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Richard Wolff

The Role of Banks & Insurance Corporations and How to Reform them with Richard D. Wolff

15. June 2017

The Role of Banks & Insurance Corporations and How to Reform them with Richard Wolff


In this educational video Professor of Economics Emeritus (University of Massachusetts), Marxist economist and founder of Democracy at Work, Richard Wolff, talks about the role of banks and insurance corporations in our society and how to reform them.

The following questions are addressed in this educational video:

  • Are banking & insurance corporations fulfilling their societal role?
  • Should the profit-motive be the driving force behind these financial institutions?
  • What alternatives can society implement in order to reform these institutions?

VIDEO: The Role of Banks & Insurance Corporations


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ABOUT RICHARD WOLFF

Richard D. Wolff
Richard D. Wolff

Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University in New York. Wolff has also taught economics at Yale University, City University of New York, and the University of Paris I (Sorbonne). He is a co-founder and contributor of Democracy at Work, a non-profit organization that promotes democratic workplaces as a key part of a transition to a better economic system. Wolff has published many books and articles, both scholarly and popular. Most recently, in 2012, he published the books Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism (Haymarket Books) and Contending Economic Theories: Neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian, with Stephen Resnick (Cambridge, MA, and London: MIT University Press). He writes regularly for Truthout.org. He has been interviewed on The Charlie Rose Show, Up with Chris Hayes, Real Time with Bill Maher, Democracy Now!, Al-Jazeera English, Thom Hartmann, NPR, Alternative Radio, and many other radio and TV programs in the United States and abroad. The New York Times Magazine has named him “America’s most prominent Marxist economist.


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