Episodes
Monday Sep 27, 2021
Economic Update - SOCIALISM AND WORKER COOPS [REPEAT]
Monday Sep 27, 2021
Monday Sep 27, 2021
20th century socialism is now behind us. Socialists continued to evaluate both its achievements and failures via extensive self-criticism. A changed socialism has emerged, focused on a transition of workplaces from top-down hierarchical capitalist structures into democratic worker cooperatives. The powerful appeal of worker coops as grounding a new 21st century socialism is presented.
Monday Sep 20, 2021
Economic Update - Occupy Wall Street: Analysis and Legacy
Monday Sep 20, 2021
Monday Sep 20, 2021
This program is devoted to Occupy Wall Street (OWS) on its 10th anniversary. Prof. Wolff discusses OWS as a historic turning point, as legacy for the US left, and his personal experience. Wolff presents OWS's 4 basic causes, its anti-capitalist economics, and its lessons.
Saturday Sep 11, 2021
Economic Update - The Rational and Irrational in Anti-Vaxxers
Saturday Sep 11, 2021
Saturday Sep 11, 2021
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on the complexities of anti-vaccination movements, the long decline of religion in US capitalism, Disneys’s shift to serve the richest, lessons from AFL-CIO chief Richard Trumka's leadership, and failures of GOP, Dem leaders to stop last 75 years of decline of manufacturing in the US economy (driven by corporate profitability).
Friday Sep 03, 2021
Economic Update - 20 Years after 9/11, US is still a Stuck Nation
Friday Sep 03, 2021
Friday Sep 03, 2021
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on Alabama miners' strike, how China's focus on reducing inequality affects competition with the US, and the economics of the "right to repair" consumers' movement in the US. The second half of the show features an interview with investigative reporter Bob Hennelly, author of Stuck Nation: Can the United States Change Course on Our History of Choosing Profits Over People?