Unlearning Market Idolatry
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff explores the last 150 years of largely uncritical celebrations of "the market" as if it were a perfect institution that must be protected from the intrusi...
8 Apr 202530min
Mounting Economic Problems
In this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff discusses certain minimum wages by the Trump administration, the costs of Germany's rearmament, and how Trump's tariffs and deportations have...
1 Apr 202530min
How Marx's Class Analysis Could Solve Inequality Now
In this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff discusses how Marx's class analysis presents a solution to today's inequality and the challenges to overcoming it we have faced throughout hi...
25 Mars 202529min
Build and Fight: The Resistance Forms
In this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff discusses the economic causes and effects of the global demographic's decline, the Trump administration's colonial plans for Greenland, and e...
18 Mars 202533min
Federal Employees Fight Back
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on the firing of government workers by Trump/Musk with an economic analysis showing it to be an attack on the U.S. working class followed...
11 Mars 202532min
The Nobel Prize in Economics Exposed
This week's episode of Economic Update features updates on the economic risks and costs Europe faces from deporting or blocking immigrants as compared to Spain's prosperity through a pro-immigrant pol...
4 Mars 202531min
U.S. Policy toward China: A Failing Effort to Contain Historic Change
In this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff discusses unionizing Whole Foods workers VS. Amazon and Trump and the contradictions, dangers, and global retaliation of the new administrati...
25 Feb 202530min
Capitalism, Lost Empathy and Rising Addictions
In this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff discusses Trump's attempts at taking Panama as more evidence of rising colonialism and imperial ambitions, the recent organizing and strike o...
18 Feb 202521min
