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  Karayuki-San, The Making of a Prostitute

  Karayuki-San, The Making of a Prostitute

  Directed by Shohei Imamura • Documentary • 1975 • 75 minutes

  From the late 1800s to the mid-1900s, Japanese girls and women were trafficked out of Japan and sent to foreign countries like China, Singapore, and beyond to serve as indentured prostitutes. These women were called Karayuki-san.

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  Karl Polanyi, The Human Factor

  Karl Polanyi, The Human Factor

  Directed by Ilan Ziv • Documentary • 2014 • 53 minutes

  Taking us on a journey from ancient Sumeria to the towers of Frankfurt, this episode of CAPITALISM argues that commercial transactions have always been embedded in social norms, and that a self-regulating market economy is in no way a natura...

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  Keynes vs Hayek: A Fake Debate?

  Keynes vs Hayek: A Fake Debate?

  Directed by Ilan Ziv • Documentary • 2014 • 53 minutes

  KEYNES VS HAYEK: A FAKE DEBATE? delves deeply into the origins of both schools of thought, and how they were shaped by post-WWI German reparations, the Depression, and the need to rebuild industrial economies after World War II.

  Keynesians...