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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Why can’t we talk about homelessness? (with Jos...
33 min
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How taxpayers subsidize corporate profits (with...
56 min
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How the tax system impoverishes Black Americans...
29 min
4
The free market economics of synthetic opioids ...
39 min
5
How to stand up for voting rights (with Andrea ...
35 min
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Thanks to unemployment insurance, poverty decli...
32 min
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How corporate concentration hurts the economy (...
32 min
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Why philanthropy isn’t the answer (with Anand G...
49 min
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Redefining skill (with Nichola Lowe)
33 min
10
Capitalism is working better in Finland (with A...
46 min
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Right-to-work is bad for workers (with Shane La...
28 min
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How neoliberalism captured Democrats (with Jame...
45 min
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Why restaurants can’t find workers (with restau...
30 min
14
What convinces people to act in the interest of...
44 min
15
How Covid shook the world’s economy (with Adam ...
50 min
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Why is getting out of poverty so hard? (with Fe...
40 min
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Why is the child tax credit good economic polic...
45 min
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How the credit market drives up housing prices ...
33 min
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Ask Nick Anything, continued!
31 min
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Everything you need to know about the Frito-Lay...
22 min
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Ask Nick Anything
28 min
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Fiscal policy can help save the environment (wi...
41 min
23
Why billionaires are paying no taxes (LIVE from...
22 min
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We all do better when we all do better (with JP...
31 min
25
Summer Reading List!
28 min
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Post-pandemic booms (with Callum Williams)
38 min
27
Chipotle CEO Brian Niccol is a trickle-down clown
33 min
28
Inequality is bad for everyone (with Djaffar Sh...
38 min
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How U.S. policy was designed to suppress wages ...
38 min
30
It’s not a labor shortage, it’s a wage shortage...
30 min
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Your non-compete clause is probably illegal (wi...
43 min
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Why we need a mission-driven economy (with Mari...
39 min
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Is the economy at a turning point? (with Anusar...
37 min
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Can businesses help repair society? (with Ben &...
37 min
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There’s no such thing as a race-neutral policy ...
23 min
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Diving into March’s giant jobs report (with Aus...
23 min
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Winning back our freedom from the market (with ...
40 min
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Andrew Yang interviews Nick!
42 min
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Atlas Hugged (with David Sloan Wilson)
36 min
40
Can’t stop, won't stop, GameStop (with Congress...
33 min
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No, the relief bill won’t cause inflation (with...
47 min
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The idea for a National Investment Authority, e...
34 min
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The velocity of money (with Ann Pettifor)
41 min
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Re-post: Does the market pay you what you’re wo...
50 min
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What’s the deal with the CBO report?
29 min
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Ask Nick Anything
38 min
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Repost: How to spot a bogus minimum wage study ...
46 min
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Do wealthy Americans have too much power? (with...
39 min
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Repost: Why raising the minimum wage doesn’t ra...
50 min
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How can Democrats win back rural America? (with...
30 min
51
The sounds of the new administration
12 min
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The economic challenges Biden faces (with Idree...
28 min
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The case for a True New Deal (with Bharat Ramam...
35 min
54
How banking deregulation makes you unsafe (with...
38 min
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Tax me more, I’m rich (with Abigail Disney and ...
55 min
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Why should we cancel student debt? (with Fenaba...
35 min
57
Why conventional wisdom is finally pushing for ...
39 min
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Author Interview: Competition is Killing Us (wi...
29 min
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Restoring conservative economics (with Oren Cass)
44 min
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What would you do if you were benevolent dictator?
24 min
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Why do you do this work?
36 min
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What happens when unemployment benefits run out...
32 min
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Who is Ron Klain?
38 min
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The case for a millionaires tax (with Governor ...
28 min
65
Election Day AMA Special (with Cristina Uribe)
38 min
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BONUS: The Haunting of Buchanan Manor
12 min
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The real looting in America (with Robert Reich)
31 min
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The pro-business case for reimagining capitalis...
30 min
69
Author Interview: How to rebuild the middle cla...
23 min
70
Ask Nick Anything
35 min
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The future of health care (with Abdul El-Sayed)
30 min
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The powerlessness of forced labor (with Suresh ...
30 min
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Inequality is costing workers $50 trillion (wit...
35 min
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Redefining rural America (with Olugbenga Ajilore)
37 min
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Coercion in the workplace (with Elizabeth Ander...
40 min
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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
78
A long walk off a short economic cliff (with Tr...
29 min
79
You can’t starve your way out of a recession (w...
27 min
80
Care work is more valuable than ever (with Kate...
31 min
81
It’s time to stop relying on crisis legislation...
33 min
82
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
85
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
91
Podcast Blackout
9 min
92
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