Documentary #7: Universal Basic Income Pt. 1 – An Idea Whose Time Has Come?
What if you were paid just for being alive? Just imagine, you are given a check every month for the rest of your life, enough to cover all of your basic needs. You wouldn't be driving around in a Ferr...
15 Aug 201758min
The Divide: Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets with Jason Hickel
In this Conversation we spoke with Jason Hickel, an anthropologist formerly at the London School of Economics and now at Goldsmiths University of London. Originally from Swaziland, Jason's research ha...
23 Maj 201729min
Documentary #6: Beer - Crafting a Better Economy
Once an important life-force of early civilization and an ancient crafter of community, beer was, like many things under our current economic system, disfigured and twisted by the forces of the market...
9 Maj 201758min
Doughnut Economics with Kate Raworth
When you think about economics, what images come to mind? Maybe a supply and demand graph? Or a blackboard with complex equations scrawled across it? These images are based on a 19th century view of e...
3 Apr 201752min
Documentary #5: The Call For A New Economy
Bellowing out in the songs of eco-village choirs and reverberating down city streets through the chants of the 99%, the call for a new economy echoes out over the dying gasps of late capitalism. From ...
21 Mars 201756min
African American Co-ops with Jessica Gordon Nembhard
In this Upstream Conversation we spoke with Professor Jessica Gordon Nembhard, author of Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice. We spoke with her ...
15 Feb 201759min
Platform Cooperativism with Trebor Scholz
In this Upstream Conversation we spoke with scholar and activist Trebor Scholz, who is an Associate Professor of Culture & Media at the New School for Liberal Arts & co-editor of the book, Ours to Hac...
5 Feb 201753min
The Solidarity Economy with Cheyenna Weber
In this Upstream Conversation with spoke with Cheyenna Weber, co-founder of SolidarityNYC and a lead organizer of the Cooperative Economics Alliance of NYC. We spoke with her about the solidarity econ...
30 Jan 201739min
