When Stale Debates Distract
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on how air-bnb reflects workers' falling living standards, price-gouging anti-virus masks, purpose of Trump's record deficit, end of Brexit distractio...
27 Feb 202028min
Larger Social Changes to Support Worker Coops
This program responds to a criticism that D@W focuses too much on the transition from capitalist firms to worker-coop firms with too little attention paid to the larger social changes needed to get be...
20 Feb 202028min
Socialism and Left Unity in the US
Updates on Trump's 2019 $ 1 trillion plus deficit, burden of poor countries' debt, Amsterdam forgives young peoples' debts, "strong man" governments' fund-raising strategy, and gross failures of Trump...
14 Feb 202028min
Capitalism's Uneven Development
Introduction to capitalism's systematically uneven economic development. From Marx's original criticism of capitalism for producing and reproducing unevenness to the many historical examples, today's ...
6 Feb 202028min
Exposing Economic Myths
Discussions of (1) "unemployment rate" as inadequate measure of economy's well-being; (2) decline of real value of US minimum wage; (3) multiple failures and flaws of markets, (4) corporations as less...
30 Jan 202028min
Military Spending and Debt
Updates on France's successful mass uprisings (Yellow Vests in 2019; mass union strikes in 2020) that forced gov't to back down on changes that workers opposed; how endless wars impose huge debts; and...
23 Jan 202028min
Independent Media
Updates on sale of coop craft brewery, US medical costs highest in world, and the "overcoming poverty" defense of capitalism's inequality and instability. Interview Laura Flanders on independent media...
16 Jan 202028min
[S10 E02] Answering our Critics
On this all new episode, Prof Wolff discusses three major criticisms of Economic Update: (1) that we don't praise capitalism for reducing world poverty, (2) that we don't admit that "socialism has nev...
9 Jan 202028min
