{"id":3578,"date":"2017-08-31T11:36:15","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T09:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.actvism.org\/?p=3578"},"modified":"2020-11-06T17:48:53","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T16:48:53","slug":"economic-update-richard-wolff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/opinions\/economic-update-richard-wolff\/","title":{"rendered":"acTVism Editorial Pick: Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row justify-content-md-center\">\n<div class=\"col-md-8 pb-3\">\n<p><strong>acTVism Editorial Pick: Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff <\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff<\/strong>\u00a0 begun on a single Pacifica station in March 2011. Today, it is played on 80+ stations nationwide and available for video streaming on YouTube and Facebook.\u00a0Wolff\u2019s specialty on this program is to take complex economic issues and make them understandable, empowering listeners with information to analyze not only their own financial situation but the economy at large. By focusing on the economic dimensions of everyday life &#8211; wages, jobs, taxes, debts, interest rates, prices, and profits &#8211; the program explores alternative ways to organize markets, and government policies.<\/p>\n<p><b>YouTube show playlist:<\/b>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLPJpiw1WYdTMLIyASxEheOVjl1vKkajYj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.youtube.<wbr \/>com\/playlist?list=PLPJpiw1WYdT<wbr \/>MLIyASxEheOVjl1vKkajYj<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h1 class=\"title style-scope ytd-video-primary-info-renderer\">Economic Update: Collective Action for Change<\/h1>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Economic Update: Collective Action for Change\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pg_Gy2BNt7s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<h2>ABOUT RICHARD D. WOLFF<\/h2>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2392\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/wolff1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2392 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/wolff1-150x150.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/wolff1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/wolff1.jpg 249w\" alt=\"Richard D. Wolff\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Richard D. Wolff<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Richard D. Wolff<\/strong> 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). The New York Times Magazine has named him \u201cAmerica\u2019s most prominent Marxist economist.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff  begun on a single Pacifica station in March 2011. Today, it is played on 80+ stations nationwide and available for video streaming on YouTube and Facebook. Wolff\u2019s specialty on this program is to take complex economic issues and make them understandable, empowering listeners with information to analyze not only their own financial situation but the economy at large. By focusing on the economic dimensions of everyday life &#8211; wages, jobs, taxes, debts, interest rates, prices, and profits &#8211; the program explores alternative ways to organize markets, and government policies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,886],"tags":[],"channel":[],"class_list":["post-3578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-opinions"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.0","language":"en","enabled_languages":["de","en"],"languages":{"de":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true}}},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>acTVism Editorial Pick: Economic Update with Richard D. 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