Richard D. Wolff

New York

Host at KPFK - Economic Update w/Richard Wolff

Host of #EconomicUpdate, Prof. of Economics Emeritus @UMassAmherst, visiting Prof. @TheNewSchool, founder @democracyatwrk. #WeCanDoBetterThanCapitalism

Articles

How Far The Fascist Analogy Works

4 days ago | laprogressive.com | Richard D. Wolff |Rob Maurer

In the short period from1918 to the 1930s, the German working class suffered three historic traumas. Germany lost a devastating world war and thus its colonies, suffered one of the world’s worst inflations, and then crashed into the Great Depression. Nothing in the prior century had prepared Germany’s working class for the sudden losses of life, of physical and mental health, of family savings, and of jobs and careers that those traumas entailed.
Trump is trying to reverse the New Deal

1 month ago | nationofchange.org | Richard D. Wolff

This article was produced by Economy for All, a project of the Independent Media Institute. Richard D. Wolff is professor of economics emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a visiting professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University, in New York. Wolff’s weekly show, “Economic Update,” is syndicated by more than 100 radio stations and goes to millions via several TV networks and YouTube.
Trump is Trying to Reverse the New Deal

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Richard D. Wolff

NowThe US has $36 trillion in debt. What does that mean, and who owns it? The US has the highest national debt in the world, a quarter of which is owned by other countries. On Sunday, a key congressional committee in the United States approved President Donald Trump’s new tax cut bill, which could pass in the House of Representatives later this week.
Trump Is Trying To Reverse The New Deal

1 month ago | scoop.co.nz | Richard D. Wolff

By Richard D. WolffAfter the end of World War II,the U.S. employer class—the capitalists—facedoverlapping threats, both domestic and foreign. On thedomestic side, a coalition of the Congress of IndustrialOrganizations (CIO), two socialist parties, and a communistparty had grown large and powerful during the 1930s GreatDepression. Together, they pushed hard and successfully fordomestic policies collectively known as the NewDeal.
Billionaires Salivate Over Plan to Privatize the Post Office

2 months ago | znetwork.org | Richard D. Wolff |Brian Becker

Trump, Musk, and the billionaires are trying to privatize the Post Office among several other government services. Brian Becker and Prof. Richard Wolff discuss the real story behind these attacks. ZNetwork is funded solely through the generosity of its readers.
A cruel hoax: The political economy of anti-immigration

Feb 28, 2025 | nationofchange.org | Richard D. Wolff

This article was produced by Economy for All, a project of the Independent Media Institute. Richard D. Wolff is professor of economics emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a visiting professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University, in New York. Wolff’s weekly show, “Economic Update,” is syndicated by more than 100 radio stations and goes to millions via several TV networks and YouTube.
A Cruel Hoax: The Political Economy Of Anti-Immigration - OpEd

Feb 27, 2025 | eurasiareview.com | Richard D. Wolff

Deporting immigrants may deliver electoral wins to politicians if voters have been sufficiently cultivated by years of demonizing and scapegoating them. For its victims, the cruelties involved are horrific. Yet such deportation makes little sense economically. It represents a nationally self-destructive program based on a faulty grasp of immigration economics. What once “made America great” (at least for the majority white population) were its successive waves of immigrants.
Settler Colonialism: ‘It Ends With Us’ in Palestine and Israel

Feb 13, 2025 | egbertowillies.com | Richard D. Wolff

My birth emerged from European capitalism’s fascistic catastrophe in the 1920s–1940s. That catastrophe also produced Israel’s experiment with settler colonialism in Palestine. This article refers to both these incidents to analyze the current Palestine-Israel catastrophe. My reasons or qualifications to write such an article start with the fact that my maternal grandmother and grandfather were killed at the Nazis’ Mauthausen concentration camp. My father’s sister was killed in Auschwitz.
Settler Colonialism: 'It Ends With Us' In Palestine And Israel

Feb 2, 2025 | popularresistance.org | Richard D. Wolff

Above photo: Nathaniel St. Clair. My birth emerged from European capitalism’s fascistic catastrophe in the 1920s–1940s. That catastrophe also produced Israel’s experiment with settler colonialism in Palestine. This article refers to both these incidents to analyze the current Palestine-Israel catastrophe. My reasons or qualifications to write such an article start with the fact that my maternal grandmother and grandfather were killed at the Nazis’ Mauthausen concentration camp.
Settler colonialism: ‘It Ends With Us’ in Palestine and Israel

Jan 30, 2025 | nationofchange.org | Richard D. Wolff

This article was produced by Economy for All, a project of the Independent Media Institute. Richard D. Wolff is professor of economics emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a visiting professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University, in New York. Wolff’s weekly show, “Economic Update,” is syndicated by more than 100 radio stations and goes to millions via several TV networks and YouTube.