Economic Update:  A Deepening Crisis of Capitalism

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Economic Update: [S8 E17]  A Deepening Crisis of Capitalism
THIS WEEK'S TOPICS (w/timestamps):
00:57 - Updates on the IMF’s prediction of slowing global growth;
04:25 - Bank of England warnings on accumulation of sub-prime debt;
06:17 - Nordhaus Nobel prize and market ideology;
08:43 - Dutch unions and others against corporate tax evasion;
11:42 - signs of labor militancy in Marriott strike and profit-sharing demands of steelworkers.
15:16 - SPECIAL GUEST: Professor Wolff interviews Chris Hedges on his latest book: America: The Farewell Tour.

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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!
www.democracyatwork.info/books

"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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Chris Hedges is a columnist for TruthDig; he teaches at Princeton University in a program for incarcerated prisoners; he's a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and a New York Times best selling author. His most recent work is called "America the Farewell."

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