Marx's Key Insight: Capitalism's Surplus
The central concept of Marx's contribution to a critical understanding of the capitalist economic system - the entry point into his distinctive analysis - is "the surplus." Today's show is devoted to ...
5 Juli 32min
Lessons from China's Economic Development
On this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor devotes the entire program to the why and how of China's passage from abject poverty and colonial humiliation to become, in unprecedented, record h...
5 Juli 31min
The Yellow Vests Mass Movement in France
This week on Economic Update, Professor delivers updates on the big union wins for 40,000 workers in the UC system, the ongoing strike of graduate student workers at Harvard, and basic statistics on t...
4 Juli 32min
Center for Popular Economics: Goals and Achievements
On this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor delivers updates on why and how worker co-ops are a strategic direction for socialism, and Europe's deindustrialization. The second half features a...
8 Juni 31min
Economic Update: The Economics of Unemployment Today
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff briefly discusses two current large strikes by workers fighting back: the British Columbia nurses in Canada and the commuter rail workers in New York (LIR...
27 Maj 31min
Economic Update: The Global "Birth Strike" Changes Everything
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on the tentative agreement reached by the unionized portion (85%) of the staff at the Los Angeles Unified School District (400,000 studen...
20 Maj 35min
Causes & Consequences of the Iran War
The d@w Team Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff is a DemocracyatWork.info Inc. production. We make it a point to provide the show free of ads and rely on viewer support to continue doing so. You c...
5 Maj 29min
