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
102
Are you in the 9.9 percent? (with Matthew Stewart)
37 min
103
Moving beyond racial liberalism (with Kyle Stri...
28 min
104
The hidden costs of banking while poor (with Me...
57 min
105
Make the clean stuff cheap (with Eric Beinhocke...
36 min
106
Why can’t we talk about homelessness? (with Jos...
33 min
107
How taxpayers subsidize corporate profits (with...
56 min
108
How the tax system impoverishes Black Americans...
29 min
109
The free market economics of synthetic opioids ...
39 min
110
How to stand up for voting rights (with Andrea ...
35 min
111
Thanks to unemployment insurance, poverty decli...
32 min
112
How corporate concentration hurts the economy (...
32 min
113
Why philanthropy isn’t the answer (with Anand G...
49 min
114
Redefining skill (with Nichola Lowe)
33 min
115
Capitalism is working better in Finland (with A...
46 min
116
Right-to-work is bad for workers (with Shane La...
28 min
117
How neoliberalism captured Democrats (with Jame...
45 min
118
Why restaurants can’t find workers (with restau...
30 min
119
What convinces people to act in the interest of...
44 min
120
How Covid shook the world’s economy (with Adam ...
50 min
121
Why is getting out of poverty so hard? (with Fe...
40 min
122
Why is the child tax credit good economic polic...
45 min
123
How the credit market drives up housing prices ...
33 min
124
Ask Nick Anything, continued!
31 min
125
Everything you need to know about the Frito-Lay...
22 min