May 14, 2024
[EU S14 E19] Prospects for a Political Turn Left
This week’s Economic Update Professor Richard Wolff discusses the successful unionization drives that is sweeping across US universities (example: Boston University), We highlight the facts that disprove Biden's "great economy" claims and why inflation is much worse in...
May 7, 2024
[EU S14 E18] Uneven Development a Key Problem of Capitalism
This week in honor of Karl Marx's birthday over this past weekend, Professor Richard Wolff offers a discussion of Marx's important theory of uneven development as central to capitalism. We show its widespread existence, using examples of it from past...
Apr 30, 2024
[EU S14 E17] The Phenomenon of China
This week’s Economic Update Professor Richard Wolff dedicates the entire show to the economic developmental achievement of China, together with the historical background that motivated that achievement. We analyze the uniqueness of both the economic philosophy and the politics of...
Apr 23, 2024
[EU S14 E16] A Critique of Government Spending
This week’s Economic Update Professor Richard Wolff devotes this program devoted to how to understand government spending. How it shapes the larger society. We will focus on two questions 1) What is the government spending on? and 2) How is that money going to be used,...
Apr 17, 2024
[EU S14 E15] A Sea Change In US Labor's Militancy
In this week’s Economic Update Professor, Richard Wolff examines US spending on war materials for Ukraine and Israel, we will discuss Chinese Electric Vehicle imports and the US's protectionist response, and we will highlight the possible convergence of...