Economic Update: Is U.S. Capitalism In Decline?

Описание: Check out our latest book with Richard Wolff: "The Sickness is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself" released in September 2020.
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[S9 E26] Is U.S. Capitalism In Decline?

THIS WEEK'S TOPICS (w/timestamps):
00:52 - Updates on pay inequalities for CEOs VS average workers
03:03 - the economics of mega-mergers
06:52 - billionaires' idea of “charity”
09:31 - the economic consequences of attacking the Huawei Corporation
13:02 - and Sen. Bernie Sanders take the lead on two new bills in Congress designed to expand and provide loans to employee-owned businesses and worker co-ops
14:23 - announcements;
15:09 - SPECIAL GUEST: Prof. Wolff interviews Professor Richard McIntyre on the basic problems with U.S. capitalism today.

Read the full transcript here: https://www.democracyatwork.info/eu_i...

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Learn more about Prof Wolff's new book, "The Sickness is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself" released in September 2020. Available as a paperback now!
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"Richard Wolff in his new book examines frightening and anti-democratic configurations of corporate power, offering not only a blueprint for how we got here, but a plan for how we will rescue ourselves and create new models of economic and political justice.” - Chris Hedges

Check out Prof. Wolff's other books "Understanding Socialism" and "Understanding Marxism"
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Prof. Wolff's books with d@w: "Understanding Socialism" and "Understanding Marxism"
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Dr. Richard McIntyre is Professor of Economics and chair of the Economics department at the University of Rhode Island where he is also co-director of the URI in Cuba program. He has lectured at many universities in the US and Europe including the University of Rennes II in Winter/Spring 2017 where he held the Chair of the Americas (Chaire des Amériques). He is the author of Are Worker Rights Human Rights? (Michigan 2008), co-editor of Knowledge, Class and Economics: Marxism without Guarantees (forthcoming, 2017), and the author of many academic and popular articles across a range of topics in political economy.

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