On this week's Economic Update, Prof. Wolff provides updates on minimum wage raises, economics of prisons, evidence that notions of "economic recovery" are myths for most of world. Interview with Dr Harriet Fraad on...READ MORE
Economic Update: Economic Crisis, Fascism & History
On this week's Economic Update, Prof. Wolff provides updates on India's inequality, Philly's poverty behind DNC front, new initiatives from unions, Starbuck's profiteering, gutting federal estate tax. Interview with...READ MORE
Prof. Wolff on News.Markets: "Trump: The Theatre"
Does Donald Trump – now the official Republican Party presidential candidate – offer anything other than lights, smoke and insults?
Read moreEconomic Update: Convention Economics
On this week's episode of Economic Update, Prof. Wolff provides updates on platform contradictions, the VW scandal, CEOs pay explosion, Italian banks crisis, scary US auto loans. Major discussions of...READ MORE
Economic Update: Deepening Crisis and African-Americans
On this week's Economic Update, Prof. Wolff discusses leaders" exposed by crises: Johnson in UK, Dimon in US. Stagnant incomes for most. Interview with...READ MORE
Global Capitalism: July 2016 Monthly Economic Update
“The Great Emerging Conflict: Capitalism vs Worker Coops”
Co-sponsored by Democracy at Work, Left Forum, and Judson Memorial Church
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 July 2016, these will include...READ MORE
EconoMinute: What Brexit Means
In this EconoMinute, Prof. Richard Wolff talks about the decision made by the people of Great Britain to leave the European Union, what the decision means...READ MORE
Poverty Has Always Accompanied Capitalism
This article originally appeared at Truth-out.org.
Mark Karlin: Let's start with the a statement from the preface of your book: "Questioning the capitalist system, let alone discussing system change, simply does not occur to mainstream academics and the journalists and politicians they trained. Such discourses are repressed." How is an open public discussion of capitalism stifled?
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