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Showing videos filed under: the value of nothing
Raj Patel: What Do We Really Value?
January 22, 2010Raj Patel has spent a lot of time studying the way resources are distributed among people, and he's watched spiraling inequality leave many people with nothing while concentrating wealth in the hands of the few. From the food system, which he studied in Stuffed and Starved, to the bank bonuses still being handed out, he argues that something has to change.Haiti and New Orleans, Raj Patel and We Want What's Ours
January 21, 2010The comparisons between the earthquake in Haiti and Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans have come fast and furious, but often from people who've watched both disasters through the clean-cut white lens of Anderson Cooper broadcasts. Meanwhile, people in Haiti--and those in the Gulf Coast still struggling four years later--need more than blame and comparisons. They need real solutions.What's the Value of Government Regulation?
January 13, 2010The hearings on the financial crisis are getting underway, but the real solutions will need to come out of Congress. Katrina vanden Heuvel notes that we've seen meltdown capitalism; is it possible to create a conscious capitalism to take its place, or do we need to radically rethink our economic system?Haiti, the Value of Regulation, and Ann Wright
January 13, 2010The hearings on the financial crisis are getting underway, but the real solutions will need to come out of Congress. Is it possible to create a conscious capitalism to take its place, or do we need to radically rethink our economic system? We ask Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved and the new The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy, Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of The Nation and of the book Meltdown, and Daniel Gross, Newsweek columnist.Raj Patel: The Value of Nothing
January 11, 2010"The opposite of greed isn't thrift, it's generosity" says Raj Patel, author of the new book The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy. Patel looks at why we value certain things, how consumption and greed became goods, and the problem with profit.Transgender Equality, El Salvador, and Gaza
January 11, 2010Barack Obama made the first transgender political appointments that we know of recently--Amanda Simpson, appointed last week as senior technical adviser in the Bureau of Industry and Security in the Commerce Department, and Dylan Orr, special assistant to Assistant Secretary of Labor Kathleen Martinez in the Office of Disability Employment Policy at the Department of Labor--but even David Letterman couldn't resist making a crack at Simpson's expense.
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