Economic Update: The Human Agenda
[S9 E42]
On this week's EU, Prof. Wolff presents updates on costs of NBA offense to China, worsening global inequality, poverty mocks Nobel prize for 3 economists working on...READ MORE
Economic Update: The Capitalist Corporation
[S9 E40]
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff examines the structure and functioning of the large capitalist corporation dominating modern economies. He discusses...READ MORE
Economic Update: Worker Co-ops, Socialism's Future
[S9 E39]
In the first half of Economic Update this week, Professor Wolff discusses how and why socialism changed from what it meant in the 19th and 20th centuries (public enterprises...READ MORE
Economic Update: A Growing US Left
[S9 E38]
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on California events (LA Times labor union, 80,000 Kaiser workers to strike, new state public banking law), gross inefficiency of private...READ MORE
Economic Update: Capitalism and Mental Health
[S9 E37]
This week on Economic Update Professor Wolff delivers updates on the ICE raid in Mississippi, global comparisons of gun violence and conservatives’ reactions to...READ MORE
Economic Update: U.S. Economy and the Market
[S9 E36]
This week on Economic Update Professor Wolff delivers an analysis of the state of the U.S. economy at summer's end, 2019 and it’s a decidedly mixed picture.
In the second half of...READ MORE
Economic Update: Capitalism in Decline
[S9 E35]
The first half of this week’s episode of Economic Update features a discussion by Professor Wolff on the parallels of declining capitalism in the UK and the U.S. and how the...READ MORE
Economic Update: Homelessness in the U.S.
[S9 E34]
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on politicians' "blame game" of scapegoating to avoid blaming capitalism, middle class squeezed by prices, limits of...READ MORE
Economic Update: Reparations and Forgiving Student Debts
[S9 E31]
Updates on economics of 2 million home health aides, extreme Uber inequalities, Alaska universities 41% budget cuts, Michigan governor during Flint Water Crisis says his critics are...READ MORE
Economic Update: Win Win for Women's Soccer
[S9 E30]
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on Trump as a distraction vehicle, more of French President Macron's corruption, how the global coffee price collapse is driving...READ MORE