Movie Premiere | Education meets animation techniques (30 May, 4pm, Zernike)

A new way to experience education? What if professors had modern video and animation techniques available to tell a simple story about a complex subject? The Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) premieres its pilot project on the 30th of May in the Aletta Jacobs Hall. FEB’s Dirk Bezemer explains that all our money is debt and how our misunderstanding of this led to our debt crisis. He does so both on screen in the movie and live in the panel discussion afterwards. Come and join!

Event: movie premiere and discussion | Debt: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Date: Thursday 30 May 2013
Time & Location: 4 - 6 p.m. | Aletta Jacobs Hall, Blauwborgje 4, Groningen
Admission: free
In cooperation with: Studium Generale

Discussion Panel:
- Dirk Bezemer, FEB
- Henk van Arkel (Social Trade Organisation, promoting local, sustainable money systems )
- Jesse Frederik (Follow the Money)
- Daniel Neilson (Institute for New Economic Thinking from New York )

► WATCH THE MOVIE TRAILER

Money is nothing more than debt created by banks. On the one hand this has led to our enormous wealth but on the other hand it is responsible for the recent mortgage bubbles and financial crisis. How does a debt crisis work? And how can we prevent crises and get out of our current one?

In his movie “Debt: the good, the bad and the ugly” associate professor Dirk Bezemer of the FEB explains how all our money is debt that is created by banks, how misuse of this privilege leads to asset booms and crises. Finally Bezemer presents some solutions on how we can reduce our Debts and prevent future crises.

All this is presented in a new film format where the power of video and simple animations is used to make a complex story accessible – perhaps even entertaining!

► See ‘ the making of ’ the movie

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► Contact: dr. Dirk Bezemer