History tells us that pandemics precede radical shifts in society and economic systems. The Black Death, for example, was the beginning of the end of feudalism. Professor Richard Wolff joins Ellen Brown on PBI LIVE to lend his insights on those big historical breaks and consider what seismic changes we might expect following this current global pandemic. How might public banks be involved?

Prof. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus, U Mass, Amherst, and a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University in New York City. He’s the founder of Democracy at Work and host of their nationally syndicated show Economic Update. His latest book is "The Sickness is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself."