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What Hyman Minsky and Karl Marx can teach us about the recent fluctuation in global stock markets, speculative finance, capitalists and their workers.

This article originally appeared at artsforum.ca

Contemporary capitalism no longer “delivers the goods” (which is understood as a rising standard of real wages) to the majority of people.  That classic defense of its instability (e.g. recurrent bouts of unemployment), its deepening economic, political, and cultural inequalities, and its attendant injustices is no lon­ger plausible.  In the U.S. since...

Why do Americans turn to opioids and die?

This week on Economic Update, Professor Richard D. Wolff delivers updates on economic data hype vs reality, big capitalists gearing up to take on the healthcare capitalists, profit-driven housing rip-offs, why Saudi Arabia is...