competing thoughts on wgbh

Our seven-minute documentary Competing Thoughts is one of the films featured in the WGBH Lab Showcase. The film looks at healthy and less healthy forms of competition, and offers some alternatives.

More about the people and subjects in the film:

• Alfie Kohn's book, No Contest: The Case Against Competition (1986, 1992, re-released in 2006).
• Terry Orlick's book, Cooperative Games and Sports (2006).
• David and Roger Johnson's work on Cooperative Learning at the University of Minnesota.
• Robert Pollin is a Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
• Greg Hamilton's great documentary, Mystic Ball, about Myanmar's non-competitive sport, Chinlone.
• Collective Copies history, which discusses the advantages of collectives.
• The Moosewood Collective, one of the most famous collectives in the US.
• Here's a good introduction to kinship, reciprocity, and mutualism.
• All of the music in the film is from Willie Bernstein's latest album, Bug Jam.
• Here's a great introduction to the Prelinger Archives, from where we culled most of the archival footage.