The Business and Economics Collection
From advertising and marketing to speculation and debt, The Business and Economics collection covers the field. Including stand-outs like the The Flaw about the 2008 financial crisis and Allan Sekula and Noel Burch's film essay on globalization, The Forgotten Space, this collection provides essential insights into the world of production, distribution and consumption.
The Business and Economics Collection includes the following titles:
Companion film to KING CORN about the ecological consequences of industrial agriculture.
The final film in Micha X. Peled's Globalization Trilogy examines the epidemic of suicides amongst India's cotton farmers, deeply in debt after switching to genetically modified seeds.
Examines the escalating drama in Appalachia over mountaintop removal mining.
The sale of bear paws, crocodile hearts, and other rare animal parts form the world's third-largest illegal market. Black Market explores the human passions and ancient beliefs that drive the trade and threaten its most endangered species.
The story of the Exxon Valdez and the 20-year legal battle to get restitution from ExxonMobil.
Filmmakers Judith Helfand and Daniel B. Gold use humor and chutzpah in their search for the environmental truth about vinyl.
4 million slum dwellers - half of Bombay's population - must battle daily just to survive.
Extols the many benefits of industrial hemp for the environment and human health, while revealing the obstacles to what could be a thriving industry for U.S. farmers.
Looks at the plight of apple growers in the age of globalization, and points the way to sustainable US agriculture.
An uplifting story about Jupiter, Florida's humane response to an influx of day laborers from Jacaltenango, Guatemala.
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