Breaking Up With Capitalism

Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff

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🗓️ 27 February 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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[EU S14 E08] Breaking Up With Capitalism

This week's episode of Economic Update hosted by Professor Richard Wolff, we discuss the Philadelphia University of the Arts Faculty Union and its struggles; we clarify what declining inflation does and does not mean; we answer the question: as to why sanctions fail. Finally we interview Essence Magazine's senior news & politics editor, author, and lawyer Malaika Jabali. We discuss her newly released book "It's Not You Its Capitalism".

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0:00.0	Welcome friends to another edition of Economic Update, a weekly program devoted to the
0:16.0	economic dimensions of our lives and those of our children. I'm your host Richard Wolf.
0:22.0	As usual I want to remind you of our I'm your host, Richard Wolf.
0:22.8	As usual, I want to remind you of our volunteer, Charlie Fabian,
0:27.0	who is ready and willing and able to take whatever suggestions,
0:30.8	comments you have that might help us construct the segments of this show each week.
0:37.7	You can reach Charlie at the following email address for these kinds of communications.
0:44.6	Charlie.
0:45.4	dot in full 438 at gmail.com.
1:00.3	Today's program is going to be talking about higher education in the city of
1:05.2	Philadelphia and really the crisis of American jobs that this story exposes in so dramatic a way.
1:14.8	We'll also have something to say about what's happening to inflation here in the United States
1:20.4	and a clue a further one as to why sanctions in international affairs such as those
1:27.0	the United States and Europe has in place against Russia why they don't work so
1:32.2	spectacularly. So very many interesting things and then in the
1:36.7	second half an interview with Malika Jabali with her remarkable new book, it's not you, it's capitalism.
1:47.0	Okay, let's begin.
1:49.0	I want a few moments of your time to talk to you about the Philadelphia University of the Arts.
1:55.0	Well right off the bat you know this is a story about a school of higher education, a university.
2:02.0	You know it's about an American city, a major city, Philadelphia.
2:07.1	But what is it about the University of the Arts in Philadelphia
2:11.0	that I want to talk to you about.
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