HOUR 1: The Men Who Crashed the World

HOUR 1: The Men Who Crashed the World

Greed and recklessness by the titans of Wall Street triggers the largest financial crash since the Great Depression. It's left to US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, himself a former Wall Street banker, to try and avert further disaster.



Source: CBC

HOUR 2: A Global Tsunami

HOUR 2: A Global Tsunami

The meltdown's devastation ripples around the world from California to Iceland and China. Facing economic ruin, desperate world leaders are at each other's throats.



Source: CBC

HOUR 3: Paying the Price

HOUR 3: Paying the Price

The victims of the meltdown fight back. In Iceland, protestors force a government to fall. In Canada, ripped off autoworkers occupy their plant. And in France, furious union members kidnap their bosses.



Source: CBC

HOUR 4: After the Fall

HOUR 4: After the Fall

MELTDOWN: THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL COLLAPSE

Investigators begin to sift through the meltdown's rubble. Shaken world leaders question the very foundations of modern capitalism while asking: could it all happen again?



source: CBS

Crises of Capitalism by David Harvey

My favorite Marxist, David Harvey, presents his take on the "Crisis of Capitalism" at the R.S.A., the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.

The animation on this short talk is absolutely brilliant.

Watch David Harvey's "Crises of Capitalism"



In this RSA Animate, renowned academic 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?

This is based on a lecture at the RSA (www.theRSA.org).