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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Economics Professor Richard D. Wolff and guests discuss the current state of the economy, locally and globally. The program explores alternative ways to organize, markets, and government pol...
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20 of 43 episodesEconomics of the US 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
On this week’s Economic Update, Professor Wolff discusses US businesses enjoying refunds of Trump’s illegal tariffs by NOT lowering prices r...
DSA Revives Socialism in US 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’s Economic Update’s entire half-hour is devoted to a critical analysis of profit. The point is to show that it is a very biased wa...
Special Fund Drive Programming – Economic Update
Economics Professor Richard D. Wolff and guests discuss the current state of the economy, locally and globally. The program explores alterna...
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...
US Capitalism as a Crisis for Men
This week on Economic Update, Professor delivers updates on rising wages for app-based NYC food delivery workers, a wave of U.S. firms being...
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
This week’s Economic Update is devoted to the why and how of China’s passage from abject poverty and colonial humiliation to become – in unp...
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...
Economic Update – Center for Popular Economics: Goals and Achievements
On this weeks episode of Economic Update, Professor delivers updates on why and how worker co-ops are a strategic direction for socialism, a...
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...
Special Fund Drive Programming: Economic Update – May 22, 2026
Economics Professor Richard D. Wolff and guests discuss the current state of the economy, locally and globally. The program explores alterna...
Economic Update – May 15, 2026
Economics Professor Richard D. Wolff and guests discuss the current state of the economy, locally and globally. The program explores alterna...
Economic Update – May 8, 2026
Economics Professor Richard D. Wolff and guests discuss the current state of the economy, locally and globally. The program explores alterna...
Born Sick in the USA: Improving The Health of a Nation
This week’s Economic Update focuses on 3 major teachers unions struggling with LA Unified School District, the rising US electricity costs a...
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...