The Corporatization of Universities and Trump's Attacks

<p>This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff begins by presenting updates on the death of libertarianism and the rise of US economic nationalism, and US universities become big businesses, governed by money concerns. In the episode's second half, Professor Wolff interviews Professor Geert Dhondt, the Chair of the Economics Department and Economics Professor at John Jay College of the City University of New York, on how colleges and universities are reacting to Trump's attack on higher education.</p> <p> </p> <p>The d@w Team Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff is a DemocracyatWork.info Inc. production. We make it a point to provide the show free of ads and rely on viewer support to continue doing so.</p> <p>You can support our work by joining our Patreon community:</p> <p>https://www.patreon.com/democracyatwork Or you can go to our website: https://www.democracyatwork.info/donate</p> <p> </p> <p>Every donation counts and helps us provide a larger audience with the information they need to better understand the events around the world they can't get anywhere else.</p> <p>We want to thank our devoted community of supporters who help make this show and others we produce possible each week.1:01</p> <p>We kindly ask you to also support the work we do by encouraging others to subscribe to our YouTube channel and website: www.democracyatwork.info</p>