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Addicted to Cheap Shopping? Why the Real Cost of Goods Keeps Going Down
SKU: BVL39028
In this program, host Libby Potter travels around the world as she takes a meaningful look at the economics behind the inexpensive goods for sale in big-box stores and malls. Cost-cutting through supply chain management and waste reduction, economies of scale achieved by shipping offshore-manufactured goods to market via super-container ships, the Wal-Mart effect, and the no-frills philosophy of IKEA are addressed. The triumphs and woes of China, in its role as manufacturer for the world, is ...
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Crossroads: Inside the European Union
SKU: BVL37170
Europe is undergoing a dramatic metamorphosis. What will the “new” Europe look like? This six-part series presents an incisive portrait of a continent that has become a vibrant tapestry of racial and ethnic identities as well as a political, economic, and cultural pressure cooker. Combining detailed research, on-location filming across the European Union, interviews with policy makers and immigration experts, and reports from inside isolated minority communities, the series reveals many o...
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Explaining Globalization
SKU: BVL37576
Everyone talks about globalization, but what does it really mean? And what are its implications for the average American? In this compilation of NewsHour segments, experts from the U.S. and abroad speak their minds on a shrinking world and an expanding global economy.
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Made in Asia: Fast, Cheap, and Fair?
SKU: BVL39601
Most industries exploit the advantages of globalization—specifically, low labor costs. Recently, however, major textile manufacturers have come under increasing pressure from fair trade activists and NGOs. This program studies the complex mix of economic forces, corporate policies, and social conditions that go into the production of everyday consumer goods, especially apparel items. Shedding light on the policies of adidas, H&M, and other key players in the global textiles market, the prog...
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Mortgage Meltdown: A Primer on America’s Subprime Crisis
SKU: BVL39708
This program explains how the U.S. subprime market grew from the post-9/11 rise of easy credit, which was then exploited by predatory lenders; subsequent widespread defaults and foreclosures; the attendant market correction; and the resulting threat of recession. Yale University’s Robert Schiller; BusinessWeek’s Matthew Goldstein; Nouriel Roubini, of the Stern School of Business; JPMorgan’s Bruce Kasman; and Satyajit Das—an expert on hedge funds and credit markets and an adviser to ba...
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You Only Live Twice: Virtual Reality Meets Real World in Second Life
SKU: BVL37558
Tens of thousands of people “live” there, and tens of millions of U.S. dollars are exchanged there. Welcome to SecondLife.com! After introducing viewers to this compelling virtual world, You Only Live Twice grapples with overlapping in-world/real-world issues ranging from cybersex and the psychological repercussions of virtual sex crimes, to intellectual property rights fraud, to taxation on hard cash made on virtual cross-border sales, to the medical use of Second Life as a schizophrenia...
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