Before Amazon bought Whole Foods, the shopping chain got its start as an activist business more focused on politics than profits. Join us to discuss the rise and fall of activist small business in last third of the twentieth century.
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Brooke Harrington on Wealth Managers and the One Percent
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Sarah Jaffe on Social Movements and the 2008 Recession
LaShawn Harris on Black Women and the Informal Economy
Sandy Hager on Public Debt and Inequality
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