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The Problem With Markets: A Holiday Tale

Dec 27, 2015
“Like all human institutions, markets have strengths and weaknesses,” writes economist Richard Wolff. Exalting them as if they were some ideal mechanism for distributing resources "should be rejected as the self-serving tool of societies' richest operated at the expense of everyone else.”

Karl Marx Was Right

Jun 1, 2015
The economist and philosopher foresaw that capitalism had built within it the seeds of its own destruction, that the greed of a tiny elite would eventually bring down the system. The final stages that he predicted are visible all around us now.