Showing posts with label 2010. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2010. Show all posts

Friday, December 9, 2016

Freedom Fries: And Other Stupidity We'll Have to Explain to Our Grandchi...


Uploaded on 30 Sep 2010
A whimsical look at patriotism and consumerism in America. It explores the absurdity of many of the symbolic gestures that have recently pervaded our culture, such as the wasting of perfectly good French Wine and the waving of Chinese-made America flags. With the help of a leading scholar and an outspoken social activist, this film draws a concrete relationship between American consumerism and patriotism.

Friday, September 16, 2016

Professor Richard Wolff: Why the Economic Crisis Deepens


Uploaded on 20 Oct 2010
Presented by the Graduate Program in International Affairs | http://www.newschool.edu/internationa...
http://www.gpia.info

Graduate Program in International Affairs instructor, Professor Richard Wolff, will speak about recent policies of the government since the economic crisis and why recovery isn't working.

Professor Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he taught economics from 1973 to 2008. He is currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of The New School, New York City. He also teaches classes regularly at the Brecht Forum in Manhattan.

Earlier he taught economics at Yale University (1967-1969) and at the City College of the City University of New York (1969-1973). In 1994, he was a Visiting Professor of Economics at the University of Paris (France), I (Sorbonne).

Visit http://www.newschool.edu for more information.

Location: Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Auditorium, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center.
09/30/2010 6:30 p.m.