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Game of Monopoly, The

6-12

Industrial Giants and Trust Busters examine the rise to wealth and power of the industrial titans like Carnegie, Hill, Rockefeller, Stanford and Vanderbilt. Here is the story of how President Roosevelt did battle with the monopolists and enforced the principle that corporations are no more above the law than the humblest citizens.

Video / 60 minutes / Catalog #1301

Giant Awakes, The

9-12

From Mao to marketplace--this very current documentary uses up-to-date, on-the-spot footage to capture the Chinese economic revolution as it actually takes place.

From fledgling cottage industries to the bustling Shanghai stock exchange and the reintegration of Hong Kong, the program presents a full spectrum of the country's unique blend of capitalism and communism, making this a lively presentation that offers teachers and students dozens of promising directions for further research and development.

The film fills a need for truly contemporary material on China today, and will complement any unit on economic systems and how they evolve.

Video / 49 minutes / Catalog #1323

Give &Take Series: Programs 01-03

8-10

You Choose/Scarcity and Social Decision Making

When Lily Navarro and her friend June decide to earn money over vacation by painting an apartment, they find they have difficulty budgeting their time and managing their money. They learn an easy five-step decision-making model that helps them solve their problems.

We Choose/Scarcity and Social Decision Making

A lunch hour jaywalking accident at school confronts the student council with a conflict between individual rights and social responsibilities. Crossing guards are one answer however, there's no money to pay for them. The students discover that when the issue is consumer protection, reconciling conflicting goals is not an easy task.

Let's Save/Opportunity Cost

Robert, Ricky, and Paco want to enter their rock trio in a talent contest. They decide it is a good trade-off to give up movies, records, and other recreational activities to save money for new outfits. But when Ricky needs part of their savings to honor an earlier commitment, the group is faced with other opportunity costs to consider and a new decision to make.

Video / Each program is 15 minutes in length / Catalog #12530

Give &Take Series: Programs 04-06

8-10

Credit Wise/Opportunity Cost

There are many good things about credit, and Tina Leland, a young spendthrift, has discovered most of them. But when her credit begins to run out, her parents, her best friend, and even her little sister try to convince her that she would be wise to consider the opportunity costs of using credit.

Where Do Jobs Come From?/Derived Demand

When his mother loses her job because the product she helps manufacture is no longer in great demand, Scott is certain he made the right choice. He will quit his job and train for another in a field where the demand for service will keep him in demand, too. But his sister Lindy, faces a tough choice: whether to take a chance and begin a singing career or try more cautious paths.

A Key to Productivity/Human Captial

While working in Mr. Reily's locksmith shop, Brett and Carl find that learning a new skill leads to increased productivity and to better opportunities. When Reily's competition comes looking for skilled workers, each begins a reevaluation of his career plans in light of his newly-acquired worth.

Video / Each program is 15 minutes in length. / Catalog #12534

Give &Take Series: Programs 07-09

8-10

Private or Public?/Public Goods and Services

Everyone likes the new park the sophomore class has created on a privately-owned lot and now a businessman wants to buy it. Should the park be sold to a private concessionaire for his fast food trolley or should the city try to find the funds to buy it for a public park: should it be private or public?

Changing Taxes/Public Goods and Services

Dennis Jones loses more than his job when the city reduces services after the voters approve a tax cut. Without money to buy a car, how will he visit his girlfriend, Sarah, who lives in another city? Romance receives an unexpected benefit when his father's refuse collection business expands in the wake of a reduction in another city service and an unusual set of wheels become available.

Market Prices/Supply and Demand

This combination of documentary and dramatic vignettes explores the many effects a change in the price of sugar has on consumers and the marketplace.

Video / Each program is 15 minutes in length. / Catalog #12532

Give &Take Series: Programs 10-12

8-10

The Changing Market/Supply and Demand

Three teenagers go into business for themselves and find it is not always easy to balance supply with demand. First the demand for their new unisex perfume exhausts their supplies. Then a drastic drop in demand has them searching for new ways to sell their product.

Take Your Choice/Substitution

There are three substitutions for almost everything--from new improved products to more economical ones. When the only delivery truck in a rural community is wrecked, Brian Dougherty finds a way to save the horse his family cannot afford to keep. He proves that sometimes it makes economic sense to substitute old ways for new.

Why Competition?/Market Structure

There is a monopoly at the school concession stand and prices are high. A group of students decides that some competition could help the entire student body. It works the prices come down all right, but can the group operate this way forever?

Video / Each program is 15 minutes in length. / Catalog #12533

Go with the Flow

9-12

Households, businesses and government interact with the financial sector in this depiction of the "circular flow."

Video / 20 minutes / Catalog #1308

Golden Door: Our Nation of Immigrants

7-12

Through the centuries, America has help open a "golden door" to people seeking freedom and a new life. We are a nation of immigrants. Today, a new wave of immigration is reaching our shores. This video will help your students and discussion group members better understand news reports about the most recent immigrants, as well as the on-going debate about the nation's immigration policies.

Video / 19 minutes / Catalog #1279

Great Decisions Video Series Lessons 1-4

7-12

Each year the Foreign Policy Association, the nation's largest non-partisan, non-governmental, grassroots civic education organization, publishes the Great Decisions Briefing Book, the heart of its civic education program. Each part of this video series examines one of the topics of the briefing book. Documentary footage and background information on the subjects are combines panel discussions with well-known and respected experts in the field for an interesting and informative look at each of the topics.

• Conflict in Former Yugoslavia: Quest for Solutions
• South Africa: Forging a Democratic Union
• Ex-Soviet Bloc's Environmental Crisis: Who's Problem?
• Trade with the Pacific Rim: Pressure or Cooperation?

Video / Each program is 30 minutes in length. / Catalog #1296

Great Decisions Video Series Lessons 5-6

7-12

Each year the Foreign Policy Association, the nation's largest non-partisan, non-governmental, grassroots civic education organization, publishes the Great Decisions briefing book, the heart of its civic education program. Each part of this video series examines one of the topics of the briefing book. Documentary footage and background information on the subjects are combines with panel discussions with well-known and respected experts in the field for an interesting and informative look at each of the topics.

• Defense: Redefining U.S. Needs and Priorities
• Argentina, Brazil, Chile: Democracy &Market Economics
• Islam and Politics: Algeria, Egypt and Tunisia
• New World Disorder?: U.S. in Search of a Role

Video / Each program is 30 minutes in length. / Catalog #1297

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Harlan County, USA

6-12

This Academy Award-winner (Best Documentary, 1976) chronicles the efforts of 180 Kentucky coal mining families to win a United Mine Workers of America contract. Squeezed between the coal operators, a depressed economy, scabs, and the union itself, the families remain on strike for an entire year. The film records the strength of their unification: when a judge orders an injunction limiting the pickets to 3 men, the women turn out in force. After a striking miner is shot to death by a mine foreman, they win their contract but, as this documentary makes clear, they must continue their lifelong struggle against black lung disease, safety hazards, inadequate education for their children, and a company-controlled economy.

Video / 103 minutes / Catalog #1213

High Tech Aircraft

6-12

Aviation science and engineering continue to race ahead with such innovations as the Canard wing, fuel efficient high performance engines, and major new helicopter technology. This program uses computer animation, exciting footage of engineering tests, and actual inflight sequences to dramatize the three advances: the beautiful and innovative far-back-wings aircraft; the brilliant and demanding project to develop new fuel efficient jet engines; and the perfection of new helicopter technology, including "intellegent" cockpits, double bladed helicopters, and new tiltrotors which can transform themselves from helicopters to aircraft or back while in flight.

Video / 13 minutes / Catalog #1238

History Matters: A Story of Change

6-12

This film offers a comparison of the two systems as related to their origins, theories and practices. The comparisons are illustrated by viewing a town in Yugoslavia and a town in the United States.

Video / 22 minutes / Catalog #1272

How to Read Between the Lines

7-Adult

Wall Street Journal editors show you how to put the Journal to work. Section by section, they explain the paper's organization and regular features, and point out time-saving summaries and indexes that make the most of your reading time.

Video / 15 minutes / Catalog #1205

How To Really Start Your Own Business

6-12

Entrepreneurs from various businesses express their views on related topics for starting a business. Topics presented range from where the idea began to the future ahead. All topics are in chapter format and include outlines and summaries.

Video / 30 minutes / Catalog #1217

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I Can Do It!

9-12

(3 units) The I Can Do It! series shows how different individuals--Ed Lewis, Stew Leonard, and Judi Wineland turn dreams of business independence into reality by using personal determination and drive. This video series is intended to acquaint young people with the benefits and challenges of starting their own businesses. I Can Do It! is designed to make students aware of what it takes to be an entrepreneur so that they can seek appropriate education and experience should they wish to start a business.

Video / Each unit is 60 minutes / Catalog #1277

Illustrious Yet Elusive World of Microeconomics, The

7-12

This video has it all--from a bald sleuth on his search for a missing economics professor to an unusual restaurant chain called "Meatships" and many other fun characters and skits. Of course, the entertainment value of this video is just a bonus to its real mission--providing 2 hours of the answers you need in Microeconomics including:

• economic theory
• creating &constructing graphs
• slope of a line
• slope of a curve
• scarcity of resources
• opportunity cost
• production possiblities frontier
• efficiency
• demand
• factors influencing demand
• law of diminishing returns
• utility, total utility &marginal utility
• types of elasticity
• factors influencing elasticity
• factors influencing demand
• physical product
• cost structure
• cost curves
• fixed &variable costs
• economics of scale
• returns-to-scale
• role of technology
• market structures
• perfect competition
• monopoly
• monopolistic competition
• oligopoly
• game theory
• market failures
• government intervention
• and more!

Video / 2 hours / Catalog #1325

In Search of Excellence

6-12

This 90 minute video embarks on a journey through the major corporations of America, finding out what they do that makes them so successful. It shows Walt Disney Productions, Apple Corp., 3-M, IBM, Dana Co, North American Tool and Dye, and McDonalds. All of these corporations stress the fact that people are the most important asset to the company.

Owning Your Own Business--looks at the life of Ed Lewis, who started his own printing company. It examines the characteristics that make entrepreneurs successful and discusses some of the advantages and disadvantages of being self-employed.

Starting Your Own Business--examines what Judi Wineland needed to start her own adventure travel business. It makes students aware of the pitfalls they can encounter--or avoid in setting up a business.

Building Your Own Business--follows the career of Stew Leonard, who bounced back from an unlucky break to expand a small dairy into perhaps the East Coast's largest--and most unusual- dairy store.

Planning Your Own Business--has students apply what they've learned to develop a plan for a new business.

Video / 90 minutes / Catalog #1215

Incredible Bread Machine

9-12

A highly controversial film dealing with the role of government in a free society and individual freedom versus economic freedom. It is suggested that teachers review the material prior to use in the classroom and explain to the students that the purpose of the film is to motivate. Features a debate by noted economists, Walter Heller and Milton Friedman.

Video / 60 minutes / Catalog #1214

Inflation File

9-12

Should be previewed for language and use of stereotypes.

Avery Mann (A Bogart-type) private detective is faced with his toughest case: find the cause of inflation. His leads take him to Ancient Rome, California, Post WWI Germany, Washington D.C., and Saudi Arabia.

Video / 25 minutes / Catalog #1274

Inflation: What Can We Do About It?

6-12

Describes (in-depth) inflation and how it comes about; what we as consumers, businessmen, and taxpayers can do to curb it. A good general understanding of economics film for employee economic education programs.

Video / 19 minutes / Catalog #1260

Infrastructures: A Unit for High School

10-12

This unit was developed to heighten the awareness of high school students about the infrastructure, the role it plays in our daily lives, and its significance in terms of our economic goals.

Filmstrip / Catalog #515

Inheritance

6-12

Inheritance is a blunt view of the immigration surge at Ellis Island which develops into the immigrants experiences under harsh labor conditions. America, The Land of Opportunity, challenges the immigrants' dream and brings disease and disaster too. From one dollar a day and child labor to unionization and the New Deal, this film illustrates the evolution of our system in the early 1900's. The blood bath of World War I, the crash of the Stock Market, and the industrial strikes stressing their battle for freedom. Futhermore, it visualizes the true meaning of freedom through the toil and determination of the immigrants.

Video / 44 minutes / Catalog #1236

Inside The Global Economy Series: Program 01
Trade--An Introduction

9-12

This series presents the principles of international economics using on-location documentary case studies, news and archival footage, and commentary from distinguished international economists. Inside the Global Economy, an international coproduction, offers a balanced view of how the world's economic picture has developed and what the future might hold.

Trade--An Introduction :Focuses on trade to illustrate the forced transforming the global economy, addressing such questions as: Why do nations trade? What determines the basis and direction of trade? Who gains or loses from trade?

Case studies:

• IBM's shift of computer production from the US to Japan.
• Impact of Australia's mineral export boom on its domestic car production.

Video / 60 minutes / Catalog #1338

Inside the Global Economy Series: Program 02
Protectionism vs. Free Trade

9-12

Protectionism vs. Free Trade: Examined impediments to trade, covering both tariff and non-tariff barriers. It includes discussions about the driving forces behind protectionism and the likely winners and losers.

Case studies:

• French agricultural subsidies and conflict in the Uraguay Round.
• Voluntary export restrain on Japanese cars into the U.S.

Video / 60 minutes / Catalog #1339

Inside The Global Economy Series: Program 03
Trade Policy

9-12

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 using specific examples.

Case studies:

• The development of Airbus as an example of industrial policy.
• The Chilean wine industry and export promotion policy.

Video / 60 minutes / Catalog #1340

Inside The Global Economy Series:Program 04
Trade Liberalization and Regional Trade Blocks

9-12

Trade Liberalization and Regional Trade Blocks: Compares the progress made on multilateral trade liberalization in the post- WWII period with parallel attempts to form preferential trading arrangements, includes discussions of the static and dynamic impact of free trade areas, customs unions, etc.

Case studies:

• The Canadian- U.S. Free Trade Agreement
• The entry of the United Kingdom into the EC and its impact on trade with Australia.

Video / 60 minutes / Catalog #1341

Inside The Global Economy Series: Program 05
Labor and Capital Mobility

9-12

Labor and Capital Mobility: Considers the international mobility of captial, labor, and technology, including the relationship between trade in goods (and services), the mobility of factors of production, and the pressures that drive and inhibit labor migration.

Case studies:

• Guest workers and immigrants in The Netherlands.
• Mexican immigration to the U.S. and the Maquiladora program.

Video / 60 minutes / Catalog #1342

Inside The Global Economy Series: Program 06
Multinational Corporations

9-12

Multinational Corporations: Examines these organizations as a vehicle for movement of capital and transfer of technology as an engine of globalization, with discussion of the controversies often accompanying the activities of multinationals.

Case Studies:

• Direct investment by Ericsson in Hungary.
• Whose multinational is it? A comparison of Smith-Corona and Brother.

Video / 60 minutes / Catalog #1343

Inside The Global Economy Series: Program 07
Fixed vs. Floating Exchange Rates

9-12

Fixed vs. Floating Exchange Rates: Considers the strengths and weaknesses of the two types of exchange rates used during the experience of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. Includes discussion of the role of exchange rates as shock absorbers as well as the cost of exchange rate fluctuations.

Case Studies:

• The impact of the U.S. dollar flucuations in the 1980s--Komatsu vs. Catepillar
• Floating exchange rates and petrodollar recycling in the 1970s.

Video / 60 minutes / Catalog #1344

Inside The Global Economy Series: Program 08
Managing Currencies and Policy Coordination

9-12

Managing Currencies and Policy Coordination: Extends the discussion examining what motivates governments to manage currencies and coordinate policies. The limits to government intervention in foreign markets are highlighted by looking at recent events in the U.S. and Europe.

Case studies:

• The Plaza and Louvre Accords.
• The cost to the U.K. of joining the European Monetary System.

Video / 60 minutes / Catalog #1345

Inside The Global Economy Series: Program 09
Exchange Rates, Capital Flight, &Hyperinflation

9-12

Exchange Rates, Capital Flight, &Hyperinflation: Analyzes factors that affect exchange rates. These include the impact of international capital flows and other market factors, such as inflation and trade blows.

Case studies:

• Mexiuco and the center banks--capital flight and return.
• Hyperinflation in Argentina.

Video / 60 minutes / Catalog #1346

Inside The Global Economy Series: Program 10
Develaping Countries

9-12

Developing Countries: Analyzes how these countries have been helped (or hurt) by the rapid growth in trade and factor mobility in the post-WWII period. It discusses steps that can be taken to integrate developing countries into the global economy.

Case studies:

• Comparison of development policies in South Korea and Sri Lanka.
• Tanzania: the policies of aid vs. trade.

Video / 60 minutes / Catalog #1348

Inside The Global Economy Series: Program 11
Economies in Transition

9-12

Economies in Transition: Focuses on the transformation of former Communist countries into market economies and asseses the macro- and micro-economic policies needed to ensure their successful reintegration into the global economy.

Case studies:

• Russia--the fate of state industries vs. private entrepreneurs.
• Poland--the transition to a market economy: did shock therapy work?

Video / 60 mins. Catalog #1348

Inside The Global Economy Series: Program 12
Environment:

9-12

Environment: Looks at the international dimension of environmental problems, focusing on trans-national pollution, international property rights, and differences between trade and environmental protection.

Case studies:

• The U.S.--Mexico agreement on dolphin-safe fishing.
• Trans-national implications of polluting the Rhine River.

Video / 60 mins. Catalog #1349

Inside The Global Economy Series: Program 13
The Evolving World Economy

9-12

The Evolving World Economy: Explores the dynamic aspects of comparative advantage, the evolutionary nature of trade competiveness, and the importance of human capital. It also looks at the shift in comparative advantage away from manufacturing to services and knowledge-intensive industries in industrialized countries.

Case studies:

• The rise of East Asia (especially China) as an economic power.
• Microsoft and U.S. dominance of the global software market.

Video / 60 minutes / Catalog #1350

International Economics

9-12

Part 1 Designed to lead students step-by-step to an understanding of specialization production and trading according to comparative advantage.

Part 2 Develop a trade theory topic, or supplementing discussions of trade patterns among nations or trade-related issues, such as the use of tariffs.

Filmstrip / Catalog #529

Introduction to Economics, An

6-12

With this program, you'll spark an intial interest in economics in your students and give them a set of guiding principles to use in studying the subject. The video presents economics as the study of the choices people make in their daily lives. Specifically, it focuses on choice, costs and the notion of opportunity costs, the role of incentives, and the way in which the rules of any economic system shape our choices. The video concludes by touching on the rise of industrial capitalism, the ideas of Adam Smith, and the long, on-going debate between advocates and critics of the free market he espoused.

Video / 22 minutes / Catalog #1317

Introduction to Intelligent Money Management, An

9-12

Many young people enter the job market expecting their paychecks to bring them freedom and unlimited new possessions. In reality, what they find is an inability to control their finances and shock over the speed at which a paycheck disappears.

This informative program show viewers that the ability to be in control of their finances influences more than just their bank balances. Viewers learn how to make the most of even a part-time or entry-level income, and they establish lifelong habits that will lay the foundation for a sound financial future.

Video / Catalog #1319

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Japan 2000

9-12

These four short programs--Against All Odds, The High Tech Road, Future in the Countryside and Changing Lifestyles--examine the paradox of Japan on a personal scale. This chain of small mountainous islands with little level or arable land, devastated 50 years ago by World War II, has risen in a few decades to become one of the world's preminent economic powers.

Students will see the facts and hear the voices behind the "economic miracle": a man and wife whose two-person company--they are the only employees--sells plastics to other small companies that, in turn, furnish components to the giant Panasonic electronics firm; a third-generation farmer who holds a full-time job in a high-tech company to keep his family's farm economically afloat; and an engineer who takes pride in the bridge he is building because generations will use it.

Video / four 20-minute segments / Catalog #1324

Japan Today

6-12

This video was designed to motivate and capture the interest of the student. Produced like a music video, it contains strong music and interesting visuals of Japan. It brings up topics that challenge preconceptions of Japan and its people. Young people in the video answer questions. The video brings into focus many assumptions and stereotypes we have about different races and cultures.

Video / 22 minutes / Catalog #1250

Japanese: Yesterday And Today

6-12

With this two video series, introduce your students to a nation that will play an increasingly important role in world affairs in the 1990's, Japan. They'll discover how this island nation rose from the ashes of war to become an economic dynamo, second only to the United States and the Soviet Union in gross national product. As students learn about Japanese history, culture and economics, they'll understand why Japan is destined to help shape their future--and the world's.

Japanese: Their History

Describes how Japan progressed from isolation to world leadership in a few fateful decades.

The Ways of the Japanese

Explores the justapositions of contemporary Japan , where kabuki theater coexists with a passion for baseball.

Video / 28 minutes / Catalog #1252

Jobs: Where Do They Come from?

6-12

This film deals with capital investment and how it is the key to more and better jobs. Illustrates where money comes from, incentive, creation of new jobs, impact, the need for capital investment, its role in our economy, and what the consumer, businessman, taxpayer, and citizen can do to continue capital investment in this country.

Video / Catalog #1261

Joy Of Stocks: Forbes Guide To The Stock Market

6-12

Based on the Forbes Stock Market Course, this primer, refresher course helps viewers to understand the stock market and develop winning investment strategies. With clarity, warmth, and humor, financial expert Robert Krulwick interprets market jargon, answers most frequently asked questions, and emphasizes key points in the short quizzes following each ten-minute segment. He explains such fundamentals as what stocks are, types of exchanges and brokers, and "bull" and "bear" markets. Viewers are also shown how to set their personal financial goals, evaluate the safety and growth potential of stocks, read technical reports on stocks, and track and anticipate major market cycles.

Video / Catalog #1222

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Labor Unions: Power To The People

7-12

Is the labor union still the champion of the American worker? Or is it just one more "domestic giant" for our nation to contend with? Are labor strikes a necessary freedom or are they the doom of our cities? Could the American workforce survive without the labor union?

Filmstrip / Catalog #536

Labor Unions: What You Should Know

10-Adult

Labor Unions and Their Members

Collective bargaining

Filmstrip / Catalog #516

Lead Time

10-12

Provides a comprehensive look at the lead time necessary in moving from an expressed consumer need--through research and development/market analysis--to final production and distribution. Examines the necessity for capital investment as a factor of production.

16mm / 27 minutes / Catalog #19

Liberalism And Conservatism

10-12

This film opens with interviews of Representative Philip M. Crane from Illinois, a conservative, and Representative James C. Corman of California, a liberal. It illustrates the roots of both points of view. Part Two Debate on a National Health Insurance Plan concentrates on one issue that highlights the differences between the liberals and conservatives. As the program ends, Congressmen Crane and Corman again express their respective and contrasting viewpoints.

Filmstrip / Catalog #540

Lions of Capitalism, The

6-12

Narrated by Orson Welles, Lowell Thomas, and Robert MacNeil, this tape chronicles the achievements of the great capitalists of America. Included are J.P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Ford, and Ray Kroc. (Black and White video)

Video / 55 minutes / Catalog #1313

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