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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How opportunity zones create windfalls for the ...
34 min
77
Are you in the 9.9 percent? (with Matthew Stewart)
37 min
78
Moving beyond racial liberalism (with Kyle Stri...
28 min
79
The hidden costs of banking while poor (with Me...
57 min
80
Make the clean stuff cheap (with Eric Beinhocke...
36 min
81
Why can’t we talk about homelessness? (with Jos...
33 min
82
How taxpayers subsidize corporate profits (with...
56 min
83
How the tax system impoverishes Black Americans...
29 min
84
The free market economics of synthetic opioids ...
39 min
85
How to stand up for voting rights (with Andrea ...
35 min
86
Thanks to unemployment insurance, poverty decli...
32 min
87
How corporate concentration hurts the economy (...
32 min
88
Why philanthropy isn’t the answer (with Anand G...
49 min
89
Redefining skill (with Nichola Lowe)
33 min
90
Capitalism is working better in Finland (with A...
46 min
91
Right-to-work is bad for workers (with Shane La...
28 min
92
How neoliberalism captured Democrats (with Jame...
45 min
93
Why restaurants can’t find workers (with restau...
30 min
94
What convinces people to act in the interest of...
44 min
95
How Covid shook the world’s economy (with Adam ...
50 min
96
Why is getting out of poverty so hard? (with Fe...
40 min
97
Why is the child tax credit good economic polic...
45 min
98
How the credit market drives up housing prices ...
33 min
99
Ask Nick Anything, continued!
31 min
100
Everything you need to know about the Frito-Lay...
22 min