currency.

Ron Paul gives his take on the bailout to rescue the collapsing global financial markets. 9/24/08

digg it!
http://digg.com/world_news/Ron_Paul_on_Fox_Business_News_9_24_08

Funny 'cause it's true.

Dr Mahathir Mohamed talks to Stephen Sackur 3/3
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During his term in office, Dr Mahathir turned Malaysia into a regional high-tech manufacturing, financial, and telecommunications hub through his economic policies based on corporate nationalism, known as the various "Malaysia Plans" which set out the government middle-term objectives. These policies with strong Keynesian tendency remained in effect almost to the end of his tenure in office.
Dr Mahathir is credited with spearheading the phenomenal growth of the Malaysian economy, now one of the largest in South East Asia.

Growth between 1988 and 1997 averaged over ten percent and living standards rose twentyfold, with poverty relatively almost eradicated and social indicators such as literacy levels and infant mortality rates becoming almost on par with developed countries.

During this period, Dr Mahathir embarked on various large scale national projects, such as the North-South Expressway, Multimedia Super Corridor, the planned capital city of Putrajaya, Johor's Port of Tanjung Pelepas, Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA), the Bakun Dam in Sarawak, and the Petronas Twin Towers.

During the Asian financial crisis of 1997, IMF had prescribed a recovery package for Malaysia, but Dr Mahathir defied international pressure, his then rejecting the package. Though economic prosperity has been mixed since then, Mahathir argued that Malaysia's recovery was relatively faster and better, as compared to many other Asian countries affected. After the financial crisis, the IMF and World Bank acknowledged that Dr Mahathir's approach had worked.

Dr Mahathir Mohamed talks to Stephen Sackur 2/3
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During his term in office, Dr Mahathir turned Malaysia into a regional high-tech manufacturing, financial, and telecommunications hub through his economic policies based on corporate nationalism, known as the various "Malaysia Plans" which set out the government middle-term objectives. These policies with strong Keynesian tendency remained in effect almost to the end of his tenure in office.
Dr Mahathir is credited with spearheading the phenomenal growth of the Malaysian economy, now one of the largest in South East Asia.

Growth between 1988 and 1997 averaged over ten percent and living standards rose twentyfold, with poverty relatively almost eradicated and social indicators such as literacy levels and infant mortality rates becoming almost on par with developed countries.

During this period, Dr Mahathir embarked on various large scale national projects, such as the North-South Expressway, Multimedia Super Corridor, the planned capital city of Putrajaya, Johor's Port of Tanjung Pelepas, Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA), the Bakun Dam in Sarawak, and the Petronas Twin Towers.

During the Asian financial crisis of 1997, IMF had prescribed a recovery package for Malaysia, but Dr Mahathir defied international pressure, his then rejecting the package. Though economic prosperity has been mixed since then, Mahathir argued that Malaysia's recovery was relatively faster and better, as compared to many other Asian countries affected. After the financial crisis, the IMF and World Bank acknowledged that Dr Mahathir's approach had worked.

Dr Mahathir Mohamed talks to Stephen Sackur 1/3
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During his term in office, Dr Mahathir turned Malaysia into a regional high-tech manufacturing, financial, and telecommunications hub through his economic policies based on corporate nationalism, known as the various "Malaysia Plans" which set out the government middle-term objectives. These policies with strong Keynesian tendency remained in effect almost to the end of his tenure in office.
Dr Mahathir is credited with spearheading the phenomenal growth of the Malaysian economy, now one of the largest in South East Asia.

Growth between 1988 and 1997 averaged over ten percent and living standards rose twentyfold, with poverty relatively almost eradicated and social indicators such as literacy levels and infant mortality rates becoming almost on par with developed countries.

During this period, Dr Mahathir embarked on various large scale national projects, such as the North-South Expressway, Multimedia Super Corridor, the planned capital city of Putrajaya, Johor's Port of Tanjung Pelepas, Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA), the Bakun Dam in Sarawak, and the Petronas Twin Towers.

During the Asian financial crisis of 1997, IMF had prescribed a recovery package for Malaysia, but Dr Mahathir defied international pressure, his then rejecting the package. Though economic prosperity has been mixed since then, Mahathir argued that Malaysia's recovery was relatively faster and better, as compared to many other Asian countries affected. After the financial crisis, the IMF and World Bank acknowledged that Dr Mahathir's approach had worked.

sam hui

Half of a movie I made as a project for my AP Macro Economics class. It got a 99%. Part two will come later (arguably the funnier half).

Richard Wolff Ph.D., Yale, 1969 Professor of Economics - University of Massachusetts - Amherst.
Professor Wolff's major interests include (a) the critical comparison of alternative economic theories (neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian) (b) the application of advanced class analysis to contemporary global capitalism, and (c) new developments in Marxian economics. He has published several books with Stephen Resnick including Knowledge and Class: A Critique of Political Economy, Economics: Marxian vs Neoclassical, Bringing It All Back Home: Class, Gender and Power in the Modern Household (co-authored with Harriet Fraad), and most recently Class Theory and History: Capitalism and Communism in the USSR. He is a member of the editorial board of several academic journals including Rethinking Marxism.

www.globalmacroscope.com redwolff@worldnet.net

Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy

Outside the mainstream
The spirit of Chicago
Harnessing economic forces
The Keynesian high tide

Watch all of Commanding Heights at PBS.org

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/hi/story/index.html