Podcast Episodes

A Critique of Profit

Season 16 Episode 29

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 very biased…

11 hours ago

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U.S. Housing Crisis Deepens

Season 16 Episode 28

This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff presents updates on the Australian dockworkers' union's fight against A.I., the German auto workers' fi…

1 week ago

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Markets: Institutions Deeply In Need of Criticism

Season 16 Episode 27

This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff presents an analysis of how markets work, which parts of society they favor and serve, and which they d…

2 weeks ago

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U.S. Capitalism as a Crisis for Men

Season 16 Episode 26

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 being so…

3 weeks ago

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Marx's Key Insight: Capitalism's Surplus

Season 16 Episode 25

The central concept of Marx's contribution to a critical understanding of the capitalist economic system - the entry point into his distinctive analy…

3 weeks, 1 day ago

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Supermarket Jobs, Super Exploitation

Season 16 Episode 24

This week on Economic Update, Professor delivers updates on the so-called Social Security Crisis, the gross inequality of stock ownership in the U.S.…

3 weeks, 1 day ago

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Lessons from China's Economic Development

Season 16 Episode 23

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 and colonia…

3 weeks, 1 day ago

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The Yellow Vests Mass Movement in France

Season 16 Episode 22

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 graduate st…

3 weeks, 2 days ago

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Center for Popular Economics: Goals and Achievements

Season 16 Episode 21

On this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor delivers updates on why and how worker co-ops are a strategic direction for socialism, and Europ…

1 month, 2 weeks ago

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Economic Update: The Economics of Unemployment Today

Season 16 Episode 20

This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff briefly discusses two current large strikes by workers fighting back: the British Columbia nurses in Ca…

2 months ago

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