This week: Updates on how Mitbestimmung helped Germany not destroy itself; waves of strikes by public school teachers; Theranos bankruptcy and workers’ risks; our second “gilded age;” mortgage lenders turning to rich borrowers; Trump on drug prices is nothing more than rhetoric; the economic effects of breaking the Iran Deal; gentrification and crisis of cities.
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by Richard D. Wolff, The Real News Network
May 21, 2018
Richard D. Wolff is a Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and currently a Visiting Professor of the Graduate Program in International Affairs at the New School University in New York. He is the author of many books, including Democracy at Work: A Cure or Capitalism, and Imagine: Living in a Socialist USA.
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