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  1. What Brexit Tells Us About Economics, Policy and the Media (2016)

    Subject
    Economics; Media studies

    In this Prize-winning lecture, Simon Wren-Lewis, Professor of Economic Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, tackles the inconsistencies and inaccuracies reported in the media...

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  2. Why Teaching Economics Must Change in the Light of the Crisis (2012)

    Subject
    Economics

    Diane Coyle, Managing Director of Enlightenment Economics, talks to Viv Davies about book ‘What’s the Use of Economics?: Teaching the Dismal Science After the Crisis’. They discuss what economists...

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  3. Pig Business (2011)

    Director
    Tracy Worcester
    Subject
    Agriculture; Business studies; Economics; Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 56 minutes), £10/00

    Seasoned eco-warrior Tracy Worcester sets out to discover who is paying the true price for the cheap imported pork for sale in Britain’s supermarkets. Documenting her investigation into intensive pig...

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  4. Bitter Taste of Tea, The: A Journey into the World of Fair Trade (2010)

    aka: Den Bitre Smag Af Te

    Director
    Tom Heinemann
    Subject
    Agriculture; Business studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 58 minutes), 28 euros

    This programme travels to tea estates in Sri Lanka, Kenya, India, and Bangladesh—some traditional, some fair trade—to expose unsafe work environments and labour exploitation. The workers are plucking tea...

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  5. Let My Dataset Save Your Mindset (2009)

    Subject
    Economics

    Talking at the US State Department in August 2009, Hans Rosling uses his fascinating data-bubble software to burst myths about the developing world. He offers new analysis on China and the post-bailout...

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  6. Multiplying Fractions: Stonehenge (2008)

    Subject
    Mathematics

    Short film which considers the risks and uncertainties associated with the building of a tunnel under Stonehenge. The film is one of several created as a result of the METAL (Mathematics for Economics:...

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  7. Ghana’s Roosting Bird (2007)

    Director
    Miriam Rowe; Gemma Gander
    Subject
    Agriculture; Development studies; Economics; Geography

    A short film looking at what Ghanaian farmer’s have to battle with. Despite plentiful fields, cheap imports and a lack of support from the Ghanaian government means that farmers cannot easily supply their...

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  8. Meatrix, The (3 Parts) (2003)

    Subject
    Agriculture; Business studies

    An animated takeoff of THE MATRIX that describes the evils of factory farming. It was made by the green messaging firm Free Range Studios in 2003 as a commissioned project for GRACE, the GrassRoots Action...

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  9. Logarithms and Population Growth

    Subject
    Economics; Mathematics

    A short video introduces the problem of understanding population growth over time in the UK and Mexico, and the logarithm needed to solve it is explained in an accompanying animation. NB This is just one...

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