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The Progress Illusion
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Jon D. Erickson
It’s a fairytale we constantly hear. Growth always leads to prosperity. Logically that should mean that we have endless resources. In that case, wh...

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  • Added: Dec 06, 2022
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Dismantlng Democracy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Donald Cohen
Unprecedented concentrations of wealth. Fundamental changes in the economy. A weakened institutional government, making it more difficult to meet p...

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  • Added: Jan 17, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Privatization of Everything
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Donald Cohen
Democracy is more efficient, and equally distributed when public goods are created. Things like free education, public health, open parks, clean wa...

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  • Added: Jan 03, 2022
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
An Illustrated Business History of the United States
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Richard Vague
The story of American business is the story of real estate. More than two hundred years of seizing, claiming, settling and developing. And, the col...

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  • Added: Dec 14, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
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The Enablers: How the West Supports Kleptocrats and Corruption – Endangering Democracy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Frank Vogl
The average American knows corruption exists in every corner, but most of us are not aware of just how rampant it is. We know the tip of the iceber...

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  • Added: Nov 15, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Patriots of Two Nations
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Spencer Critchley
A well run democracy takes a lot of work on the part of the citizenry. People need to be informed. In America today, there is a rising brand of lib...

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  • Added: Oct 06, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Making of a Democratic Economy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Democracy Collaborative logo
Here are some numbers that will make you think. Just 26 people – call them billionaires – own as much wealth as half the people on the planet. At t...

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  • Added: Jul 23, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Capitalism: The Future of an Illusion
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Fred Block
Most people believe that capitalist economics are self-regulated. According to UC Davis economic sociologist Fred L. Block, this view is simply an ...

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  • Added: Aug 23, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
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Kill It to Save It
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Corey Dolgon
American voters have been convinced to vote against their best interests for decades, according to sociology professors Corey Dolgon.

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  • Added: Jun 12, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
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The One Percent Solutiion
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Gordon Lafer
Americans may vote for polar opposite candidates … liberal or conservative. Their vote may express ideological differences. But, on principles and ...

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  • Added: Apr 19, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
An Extraordinary Time
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Marc Levinson
The 25-years after World War II were a golden age for much of the world. The end of that era in 1973 brought financial crisis, high unemployment, e...

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  • Added: Dec 15, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Right to Work
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Cedric de Leon
The “right to work.” The phrase sounds fair and equitable. After all, who shouldn’t have a right to work if they wish to? Twenty-six states now hav...

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  • Added: Dec 06, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
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Selling Ignorance: Part Two of the Way of Neoliberalism
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Tonight we’re speaking with Philip Mirowski, historian and philosopher of economic thought at the University of Notre Dame, and author of Never Let...

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  • Added: Oct 25, 2016
  • Length: 57:40
  • Purchases: 1
Makers & Takers
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Rana Foroohar
Award winning business journalist Rana Foroohar explores the provocative question that is at the top of mind of today's business leaders: Is Wall S...

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  • Added: Jun 21, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
It's Even Worse Than It Was
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Norman J. Ornstein
Congress is at a standstill. They have been for several years. In 2010 political insiders Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein began searching for the c...

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  • Added: May 11, 2016
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Democracy or Oligarchy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Roslyn Fuller
Try to find a true democracy anywhere in the world and you’ll be challenged. What you’ll find instead is a nation ruled by the few, with the majori...

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  • Added: Apr 21, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Runaway Inequality
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Runaway Inequity , Credit: Labor Institute Press
It’s become a critical fact of life in America: Runaway inequality.

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  • Added: Jan 27, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Cut Loose
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Victor Tan Chen
Victor Tan Chen, sociology professor at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, has studied the plight of the American worker … from successf...

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  • Added: Jul 09, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
Reclaiming Democracy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: David Niose
According to author and attorney David Niose, American politics and public policy have been sliding in the direction of unreason. But, he says, a n...

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  • Added: Jun 11, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Social Security Works
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Eric Kingson
Americans’ pensions are gone. Housing is down and 401k are unreliable. But our Social Security system is totally funded for more than two decades.

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  • Added: Mar 11, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Dollar Democracy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Peter Matthews
Big corporations and their super wealthy owners have bought many American politicians through campaign contributions and lobbying, according to pol...

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  • Added: Aug 13, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Strategy & Soul
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Daniel Hunter
David was looking for a slingshot. Goliath had money and power. This is the story of the fight against proposed and granted casinos in Philadelphia.

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  • Added: Aug 06, 2013
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 1
The Disastrous Sequester: Who Pays, Who Profits?
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
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Two and one-half minute commentary by Equal Time host Martha Burk on how the sequester hurts kids and the elderly while corporations shirk taxes.

  • Added: May 28, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
What Then Must We Do?
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Chelsea Green jacket cover
In his new book, economist Gar Alperovitz speaks plainly about why the time is right to democratize the ownership of wealth as a way to strengthen ...

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  • Added: May 21, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 2
Earth Day 2013
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Frances Moore Lappe
Author Frances Moore Lappe describes herself as a “possibilist” rather than an optimist or pessimist. In her recent book, she argues that solutions...

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  • Added: Apr 15, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1