Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff

By: Democracy at Work Richard D. Wolff
  • Summary

  • 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 listeners with information to analyze their own financial situation as well as the economy at large. By focusing on the economic dimensions of everyday life - wages, jobs, taxes, debts, and profits - the program explores alternative ways to organize markets and government policies.
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Episodes
  • The Global Movement for Cooperatives with Jerome N. Warren
    Nov 12 2024

    On this week’s episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff discusses U.S. Universities and Politicians' repression of student protesters, the continued global demands of indigenous people for liberation from colonialism's legacies, and Harvard's corporate administration sacrificing its students' and faculty's freedom of expression to pander to some of its donors.

    Finally, an interview with Professor Jerome N. Warren, editor of the newly published Routledge Handbook of Cooperative Economics and Management.

    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 ads and rely on viewer support to continue doing so.

    You can support our work by joining our Patreon community:

    https://www.patreon.com/democracyatwork Or you can go to our website: https://www.democracyatwork.info/donate

    Every donation counts and helps us provide a larger audience with the information they need to better understand the events around the world they can't get anywhere else.

    We want to thank our devoted community of supporters who help make this show and others we produce possible each week.

    We kindly ask you to also support the work we do by encouraging others to subscribe to our YouTube channel and website: www.democracyatwork.info

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    31 mins
  • Capitalism's Anxiety About the State
    Oct 1 2020

    On this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on how capitalism gets in the way of fighting Covid-19, systemic racism and Covid-19, why Europe did not allow the mass unemployment imposed on the US, and Wells Fargo CEO's fake excuse for lack of diversity among bankers. In the second half of the show, Wolff explores why capitalism fears the modern state and how it controls that state.

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    29 mins
  • The Economics of US Labor Struggles and Gaza
    Nov 5 2024

    In this week’s episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff discusses the economic repercussions of Western sanctions and how the retaliations they provoke. We then turn to the latest labor strikes and wage & benefit gains achieved by unions at Boeing and East Coast dock workers. We highlight China's dominance of the global energy markets; and U.S. spending on military and police.

    Finally, we close with an economic analysis of Israel's ongoing violence in Gaza.

    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 ads and rely on viewer support to continue doing so.

    You can support our work by joining our Patreon community:

    https://www.patreon.com/democracyatwork Or you can go to our website: https://www.democracyatwork.info/donate

    Every donation counts and helps us provide a larger audience with the information they need to better understand the events around the world they can't get anywhere else.

    We want to thank our devoted community of supporters who help make this show and others we produce possible each week.

    We kindly ask you to also support the work we do by encouraging others to subscribe to our YouTube channel and website: www.democracyatwork.info

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    30 mins

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