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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Why restaurants can’t find workers (with restau...
30 min
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What convinces people to act in the interest of...
44 min
3
How Covid shook the world’s economy (with Adam ...
50 min
4
Why is getting out of poverty so hard? (with Fe...
40 min
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Why is the child tax credit good economic polic...
45 min
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How the credit market drives up housing prices ...
33 min
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Ask Nick Anything, continued!
31 min
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Everything you need to know about the Frito-Lay...
22 min
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Ask Nick Anything
28 min
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Fiscal policy can help save the environment (wi...
41 min
11
Why billionaires are paying no taxes (LIVE from...
22 min
12
We all do better when we all do better (with JP...
31 min
13
Summer Reading List!
28 min
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Post-pandemic booms (with Callum Williams)
38 min
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Chipotle CEO Brian Niccol is a trickle-down clown
33 min
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Inequality is bad for everyone (with Djaffar Sh...
38 min
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How U.S. policy was designed to suppress wages ...
38 min
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It’s not a labor shortage, it’s a wage shortage...
30 min
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Your non-compete clause is probably illegal (wi...
43 min
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Why we need a mission-driven economy (with Mari...
39 min
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Is the economy at a turning point? (with Anusar...
37 min
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Can businesses help repair society? (with Ben &...
37 min
23
There’s no such thing as a race-neutral policy ...
23 min
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Diving into March’s giant jobs report (with Aus...
23 min
25
Winning back our freedom from the market (with ...
40 min
26
Andrew Yang interviews Nick!
42 min
27
Atlas Hugged (with David Sloan Wilson)
36 min
28
Can’t stop, won't stop, GameStop (with Congress...
33 min
29
No, the relief bill won’t cause inflation (with...
47 min
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The idea for a National Investment Authority, e...
34 min
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The velocity of money (with Ann Pettifor)
41 min
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Re-post: Does the market pay you what you’re wo...
50 min
33
What’s the deal with the CBO report?
29 min
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Ask Nick Anything
38 min
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Repost: How to spot a bogus minimum wage study ...
46 min
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Do wealthy Americans have too much power? (with...
39 min
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Repost: Why raising the minimum wage doesn’t ra...
50 min
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How can Democrats win back rural America? (with...
30 min
39
The sounds of the new administration
12 min
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The economic challenges Biden faces (with Idree...
28 min
41
The case for a True New Deal (with Bharat Ramam...
35 min
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How banking deregulation makes you unsafe (with...
38 min
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Tax me more, I’m rich (with Abigail Disney and ...
55 min
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Why should we cancel student debt? (with Fenaba...
35 min
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Why conventional wisdom is finally pushing for ...
39 min
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Author Interview: Competition is Killing Us (wi...
29 min
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Restoring conservative economics (with Oren Cass)
44 min
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What would you do if you were benevolent dictator?
24 min
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Why do you do this work?
36 min
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What happens when unemployment benefits run out...
32 min
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Who is Ron Klain?
38 min
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The case for a millionaires tax (with Governor ...
28 min
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Election Day AMA Special (with Cristina Uribe)
38 min
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BONUS: The Haunting of Buchanan Manor
12 min
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The real looting in America (with Robert Reich)
31 min
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The pro-business case for reimagining capitalis...
30 min
57
Author Interview: How to rebuild the middle cla...
23 min
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Ask Nick Anything
35 min
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The future of health care (with Abdul El-Sayed)
30 min
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The powerlessness of forced labor (with Suresh ...
30 min
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Inequality is costing workers $50 trillion (wit...
35 min
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Redefining rural America (with Olugbenga Ajilore)
37 min
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Coercion in the workplace (with Elizabeth Ander...
40 min
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Winning on growth (with Michael Linden)
24 min
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Author Interview: Money, Democracy, and the Lif...
38 min
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A long walk off a short economic cliff (with Tr...
29 min
67
You can’t starve your way out of a recession (w...
27 min
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Care work is more valuable than ever (with Kate...
31 min
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It’s time to stop relying on crisis legislation...
33 min
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2020 Election AMA (with Cristina Uribe)
34 min
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BONUS: Nancy MacLean - Unedited Conversation
37 min
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How the radical right weaponized ideology (with...
38 min
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How Econ 101 upholds racist systems (with Joell...
32 min
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There’s no herd immunity to greed (with Thomas ...
31 min
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Debunking deficit myths (with Stephanie Kelton)
42 min
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People are basically good (with Rutger Bregman)
34 min
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Vaccine development needs new incentives (with ...
26 min
78
Re-imagining public safety (with King County Co...
30 min
79
Podcast Blackout
9 min
80
Why Wall Street gets a bailout and you don’t (w...
32 min
81
Why the market fails in a crisis (with Joseph S...
41 min
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Author Interview: Inside the Secret War on Voti...
22 min
83
Inequality and coronavirus (with Heather Boushe...
44 min
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Austerity will make this recession worse (with ...
38 min
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Labor regulations in the gaming industry (with ...
26 min
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Leadership failure made the U.S. pandemic worse...
37 min
87
What’s happening in professional sports right n...
35 min
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What’s changed since the 1918 pandemic? (A hist...
20 min
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Understanding the CARES Act (with Heidi Shierholz)
39 min
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AMA: COVID-19 and the Economy
27 min
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Killing zombie ideas (with Paul Krugman)
43 min
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Disaster Economics
32 min
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The federal budget is a theory of growth (with ...
32 min
94
Welcome to the golden age of white collar crime...
34 min
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The emerging economic problems of the next deca...
36 min
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From generosity to justice (with Darren Walker)
36 min
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Paul’s Book Review: Democracy in Chains
5 min
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Debunking economics (with Steve Keen)
36 min
99
BONUS: Class warfare in Finland (a history less...
21 min
100
Re-imagining capitalism (with Anu Partanen and ...
46 min