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• Chapter 1: Theories of Global political Economy
• Chapter 5: Growing a Global Economy: 1945-2010
• Chapter 6: International Trade
• Chapter 7: Transnational Production
• Chapter 8: Global Financial System
• Chapter 9: Global Division of Labour
• Chapter 10: Gender
• Chapter 12: Global Environmental Change
• Chapter 13: Ideas
• Chapter 14: Security
• Chapter 15: Governing the Global Economy

Chapter 1 - Liberalism

A humorous take on an economic debate between two greats of liberal thought locked in a rap off - it is John Maynard Keynes vs. Frederick Hayeck (7:33 minutes).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0nERTFo-Sk

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Chapter 6 - Trade

Guardian FairTrade podcast:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/audio/2012/feb/27/fair-trade-podcast

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Chapter 7- Global Production

Trailer for Edward Burtynsky’s film Manufactured Landscapes
https://www.nfb.ca/film/manufactured_landscapes/trailer/manufactured_landscape_trailer

Business school view of global production management:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jks0YQnrTA

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Chapter 8 - Finance

‘Euro crisis: three years of pain’ The Guardian, 2 November 2012. Interactive graphic showing key events of Euro sovereign debt crisis.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/interactive/2012/oct/17/eurozone-crisis-interactive-timeline-three-years

Podcast ‘On the Euro Crisis: Continental Break’ (57 mins) up from This American Life (NPR), 20 January 2012
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/455/continental-breakup

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Chapter 9 - Labour

Highlights from a UN seminar given by author Guy Standing on ‘The Precariat: the Dangerous Class’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYoaV6f78wM

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Chapter 10 - Gender

World Economic Forum on Global Gender Gap
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG_P5ja-oO0

Al Jazeera story on trafficking of women from Central Asia to the Middle East
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19llq4OsuwQ

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Chapter 12 - Environment

The Story of Electronics: A look at issue of electronics waste
http://www.storyofstuff.org/movies-all/story-of-electronics/

Lecture on the politics of Climate Change Denial
Professor Naoimi Oakes,UCSD, ‘The American Denial of Climate Change’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T4UF_Rmlio

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Chapter 13 - Ideas

Professor Mark Blyth (Watson Institute, Brown University) on the idea and politics of austerity:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmsjGys-VqA

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Chapter 14 - Security

Trailer for Nicolas Cage movie about arms merchants:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXgyoER0aRc

Professor Mary Kaldor on insecurity:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo7_X-67peo

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Chapter 15 Governance

David Held on Global Governance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8Y4f1c6VSI

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