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
The Tyranny of Merit (with Michael Sandel)
57 min
2
What the new Draft Merger Guidelines could mean...
37 min
3
The CHIPS Act, explained (with Ronnie Chatterji)
37 min
4
What labor shortage? (with Heidi Shierholz)
30 min
5
Why don't we fight poverty by just giving peopl...
38 min
6
Power, progress, and technology (with Daron Ace...
53 min
7
Ask Nick Anything
29 min
8
Wages need a revolution (with Michael Lind)
41 min
9
How Industrial Policy actually works (with Isab...
34 min
10
Private equity’s plan to pillage America (with ...
32 min
11
Bidenomics (with Bharat Ramamurti)
43 min
12
Why good jobs are good for business (with Zeyne...
43 min
13
How economics can create a more sustainable pla...
41 min
14
Summer Reading List
36 min
15
Doughnut Economics (with Andrew Fanning)
36 min
16
How the franchise system is rigged (with Marsha...
43 min
17
Americonned (with Sean Claffey and Dave Pederson)
35 min
18
Can the economy be liberated? (with Jeremie Greer)
36 min
19
Higher minimum wages are creating more jobs (wi...
38 min
20
Do we need an Economic Bill of Rights? (with Ma...
37 min
21
The case for inclusive growth (with JP Julien)
32 min
22
Can economics save the world? (with Erik Angner)
43 min
23
How college broke the American dream (with Will...
42 min
24
Econ 101 is failing college students (with Abig...
32 min
25
How rich people dodge taxes (with Gabriel Zucman)
45 min