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.

Government
Politics
Business
1
Americonned (with Sean Claffey and Dave Pederson)
35 min
2
Can the economy be liberated? (with Jeremie Greer)
36 min
3
Higher minimum wages are creating more jobs (wi...
38 min
4
Do we need an Economic Bill of Rights? (with Ma...
37 min
5
The case for inclusive growth (with JP Julien)
32 min
6
Can economics save the world? (with Erik Angner)
43 min
7
How college broke the American dream (with Will...
42 min
8
Econ 101 is failing college students (with Abig...
32 min
9
How rich people dodge taxes (with Gabriel Zucman)
45 min
10
Banning noncompetes is good, actually (with Eva...
33 min
11
How we all fell for The Big Myth (with Naomi Or...
41 min
12
Slouching towards economic utopia (with Brad De...
42 min
13
The problem with unequal cities (with Richard M...
39 min
14
The high price of misclassification (with Heidi...
35 min
15
Why Walmart workers are still broke (with Rick ...
35 min
16
Why stock buybacks should be taxed more (with C...
33 min
17
How Biden is restoring economic competition (wi...
43 min
18
Why canceling student debt makes great economic...
35 min
19
The many benefits of a guaranteed job program (...
38 min
20
The legacy of the Fight for $15 (with NELP)
48 min
21
Sci-Fi Economics (with Kim Stanley Robinson)
52 min
22
The real reasons why inflation soared last year...
38 min
23
New Year, New AMA
42 min
24
Revisiting the economics of abortion (with Cait...
38 min
25
Revisiting corporate greed’s effect on the supp...
37 min