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The Harm Done by Economists

Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff

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Are We Leaving Decision-Making Up to Ordinary People?

There is such a suspicion among elites that if you leave decision-making up to, I don't know, let's call them ordinary people. You get deep-seated resentment and alienation, which creates the circumstances for the flourishing of the Donald Trump's of the world. So Rick, I hold my profession partly responsible for the horrible decisions now being made. We have not cultivated. We've not given people the opportunity to control their own lives," he says.

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