Episode 159: Missing the Marx

Words & Numbers

English - February 26, 2020 15:00 - 32 minutes - 44.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 336 ratings
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Karl Marx’s thoughts on socialism are popular among politicians and humanities professors, but not so much among business people and economics professors. In this episode, Phil Magness, economic historian and author of The Best of Karl Marx, joins Words & Numbers to talk about how Marx’s teachings were on the way out but got resurrected by political leaders and academics.

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