Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University, NYC. He is the founder of Democracy at Work and host of their nationally syndicated show Economic Update. He is the author of several books including, Understanding Socialism and Understanding Marxism and his most recent, The Sickness is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself.