RSA ANIMATE: Crises of Capitalism

Why HN readers recommended it

HN commenters recommend it as a quick animated introduction to Harvey's and Marx's critique of capitalism.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Royal Society of Arts

Topic

critique of capitalism

Format

explainer

Level

intro

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

8

Recommendation years in dataset

2011–2016

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From the original HN conversations

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• Disasters like this are, in theory, actually beneficial to economies--especially stagnant ones like Japan's. The capacity for immediate bonafide economic growth has been diminished but that doesn't mean that economic production will decline. There is now ample room to deploy all that surplus capital (humans, …

• Oh Graeber's book is out! Lovely! I have been passing around his essay by the same name for some time now. Should be a good intro to the book [LINK] I would also recommend anything by David Harvey. Start out with this animated version of …

• In this particular case it may also have something to do with the LTOV's association with Marxist economics. The only thing Americans are expected to know about anything even vaguely associated with Marxism is that it's bad (mmmkay?), so U.S. educational institutions tend to avoid …