What's the economy for anyway?
Subtitle: a tragic comedy in 13 acts
By: produced by John de Graaf and Dave Batker in association with Fox Wilmar Productions and Earth Economics ; director/writer, John De Graaf
Contributors: Fox Wilmar Productions; Earth Economics (Firm); Bullfrog Films
Series: ECO 203 (NU course); ECO 204 (NU course); ECO 410 (NU course); ECO 430 (NU course); ECO 630 (NU course); GLS 430 (NU course); HIS 320 (NU course); SUS 601 (NU course)
Publisher: Bullfrog Films
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oley, PA
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] :
Number of pages: 40
ISBN-13: 9781594589188
Subjects: Gross domestic product; Economic conditions; Economic history
Description: "Ecological economist Dave Batker presents a humorous, edgy, factual, timely and highly-visual monologue about the American economy today, challenging the ways we measure economic success, especially the Gross Domestic Product, and offering an answer to the question: What's the economy for, anyway? Using Gifford Pinchot's idea that the economy's purpose is "the greatest good for the greatest number over the longest run," Batker compares the performance of the U.S. economy with that of other industrial countries in terms of providing a high quality of life, fairness and ecological sustainability, concluding that when you do the numbers, we come out near the bottom in nearly every category. Batker shines a humorous light on such economic buzzwords as "productivity" and "consumer sovereignty" while offering ideas for "capitalism with a human face," a new economic paradigm that meets the real needs of people and the planet"--Container.
Notes: Photographer/editor, David Fox ; music, Michael Bade ; narrator, Dave Batker.

Host, Dave Batker.

Grades 10-12, college, adults.

DVD, NTSC; widescreen.

In English with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Table of contents: title: The GDP; title: Quality of life; title: Health; title: Happiness; title: Security; title: Time; title: The greatest number; title: Sustainability; title: Ancient history; title: Modern history; title: Financial crisis; title: What's next?