Insights on Deutsche Bank’s Mass Lay Offs
Prof. Wolff joins Rick Sanchez to share his insights on Deutsche Bank plans to lay off 18,000 employees over the next three years, along with other changes to its business model. He argues that Deutsche Bank’s announcement of the layoffs three years in advance may have been a mistake. See clip here:
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Capitalism Hits the Fan!
Prof. Wolff sat down with Lee Camp to discuss the current state of the U.S. economy. Investigative journalist Aaron Mate is the guest on the second half of the show. Mate has been one of the most prominent journalists debunking the Russiagate narrative.
Economic Update: Worker Co-ops Rising
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This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on "regulatory capture" in the U.S. vs E.U., the IMF report on the U.S. economy finds major negatives and how Trump's desperation for re-election shapes his...READ MORE
T-Mobile and Sprint Merger Could Crush Medium and Small Enterprises
Prof. Wolff says T-Mobile and Sprint Merger Endangers Free Media. He discusses the $26 billion merger between T-Mobile and Sprint, which the FCC announced is “in the public interest.” The merger could create an even bigger media and telecommunication monopoly that will crush medium and small enterprises.
Prof. Wolff Debates Labor Theory of Value
Prof. Wolff debates libertarian Antony Sammeroff on the Labor Theory of Value on the Lions of Liberty Podcast, hosted by Marc Clair. Prof. Wolff debates from a Marxist economist position vs. Sammeroff's free market libertarian position.
Capitalism is Failing the People
Prof. Wolff says capitalism is failing the people. He joins Ana Kasparian of The Young Turks to explain how on "The Conversation."
News. Views. Hughes - July 2, 2019
Prof. Richard Wolff joins RT's Views News Hughes to discuss the UK’s taxation of seized Libyan wealth following the ousting and murder of Muammar Qaddafi.
Read moreGlobal Capitalism: July 2019 Economic Update
Economic Issues of the Upcoming US Elections
Economic Update: Is US Capitalism in Decline?
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This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on pay inequalities for CEOs VS average workers, the economics of mega-mergers, billionaires' idea of “charity”, the economic consequences of...READ MORE
Economic Update: China's Economic Record & Strategy
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This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff follows up with part two of his in-depth analyses of the USSR and anti-capitalist governments by providing (1) an overview of China's economic...READ MORE
Economic Update: A New Labor Movement Rising
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This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on U.S. church membership and its tax subsidies, Toyota and Merkel slam U.S. economic nationalism, 40 U.S. states sue...READ MORE
Economic Update: 3 Basic Kinds of Socialism
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This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff discusses the three basic kinds of socialism as anti-capitalist ideologies grow in the U.S. and more people are looking toward socialist alternatives. Prof. Wolff lays out the importance of...READ MORE
Evet, Kapitalizmden Daha İyisini Yapabiliriz
This article originally appeared at CommonDreams.org.
Special thanks to Aydın ÖRDEK, member of Executive Board of Mulkiye Center for Education, for providing the Turkish translation.
Çeviri: Ekin Keskin*
Kapitalizm kendisini sürekli olarak daha büyük bir eşitsizliğe, istikrarsızlığa ve adaletsizliğe sürüklerken, kapitalizmi eleştirenler çoğalıyor. Kapitalizmin endişeli savunucuları iki şekilde tepki veriyor. Birçoğu eleştirileri önemsemiyor. Ne de olsa, kapitalizm uzun zamandır var ve daha önce de iniş çıkışlar yaşadı. Eleştirenler, hayal kırıklıklarına rağmen çok az bir değişim olması nedeniyle eleştirilerin sönümleneceğini tahmin ediyor veya umuyorlar. Şikâyet edenler ise sadece kaybedenler. Kazananlar kesinlikle sistemi ileriye taşıyacaklar. Kapitalizm savunucularının bir kısmı da basitçe kapitalizmin bir alternatifinin olmadığı konusunda ısrar ediyor, bu yüzden eleştiriler anlamsız hale geliyor.
Read moreHeterodox Economics at John Jay College
Authors: Richard D. Wolff and Ian J. Seda-Irizarry
Richard D. Wolff (RDW): As a professor of economics, all my adult life I’ve had to struggle with a difficult sad fact about economics education in colleges and universities in the United States for the last half century. Because of the Cold-war, because of the years of struggle between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, the previous way of teaching of economics, which included the presentation of alternative theories, were repressed. Instead economics got narrowed to a very simple orthodoxy that excluded everything basically critical of capitalism. Capitalism, “economics” taught, was the greatest economic system since sliced bread, indeed the “optimum” imaginable. There were no alternatives worth studying from which one could learn. For example, Marxism, as the most developed critique of capitalism in the world, was simply excluded from 99% of all economics curriculum, as it remains today. It is an extraordinarily narrow orthodoxy.
Read moreAmerican History and the 2020 Election
This article originally appeared at Counterpunch.org
Whatever distractions candidates promote to win voters, some underlying issues will wield their influence on 2020 election outcomes in any case. The biggest of these are the historically accumulated anger and betrayal felt by millions of working class Americans. Since the 1970s, their relative position within income and wealth distributions has declined. Real wages stagnated while workers’ rising productivity made ever more profits for employers, widening inequality. That alone depressed the class, but US society is structured to add many political, cultural, and social demotions onto those whose relative economic position declines.
Read moreEconomic Update: Understanding Marxism
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This special edition of "Economic Update" is devoted to Understanding Marxism, the title of a short new book just published by Democracy at Work. Today's program, like the book, explains...READ MORE
Economic Update: Living in a Socialist Economy
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This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on the college admissions scandal in the U.S., how lobbyists reflect and worsen inequality, North and South Carolina teachers’ strike for...READ MORE
Socialism and Workers’ Coops
This article originally appeared at Counterpunch.org.
Actually existing socialisms since the 1917 Soviet revolution leave a rich legacy: aspects to build on, aspects to reject. Collective consumption (free education, medical care, subsidized housing, transport, etc.) is among the first and party dictatorship is among the second. Those socialisms’ complex histories also leave a legacy of what went missing from them. Identifying and evaluating missing elements can provide today’s socialist movements with better means to surpass capitalism than earlier socialist movements had.
Read moreWhat is class?
There is an entire body of political science thinking that has been unavailable in this country for many years because of its association with socialism and the left that have been demonized. Prof. Wolff joins Richard Eskow of The Zero Hour to talk about the insight that literature could offer us.
Read moreTrade War Truce on the Horizon? & Bad News for Bitcoin
As Trump ramps up his rhetoric against China, one of the nation's top officials will visit Washington to talk trade. Professor Richard Wolff joins RT's Boom Bust to sift through the shipping stalemate and search for hope on the horizon.
Read moreGlobal Capitalism: May 2019 Economic Update
Rise of Socialism in the US Today
These programs begin with 30 minutes of short updates on important economic events of the last month, then Prof. Wolff analyzes several major economic issues. For May 2019, these issues will include...READ MORE
Economic Update: Lawyers vs. The System
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This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on how U.S. college students have become share-croppers for investors, conservatives' fake opposition to government intervention in...READ MORE
US Unemployment Numbers and Other Ways to Hide the Truth
Prof. Wolff joins "By Any Means Necessary" to break down the good, the bad and the ugly of the latest US unemployment numbers, the media and political manipulation of economic numbers, American capitalism's multi-faceted debt crisis, and why it is time to move past capitalism.
Read moreThe Truth About Modern Monetary Theory
What is modern monetary theory? Richard Wolff joined Thom to explain. MMT or Modern Monetary Theory is becoming a point of contention in the Democratic Party,. But what is it and what does it mean? How does a government, or a political candidate use modern monetary theory, Can modern monetary theory help end the debt or the national deficit? What would the effects of modern monetary theory be on the average working person?
Read moreYes, We Can do Better Than Capitalism
This article originally appeared at CommonDreams.org.
As capitalism drives itself into ever-greater inequality, instability and injustice, its critics multiply. Worried defenders react in two ways. Many dismiss the criticisms. After all, capitalism has been around a long time and weathered ups and downs before. They presume or hope that criticism will fade as little really changes despite the critics, and frustrations set in. It’s just losers who complain. The winners will surely carry the system forward. Some defenders insist that there simply is no alternative to capitalism, so criticism becomes pointless.
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