Economics
Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery
Book - Nonfiction. By Anne Farrow, Joel Lang and Jenifer Frank. 2005. 304 pages.
Challenges the misconception that only the South was involved in or benefited from slavery.
The Field Guide to the Global Economy
Book-Nonfiction. By Sarah Anderson, John Cavanagh and Thea Lee. 2005. 160 pages.
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Book - Nonfiction. By Naomi Klein. 2008. 720 pages.
Klein demonstrates how shock has been used by global elites to push through a radical agenda of privatization and “free trade.”
Ultimate Field Guide to the U.S. Economy: A Compact and Irreverent Guide to Economic Life in America
Book - Nonfiction. By Jonathan Teller-Elsberg, James Heintz and Nancy Folbre. 2006. 256 pages.
Easy to read graphs make complex economic data accessible to all ages.
Uprooted: Refugees of the Global Economy
DVD. Produced by National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. 2001.
Stories of three immigrants (from Bolivia, Haiti and the Philippines) to the U.S. and how global institutions and multi-national corporations erode people’s capacity to survive in their home countries.
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