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Economic Update: Ecosocialism

Season 9 Episode 2

Updates on New York City council votes minimum wage for ride-hailing drivers (Uber, Lyft, etc.), Trump store is 85% goods made abroad, charter school…

7 years, 4 months ago

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Economic Update: Capitalism: Slow-motion Implosion?

Season 9 Episode 1

Canada cuts corp tax cuts in race to bottom, Macron pleases business but outrages French people, Italy's new gov't budget provides for its people, Hi…

7 years, 4 months ago

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Economic Update: Capitalism - Changed by its Contradictions

Season 8 Episode 10

Updates on poverty in California, childhood obesity in US, economic fallout from (real meaning of) Trump steel tariff. Prof Wolff responds to questio…

7 years, 5 months ago

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Economic Update: What Elections Hide

Season 8 Episode 26

Updates on LA vote on public bank; contradictions of Trump's "nationalism;" big business criticism of tariffs; corporations like 7-Eleven use immigra…

7 years, 5 months ago

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EU Extra: Kali Akuno

Season 8 Episode 25

Prof. Wolff continues his interview with the co-founder of Cooperation Jackson, Kali Akuno, on the Mississippi development project focused on worker …

7 years, 5 months ago

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Economic Update: Cooperation Jackson: A Closer Look

Season 8 Episode 25

This week's updates include: massive international study of profit-driven food production, the huge costs of contemporary loneliness, police raid Deu…

7 years, 5 months ago

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Economic Update: The Great American Purge

Season 8 Episode 24

Professor Wolff continues his discussion of the economics behind the great U.S. anti-leftist purge ("McCarthyism") after 1945.

7 years, 5 months ago

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Economic Update:The Great American Purge

Season 8 Episode 24

The program begins by explaining the economics behind the great US  anti-leftist purge ("McCarthyism") after 1945. It then shows the economic impacts…

7 years, 5 months ago

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Economic Update Extra: Matthias Scheiblehner

Season 8 Episode 23

    Professor Wolff continues his interview with the founder of the worker owned Metis Construction Company in Seattle, Matthias Scheiblehner.

7 years, 5 months ago

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Economic Update: Seattle firm converts into a worker coop

Season 8 Episode 23

Updates on Amazon subsidized by New York, Virginia; French people act to limit corporate greed, Sears favors bosses in bankruptcy too, Pfizer ups dru…

7 years, 6 months ago

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