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:
A model co-housing project, where future residents participate in the design of their own neighborhood.
Academy Award-shortlisted for Best Documentary, the film is a vivid portrait of Detroit, America's first major post-industrial city, as it struggles to deal with the consequences of a broken economic system.
A fiery octogenarian activist spearheads a grassroots campaign to ban the sale of single-serve plastic bottled water in Concord, MA.
Daily life in the largest public hospital in the Republic of Guinea
Five people in a Rust Belt town struggle to reinvent their lives and their dreams in contemporary America.
Once at the center of the U.S. economy, the family farm now drifts at its edges. In Iowa, old-time farmers try to hang on to their way of life, while their young push out to find their futures elsewhere. Driftless tells their stories.
Jose is an excellent student with a bright future except that he is undocumented, the child of migrant farm laborers in California's Salinas Valley.
City Hall and grass roots groups in Chicago are working on open space, green buildings and an educated citizenry to create a sustainable city.
Is it possible that the City of the Angels can be a model for the world of environmental rebirth?
Faced with severe budget limitations, Philadelphia's rebirth is being brought about by a network of community-based volunteer organizations.
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