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
176
Care work is more valuable than ever (with Kate...
31 min
177
It’s time to stop relying on crisis legislation...
33 min
178
2020 Election AMA (with Cristina Uribe)
34 min
179
BONUS: Nancy MacLean - Unedited Conversation
37 min
180
How the radical right weaponized ideology (with...
38 min
181
How Econ 101 upholds racist systems (with Joell...
32 min
182
There’s no herd immunity to greed (with Thomas ...
31 min
183
Debunking deficit myths (with Stephanie Kelton)
42 min
184
People are basically good (with Rutger Bregman)
34 min
185
Vaccine development needs new incentives (with ...
26 min
186
Re-imagining public safety (with King County Co...
30 min
187
Podcast Blackout
9 min
188
Why Wall Street gets a bailout and you don’t (w...
32 min
189
Why the market fails in a crisis (with Joseph S...
41 min
190
Author Interview: Inside the Secret War on Voti...
22 min
191
Inequality and coronavirus (with Heather Boushe...
44 min
192
Austerity will make this recession worse (with ...
38 min
193
Labor regulations in the gaming industry (with ...
26 min
194
Leadership failure made the U.S. pandemic worse...
37 min
195
What’s happening in professional sports right n...
35 min
196
What’s changed since the 1918 pandemic? (A hist...
20 min
197
Understanding the CARES Act (with Heidi Shierholz)
39 min
198
AMA: COVID-19 and the Economy
27 min
199
Killing zombie ideas (with Paul Krugman)
43 min
200
Disaster Economics
32 min