Pages tagged "Economic Update"
Economic Update: Socialism and Left Unity in the U.S.
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In this week’s episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on Trump's 2019 $1 trillion plus deficit, the burden of debt on poor countries, Amsterdam’s forgiveness of...
Read moreEconomic Update: Capitalism's Uneven Development
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This week’s episode of Economic Update features an introductory discussion by Professor Wolff on capitalism's systematically uneven economic development. From Marx's original criticism of capitalism for producing and...
Read moreEconomic Update: Exposing Economic Myths
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This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff discusses how the "unemployment rate" is inadequate measure of the U.S. economy’s well-being along with the decline of the “real” value of...
Economic Update: Military Spending and Debt
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This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on France's successful mass uprisings (Yellow Vests in 2019; mass union strikes in 2020) that forced the French government to...
Read moreEconomic Update: Independent Media
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This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on the sale of a co-op craft brewery to a large corporation, U.S. medical costs are...
Read moreEconomic Update: Answering our Critics
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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...
Read moreEconomic Update: Capitalism & the Family: Myth VS Reality
[S10 E01] This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on the Job Quality Index and its U.S. decline, the French activism against President Macron's effort to...
Read moreEconomic Update: The Contributions of Karl Marx - Part 4
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Professor Wolff takes a deeper look at the life and work of Karl Marx in celebration of the 200th anniversary of his birth.
Read moreEconomic Update: The Contributions of Karl Marx - Part 3
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Professor Wolff takes a deeper look at the life and work of Karl Marx in celebration of the 200th anniversary of his birth.
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Economic Update: The Contributions of Karl Marx - Part 2
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Professor Wolff takes a deeper look at the life and work of Karl Marx in celebration of the 200th anniversary of his birth.
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