{"podcast":{"title":"Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff","slug":"economic-update-with-richard-d-wolff-216633","podcast_index_feed_id":216633,"rss_url":"https://economicupdate.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://www.democracyatwork.info/economicupdate","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/1/4/4/9/144922e4a934d1ae16c3140a3186d450/EU_Sqr_Logo_1400x1400px.png","author":"Democracy at Work","episode_count":589,"summary":"Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff is a weekly nationally syndicated program produced by Democracy at Work and hosted by Richard D. Wolff. The program explores complex economic issues and empowers listeners with information to analyze not only their own financial situation but the economy at large. Beyond focusing a critical eye on the economic dimensions of everyday life - wages, jobs, taxes, debts, interest rates, prices, and profits - the program also explores systemic solutions to our economy's problems including alternative ways to organize production and distribution of the goods and services we all depend on.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-16T04:17:38.076817+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/economic-update-with-richard-d-wolff-216633"},"episode":{"title":"Markets: Institutions Deeply In Need of Criticism","slug":"markets-institutions-deeply-in-need-of-criticism","published_at":"2026-07-13T23:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/economic-update-with-richard-d-wolff-216633/markets-institutions-deeply-in-need-of-criticism","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/economic-update-with-richard-d-wolff-216633","url":"https://economicupdate.libsyn.com/markets-institutions-deeply-in-need-of-criticism","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/economicupdate/Economic_Update__Markets__Institutions_Deeply_In_Need_of_Criticism.mp4?dest-id=398074","summary":"This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff presents an analysis of how markets work, which parts of society they favor and serve, and which they discriminate against. He also unpacks why markets are NOT the same as capitalism, and where markets are NOT allowed to exist in the world today, including in the U.S. He wraps up today's show with an analysis of why market idolatry now functions as a kind of secular religion, especially in the U.S. but also globally.","meta_description":"This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff presents an analysis of how markets work, which parts of society they favor and serve, and which they discri…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1917,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/economic-update-with-richard-d-wolff-216633/episodes/markets-institutions-deeply-in-need-of-criticism/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/economic-update-with-richard-d-wolff-216633/markets-institutions-deeply-in-need-of-criticism.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}