U.S. Capitalism at the Crossroads
On this week’s Economic Update, Professor Richard Wolff discusses the special dimensions and qualities of the U.S. labor movement’s current dynamism. Thomas Piketty’s analysis shows how capitalism generates widening wealth and income gaps, leading to crashes or simmering, divisive, and domestic resentments. The system itself becomes destabilized and can then lurch to the left, as … Continued

