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Crises of Capitalism

June 30, 2010, 9:09 p.m.
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RSA Animate did another great animation to another financial lecture. Good stuff!

In this RSA Animate, radical sociologist David Harvey asks if it is time to look beyond capitalism towards a new social order that would allow us to live within a system that really could be responsible, just, and humane?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOP2V_np2c0

July 1, 2010, 12:14 p.m.
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Now that was not like school….I learned something new and it was fun. Cheers for posting.

"You don't learn from experience. You learn from reflecting on the experience."
- Kristen Ulmer

July 2, 2010, 6:18 a.m.
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David Michael Green

Freedom of contract. We sell them guns that kill them; they sell us drugs that kill us.

July 2, 2010, 7:05 a.m.
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Now that was not like school…

aren't you a teacher?

July 2, 2010, 10:14 a.m.
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RSA Animate did another great animation to another financial lecture. Good stuff!

I love how they're able to simplify concepts for us regular folks.

All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.

July 3, 2010, 3:11 p.m.
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I wish I could draw like that. Very cool to watch.

July 3, 2010, 4:14 p.m.
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Its a really well done, well thought out critique

July 5, 2010, 7:05 a.m.
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aren't you a teacher?

Yes but the remark I made was more about how a rather dry and uninspiring topic such as this can be made inspiring, interesting and funny. I can not remember my teachers being this.

"You don't learn from experience. You learn from reflecting on the experience."
- Kristen Ulmer

July 5, 2010, 12:06 p.m.
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Joined: April 9, 2005

we had a good business teacher: the first lesson he suggested we take student loans out put them in high interest accounts (or do better) for the duration of university, pay the loan back at the end and profit. there's a lot of lessons in that one statement and it turned people onto his course (at least me and some buds).

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