Economy
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Above us, About us: Two new documentaries from Rotterdam
IFFR:This year‘s film festival in Rotterdam unveiled several documentaries and shorts, amongst them Above Us Only Sky – a calming exercise in intellectual and sensual stimulation – and Pelourinho: They Don't Really Care About Us, which proved to be a rough, angry gem of a picture.
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Our future with bitcoin and blockchain
Bitcoin, blockchain and crypto: are they a hyped bubble set to burst or a liberating and solidary money system ready to challenge centralised state power and capitalist control?
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The death of nature
By combining a sociological approach to the climate crisis with examples drawn from literature and film, interesting new horizons are revealed in this British publication.
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Varoufakis’ magical realism
By cutting the principles of capitalism to the bone and by using language that is straightforward, Yanis Varoufakis pulls out the essence of modern economy.
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Invisible Hands
Invisible Hands is committed to the ideology of the free market, but can this myth ever become reality?
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Economy in a sound eco-system
ECOLOGY: An economy where production, consumption and recycling are linked in a balanced “food chain” is the solution to the ecological crisis, according to economist Ove Jakobsen.
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Organic dumping
ENVIRONMENT: German Ulrich Beck claimed 30 years ago that environmental destruction is democratic as it affects us all equally. In a new book, this statement is heavily criticised.
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DOCUMENTS FROM THE U.S
We are drawing a line through three films from Sundance this year: politics, economics, and the Occupy Movement.