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Richard D. Wolff
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Richard D. Wolff writes RDWolff, a personal blog at rdwolff.com about economics and politics. Since 2017, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-01-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Richard Wolff's talks and essays on economics, worker co-ops, Puerto Rico's debt, Amazon and jobs, and crony capitalism. Commenters point to them as explanations of those topics.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Professor of Economics, Author, Radio Host, Speaker
What Hacker News says?
The Marxist hidden in me says * listen to Richard Wolff's views on Puerto Rico http://www.rdwolff.com/tags/puerto_rico * listen to David Graeber https://www.amazon.com/Debt-First-5-000-Years/dp/1612191290
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on “Puerto Rico files for biggest ever U.S. local government bankruptcy”I'd contact Richard D. Wolff about what to do next. https://www.rdwolff.com/contact2
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on “A Technology Freelancer's Guide to Starting a Worker Cooperative [pdf]”Richard Wolff has also been evangelizing co-ops and worker-owned businesses for some time. http://www.rdwolff.com/faq_worker_coops_wdes https://youtu.be/urCy3UOGgx8
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on “It’s time to balance the power between workers and employers”I think this is a good time to introduce Richard Wolff, my favorite economist. Here, Wolff makes a few general remarks about Amazon in comparison to outsourcing to China: https://www.rdwolff.com/is_amazon_the_1_threat_to_jobs
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on “Amazon and the Unwisdom of the Populist Crowd”Richard Wolof speaks of this and suggests the answer lies in democracy in the workplace via worker owned co-ops. https://www.rdwolff.com/socialism_and_workers_coops
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on “Democrats More Positive About Socialism Than Capitalism (2018)”The problem, as Richard Wolff[1] better explains than I can, is that the capitalists always have the incentive (profits) and the means (money) to bend the system to further benefit themselves. There isn't some pure form of capitalism that will stop it. [1] https://www.rdwolff.com/yes_we_can_do_better_than_capitalism
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on “The System We’re Living in Is Crony Capitalism. Not Capitalism”