From the National Radio Project:   "It’s a time of economic transition, and systems that may have seemed stable over the past few decades are proving to be far from it. But how did we get here? And how can we learn from the past, to build a more fair and just system in the future? While many politicians and pundits claim that no one saw the current economic collapse coming, in fact, we had plenty of warning, depending on who we listened to.

Richard Wolff speaks with Jeff Farias on his radio show broadcasted by Roots Up Radio. As this book shows, we must now ask basic questions about capitalism as a system that has now convulsed the world economy into two great depressions in 75 years (and countless lesser crises, recession, and cycles in between). The book’s essays engage the long-overdue public discussion about basic structural changes and systemic alternatives needed not only to fix today’s broken economy but to prevent future crises.

This disussion between Dr. Harriet Fraad and Professor Richard Wolff focuses on how the continued economic deterioration (credit crisis, rising food and energy prices, falling home prices, looming recession, fiscal crises of states and cities, etc.) is interacting with the psychological stresses and strains of US life today (isolation, loneliness, anxiety, depression, violence, child neglect, etc.). The discussion explores whether a potentially explosive convergence of economic and psychological crises is now under way.

Interview with Steve Gibson of Truth Driven Thinking and WKZO radio

Suzi Wesiman and Richard Wolff discuss the economic crisis and the solutions currently pursued by the US government, as well as alternative possibilites on her radio show Beneath the Surface KPFK Pacifica Radio 90.7 FM in Los Angeles and 98.7 FM in Santa Barbara.

Richard Wolff's plenary at the opening of the 2009 Rethinking Marxism Conference held at the University of Massachusets on November 5th, 2009, stressed that the crisis is not "financial" but rather rooted in the explosion since the 1970s of the capitalist surplus (difference between labor productivity - constantly rising - and real wages - basically flat since 1970s). This produced surplus explosion for all capitalists that spun off as always into speculation, excess risk, and corruption, while driving masses to work exhaustion and unprecedented consumer debt.

Scott Harris and Rick speak about the economic crisis on the radio show Counterpoint on WKPN

On October 24th, 2009, Richard Wolff shared his analysis and solutions at a public forum and film screening of  "Capitalism Hits the Fan: The Global Economic Meltdown and What Can be Done About It" in Hamden, CT, sponsored by Between The Lines Radio and Squeaky Wheel Productions.

You can view the videos of his talk, Part 1 through 5, or listen to the audio below.

Richard speaks with Dan and Chris on the Nookular Option radio show on WXUT, a public radio outlet in Toledo, Ohio based at the University of Toledo.