Economic Update: The Political Economy Of Tariffs

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In this week’s Economic Update, Professor Richard Wolff devotes the entire program to an analysis of tariffs. We discuss why tariffs are not a worker’s issue, why capitalism’s continuous swings between free trade and protectionist periods and phases make little impact on workers, and why competing capitalists seek to get workers to support their positions on tariffs.

This video was produced by Democracy at Work and published on their YouTube channel on the 17th of June, 2024.

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ABOUT RICHARD D. WOLFF

Richard D. Wolff is the founder of Democracy at Work and hosts the show Economic Update there. He is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he taught economics from 1973 to 2008. Earlier he taught economics at Yale University and at the City College of the City University of New York. Wolff was also a regular lecturer at the Brecht Forum in New York City. He is currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University in New York City.