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Season 9 Episode 13
REPEAT [S9 E13] In-depth analysis of UBI shows its advantages over most welfare, safety net systems. An even better alternative would avoid capital…
6 years, 7 months ago
Libertarianism, Capitalism and Socialism
Season 9 Episode 47
Libertarians defend capitalism by saying its many current flaws/faults flow from the state's economic interventions, not from the system itself. Libe…
6 years, 7 months ago
Competition and Monopoly in Capitalism
Season 9 Episode 46
This week's special topic discusses capitalism's growing problems, such as inequalities, instabilities, and unsustainability. That leads some defende…
6 years, 7 months ago
Fascism: An Analysis for Today [REPEAT]
Season 9 Episode 12
This is a REPEAT episode. An in-depth analysis of fascism as massive government intervention to protect and save a crashing capitalism. We focus on …
6 years, 8 months ago
Teaching Economics: A Revolutionary Approach
Season 9 Episode 45
Updates on Sawant's victory in Seattle City Council election, the US obesity problem's costs and causes, critiquing libertarian arguments for capital…
6 years, 8 months ago
Political Strategy for Transition
Season 9 Episode 44
Today's program discusses a political strategy for transition beyond capitalism to an economy based on democratic worker-cooperatives. The first half…
6 years, 8 months ago
[S9 E43] U.S. "Profit-driven Medicine"
Season 9 Episode 43
Updates on Berlin, Germany's law freezing all rents for 5 years, overindebted corporations threaten world economy, prisoners' slave labor in Los Ange…
6 years, 8 months ago
The Human Agenda
Season 9 Episode 42
Updates on costs of NBA offense to China, worsening global inequality, poverty mocks Nobel prize for 3 economists working on "incremental solutions" …
6 years, 9 months ago
The Capitalist Corporation
Season 9 Episode 41
This program examines the structure and functioning of the large capitalist corporation dominating modern economies. We discuss their basic economics…
6 years, 9 months ago
Making Critical Arguments
Season 9 Episode 40
Updates on US housing crisis as systemic failure (the homeless LA opera singer), Greta Thunberg's critics exposed, Europeans gain from US-China trade…
6 years, 9 months ago