Wolff Responds: Profit Motives and Competition Often Fail Us
October 7, 2020
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In this Wolff Responds, Prof. Wolff provides recent and not so recent examples of how the profit motive and competition often lead to bad, at times even deadly results. He lists examples of of toxic hand sanitizers, VW gas emissions scandal, cigarette manufacturers, and more.
Learn more about Prof Wolff's new book, "The Sickness is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself" available now at www.democracyatwork.info/books.
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