The Economic Crisis
Podcast: Challenging the Mental Health Drug Business
Published on March 28, 2011AUDIOThe drug industry operates right at the juncture of economics and psychology, and this is especially true of its hugely profitable drugs for mental health problems. We discuss who benefits and who loses when drugs replace the therapeutic relationship between patient and psychotherapist, when treating health problems at great cost takes precedence over the less costly prevention of those problems.An Evening with Richard Wolff (Video)
On Sunday, January 16th, 2011, Professor Wolff spoke at the Berkley Hillside Club. These four parts of the talk begin with a short introduction and end with a question and answer session that took place at the event.
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Debts and lies about them are being used to push conservative agendas in Wisconisn and across the country. Lots of statistical flim-flam is flowing from the pushers of those agendas. Yet alternative progressive agendas make more sense. The flim-flam becomes clear from the Federal Reserve’s just released Flow of Funds statistics for 2010. They reveal some truths about current economic events that deserve attention. First, consider this breakdown in the total debts of the five basic sectors of the US economy:
Rollins College Lectures
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KPFT The Monitor 90.1FM Radio Interview
Published on March 12, 2011AUDIOProfessor Richard Wolff makes a radio appearance for KPFT's The Monitor on 90.1FM
WBAI's Talk Back! with Hugh Hamilton
Published on March 12, 2011AUDIOProfessor Richard Wolff's interview begins 1:03:00 into the show.
KRCL Radio Interview
Published on March 8, 2011AUDIORichard Wolff makes an appearance on KRCL 90.9 FM Radio to speak about who is to blame for the economic crisis and the response.
KRCL: RadioActive! March 8 Capitalism Hits the Fan (2011-03-08)
Prospects for the U.S. Left: Not Bad At All
Prospects for the Left in the United States are far better than they seem to most observers across the political spectrum (excepting those who fantasize imminent revolutionary uprisings spear-headed by 79-year-old sociology professors). The economic crisis has bitten hard and deep. Millions of people have been impacted by high unemployment and home foreclosures, by decreased job benefits and job security, and by the realization that none of these afflictions will end soon. A sense of betrayal is settling into the popular consciousness.
Failed Fiscal Policies in Greece and Ireland
Published on February 24, 2011AUDIOInterview with Athens, Greece based journalist Helen Skopis that aired on the Athens International Radio 104.1FM
Corporations to Government: Give Us More, Tax Us Less
Nothing better shows corporate control over the government than Washington's basic response to the current economic crisis. First we had "the rescue" and then "the recovery." Trillions in public money flowed to the biggest US banks, insurance companies, etc. That "bailed" them out (suggestion of criminality?) while we waited for benefits to "trickle down" to the rest of us. As usual, the "trickle down" part has not happened.
