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Economic Update: Convention Economics

This episode discusses platform contradictions, the Volkswagan scandal, CEO pay and the Italian banking crisis.

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This episode discusses platform contradictions, the Volkswagen scandal, CEO pay and the Italian banking crisis. We also examine the economics of lotteries, when profit decides who gets mortgages and why 21st century socialism makes worker cooperatives the primary institution of production.

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