Prof. Richard Wolff on Real Time

[mother earth]

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For further thought provoking info: http://www.rdwolff.com/

Academic positions
Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he taught economics from 1973 to 2008. He is currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University, New York City. He also teaches classes regularly at the Brecht Forum in Manhattan.
Earlier he taught economics at Yale University (1967-1969) and at the City College of the City University of New York (1969-1973). In 1994, he was a Visiting Professor of Economics at the University of Paris (France), I (Sorbonne).

Education
BA in History from Harvard College (1963);
MA in Economics from Stanford University (1964);
MA in History from Yale University (1967); and a
PhD in Economics from Yale University (1969)

For more info on published works & public presentations:
http://www.rdwolff.com/content/about

Be sure to also check:
http://www.democracyatwork.info/

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Seems the video may need to be viewed on youtube.

[blackspade]

1. I can't rec this enough.

Wolff is right on the money as usual.

[mother earth]

2. I hope people take the time to find it on YT & listen. TY, blackspade, for your response.

I highly recommend people ck out his website & radio show, and of course, YouTube vids.

[blackspade]

3. I check him out regularly.

His monthly capitalism updates should be a 'must watch' for anyone that cares about the failing capitalist world system.

His 'cure' for capitalism should be a topic of discussion for anyone who is serious about not only our, but the world's economy and social structures.
The rule of oligarchic corporations needs to come to an end.

[mother earth]

4. I agree, am really looking forward to the March update.

[JDPriestly]

5. Richard Wolff criticizes capitalism, but does not advocate for revolution or the

overthrow of the government. My sense, having heard him speak at a college near my home, is that he is suggesting that working people organize their own businesses and govern their businesses in a more democratic, self-directed manner.

I consider myself to be a capitalist, but I am aware that a lot of companies today are organized as partnerships and that it would be a rather simple matter to organize businesses of the future as partnerships in which all employees have more say than in traditional capitalist companies. I like that idea.

Farmers used to organize parts of their businesses very cooperatively. That would work in a lot of fields. And the legal forms of partnership or even a corporation (not a public corporation) could also be vehicles for putting Wolff's ideas into practice without changing the law that much.

[mother earth]

7. Absolutely, and here is an excellent link to Democracy at Work, for more info on those topics.

http://www.democracyatwork.info/

There is so much info to sift thru, but a great interview touches on these topics of a cooperative and a collective, and other timely issues:

http://www.democracyatwork.info/articles/2014/04/the-progressive-interview/

[navarth]

6. kick for Richard Wolff, always. nt

[mother earth]

8. Always! :)