The game is rigged richard wolff economist
The game is rigged richard wolff economist
Richard D. Wolff: ‘The game is rigged’ – Philosophers for Change.
“The impoverished families of the long-term unemployed strained to the point of dysfunction, communities deprived of viable economies, interrupted educations, lost skills: these and many more results of capitalism’s crisis will put difficult demands on governments for years."
-Richard Wolff, Democracy at Work
Richard Wolff is an economist and political theorist associated with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and the New Left.
In this discussion, Wolff provides an unauthorized history of capitalism, discusses how corporate damages to society (or 'externalities' in the vernacular of the economics profession) are transferred to the population, how capitalist ideology drives zero-sum competition, and suggests practical policies that could lead to a more equitable distribution to wealth.
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The original video can be found here, my thanks to the ACLU of Southern California for providing and maintaining this recording, which first aired on February 2015.
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