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Date: 2025-08-22 Page is: DBtxt001.php txt00022976
DEMOCRACY AT WORK
PROFESSOR RICHARD D. WOLFF

Economic Update: Recession - Capitalism's Failure Invites System Change ... Premiered Aug 22, 2022


Original article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvGIdRJfGho
Peter Burgess COMMENTARY

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Economic Update: Recession - Capitalism's Failure Invites System Change

Democracy At Work with Prof. Richard D. Wolff

Premiered Aug 22, 2022

284K subscribers ... 27,566 views

[S12 E32] Recession - Capitalism's Failure Invites System Change

In this week's show, Prof. Wolff defines recession and shows its relation to inflation and stagflation in their respective roles within capitalism's inherent instability. Rooted in the structure of capitalism, recessions represent both costly burdens on employers and employees alike and also strong incentives to question, challenge, and go beyond capitalism. The economics profession has been unable to end recessions despite centuries of trying. The profession often tries to hide the capitalist roots of recession instead. Wolff concludes with how system change might finally 'solve'' capitalism's intractable instability problem.

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