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Economic Update: "The Complexities of Capitalist 'Success'"
Published on September 3, 2012Updates on Romney's economic plan, French socialists' employment plan, Yale wealth growth, and wisdom of world's richest woman. Interview Max Fraad-Wolff on Apple Corp's mixed picture as capitalist "success." Response to question on financial speculation in food products.
On Economic Update with Professor Richard Wolff, Wolff and guests will discuss the current state of the economy, both locally and globally in relation to the economic crisis.
Economic Update: "Labor's Day, Labor's Condition"
Published on August 27, 2012Updates on corporations paying CEOs more than they pay in taxes; causes of coming food price spike; and strikes at Caterpillar in Illinois and Lonmin platinum mine in South Africa. Discussion of 50-year decline in US organized labor, drawing lessons from that decline, and using them to propose a new strategy for labor today. Response to questions about innovation and capitalism that challenge the criticism of capitalism.
Economist Richard Wolff of democracyatwork.info on Clearing The Fog
Published on August 21, 2012Show #25 with economist Richard Wolff of DemocracyatWork.info & Robert Naiman of Just Foreign Policy by Clearingthefog on Mixcloud
Economic Update: "The Public's Health and Economics"
Published on August 12, 2012Updates on extremes in Spain's crisis, Paul Ryan as VP candidate, US Justice Dept drops case against Goldman-Sachs, college costs crisis, and fast-rising food prices. Interview with Prof. Carles Muntaner on how deeply social and economic conditions shape health and on the implications of that shaping. Question answered on requiring workers in Workers Self-Directed Enterprises to all participate in directing enterprises.
A Public Affair: Interview with Allen Ruff on Professor Wolff's new book Occupy The Economy
Published on August 10, 2012This interview originally appeared on WORT FM.
Allen Ruff interviews Professor Wolff about his latest book Occupy the Economy. Interview starts at 5:42.
Colorado Killings, Psychology, and Economics (Podcast)
Published on August 6, 2012More important than pathologizing the individual who killed is the task of evaluating the social and psychological conditions - changeable by collective action - that can explain why his frustrations and failures should take such a violent turn against others. In other words, why does the US have more such violent, gun-using explosions of extreme personal upset than most other advanced countries combined?
Economic Update: "Economic Facts and Realities"
Published on August 5, 2012Updates on Europe's ongoing crisis, real US tax history, bank tycoon admits "mistakes", food price inflation again. Major analyses: economics of Medicaid and AFL-CIO closes National Labor College. Responses to questions on "planned obsolescence" and what individuals can do in crisis times.
On Economic Update with Professor Richard Wolff, Wolff and guests will discuss the current state of the economy, both locally and globally in relation to the economic crisis.
Economic Update: "Following the Money Trails"
Published on July 28, 2012Updates include Capital One Bank's misdeeds, French socialists' new policies, taxing churches in Spain, Walton family's immense wealth, strike at Caterpillar, and taxing private wealth. Major discussions of huge corporate cash hoards and vast private wealth hidden from view and from taxes in tax-havens. Responses to questions on reorganizing banking and on Marx's surplus value theory.
Economic Update: "False Choices and Bad Decisions"
Published on July 22, 2012Updates on Chinese economy's response to global crisis, $6.6 billion legal deal among banks, credit card companies and retailers, and food stamp cuts threatened. Analysis of closing of US university presses, Texas Gov Perry refusal of Medicaid expansion. Responses on municipal pension issues and changes needed in giant banks.
On Economic Update with Professor Richard Wolff, Wolff and guests will discuss the current state of the economy, both locally and globally in relation to the economic crisis.
LIBOR Rate Fixing Scandal Prompts Calls For Financial Reform in US
Published on July 18, 2012This radio interview originally appeared on the Free Speech Radio News website.
