Monthly Update on Global Capitalism
June 12, 2012 - 19:30 - 21:00
Location:
Brecht Forum, 451 West Street between Bank & Bethune Streets, New York City, New York, 10014
This monthly update will feature, in addition to our usual review of the last month's major economic news, a Report on Mondragon, Spain. This unified community of worker cooperatives is now the world's most successful, large scale (85,000 workers), and long-lasting (over 50 years) experiment in workers owning and directing their enterprises. It competes successfully with capitalist enterprises, innovates technologically in systematic ways, operates its own major bank and university. As a remarkable effort to move beyond capitalism it deserves attention. Rick Wolff spent some time there at the end of May and will offer a brief assessment.
The next Monthly Update will be in September.
Actual economic developments shape the agenda for each of these monthly Tuesday meetings. Rick Wolff, with occasional guests, will present an economic update and an analysis of some particular economic topics and then open the floor to questions, comments and a general discussion of where the US and world economies are going and the political implications. We aim to develop participants’ understanding of and ability to explain to others the key economic developments of our time.
Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he taught economics from 1973 to 2008. He is currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University, New York City. He also teaches classes regularly at the Brecht Forum in Manhattan.
Sliding scale: $6/$10/$15
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