Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Any society that allows itself to become radically unequal eventually collapses into an uprising or a police state—or both. Join venture capitalist Nick Hanauer and some of the world’s leading economic and political thinkers in an exploration of who gets what and why. Turns out, everything you learned about economics is wrong. And if we don’t do something about rising inequality, the pitchforks are coming.
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Winning on growth (with Michael Linden)
24 min
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Author Interview: Money, Democracy, and the Lif...
38 min
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A long walk off a short economic cliff (with Tr...
29 min
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You can’t starve your way out of a recession (w...
27 min
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Care work is more valuable than ever (with Kate...
31 min
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It’s time to stop relying on crisis legislation...
33 min
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2020 Election AMA (with Cristina Uribe)
34 min
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BONUS: Nancy MacLean - Unedited Conversation
37 min
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How the radical right weaponized ideology (with...
38 min
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How Econ 101 upholds racist systems (with Joell...
32 min
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There’s no herd immunity to greed (with Thomas ...
31 min
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Debunking deficit myths (with Stephanie Kelton)
42 min
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People are basically good (with Rutger Bregman)
34 min
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Vaccine development needs new incentives (with ...
26 min
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Re-imagining public safety (with King County Co...
30 min
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Podcast Blackout
9 min
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Why Wall Street gets a bailout and you don’t (w...
32 min
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Why the market fails in a crisis (with Joseph S...
41 min
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Author Interview: Inside the Secret War on Voti...
22 min
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Inequality and coronavirus (with Heather Boushe...
44 min
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Austerity will make this recession worse (with ...
38 min
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Labor regulations in the gaming industry (with ...
26 min
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Leadership failure made the U.S. pandemic worse...
37 min
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What’s happening in professional sports right n...
35 min
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What’s changed since the 1918 pandemic? (A hist...
20 min
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Understanding the CARES Act (with Heidi Shierholz)
39 min
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AMA: COVID-19 and the Economy
27 min
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Killing zombie ideas (with Paul Krugman)
43 min
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Disaster Economics
32 min
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The federal budget is a theory of growth (with ...
32 min
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Welcome to the golden age of white collar crime...
34 min
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The emerging economic problems of the next deca...
36 min
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From generosity to justice (with Darren Walker)
36 min
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Paul’s Book Review: Democracy in Chains
5 min
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Debunking economics (with Steve Keen)
36 min
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BONUS: Class warfare in Finland (a history less...
21 min
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Re-imagining capitalism (with Anu Partanen and ...
46 min
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Voicemails with Goldy
13 min
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The hidden costs of banking while poor (with Me...
57 min
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How neoliberalism captured Democrats (with Jame...
47 min
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Paul’s Book Review: Neighborhood Defenders
4 min
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Corporate parasites: how taxpayers subsidize pr...
57 min
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Ask Nick Anything (Part 2)
25 min
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Naomi Klein - Unedited Interview
35 min
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How big pharma keeps drug prices high (with Pri...
51 min
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Ask Nick Anything (Part 1)
28 min
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Paul’s Book Review: Weapons of Math Destruction
3 min
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What’s the trick in trickle-down? (with Yuval N...
47 min
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The pitchforks are here (with Cesar Hidalgo)
32 min
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Does media have an economics problem? (with Cha...
35 min
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Does economics have a media problem? (with Matt...
36 min
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How monopolies feed plutocracy (with Matt Stoller)
31 min
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BONUS: George Monbiot - Unedited Conversation
49 min
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How to make the rich pay their taxes (with Gabr...
44 min
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Economic woman (with Katrine Marçal, Lisa D. Co...
53 min
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Listener voicemails! (with Nick and Goldy)
14 min
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Is economic orthodoxy evolving? (with Luigi Zin...
57 min
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Can we hold big corporations to higher standard...
48 min
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HALLOWEEN SPECIAL: Trickle-Down or Treat
15 min
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Tax me more, I’m rich (with Abigail Disney and ...
54 min
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Will bad economics kill the Green New Deal? (wi...
59 min
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Paul’s Book Review: Kochland
4 min
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The trade-offs of global trade (with Dean Baker...
41 min
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How neoliberalism happened (with George Monbiot...
59 min
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BONUS: Rewriting the rules for an inclusive eco...
15 min
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Why philanthropy can’t undo this mess (with Ana...
54 min
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BONUS: Saru Jayaraman - Unedited Conversation
28 min
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Author Interview: Chris Arnade
31 min
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Paul’s Book Review #2: Janesville, An American ...
4 min
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Behind the scenes of Nick’s new TED Talk: The d...
33 min
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Does the market really pay you what you’re wort...
50 min
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BONUS: Voicemails with Nick and Goldy
12 min
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How to spot a bogus minimum wage study (with Be...
46 min
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Does the future of work include a Federal Jobs ...
46 min
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Paul’s Book Review: Listen, Liberal
4 min
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A skeptic's guide to Universal Basic Income (wi...
49 min
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Shared security, shared growth: a social contra...
49 min
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Educationism (with Diane Ravitch)
46 min
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The robots are coming… what now? (with Heidi Sh...
62 min
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BONUS: What to listen for in the second round o...
8 min
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Health Care Part 2: One nation, with liberty an...
35 min
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BONUS: Don't Pass Go—without learning more abou...
21 min
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Health Care Part 1: Everyone does it better tha...
45 min
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The decline of worker power (with David Rolf an...
55 min
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Our full conversation with Governor Jay Inslee
33 min
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A roadmap to utopia (with Rutger Bregman)
48 min
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Picking up where Darwin left off (LIVE with Dav...
41 min
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Update: Whatever happened to overtime? (with Sh...
46 min
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BONUS: Strategies for building a robust and equ...
22 min
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Ask Nick Anything - Part 2 (with Trae Crowder)
33 min
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BONUS: Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal - Unedited...
26 min
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Ask Nick Anything - Part 1 (with Trae Crowder)
40 min
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BONUS: Why do we fight fires like it’s still 19...
21 min
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Can rural America be saved?
55 min
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Homo economicus must die (with Samuel Bowles)
31 min
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BONUS: Tax the Rich! (with Tax March Executive ...
19 min
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What are the economics of climate change? (with...
48 min
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What is Modern Monetary Theory? (with Stephanie...
45 min
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Should Democrats appeal to the center by moving...
33 min
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BONUS: Senator Cory Booker - Unedited Conversation
37 min