According to a report by Moody’s Analytics, nearly two dollars out of every ten that came into Americans’ wallets last year were payments like jobless benefits, food stamps, social security and disability. So what happens when state and federal benefits run out later this year? Economist and radio host Richard Wolff explains.  

These Tuesday evenings each begin with an update and analysis of major economic events of the last month and their contexts of longer-term economic trends shaping politics and society here and abroad. We focus on the evolving global capitalist economic crisis and its consequences. Topics examined include

On May 30th, 2010, Richard wolff conducted an interview in Greece addressing Economic Democracy.

This summer (2011) the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Department of Economics (www.umass.edu/economics) will offer, for the first time, an online course in Marxian Economics (Econ 305). Professor Stephen Resnick will teach this course which he prepared based on the popular undergraduate course in Marxian Economics that was developed by Professor Resnick together with Professor Richard Wolff and taught by both of them over the last 25 years.

For tonight's "Conversations with Great Minds" Thom Hartmann is joined by an economist Richard Wolff whose many books and more than four decades of teaching have focused on Marxian economics, economic methodology and class analysis. He is professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst and is currently a visiting professor in the Graduate Program of International Affairs at the New School University in New York City. His latest book is Capitalism Hits the Fan: The Global Economic Meltdown and What to Do About It.

These Tuesday evenings each begin with an update and analysis of major economic events of the last month and their contexts of longer-term economic trends shaping politics and society here and abroad. We focus on the evolving global capitalist economic crisis and its consequences. Topics examined include

On December 2nd, 2009, Brown University hosted a showing of Richard D. Wolff's Capitalism Hits The Fan: The Global Economic Meltdown and What to Do About It. The event was sponsored by the International Socialist Organization (ISO). Additional support from the RI Mobilization Committee to Stop War and Occupation (RIMC).

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Richard Wolff appears on The Real News Network to discuss his views on why the debt matters and the current political discussion of debt alongside Michael Hudson,