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Economic Update: Fake Competition, Real Cooperation

Updates on evaluating privatization of public schools; engineers’ class action against Apple, Google, Intel and Adobe; and how in the US, home ownership gives way to renting.

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Updates on evaluating privatization of public schools; engineers’ class action against Apple, Google, Intel and Adobe; and how in the US, home ownership gives way to renting. Major discussions of the big movement of worker co-ops in Cuba; a different experience of Yugoslavia; and requiring departing corporations to pay back for publicly funded gifts received. Response to a listener’s question on self-employment.

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