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
26
Americonned (with Sean Claffey and Dave Pederson)
35 min
27
Can the economy be liberated? (with Jeremie Greer)
36 min
28
Higher minimum wages are creating more jobs (wi...
38 min
29
Do we need an Economic Bill of Rights? (with Ma...
37 min
30
The case for inclusive growth (with JP Julien)
32 min
31
Can economics save the world? (with Erik Angner)
43 min
32
How college broke the American dream (with Will...
42 min
33
Econ 101 is failing college students (with Abig...
32 min
34
How rich people dodge taxes (with Gabriel Zucman)
45 min
35
Banning noncompetes is good, actually (with Eva...
33 min
36
How we all fell for The Big Myth (with Naomi Or...
41 min
37
Slouching towards economic utopia (with Brad De...
42 min
38
The problem with unequal cities (with Richard M...
39 min
39
The high price of misclassification (with Heidi...
35 min
40
Why Walmart workers are still broke (with Rick ...
35 min
41
Why stock buybacks should be taxed more (with C...
33 min
42
How Biden is restoring economic competition (wi...
43 min
43
Why canceling student debt makes great economic...
35 min
44
The many benefits of a guaranteed job program (...
38 min
45
The legacy of the Fight for $15 (with NELP)
48 min
46
Sci-Fi Economics (with Kim Stanley Robinson)
52 min
47
The real reasons why inflation soared last year...
38 min
48
New Year, New AMA
42 min
49
Revisiting the economics of abortion (with Cait...
38 min
50
Revisiting corporate greed’s effect on the supp...
37 min