Monday, January 23
LEFT BEHIND, Part 2

Photo: Occupy K Street demonstrators protest the street of Washington, October 29, 2011. REUTERS/Jose Luis Magana

Over the past 30 years, the benefits of economic growth in Canada, the US and much of the rest of the world, have gone increasingly to the top one percent of the population. For the majority of families, however, incomes have stagnated. This rise in inequality coincided with a sea change in government policy. Beginning in the 1980s, governments in much of the English-speaking world embarked on what has been called the neoliberal revolution - deregulation, privatization and tax cuts, aimed at liberating markets and stimulating the economy. The rising tide was supposed to lift all boats, but it didn't. Jill Eisen explores what happened. Part 3 airs on Monday, January 30.

Tuesday, January 24
LEVELLING THE PLAYING FIELD
A renowned cardiovascular scientist and public policy visionary, Dr. Victor Dzau, Chancellor for Health Affairs at Duke University, is spearheading an international campaign to eliminate tragic disparities in the delivery of medical care - both close to home and around the world. Winner of the 2011 Henry G. Friesen International Prize in Health Research, Dr. Dzau speaks about both these passions with IDEAS host Paul Kennedy.

Wednesday, January 25
THE SCREW THE CHANGED THE WORLD
There's a secret at the heart of our modern economy: standards. Standards frame every aspect of our lives, according to Karl Turner, from the nuts and bolts that hold our material world together to life's genetic blueprint.

Thursday, January 26 - Friday, January 27
NEVER IN ANGER
Anthropologist Jean Briggs lived with an Inuit family during the early 1960s, when she was doing research and writing about them for her doctoral thesis. Whenever she got "angry," they treated her like a child, because they thought that "anger" was an infantile emotion, something never expressed by Inuit adults.