![The New Economics 101 [5-minute clip] @challengingmedia](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NRTxXY-KgCk/maxresdefault.jpg)
Uploaded May 2013 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Now Available on DVD
mediaed.org
Subscribe to our Youtube channel!
youtube.com/user/ChallengingMedia
New Economics 101, The
True Wealth in the New Economy
Economist and bestselling author Juliet Schor lays out a positive vision for rethinking our relationship to consumer goods in this accessible and timely analysis of the devastating ecological, social, and personal costs of mass consumerism. Ranging from cutting-edge developments in economic theory, social analysis, and ecological design to real-world examples of these ideas being put into practice around the world, Schor makes a compelling case that preserving dwindling natural resources and enhancing economic security should have less to do with managing scarcity and learning to sacrifice than with envisioning new forms of plentitude. The result is a bold and practical vision for replacing the old dead-end, debt-financed, work-and-spend cycle with a new paradigm of sustainability fueled by the abundant and infinitely renewable resources of time, creativity, and community.
About Juliet Schor
Juliet Schor is Professor of Sociology at Boston College. A graduate of Wesleyan University, Schor received her Ph.D. in economics at the University of Massachusetts. Her most recent book is Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth. She is also author of the national bestseller, The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure and The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don't Need. The Overworked American appeared on the best-seller lists of The New York Times, Publisher's Weekly, The Chicago Tribune, The Village Voice, The Boston Globe as well as the annual best books list for The New York Times, Business Week and other publications. The book is widely credited for influencing the national debate on work and family. The Overspent American was also made into a video of the same name, by the Media Education Foundation. Schor also wrote Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture. She is the author of Do Americans Shop Too Much?, co-editor of Consumer Society: A Reader and co-editor of Sustainable Planet: Solutions for the Twenty-first Century. Schor is currently working on issues of environmental sustainability and their relation to Americans' lifestyles and the economy and the emergence of a conscious consumption movement. She is a co-founder and co-chair of the Board of the Center for a New American Dream, a national sustainability organization. Visit her at www.julietschor.org.
Now Available on DVD
mediaed.org
Subscribe to our Youtube channel!
youtube.com/user/ChallengingMedia
New Economics 101, The
True Wealth in the New Economy
Economist and bestselling author Juliet Schor lays out a positive vision for rethinking our relationship to consumer goods in this accessible and timely analysis of the devastating ecological, social, and personal costs of mass consumerism. Ranging from cutting-edge developments in economic theory, social analysis, and ecological design to real-world examples of these ideas being put into practice around the world, Schor makes a compelling case that preserving dwindling natural resources and enhancing economic security should have less to do with managing scarcity and learning to sacrifice than with envisioning new forms of plentitude. The result is a bold and practical vision for replacing the old dead-end, debt-financed, work-and-spend cycle with a new paradigm of sustainability fueled by the abundant and infinitely renewable resources of time, creativity, and community.
About Juliet Schor
Juliet Schor is Professor of Sociology at Boston College. A graduate of Wesleyan University, Schor received her Ph.D. in economics at the University of Massachusetts. Her most recent book is Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth. She is also author of the national bestseller, The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure and The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don't Need. The Overworked American appeared on the best-seller lists of The New York Times, Publisher's Weekly, The Chicago Tribune, The Village Voice, The Boston Globe as well as the annual best books list for The New York Times, Business Week and other publications. The book is widely credited for influencing the national debate on work and family. The Overspent American was also made into a video of the same name, by the Media Education Foundation. Schor also wrote Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture. She is the author of Do Americans Shop Too Much?, co-editor of Consumer Society: A Reader and co-editor of Sustainable Planet: Solutions for the Twenty-first Century. Schor is currently working on issues of environmental sustainability and their relation to Americans' lifestyles and the economy and the emergence of a conscious consumption movement. She is a co-founder and co-chair of the Board of the Center for a New American Dream, a national sustainability organization. Visit her at www.julietschor.org.
![The New Economics 101 [5-minute clip]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NRTxXY-KgCk/mqdefault.jpg "The New Economics 101 [5-minute clip]
Now Available on DVD
http://www.mediaed.org
Subscribe to our Youtube channel!
http://www.youtube.com/user/ChallengingMedia
New Economics 101, The
True Wealth in the New Economy
Economist and bestselling author Juliet Schor lays out a positive vision for rethinking our relationship to consumer goods in this accessible and timely analysis of the devastating ecological, social, and personal costs of mass consumerism. Ranging from cutting-edge developments in economic theory, social analysis, and ecological design to real-world examples of these ideas being put into practice around the world, Schor makes a compelling case that preserving dwindling natural resources and enhancing economic security should have less to do with managing scarcity and learning to sacrifice than with envisioning new forms of plentitude. The result is a bold and practical vision for replacing the old dead-end, debt-financed, work-and-spend cycle with a new paradigm of sustainability fueled by the abundant and infinitely renewable resources of time, creativity, and community.
About Juliet Schor
Juliet Schor is Professor of Sociology at Boston College. A graduate of Wesleyan University, Schor received her Ph.D. in economics at the University of Massachusetts. Her most recent book is Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth. She is also author of the national bestseller, The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure and The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Dont Need. The Overworked American appeared on the best-seller lists of The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, The Chicago Tribune, The Village Voice, The Boston Globe as well as the annual best books list for The New York Times, Business Week and other publications. The book is widely credited for influencing the national debate on work and family. The Overspent American was also made into a video of the same name, by the Media Education Foundation. Schor also wrote Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture. She is the author of Do Americans Shop Too Much?, co-editor of Consumer Society: A Reader and co-editor of Sustainable Planet: Solutions for the Twenty-first Century. Schor is currently working on issues of environmental sustainability and their relation to Americans lifestyles and the economy and the emergence of a conscious consumption movement. She is a co-founder and co-chair of the Board of the Center for a New American Dream, a national sustainability organization. Visit her at www.julietschor.org.")
![Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land - Myth Of The Generous Offer [documentary clip]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/P9K1ZtrqcbU/mqdefault.jpg "Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land - Myth Of The Generous Offer [documentary clip]
Check out these films about the occupation:
The Occupation of the American Mind
http://occupationmovie.org/
Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land
http://www.mediaed.org/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=117
Both films by the Media Education Foundation
http://www.mediaed.org")
![Killing Us Softly 4: Advertisings Image of Women [Trailer] - Available on DVD](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/PTlmho_RovY/mqdefault.jpg "Killing Us Softly 4: Advertisings Image of Women [Trailer] - Available on DVD
Correction: This video contains the image of Giselle Bundchen incorrectly identified as Ana Carolina Reston. An updated video is available here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWKXit_3rpQ&feature=youtu.be
http://www.mediaed.org
In this new, highly anticipated update of her pioneering Killing Us Softly series, the first in more than a decade, Jean Kilbourne takes a fresh look at how advertising traffics in distorted and destructive ideals of femininity. The film marshals a range of new print and television advertisements to lay bare a stunning pattern of damaging gender stereotypes images and messages that too often reinforce unrealistic, and unhealthy, perceptions of beauty, perfection, and sexuality. By bringing Kilbournes groundbreaking analysis up to date, Killing Us Softly 4 stands to challenge a new generation of students to take advertising seriously, and to think critically about popular culture and its relationship to sexism, eating disorders, and gender violence.
Jean Kilbourne, Ed.D. is internationally recognized for her groundbreaking work on the image of women in advertising and for her critical studies of alcohol and tobacco advertising. In the late 1960s she began her exploration of the connection between advertising and several public health issues, including violence against women, eating disorders, and addiction, and launched a movement to promote media literacy as a way to prevent these problems. A radical and original idea at the time, this approach is now mainstream and an integral part of most prevention programs. Her films, lectures and television appearances have been seen by millions of people throughout the world. Kilbourne was named by The New York Times Magazine as one of the three most popular speakers on college campuses. She is the creator of the renowned Killing Us Softly: Advertisings Image of Women film series and the author of the award-winning book Cant Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel and co-author of So Sexy So Soon: The New Sexualized Childhood and What Parents Can Do to Protect Their Kids.")
