Antitrust laws, trade regulations, and property ownership work together to preserve the balance of rights among consumers, retailers, and employees. Module one of this program explains how citizens of Zurich voted to extend shopping hours, overturning an obsolete market intervention; module two examines fair competition in the case of Volkswagen/Audi v. The European Commission; and module three examines how Venice, in an absence of private property...

The Scottish tongue is one of the oldest in Britain, a Northern variety of English that, but for the accidents of history, might have become a separate language. This classic PBS program deals with the influence of the Scots in spreading the language of their historic enemies-the Sassenachs of the South-around the world. The program begins in the 15th century, the golden age of the Scottish tongue; it follows the linguistic path of the Scots as they...

It wasn't a hostile takeover or a run on the bank that destroyed Barings, one of Britain's most solid financial institutions. All it took was Nick Leeson, a 20-something trader operating in Singapore, to burn through more than a billion dollars and bring the company down. Of course, that was in 1995. Today, with increased regulations and super-sophisticated monitoring systems, Leeson's transgressions would never be allowed to happen. Right? Wrong-as...

A Turner Prize winning sculptor, Tony Cragg has a huge international reputation and has represented Britain at the Venice Biennale. He has lived and worked in Germany for 40 years. His early works used found objects and discarded materials, and he rose to fame with "Britain Seen from the North," an assemblage of scraps depicting the outline of the island of Great Britain oriented to the left. The piece is often interpreted as a commentary of the social...