Economic Update

Economic Update – March 27, 2020

Economics Professor Richard D. Wolff and guests discuss the current state of the economy, locally and globally. The program explores alternative ways to organize, markets, and government policies. Click Here to listen to the current episode of Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff.


Economic Update

Economic Update – March 20, 2020

Economics Professor Richard D. Wolff and guests discuss the current state of the economy, locally and globally. The program explores alternative ways to organize, markets, and government policies. Click Here to listen to the current episode of Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff.


Economic Update

Economic Update – March 13, 2020

Economics Professor Richard D. Wolff and guests discuss the current state of the economy, locally and globally. The program explores alternative ways to organize, markets, and government policies. Click Here to listen to the current episode of Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff.


Updates on high US maternal death rate, wealth inequality and the Pope,  #MeToo hits the banks, Macron and Black Rock plot French pension “reform,” dying Newsweek caught in corruption scandal using bible college. Interview Perf. Gertrude Goldberg on US unemployment, its social costs, and struggle for a universal job guarantee.


Economic Update

Economic Update – February 28, 2020

Economics Professor Richard D. Wolff and guests discuss the current state of the economy, locally and globally. The program explores alternative ways to organize, markets, and government policies. Click Here to listen to the current episode of Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff.


Economic Update

Economic Update – February 21, 2020

Economics Professor Richard D. Wolff and guests discuss the current state of the economy, locally and globally. The program explores alternative ways to organize, markets, and government policies. Click Here to listen to the current episode of Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff.


Economic Update

Economic Update – February 14, 2020

Economics Professor Richard D. Wolff and guests discuss the current state of the economy, locally and globally. The program explores alternative ways to organize, markets, and government policies. Click Here to listen to the current episode of Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff.


Economic Update

Capitalism’s Uneven Development

Introduction to capitalism’s systematically uneven economic development. From Marx’s original criticism of capitalism for producing and reproducing unevenness to the many historical examples, today’s program argues that there are heavy social costs that flow from capitalism’s uneven development. Those costs then become bases for arguing the need to move beyond capitalism.


Economic Update

Independent Media

Updates on sale of coop craft brewery, US medical costs highest in world, and the “overcoming poverty” defense of capitalism’s inequality and instability. Interview Laura Flanders on independent media.


Economic Update

Answering our Critics

Three major criticisms of Economic Update are considered: (1) that we don’t praise capitalism for reducing world poverty, (2) that we don’t admit that “socialism has never worked anywhere,” and (3) that no inventor of a new product or technique who starts a business will ever accept that employees in such a business are equal … Continued