Laissez-faire

Laissez-faire

80 mins | Documentary, History | Jan. 30, 2015

In the last 250 years, free-market ideology has played a central role in the development of the logic and rhetoric that have influenced the daily life of populations throughout the world. It was cornered for a few decades during the twentieth century in favor of a social economy for the public interest, and then returned to the limelight in the last thirty years of the century to dominate the logics that drive world economies, doing the favor of the elites at the expense of 99%. Through the testimony of six people informed about the facts, Laissez-faire offers a historical and ideological perspective through which to identify the fundamental problems of the economic mechanism on which societies are based.

Laissez-faire

80 mins | Documentary, History | Jan. 30, 2015

Laissez-faire
In the last 250 years, free-market ideology has played a central role in the development of the logic and rhetoric that have influenced the daily life of populations throughout the world. It was cornered for a few decades during the twentieth century in favor of a social economy for the public interest, and then returned to the limelight in the last thirty years of the century to dominate the logics that drive world economies, doing the favor of the elites at the expense of 99%. Through the testimony of six people informed about the facts, Laissez-faire offers a historical and ideological perspective through which to identify the fundamental problems of the economic mechanism on which societies are based.
Producers Vox Populi Collective
Original title Laissez-faire
Directors Ruggero Arenella
Writers Riccardo Donat-Cattin, Ruggero Arenella

Cast

Ronald Reagan

as Self (archive footage)

Margaret Thatcher

as Self (archive footage)

Salvador Allende

as Self (archive footage)

Milton Friedman

as Self (archive footage)

John Maynard Keynes

as Self (archive footage)

John Perkins

as Self (archive footage)

Naomi Klein

as Self (archive footage)

Karl Marx

as Self (archive footage)

Thomas Sankara

as Self (archive footage)

Giovanni Agnelli

as Self (archive footage)

Jaime Roldós Aguilera

as Self (archive footage)

Clement Attlee

as Self (archive footage)

Tony Benn

as Self (archive footage)

Enrico Berlinguer

as Self (archive footage)

Ben Bernanke

as Self (archive footage)

William Beveridge

as Self (archive footage)

George H.W. Bush

as Self (archive footage)

Eamonn Butler

as Self (archive footage)

Jimmy Carter

as Self (archive footage)

Fidel Castro

as Self (archive footage)

Che Guevara

as Self (archive footage)

Winston Churchill

as Self (archive footage)

Blaise Compaoré

as Self (archive footage)

Michel Crozier

as Self (archive footage)

Deng Xiaoping

as Self (archive footage)

Mario Draghi

as Self (archive footage)

John Elkann

as Self (archive footage)

Edwin J. Feulner

as Self (archive footage)

Timothy Geithner

as Self (archive footage)

Carter Glass

as Self (archive footage)

Mikhail Gorbachev

as Self (archive footage)

Alan Greenspan

as Self (archive footage)

Adolf Hitler

as Self (archive footage)

Samuel Huntington

as Self (archive footage)

William Stanley Jevons

as Self (archive footage)

Harry Keen

as Self (archive footage)

Henry Kissinger

as Self (archive footage)

Vladimir Lenin

as Self (archive footage)

Sergio Marchionne

as Self (archive footage)

Carl Menger

as Self (archive footage)

Angela Merkel

as Self (archive footage)

François Mitterrand

as Self (archive footage)

Benito Mussolini

as Self (archive footage)

Richard Nixon

as Self (archive footage)

Henry Paulson

as Self (archive footage)

Sandro Pertini

as Self (archive footage)

Augusto Pinochet

as Self (archive footage)

Matteo Renzi

as Self (archive footage)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

as Self (archive footage)

Theodore Roosevelt

as Self (archive footage)

Donald Rumsfeld

as Self (archive footage)

Adam Smith

as Self (archive footage)

Joseph Stalin

as Self (archive footage)

Henry Steagall

as Self (archive footage)

Omar Torrijos

as Self (archive footage)

Friedrich von Hayek

as Self (archive footage)

Ludwig Von Mises

as Self (archive footage)

Léon Walras

as Self (archive footage)

Joji Watanuki

as Self (archive footage)

Henry Waxman

as Self (archive footage)

Harry Dexter White

as Self (archive footage)

Luciano Gallino

as Self (archive footage)

Paolo Barnard

as Self

Giacomo Bracci

as Self

Nino Galloni

as Self