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Profit, Austerity and Criticizing the System

On Economic Update with Professor Richard Wolff, Wolff and guests will discuss the current state of the economy, both locally and globally in relation to the economic crisis.

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Updates on profit-driven scandals (horsemeat in Europe and fish in US); how long we work, Correa’s anti-austerity victory in Ecuador, and getting public benefits for public investment in sports stadiums. Major analyses of “internship” in US business and the basic contribution of Marxian economics. Description of Colorado worker self-directed enterprise and response to listeners on (a) mutual decision-making between residential communities and worker coops’ and (b) critique of Marxian debates on crisis causes.

On Economic Update with Professor Richard Wolff, Wolff and guests will discuss the current state of the economy, both locally and globally in relation to the economic crisis.

Wolff will focus on wages, jobs, taxes, and debts – and on interest rates, prices, and profits. We aim to explain why certain economic changes are happening and other changes get postponed or blocked and we will explore alternative ways to organize enterprises, markets, and government policies. Economic Update is a weekly show for people who want to understand and change not only their own financial situation but also the larger economy we all depend on.

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