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Cooperatives and socialism: Prof Wolff on All Things Co-op

December 15, 2020 Wame Handa

Professor Wolff recently joined the hosts of All Things Co-op in a special event to talk about cooperatives, Marxist theory, critiques of capitalism, and more. In this conversation Prof Wolff shared many personal stories, including how his French father’s determination created a Latin class for him to take in his Ohio high school, his experiences in Ivy League schools, and how he became interested in cooperatives. Wolff: “I spent 10 years of my life in these Ivy League places and they were constantly telling me economics is price theory and…

“Intro to Marxian Economics”

December 4, 2020December 4, 2020 Wame Handa

This four part course provides a working foundation in the core concepts of Marxian economic theory — necessary and surplus labor, labor power, surplus value, exploitation, capital accumulation, distributions of the surplus, capitalist crises, and the differences between capitalist and other class structures. In addition, these core concepts will be systematically used to understand current social problems (including political and cultural as well as economic problems). The goal is to enable students to apply Marxian economics in their own efforts to analyze society and to strategize politically today. This course…