Socialism: An Evolving Tradition
Today's entire program is devoted to tracing the origins and evolution of socialism through its splits and growth to become a global movemen...
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Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff
Economic Update is a weekly nationally syndicated radio program produced by Democracy at Work and hosted by Richard D. Wolff. The program explores complex economic issues and empowers listen...
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20 of 587 episodesEconomics of the U.S. State
Today's entire program approaches the economic role of the state in U.S. society, past and present. We analyze two major tensions: one betwe...
The Resurgence of White Supremacy
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on U.S. businesses receiving refunds for Trump's illegal tariffs without lowe...
DSA Revives Socialism in U.S. Politics
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on new U.S. government rules that are universally hostile to international st...
The Great Shift of Economic Thought from Macro to Micro
The rational approach is to ask which works better in an industry or to meet any social need: private enterprise or government enterprise. I...
A Critique of Profit
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff devotes the entire show to a critical analysis of profit. The point is to show that it is a ve...
U.S. Housing Crisis Deepens
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff presents updates on the Australian dockworkers' union's fight against A.I., the German auto wo...
Markets: Institutions Deeply In Need of Criticism
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff presents an analysis of how markets work, which parts of society they favor and serve, and whi...
U.S. Capitalism as a Crisis for Men
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on rising wages for app-based NYC food delivery workers, a wave of U.S. firms...
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 distinct...
Supermarket Jobs, Super Exploitation
This week on Economic Update, Professor delivers updates on the so-called Social Security Crisis, the gross inequality of stock ownership in...
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 an...
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 gr...
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,...
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 nur...
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 staf...
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...
Marx's Relevance for Today
In response to questions about Marx's relevance today, this program explains how Marx's criticism of capitalism was unique (more micro-focus...
Born Sick in the USA: Improving The Health of a Nation
On this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff provides updates on the 3 major teachers' unions struggling with the LA Unified S...
Economic Implications of the U.S. War on Iran
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff discusses the 3800 Colorado meatpackers on strike before diving into a presentation on how the...