As part of our Marketplace Economic Pulse series, we examine the economy from a range of perspectives. Today, we hear from Clara Mattei, a professor of economics at the University of Tulsa In Oklahoma ...

Economist Clara Mattei explains how her profession has provided elites with a justification for austerity and exploitation. It’s the autumn of 1920, and we are in Brussels. Politicians and economists ...

In this week’s episode: Professor Richard Wolff delves into the heroic efforts of California firefighters and their extraordinary work in battling the recent wildfires in Los Angeles. We also explore ...

Capitalism by its nature produces crises and, for the last century, states have responded by imposing austerity measures on the public. Governments claim it’s a bitter but necessary medicine to set ...

We are living in an age of staggering inequality — higher, economist Thomas Piketty reminds us, than in the Ancien Régime before the French Revolution.

Clara E Mattei's The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism lays out how capitalism achieves its foundational goal - 'the necessity to rehabilitate capital ...