Richard Wolff

Richard D. Wolff (born April 1, 1942) is an American Marxian economist, author, and professor emeritus of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Widely described by media outlets as America's most prominent Marxist economist, he earned degrees from Harvard, Stanford, and Yale before spending decades teaching and refining class analysis based on Karl Marx's theories. Wolff is the co-founder of the non-profit media organization Democracy at Work and hosts its syndicated show Economic Update, where he advocates for worker co-operatives and workplace democracy as an alternative to capitalist exploitation.