Economics of the U.S. State

Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff by Democracy at Work

Aug 25, 202631:14News & Politics

Today's entire program approaches the economic role of the state in U.S. society, past and present. We analyze two major tensions: one between minimizing the state (liberalism/libertarianism) and maximizing it (New Deal/...

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