Episodes
Sunday Jan 28, 2018
Economic Update - Marxism's Contribution: Unique Social Analysis - 01.28.18
Sunday Jan 28, 2018
Sunday Jan 28, 2018
Updates on New York City's suit against big oil and dumping $5 billion in fossil fuel investments, fast-rising US consumer debt, further attacks on labor and living standards in Greece, collapse of Carillion Corp exposes failure of privatization in UK, and how CVS' touch-ups of beauty images expose economics of advertising. Interview with Prof. Bertell Ollman on Marx's distinctive contributions to analyzing capitalist society, past and present.
Sunday Jan 21, 2018
Economic Update - Knowledge, Class and Economics - 01.21.18
Sunday Jan 21, 2018
Sunday Jan 21, 2018
Updates on problems and solutions for workplace discrimination, China's ascending economy, capitalism's drive to income and wealth inequalities, economics of immigration's winners and losers, US capitalism and African-Americans. Interview with co-author Prof. Richard McIntyre on new book: Knowledge, Class and Economics: Marxism Without Guarantees.
Sunday Jan 14, 2018
Economic Update - Capitalism and Addiction: The Opioid Epidemic - 01.14.18
Sunday Jan 14, 2018
Sunday Jan 14, 2018
Updates on UN report on poverty in the US, oreos produced in Mexico, US households with zero or negative net worth, Germany's negative utility prices, Germany's bold labor strikes, Iceland law on equal pay for equal work, the myth of US economic "recovery," and Canada's Tim Horton sabotages rising minimum wage. Interview with Dr. Harriet Fraad on US opioid epidemic: psychology and capitalism.
Sunday Jan 07, 2018
Economic Update - The Economy from 2017 to 2018 - 01.07.18
Sunday Jan 07, 2018
Sunday Jan 07, 2018
"Updates on net neutrality, workplace sexual harassment, bitcoin, worsening global inequality, Europe's recovery and instability, and using prison labor to fight fires. Major discussions of consumerism, gathering revolt against capitalism, and the economics of alternative populisms."