-Caveat Lector- from; http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/business.html Click Here: <A HREF="http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/business.html">Business and Economics: Videotapes in the Media…</A> ----- Business and Economic * General/North America * Mexico, Latin American and the Caribbean * Pacific Rim and South Asia * Labor and Labor History * Environment videography (for works dealing with the environmental impact of industry) * Europe/Eastern Europe videography (for works dealing with Soviet history and politics) General/North America Affluenza Uses personal stories, expert commentary and historic advertising film clips to illustrate the causes and negative consequences of consumerism in American society. 1998. 56 min. Video/C 5483 Age of Uncertainty Approx. 60 min. each installment. 1976. Hosted by John Kenneth Galbraith. * Prophets & Promise of Classical Capitalism. Discusses the birth of classical capitalism in Britain and France generated by the theories of Adam Smith and David Ricardo, and in the United States by the World Exposition of 1893. Video/C 477 (NRLF #: B 4 175 291) * Manners and Morals of High Capitalism. Looks at the robber baron industrial capitalists of the late nineteenth century and examines their "conspicuous consumption" concept of earning and spending money. Discusses ways in which this concept affects our attitudes today. Video/C 478 ( NRLF #: B 4 175 292) * Karl Marx--The Massive Dissent. Investigates the impact of Karl Marx and other socialist thinkers on our economic interpretation of society. Video/C 479 (NRLF #: B 4 175 293) * The Colonial Idea. Focuses on colonialism and the colonial adventure using India and Great Britain as the prime example. Presents an in-depth look at the British intervention, control and domination of India and finally the removal of the colonial government. Video/C 480 (NRLF #: B 4 175 294) * Lenin and the Great Ungluing. Focuses on the breakup of the old political order during World War I, which introduced, what Galbraith terms, an age of uncertainty and the first experience of a socialist alternative in Soviet Russia under Lenin. Video/C 481 (NRLF #: B 4 175 295) * Rise and Fall of Money. Focuses on the history and function of money in society, which Galbraith considers through an analysis of the cycles of instability and inflation that plague the system. Three prime examples, The Bank of Amsterdam, The Bank of England, and the development of banking and currency in the U.S., are examined in depth. Video/C 482 (NRLF #: B 4 175 29) * Mandarin Revolution. Focuses on the worldwide slump that threatened economic disaster after World War I and the role of economist John Maynard Keynes' ideas on saving the West. Video/C 483 (NRLF #: B 4 175 297) * Fatal Competition. Investigates the origins and development of the military and industrial economy as a result of the cold war and the continuing rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union. Video/C 484 (NRLF #: B 4 175 298) * Big Corporation. Focuses on the modern corporation, which Galbraith considers from the viewpoints of history, contemporary sociology and future development. Multi-national corporations are prominent today and ironically Galbraith feels they are leading the way in bringing socialism as a form of government, to the entire world. Video/C 485 (NRLF #: B 4 175 299) * Land and the People. Focuses on the role of land in determining wealth and poverty and its effect on social and foreign policies. Shot on location in Mexico, the United States, Canada, Pakistan and Singapore as examples of countries who have had some success in breaking the "equilibrium of poverty." Video/C 486 (NRLF #: B 4 175 300) * Metropolis. Portrays problems of the industrial society as seen in the urban metropolis, which best reflects its uncertainty and crisis. Video/C 487 (NRLF #: B 4 175 301) * Democracy, Leadership, and Commitment. Focuses on the processes and operation of democracy with a look at the American experiment. Combines Galbraith's personal memoirs of leaders that he has known, from Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr., with emphasis on the role of individual action in government and organization. Video/C 488 (NRLF #: B 4 175 302) * Weekend in Vermont. Several world leaders gather at Galbraith's Vermont home to discuss the world situation. Among the topics discussed are national security, nuclear arms proliferation, developing nations, and the fear of terrorists. Guests include former British Prime Minister, Edward Heath, historian Arthur Schlesinger, Soviet academician, Gyorgy Arbatov, former Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, and other statesmen, professors, and newspaper people. NRLF Video/C 489 pt. 1-pt. 3 (NRLF) Anatomy of a Corporate Takeover.(Ethics in America; 5) A panel of prominent Americans in the fields of business, law, and economics discuss ethics as they relate to corporate takeovers. They consider what responsibility is owed to shareholders, investors, employees, consumers, and the public, and whether there should be a sense of fairness in the corporate world. 1989. 58 min. Video/C 1657 The Business of Hunger. Examines a major cause of world hunger which is being created when small, native farmers are forced off the land and are replaced by multinational agribusinesses that produce food for export rather than local consumption. Shows scenes of recent food riots in Brazil and the Dominican Republic, starving women and children, and displaced farmers. Includes testimony by religious missionaries in third world countries and comments by representatives of human welfare organizations. 1984. 28 min. Video/C 2197 Change Makers: The Struggle for Consumer Rights Traces the history of the struggle to obtain and defend consumer rights in the United States since World War II. Based on fascinating interviews with prominent consumer leaders from the fields of education, government and consumer activism, this is history told by those who lived it. Their words are combined with archival footage of the events described, to illustrate often heroic efforts on behalf of the American consumer. 1995. 56 min. Video/C 4958 Controlling Interest: The World of the Multinational Corporation. Examines foreign investment policies of U.S. corporations and the effects of those investments on social, economic, and political conditions in foreign nations. 1978.50 min. Video/C 1228 A Conversation with John Kenneth Galbraith.(Conversations) Recorded on April 27, 1986 at the University of California, Berkeley. A conversation with John Kenneth Galbraith, Professor of Economics at Harvard University, on his ideas, his writings, liberalism, etc. Video/C 1565 Commodities Approx. 55 min. each installment. 1985. * Leaving Home for Sugar. Discusses British involvement in the sugar industry in the West Indies and Zimbabwe, where companies have turned semi-desert land into modern plantations, but at the cost of local farmers who were dispossessed or brought in as forced laboreres. Video/C 3495 * White Gold, Black Market, 1. A dramatization set during the 1630's which tells of the initial rise of sugar through the story of one Dutch merchant who takes over a Portuguese sugar plantation in Brazil. Obsessed with the development of a profitable sugar plantation, the Dutchman also becomes the master of African slaves. After 1654 the Dutch withdrew from Brazil and encouraged British planters in Barbades to grow sugar. Thus sugar, along with slavery, spread to the Caribbean. Video/C 3493 * White Gold, Black Market, 2. From 1650 onwards the British seized control of the seas and international trade. Opium exports from India to China financed the British East India Company's administration of India and paid for imports of tea, porcelain, and silk. A dramatized story of the trading companies' determination to impose their will on China and to control its markets. Video/C 3494 * Tea Fortunes. Documents the history of the tea industry in China, India, Sri Lanka, and East Africa. Profiling Sir Thomas Lipton, it shows how he and his competitors controlled every stage of tea manufacture, from planting to blending, packaging to retailing. Today India controls its exports of tea, Sri Lanka has nationalized its tea estates, Zimbabwe's state-run plantations generate some cash in rural areas while women in China work for some of the lowest wages in the world producing tea for western blends. Video/C 3496 * Coffee: The Gold of the Future. With a 15 billion dollar market, coffee is the world's most valuable commodity after oil, providing 10 nations with over 50% of their foreign exchange. This documentary tells the history of coffee in Colombia, and a history of Colombia as seen through the story of coffee. Video/C 3497 * Free Markets for Free Men. Discusses how commodity exchanges and futures markets developed, the risks involved and market speculation. Shows as an example how deterioration of trade terms between commodity buyers and producers has deepened Brazil's debt, despite international accords such as the International Coffee Agreement, designed to regulate trade and protect producer nations. Video/C 3498 * Grow or Die. A general discussion of the changing face of world capitalism, developing countries, multinationals, debtor nations and control of world markets. As an example describes the growth of the Unilever Corporation and other multinationals. Shows how these consumer goods multi-national companies, many with origins in the production, trading, and marketing of a single commodity such as coffee, tea or sugar, are now complex players on a world scale, often at the cost of Third World countries which are caught on the treadmill of rising debt, falling prices, and stunted growth. Video/C 3499 Cutting to the Core: Albert J. Dunlap with Hedrick Smith On Wall Strteet, no one has earned a bigger reputation for cutting companies down to size than corporate turn-around artist Albert J. Dunlap. He parachutes into troubled companies, cuts them to the core, and jump-starts their stock. His strategy is to boost the bottom line with swift, deep layoffs; sell off divisions; and move production to lower-wage states, or better yet, abroad. 1998. 30 min. Video/C 5502 The Day of Empires Has Arrived(Europe, The Mighty Continent. 2) Deals with the forces of unrest that threatened the empires in the early 1900's, including the theories of Marx and Engels in Europe, the oppression in the Colonies, and revolutionaries in Russia. Also shows how the Fauvists of Paris and Berlin characterized, through their art, the century's chaotic first decade. 52 min. Video/C 465 Deadly Embrace: Nicaragua, The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Discusses the role of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in the destruction of the Nicaraguan economy. Explains how structural adjustment, the international debt crisis, and free trade are hurting the people and economies of Third World countries. 1996. 30 min. Video/C 3340 The Downside of Downsizing Explores the negative effects of corporate downsizing and its often debilitating social and economic effects. Victims and survivors of the downsizing ax describe its effects on the individual and on office morale. The program examines the fact that most downsizings have failed to produce the promised improvements to company performance, and talks with the CEO of a company who feels downsizing did improve results. Performer: J. Wintermans (CEO). 1996. 26 min. Video/C 465 Economics U.S.A. 28 min. each installment 1985. * Lesson 1, Resources and Scarcity: What's Economics All About? Film introduces this television series on introductory economics by illustrating how unlimited wants and scarce resources lead to trade-offs and choices. As examples film looks at the conflict between petroleum production and conservation of wilderness areas in Alaska, at hard economic decisions mandated by the depression of 1929 and examines government regulation of the textile industry. Video/C 1229:1-2 pt. 1 * Lesson 2, Markets: Do They Meet Our Needs? As examples of a well-functioning, free-market system, film looks at housing problems after WWII and the development of the first "housing project", Levittown, the history of the steel industry in the United States and the salaries of baseball players. Video/C 1229:1-2 Pt. 2 * Lesson 3, U.S. Economic Growth:What is GNP? Examines how the gross national product of the United States is measured. As examples film looks at the depression of 1929 and the development of the concept of the GNP, the marshalling of the economy to meet the needs of the WWII effort, and the development of the environmental protection movement. This film begins the macroeconomics sequence of the series. Video/C 1229: 3-4 Pt. 3 * Lesson 4, Boom and bust: Who Can Explain the Business Cycle?Introduces the concepts of aggregate supply and aggregate demand in relationship to the business cycle. Economists examine the ideas of various economic theorists concerning supply and demand including those of Karl Marx, Joseph Schumpeter and John Maynard Keynes. Video/C 1229:3-4 Pt. 4 * Lesson 5, John Maynard Keynes: What Did We Learn from the Great Depression? Using John Maynard Keynes's economic theories, various economists analyze the depression of 1929-1938 in terms of the interaction of consumption spending and investment spending, and show how this analysis differs from classical theory. Video/C 1229:5-6 Pt. 5 * Lesson 6, Fiscal Policy: Can We Control the Economy? Explains how a government can use tax and spending policies to reduce the severity of business cycle fluctuations. Economists discuss how four U.S. presidents and their economic advisors manipulated the economy in an effort to create full employment for all citizens. Video/C 1229:5-6 Pt. 6 * Lesson 7, Inflation: How Did the Spiral Begin? Explains the causes of the inflation of the late 1960s, its impact on the economy, and the difficulties of fighting it. Video/C 1229:7-8 Pt. 7 * Lesson 8, Banking System: Why Must it be Protected?Shows how banks operate and how the FDIC (by insuring deposits) and the Federal Reserve Bank (by acting as a lender of last resort) keep bank failures from becoming bank crises. Examines the role of risky investments in the copper industry and petroleum industry which caused 2 banks to fail, the Knickerbocker Trust Comnpany in New York and the Penn Square Bank in Oklahoma. Video/C 1229:7-8 Pt. 8 * Lesson 9, Federal Reserve: Does Money Matter? Explains how the Federal Reserve controls the money supply and influences the level of interest rates and inflation. Video/C 1229:9-10 Pt. 9 * Lesson 10, Stagflation: Why Couldn't We Beat It? Shows how inflation and unemployment can rise simultaneously, creating the condition known as stagflation. Examines the role of the automobile industry and the Arab oil embargo in the escalation of stagflation. Video/C 1229:9-10 Pt. 10 * Lesson 11, Productivity: Can We Get More for Less? Explains the factors that affect productivity growth including such diverse influences as the rise of the environmental conservation movement, technological innovations, an inexperienced workforce and taxation. Video/C 1229:11-12 Pt. 11 * Lesson 12, Federal Deficits: Can We Live with Them?Explains how federal deficits can be either helpful or harmful depending on other conditions and the impact of the national debt on the economy of the nation from the 1930's to the present. Video/C 1229:11-12 Pt. 12 * Lesson 13, Monetary Policy: How Well Does it Work? Explains how the money supply affects economic growth and inflation. Investigates inflation, recession and interest rates in the U.S. economy during the 1970's to mid-1980's. Video/C 1229:13-14 Pt. 13 * Lesson 14, Stabilization Policy: Are We Still in Control? Presents the arguments for and against government policies to stabilize the economy. Examines entrenched inflation, the recession and impact of international trade on the U.S. economy during the 1980's. Video/C 1229:13-14 Pt. 14 * Lesson 15, Firm: How Can It Keep Costs Down?Explains the concept of the production function by examining the success or failure of 3 corporations, Coca-Cola Company, Studebaker Corporation and Asbury Park Press in New Jersey. This lesson begins the microeconomics sequence of the series. Video/C 1229:15-16 Pt. 15 * Lesson 16, Supply and Demand: What Sets the Prices?Gives an explanation of the factors that determine the quantity of goods demanded by consumers and the factors that determine the quantity of goods supplied. As examples film looks at the 7 year drought in California and the demand for water, the Arab oil embargo and the demand for gasoline and the marketing of designer jeans. Video/C 1229: 15-16 Pt. 16 * Lesson 17, Perfect Competition and Inelastic Demand: Can the Farmer Make a Profit?Illustrates the concepts of perfect competition and the elasticity of supply and demand by examining the history of farming in 20th century America. Covers the impact of the depression on farmers and on the dairy industry, the impact of WWI and WWII on agricultural production and prices, the "New Deal", the soil bank, agricultural surpluses and subsidies for farmers. Video/C 1229:17-18 Pt. 17 * Lesson 19, Economic Efficiency: What Price Controls? Explains that there is a definite cost to interfering with free-market prices, but there are circumstances that justify interference with the free market. As examples film explores wage and price freezes imposed by Nixon, the impact of price freezes on the beef cattle industry and the impact of rent control in New York City which resulted in the abandonment of buildings. Video/C 1229: 17-18 Pt. 18 * Lesson 19, Monopoly: Who's in Control?Defines monopoly and explains that the degree to which a firm controls the market affects prices and economic efficiency. Examines the history of U.S. government responses to monopolies in the petroleum industry, in telephone companies and the photographic industry. Video/C 1229: 19-20 Pt. 19 * Lesson 20, Oligopolies: Whatever Happened to Price Competition?Shows how oligopolies try to avoid price competition. The airline deregulation case study is revisited to consider the current impact of global competition on the airline industry. Also examines the history of the development of the automobile industry and price fixing in the Tennessee Valley Authority case. Video/C 1229: 19-20 Pt. 20 * Lesson 21, Pollution: How Much is a Clean Environment Worth?Gives a definition of the concept of external diseconomy by illustrating how polluting the environment can adversely affect economic efficiency. Examines water pollution caused by the Reserve Mining Company, air pollution in Los Angeles and the push to reduce the amount of lead in gasoline to eliminate air pollution from car exhaust. Video/C 1229: 21-22 Pt. 21 * Lesson 22, Labor and Management: How Do They Come to Terms?Explains how the demand for labor depends on the marginal value product and the real wage rate. As examples film examines labor struggles of immigrant garment workers in New York, the demise of the New York herald tribune and the role the union played in its collapse, and negotiations between workers and management in the automobile industry. Video/C 1229: 21-22 Pt. 22 * Lesson 23, Profits and Interest: How Do You Get the Best Return? Explains the economic reasons for payments of interest and normal profits. Defines the causes of windfall profits. As examples explores the impact of interest rates on the housing market in Maryland, economic decisions made by General Motors Corporation and the founding and growth of Apple Computer, Inc. Video/C 1229: 23-24 Pt. 23 * Lesson 24, Reducing Poverty: What Have We Done? Examines the causes of income inequality and analyzes government policies to reduce poverty. As examples looks at efforts by the federal government to alleviate poverty during the depression, the advent of social security and the welfare system and the problem of unemployment among young, undereducated Americans. Video/C 1229: 23-24 Pt. 24 * Lesson 25, Economic Growth: Can We Keep Up the Pace? Examines how technological innovations and productivity have been the major determinants of the economy's growth in the twentieth century. As examples looks at the development of the Ford Motor Company, the evolution of telecommunication technology, and the utilization of natural resources as a necessary component of the U.S. economy. Video/C 1229: 25-26 Pt. 25 * Lesson 26, Public Goods and Responsibilities: How Far Should We Go? Defines public goods and shows that a perfectly competitive market will not automatically result in the production of the proper amount of goods. As examples looks at the establishment of the Tennessee Valley Authority and its impact on private electrical companies, the economics of providing public health care for all, and the tax revolt in California culminating in the passage of Proposition 13. Video/C 1229: 25-26 Pt. 26 * Lesson 27, International Trade: For Whose Benefit? Illustrates the concepts of specialization and comparative advantage and shows how international trade may hurt certain groups but benefit society as a whole. As examples examines the opening of trade with China after President Nixon's visit, the impact of Japanese car imports on the American auto industry and the impact of steel imports from Great Britain and Germany on the American steel industry. Video/C 1229: 27-28 Pt. 27 * Lesson 28, Exchange Rates: What in the World is a Dollar Worth?Shows the effect of exchange rates on trade, domestic economic growth, and inflation. Examines the history of the development of flexible exchange rates including the U.N. Bretton Woods Conference, the Plaza Accord of 1985 and the Louvre Accord of 1987, with emphasis on how governments tried to control movements in the exchange rates in a flexible system. Video/C 1229: 27-28 Pt. 28 The Factory and Marketplace Revolution. (Day the Universe Changed; 6) Describes the origins of the Industrial Revolution and the resulting growth of urbanization, the creation of the factory system and an industrial working class, and the exploitation of the planet. 1986. 52 min. Video/C 997:6 Pt. 6 Farmland Forever A discussion with American farmers about a land protection tool called "purchase of development rights." PDR involves the purchase of a deed restriction on qualified farmland that restricts future use of that land to agricultural or open space uses, either permanently or for a specified period of time. The farmers still own and use the land and can sell or transfer it to others; however, the deed restriction remains for the length of time determined. 1991. 18 min. Video/C 5662 The Food Machine Discusses the farm crisis in the United States in which small farms are being bought by large corporations. This pattern has been transplanted to underdeveloped countries, such as the Sudan resulting in increased food costs and a destabilizing of the rural population. 20 min. Video/C 5935 Free to Choose. 60 min. each installment. 1980. Hosted by Milton Friedman * The Power of the Market. The free market enables people to go into any trade they wish which gives them incentive to work hard and succeed. Human and political freedom is dependent on economic freedom. On tape 2 a panel of experts debate the issue presented on the first tape. Video/C 1172 pt. 1-2 * The Tyranny of Control. Shows what happens when governments plan and control the economic activities of their people. When goverments interfere, there are harmful effects. On tape 2 a panel of experts debate the issue presented on the first tape. Video/C 1173 pt. 1-2 * Anatomy of Crisis. Traces the history of U.S. government intervention on the economic lives of the people, starting with the Crash of 1929, ensuing depression and the legacy following. On tape 2 a panel of experts debate the issue presented on the first tape. Video/C 1174 pt. 1-2 * From Cradle to Grave. Examines the welfare systems of the United States. Questions asked are: Do they work and do they achieve their purpose? Mr. Friedman suggests that the country do away with welfare systems and offers better solutions. On tape 2 a panel of experts debate the issue presented on the first tape. Video/C 1175 pt. 1-2 * Created Equal. Is equality a desirable or possible goal for society? Mr. Friedman discusses economics and equality and how the free enterprise system leads to the equality of opportunity. On tape 2, a panel of experts debate the issue presented on the first tape. Video/C 1176 pt. 1-2 * What's Wrong with Our Schools? The government spends a great deal of money for public education and the children aren't being adequately educated. Mr. Friedman has diagnosed the problem and offers a solution - a voucher system which enables parents to have a choice in the schools their children attend. On tape 2, a panel of experts debate the issue presented on the first tape. Video/C 1177 pt. 1-2 * Who Protects the Consumer? Examines government protection of the market place and consumer. It controls prices, quality of goods, and choice of products. Do these protection agencies work or are there better ways? On tape 2 a panel of experts debate the issue presented on the first tape. Video/C 1178 pt. 1-2 * Who Protects the Worker? Examines the workings of the labor market and the role of the labor unions. Mr. Friedman comes up with controversial views in answer to the question, who protects the worker? On tape 2 a panel of experts debate the issue presented on the first tape. Video/C 1179 pt. 1-2 * Created Equal. Milton Friedman presents Tape 1 on inflation and how to cure it. On tape 2 a panel of experts debate the issue presented on the first tape. Video/C 1180 pt. 1-2 * How to Stay Free. Discusses how our freedom is threatened by the concentration of power in the hands of the few, specifically the federal government. Video/C 1181 Free Trade Slaves Film discusses free trade zones and the accompanying human problems that have arisen with human rights, exploitation of workers and environmental degradation. Filmed on location in Sri Lanka, El Salvador, Mexico and Morocco. In English and various languages with English voiceovers. 58 min. Video/C 5927 Getting Out of Business: Privatization and the Modern State Chronicles the concept, from a private industry viewpoint, of government versus private enterprise providing transportation, power, and employment. Case by case it explains the philosophy of government involvement in business and examines the consistent results. Examples of successful transformations are presented from Singapore, Italy, Mexico and the U.S. Originally produced by the Blackwell Corporation in 1987. 58 min. Video/C 6141 The Global Assembly Line. Documentary, filmed in electronic and garment factories, examines working forces in United States and free-trade zones of developing countries particularly the Philippines and Mexico. 58 min. Video/C 1580 Globalization & Human Rights Documentary examining the clash between the trend of increasing economic globalization and international human rights advocacy. Investigates the impact of foreign economic influence on gold miners in South Africa, the petroleum industry in Nigeria, the collapse of the economy of Indonesia, the Nike shoe industry in New York and Indonesia, child labor abuses in Thailand and the situation in East Timor. 1999. 57 min. Video/C 6591 The Heartbeat of America. Examines how General Motors Corporation went from being the undisputed number one car company in America to suffering the biggest corporate loss on record. Drawing on interviews with current and former GM board members, executives, designers, workers and automotive analysts, the GM saga is revealed. 96 min. Video/C 3070 * Video Librarian * ABC-CLIO Video Rating Guide for Libraries High Tech, Dream or Nightmare? (1984). Host Walter Cronkite explores the impact of advanced microchip technology on the labor force in the United States. Discusses unemployment, the obsolescence of worker skills, and low wages. 3/4" UMATIC. 1984. 49 min. Video/C 873 The Hunger Business Film examines how the international trade of agricultural products effects underdeveloped nations. The U.S., as the world's dominant producer of cereal grains, is an important player in the global trade of food. Grain exports are seen in the U.S. as a good way of eliminating agricultural surpluses but food aid can prevent poor nations from becoming self-sufficient because the government of those nations has no incentive to develop policies to increase food production. 20 min. Video/C 5938 Inside the Global Economy (1994) With Nariman Behravesh. Moderator, Beverly O'Connor. 60 min. each installment * Trade, An Introduction This program illustrates the forces transforming the global economy, addressing questions such as: Why do nations trade? Who gains or loses from trade? Features IBM's move to Japan and the impact of 1970's Australian mineral exports boom on its domestic car production. Video/C 4853 * Protectionism. Examines impediments to trade, covering both tariff and nontarrif barriers. Includes discussions about the driving forces behind protectionism and likely winners and losers. Cases include French agricultural subsidies and conflict in the Uruguay Round and voluntary export restraints on Japanese cars into the U.S. Video/C 4854 * Trade Policy. Discusses ways countries try to change their competitive advantage in trade through subsidies and industrial and regulatory policies. Import-competing and export promotion policies are compared: examples include the Airbus and the Chilean wine industry. Video/C 4855 * Trade Liberalization and Regional Trade Blocks. This program compares the progress made on multilateral trade liberation into the past World War II period with attempts to form preferential trading arrangements such as GATT and NAFTA. Discusses trends towards increased economic integration and economic interdependence. Video/C 4856 * Labor and Capital Mobility. This program looks at the international mobility of capital, labor and technology, including the relationship between trade in goods and services, the mobility factors of production and the pressures that drive and inhibit labor migration. Examples include the Netherland's policy toward guest workers and Mexican immigration to the U.S. and the Maquiladora program. Video/C 4857 * Multinational Corporations. This program examines multinational corporations as vehicles for movement of capital and the transfer of technology. Case studies include: direct investment by Swedish corporations in Hungary and a comparison of Smith-Corona and Brother. Video/C 4858 * Fixed vs. Floating Exchange Rates. his program looks at the strengths and weaknesses of the fixed and floating exchange rates. Looks at exchange rates as shock absorbers as well as the costs of exchange rate fluctuations. Cases explored: the impact of the U.S. dollar fluctuations in the 1980's; Komatsu vs. Caterpillar; and floating exchange rates and petrodollar recycling in the late 1970's. Video/C 4859 * Managing Currencies and Policy Coordination. This program discusses government intervention in foreign exchange markets and what motivates governments to manage currencies. The limits to government intervention in foreign exchange markets are explored. Video/C 4860 * Exchange Rates, Capital Flight, and Hyperinflation. This program discusses the factors that affect exchange rates. The impact of international capital flows, inflation and trade flows is examined. The concept of capital flight is explored through the case study of Mexico and the money Center Bank. Another case study looks at the problems of hyper inflation in Argentina. Video/C 4861 * Developing Countries. This program discusses how developing nations have been helped or hurt by the rapid growth in trade and factor mobility in the post-World War II period. Describes steps that can be taken to integrate developing countries into the global economy. One case compares development policies in South Korea and Sri Lanka ; the other looks at the policies of aid vs. trade in Tanzania. Video/C 4862 * Economies in Transition. Features the transformation of former Communist countries into market economies and the macro- and micro-economic policies needed to ensure their successful reintegration into the global economy. Cases include: the fate of state industries vs. private entrepreneurs in Russia; and Poland's shock therapy transition to a market economy. Video/C 4863 * Environment. This program looks at the international dimension of environmental problems, focusing on transnational pollution, international property rights, and perceived differences between trade and environmental protection. 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