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Economic Update: What’s Wrong With Markets

Updates on Memphis workers locked out; problems of on-line education; capitalism, wealth inequality, and Starbucks; and Gallup on Americans’ dissatisfied with their economy, and more.

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Updates on Memphis workers locked out; problems of on-line education; capitalism, wealth inequality, and Starbucks; and Gallup on Americans’ dissatisfied with their economy. Major discussions of (1) unemployment and politics and (2) organizing a market in human kidneys and markets in general. Response to question on Europe’s economic crisis and its links to Europe’s generous state services and safety nets.

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