Pages tagged "AskProfWolff"
Ask Prof Wolff: Why Are Strikes and Unions Increasing?
A Patron of Economic Update asks: "Workers are organizing and Trade Unionism is on the rise in the UK and around the world. Can you offer an analysis of the present wave of class...
Read moreAsk Prof Wolff: Abortion Rights - An Anti-Capitalist Perspective
A Patron of Economic Update asks: "What is the connection between capitalism and the ability for rulers to control women's bodies and the...
Read moreAsk Prof Wolff: The Case for Degrowth
A Patron of Economic Update asks: "I would love to hear you talk about degrowth. It's something I've been reading a little about for a few years. I probably...
Read moreAsk Prof Wolff: Avoiding Harmful Capitalist Cycles in Co-ops
A Patron of Economic Update asks: "How would inflation, cyclic depression and the other harmful capitalistic economic behavior be avoided in...
Read moreAsk Prof Wolff: Carbon Emissions, Consumption, and Wages
A Patron of Economic Update asks: "If pay for workers increases, won't that increase consumption (unless its stolen back through...
Read moreAsk Prof Wolff: What the NYTimes Gets Wrong about Inflation
A Patron of Economic Update asks: "Christopher Leonard, author of "The Lords of Easy Money" has a piece in the 6/11/22 NYT (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/11/opinion/fed-federal-reserve-inflation-democrats.html) that...
Read moreAsk Prof Wolff: Self-Employment in a Socialist Society
A Patron of Economic Update asks: "I have always been interested in the idea of what individualism would be like under socialism. Say, for example, some people don’t enjoy working in groups and prefer to work independently through freelance as they then have...
Read moreAsk Prof Wolff: Supply vs Demand-Side Economics
A Patron of Economic Update asks: "Dear Prof Wolff, can you please explain the similarities and differences between...
Read moreAsk Prof Wolff: Is Systematic Change Possible?
A Patron of Economic Update asks: "Prof. Wolff, do you believe the equality we seek can be brought about by the swift and sudden collapse of corporate fascism, a civil war, or by an evolution in the culture through constant...
Read moreAsk Prof Wolff: Student Debt & Inflation
A Patron of Economic Update asks: "Prof Wolff, can you explain the relationship between debt and inflation? Would canceling $1.7 trillion in student debt cause inflation to...
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