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Back to EpisodesEconomic Update: Marxism's Contribution: Unique Social Analysis
Season 7
Episode 4
Published 8 years, 4 months ago
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Updates on New York City's suit against big oil and dumping $5 billion in fossil fuel investments, fast-rising US consumer debt, further attacks on labor and living standards in Greece, collapse of Carillion Corp exposes failure of privatization in UK, and how CVS' touch-ups of beauty images expose economics of advertising. Interview with Prof. Bertell Ollman on Marx's distinctive contributions to analyzing capitalist society, past and present.