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Economic Update: Capitalism and Its Others

This episode explores two alternatives to capitalism, and more.

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The first half of this episode explores two alternatives to capitalism. The first is an alternative to how capitalism organizes the internal workings and relationships of enterprises. The second alternative examines how workers’ self-directed enterprises work. The second half of the show looks at an alternative to how capitalism organizes the economy as a whole, and how the socialist tradition has evolved into many forms today.

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