Updates on declining higher ed in US, rising unemployment for all education levels, big money in politics. Discussions of (1) last week's falling US GDP, rising unemployment and stock market peak, and (2) tragic scandals of profit-driven medical corporations. Replies to listeners on worker coops, whether Marx endorsed violence and worshipped government, and "real" capitalism fantasies.

 

Professor Wolff on KPFA's Evening News

Interviews from Jan 21 and Feb 10, 2013

Parts I and !!

 

  Updates on Gerard Depardieu's individual tax evasion, corporate tax evasion via profit repatriation, worst CEOs of 2012, and phony DC "debt-ceiling" theatrics. Discussion of Swiss bank crimes, Keynesian vs Marxian economics, political turmoil in 2013, and criticism of markets. Response to question on new capital gains taxes.   On Economic Update with Professor Richard Wolff, Wolff and guests will discuss the current state of the economy, both locally and globally in relation to the economic crisis.

  President Obama's first press conference of the year.     Reaction with economist Richard Wolff and Harriet Fraad.

 

  Updates on how the new US tax deal favors the rich, deepening student loan problems, and how 2012 benefited billionaires. Analysis of possible conversion from a war-oriented to a peace-oriented economy. Response to listener question on using workers' pension funds to change corporate behaviors.     On Economic Update with Professor Richard Wolff, Wolff and guests will discuss the current state of the economy, both locally and globally in relation to the economic crisis.

 

Updates on Marvins' "shared unemployment," $4 trillion profits hoarded by US corporations, and root issues of the "fiscal cliff." Discussion of solutions for unemployment. Responses to listeners: on pluses and minuses of China's economic growth and on the contradictions of "social investing."

 

  On Economic Update with Professor Richard Wolff, Wolff and guests will discuss the current state of the economy, both locally and globally in relation to the economic crisis.

From wgrnradio.com

My 15MOF interview today will be with someone I have wanted to have on our program for some time, and that is Dr. Richard Wolff, who is currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University here in New York City.

Credentials?  He is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and has earned a BA magna cum laude in history from Harvard in 1963 and an MA in economics at Stanford.