This week's Global Research News Hour radio program features presentations by two prominent Marxist economists at the 2019 World Association for Political Economy (WAPE) forum, held in WInnipeg at the University of Manitoba July 19-21. The conference theme this year was 'Class, State and Nation in the twenty-First Century.'
Utsa Patnaik is Professor Emeritus, Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi). The title of her presentation was ' ‘Austerity’ and its Consequences in the Advanced and Developing Worlds: The Present in the Light of the Inter-War Depression'
MIchael Hudson is President, The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET). The title of his presentation was 'America Threatens to Self-destruct if Other Countries don’t Obey it.'