Richard Wolff
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Marxian economist and professor emeritus who analyses capitalism, labour and the political economy of US power. Founder of Democracy at Work and host of the long-running Economic Update, he brings a systemic critique of capitalism to bear on the economics underlying the geopolitical shift.
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Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Visiting Professor, The New School; PhD Yale; founder of Democracy at Work; host of 'Economic Update'
Why Offstream tracks this voice
A long-established academic economist who applies a systematic Marxian framework to the structural condition of the US economy and its bearing on American power abroad. His analysis is valued here for situating geopolitical events within an explicit political-economy framework, consistently argued and openly grounded in a declared theoretical tradition.
Biography
Richard D. Wolff is a Marxian economist and Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, with a doctorate from Yale and a long teaching career also spanning The New School in New York. He is the founder of Democracy at Work, a non-profit media organisation, and host of Economic Update, a weekly programme that has run since 2011 and is syndicated across radio and video platforms.
Wolff's work applies a systematic critique of capitalism — focused on labour, class, debt and the contradictions of the profit system — to the condition of the contemporary US economy. His relevance to geopolitical analysis lies in the economic substructure: he connects American economic decline, financialisation and class dynamics to the country's shifting position in the world.
His commentary is openly grounded in a declared theoretical tradition rather than presented as neutral, and he is included for the consistency and explanatory ambition of that framework. His output is anchored on Democracy at Work's channels and his own Substack.