Pages tagged "Economic Update"
Economic Update: The Contributions of Karl Marx - Part 1
Part 1 of 4
Professor Wolff takes a deeper look at the life and work of Karl Marx in celebration of...
Read moreEconomic Update: Libertarianism, Capitalism & Socialism
[S9 E47] This episode of Economic Update features an exploration by Professor Wolff of how Libertarians defend capitalism by saying its many current flaws/faults flow from...
Read moreEconomic Update: Competition and Monopoly in Capitalism
[S9 E46]
Capitalism's growing problems (inequalities, instabilities, unsustainability etc.) lead some defenders to argue that...
Economic Update: Teaching Economics: A Revolutionary Approach
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on Kshama Sawant’s reelection victory in the Seattle City Council race...
Economic Update: Political Strategy for Transition
[S9 E44] Political Strategy for Transition
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff discusses a political strategy for transition beyond capitalism to an economy based on democratic worker-owned co-operatives. The first half explores...
Read moreEconomic Update: The Human Agenda
[S9 E42]
On this week's EU, Prof. Wolff presents updates on costs of NBA offense to China, worsening global inequality, poverty mocks Nobel prize for 3 economists working on...
Read moreEconomic Update: Making Critical Arguments
Economic Update: The Capitalist Corporation
[S9 E40]
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff examines the structure and functioning of the large capitalist corporation dominating modern economies. He discusses...
Economic Update: Worker Co-ops, Socialism's Future
[S9 E39]
In the first half of Economic Update this week, Professor Wolff discusses how and why socialism changed from what it meant in the 19th and 20th centuries (public enterprises...
Read moreEconomic Update: A Growing US Left
[S9 E38]
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on California events (LA Times labor union, 80,000 Kaiser workers to strike, new state public banking law), gross inefficiency of private...
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