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Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff

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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...

Episodes

20 of 592 episodes

On The Edge of Sports

In this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on Trump's effort to buy votes for Republicans and its consequen...

33:30Oct 6, 2026

Millennials Speak

In this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on the September 6th German elections and their meanings, the im...

33:17Sep 29, 2026

Revolutionary Socialism in the US Today

In this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on Die Linke ("The Left") political party surging in Germany, th...

32:01Sep 21, 2026

Activism in the U.S. Now

In this episode, Professor Wolff delivers updates on new research documenting market failure to meet the urgent, large need for childcare in...

31:27Sep 15, 2026

Economic Hardship Reporting Project

This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on the Starbucks Workers United call-to-boycott, the powerful lyrics of Dolly...

30:55Sep 7, 2026

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...

31:03Sep 1, 2026

Economics 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...

31:14Aug 25, 2026

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...

30:50Aug 18, 2026

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...

31:21Aug 11, 2026

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...

30:44Aug 3, 2026

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...

30:34Jul 27, 2026

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...

31:52Jul 20, 2026

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...

31:57Jul 13, 2026

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...

30:53Jul 7, 2026

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...

32:23Jul 5, 2026

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...

31:29Jul 5, 2026

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...

31:55Jul 5, 2026

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...

32:35Jul 4, 2026

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,...

31:16Jun 8, 2026

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...

31:45May 27, 2026