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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Marshall Plan for Moms (with Reshma Saujani)
42 min
52
The inequality of progress (with Oded Galor)
35 min
53
How thinking like economists holds us back (wit...
33 min
54
Exploring global solutions to inequality (with ...
31 min
55
Inclusion is an economic necessity (with john a...
46 min
56
Consumers deserve an inflation rebate (with Con...
36 min
57
How Biden’s budget proposal takes on corporate ...
35 min
58
Pirate equity (with Jim Baker)
37 min
59
Companies can't self-regulate their way to incl...
38 min
60
Why your non-compete clause is probably illegal...
44 min
61
How neoliberalism happened (with George Monbiot...
59 min
62
The economics of mass incarceration (with Robyn...
33 min
63
Why a $15 minimum wage is no longer enough (wit...
31 min
64
Did corporate greed break the supply chain? (wi...
36 min
65
Free lunch thinking (with Tom Bergin)
44 min
66
Congress looks to the CBO for economic expertis...
38 min
67
How Davos Man devours the world (with Peter Goo...
40 min
68
The economics of abortion (with Caitlin Myers)
37 min
69
Ask Nick Anything
54 min
70
Debunking deficit myths (with Stephanie Kelton)
42 min
71
The economic case for universal health care (wi...
34 min
72
Why privatizing public goods is bad for democra...
36 min
73
Ending the tipped minimum wage (with Saru Jayar...
30 min
74
Did the Federal Reserve’s policies make inequal...
40 min
75
How the radical right weaponized ideology (with...
38 min