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Capitalism vs. Socialism Debate - Gene Epstein vs Richard D. Wolff
Gene Epstein (born 1944) is an American economist and libertarian. He worked as the economics editor of Barron's Magazine from 1993 to 2017. He calls himself a follower of the Austrian School of economics and is an associated scholar at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.
In 1993 he became economics editor and columnist of "Economic Beat" for Barron's Magazine.
Richard David Wolff (born April 1, 1942) is an American Marxian economist, known for his work on economic methodology and class analysis. He is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School in New York. Wolff has also taught economics at Yale University, City University of New York, University of Utah, University of Paris I (Sorbonne), and The Brecht Forum in New York City.
He has written several books including in 2019 Understanding Marxism (Democracy at Work).
Socialism or Capitalism? Arthur Brooks and Richard Wolff Debate
another debate with Richard Wolff this time with Arthur Books
Arthur C. Brooks (born May 21, 1964) is an American social scientist, musician, and contributing opinion writer for The Washington Post. He was the president of the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank, for a decade. As of July 2019, he joined the faculty of the Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School. Brooks has researched the junctions between culture, economics, and politics. He is the author of 11 books, including two New York Times best sellers: The Road to Freedom: How to Win the Fight for Free Enterprise (2012) and The Conservative Heart: How to Build a Fairer, Happier, and More Prosperous America (Broadside Books, 2015). Politically, he is a center-right independent and a libertarian.
Comment:
two academic debates here by people with economics background.
Since this is an academic debate they are much longer and cover more ground than typical debates
on news shows where after about 20 minutes somebody gets agitated when the limits of their knowledge begin to run their course and it devolves into pure emotion
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