Center for Popular Economics Director Will Chaney and member Annie McGrew spoke to Dr. Richard Wolff on his Economic Update podcast about CPE, and the differences between the type of education that CPE offers and a conventional economics education.
Dr. Richard Wolff, founder of Democracy at Work Inc., a worker-led non-profit that advocates for democracy in the workplace, was a distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where CPE is hosted.
In the face of authoritarian governance, violent suppression of free speech, unlawful deportations, unceasing climate change, increasingly unaffordable basic goods and services, and imperial wars, social movements around the world are coming together to rise up against fascism to collectively build just and democratic futures.
The Center for Popular Economics’ 2026 summer institute will take place June 24-28 at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA. The curriculum will cover the basics of radical economics, providing a material analysis of capitalism, racism and patriarchy. We will also discuss the logic behind progressive reforms and post-capitalist experiments. And we will educate each other about the history of social movements and debate different strategies of resisting and moving beyond capitalism.
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