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Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
We are living through a paradigm shift from trickle-down neoliberalism to middle-out economics — a new understanding of who gets what and why. Join zillionaire class-traitor Nick Hanauer and some of the world’s leading economic and political thinkers as they explore the latest thinking on how the economy actually works.
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- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
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- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Why Your Raise Doesn’t Feel Like a Raise (with Angela Hanks)
You got a raise. So why does it feel like you’re still struggling? New research finds that rising debt payments have swallowed more than half of real income…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Anti-Fascist Economics (with Isabella Weber)
What happens to democracy when people can no longer afford the basics of everyday life? Economist Isabella Weber argues that the affordability crisis isn't…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Housing Is a Market Power Problem (with Sandeep Vaheesan & Brian Callaci)
Housing is still ridiculously expensive, and building more housing is absolutely part of the solution. But supply alone won’t fix a system where landlords have…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Who Is Industrial Policy Really For? (with Isabel Estevez)
Industrial policy is back at the center of the economic debate. But tariffs, factories, and reshoring are only part of the story. In this 2023 conversation…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
When Companies Run the Courts: How Corporate Power Becomes Legal Power (with Brendan Ballou)
We like to think that if a company cheats us, steals our wages, or breaks the law, we can take them to court. Unfortunately, there’s a good chance you’ve…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Gouged: How Big Tech Reinvented the Rip-Off (with Lindsay Owens)
For 150 years, the price tag made a simple and universal promise: the price you saw was the price everyone saw. Now, that promise is disappearing. This week…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Can We Build a Common Good Economy? (with Mariana Mazzucato)
Economics teaches us to think of markets as natural forces, and government as something that should only intervene when they fail. In her new book, The Common…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
The $29 Trillion Social Security Crisis We Already Know How to Fix ( with Rey Fuentes)
Americans are told Social Security is in trouble because there are more retirees and fewer workers to support them. But that story leaves out a major part of…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Profit, Power, and the Crisis of the Common Good (with Sen. Chris Murphy)
Why do so many Americans feel powerless, lonely, and disconnected — and what does that have to do with our economy? Senator Chris Murphy joins Nick and Goldy…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Chains of Command: How Franchising Turned Control Without Responsibility Into a Business Model (with Brian Callaci)
When you walk into a McDonald’s, it looks like one company. But legally, the person making your fries probably doesn’t work for McDonald’s at all. Brian…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
The Joy of Money (with Carrie Joy Grimes)
Most personal finance advice starts with the same basic premise: you’re doing money wrong. But Carrie Joy Grimes, founder of WorkMoney and author of The Joy of…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
What Happened to Liberal Democracy (with Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu)
Nobel Prize-winning MIT economist Daron Acemoglu joins Nick and Goldy to discuss his new book, What Happened to Liberal Democracy? Remaking a Politics of…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
What Happens When the Other Washington Stops Enforcing Antitrust? (with WA State Attorney General Nick Brown)
Paramount Skydance wants to merge with Warner Bros. Discovery in a $111 billion deal that would put even more of Hollywood—and two major newsrooms—under one…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
The Good Life Economy (with Elizabeth Wilkins)
What is the economy for — GDP, corporate profits, or people? This week, Nick and Goldy talk with Elizabeth Wilkins, President and CEO of the Roosevelt…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Myths That Built Trickle-Down Economics: Productivity Doesn’t Trickle Down (with Preston Mui)
Some of the world’s richest executives are selling AI as the engine of a yet-to-be realized “historic” productivity boom — while warning that it will also…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Myths That Built Trickle-Down Economics: Austerity Politics (with Clara Mattei)
This week, we’re continuing our archive miniseries, Myths That Built Trickle-Down Economics, with the myth that austerity is responsible economic policy. We’re…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Myths That Built Trickle-Down Economics: Zombie Economics (with Paul Krugman)
This week, we’re continuing our archive miniseries, Myths That Built Trickle-Down Economics, with the myth that bad economic ideas die once the evidence proves…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Myths That Built Trickle-Down Economics: Shareholder Value (with William Lazonick and Lenore Palladino)
This week, we’re continuing our archive miniseries, Myths That Built Trickle-Down Economics, with the myth that corporations exist to maximize shareholder…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Myths That Built Trickle-Down Economics: Regulations Kill Growth (with Robert Reich)
This week, we’re kicking off our archive miniseries, Myths That Built Trickle-Down Economics, with one of the most persistent myths in American politics: that…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
AI Job Loss Is Real. The Catastrophe Is Optional (with Kathryn Edwards)
AI doomsdayers want us to believe mass job loss would be unprecedented. But Kathryn Anne Edwards has a sharp reminder: In the first five weeks of the pandemic…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
The Policy Choices That Suppressed American Wages (with Josh Bivens and Larry Mishel)
Why have wages for working Americans stagnated for decades—even as productivity, corporate profits, and the wealth of the people at the top continued to rise?…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Market Humanism: A New Operating System for the Economy (with Nick Hanauer)
For the first time in Pitchfork Economics history, Nick Hanauer is on the other side of the mic. Goldy and Paul sit down with Nick to discuss Market Humanism…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
What Comes After Neoliberalism? (with Nick Hanauer & Eric Beinhocker)
This week, we’re sharing a special episode from Washington Monthly featuring Pitchfork Economics co-host Nick Hanauer and Oxford professor Eric Beinhocker in…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
The Worker Power Missing From the Abundance Debate (with Kate Andrias and Alexander Hertel-Fernandez)
Everyone wants more housing, more clean energy, more transit, more care infrastructure, and more of the things people need to live good lives. But too much of…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
How the AI Oligarchy Went Hyperscale (with Tim Murphy)
The AI “cloud” sounds weightless. But behind every chat bot, every prompt, and every promise of a coming AI revolution is a massive physical footprint…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Why Philanthropy [STILL] Isn’t the Answer with (with Anand Giridharadas)
Billionaires are shaping everything from elections to education to climate policy—and they want us to believe it's generosity. That’s why we’re re-airing this…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Crypto, Cryptocurrency Scams, and the Illusion of Easy Money (with Ben McKenzie)
Crypto is back—new hype cycles, rising prices, and fresh promises that this time cryptocurrency is changing the financial system for good. But the questions…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
From Safety Net to Power Base: Reclaiming Economic Power for Working People (with Jamie Keene)
The social safety net wasn’t supposed to work like this. Decades of neoliberal choices from politicians in both parties reshaped it—turning what was meant to…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
The Second Estate: Where Billionaires Don’t Pay. You Do. (with Ray D. Madoff)
Would it be a surprise if we told you the rich don’t actually live in the same tax system as everyone else? Tomorrow is Tax Day, when millions of Americans…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
The Wage Standard: What’s Wrong in the Labor Market and How to Fix It (with Arin Dube)
Corporate profits are booming. So why haven’t most workers gotten a raise? For decades, we’ve been told a simple story: work harder, become more productive…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
The Boomcession: Booming on Paper. Brutal in Real Life. (with Matt Stoller)
What happens when the economic data says one thing, but people’s lives say another? This week, Nick and Goldy talk to Matt Stoller about what he calls a…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
The $79 Trillion Price of Inequality (with Carter Price)
Over the last 50 years, nearly $79 trillion that could have gone to the bottom 90%…didn’t. Where did it go—and what did that cost you? Nick and Goldy are…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Swiftynomics: Who’s Afraid of Women’s Economic Power? (with Misty Heggeness)
What Is Swiftynomics—and Why Does It Matter? Taylor Swift didn’t just break records—she broke the way economists think about the economy. Because if one artist…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Same Cart, Different Price: When the Invisible Hand Becomes an Algorithm (with Lindsay Owens)
The price you see online might not be the real price. A new investigation found that Instacart was quietly running pricing experiments—charging different…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Should There Be a Limit to Wealth? (with Ingrid Robeyns)
Economic debates often focus on poverty — how to raise wages, strengthen safety nets, and ensure people don’t fall too far behind. But what if fairness also…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
AI Won’t Decide the Future of Work—We Will (with David Autor)
Every wave of new technology has come with the same promise: productivity rises, and everyone benefits. That’s not how it usually plays out. This week, we’re…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
LIVE FROM DC: The Magic Wand Question — Policy Pitches for Working People
If you could order a presidential administration to do one specific thing to improve the lives of working people — what would it be? At Democracy Journal’s…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
LIVE FROM DC: Abundance and Social Democracy: Enemies or Allies?
Can we build an economy that delivers abundance without abandoning democratic accountability and economic equity? Recorded live at Democracy Journal’s “Can’t…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
A Government Built to Stall—and What That Means for Democracy (with Hannah Garden-Monheit)
If democracy is going to survive, it has to deliver. This week, Goldy and Civic Ventures president Zach Silk are joined by Hannah Garden-Monheit, a former…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Revisiting Reimagining Capitalism (with Rebecca Henderson)
As inequality deepens, democratic institutions strain, and climate risk accelerates, it’s becoming impossible to ignore a basic question: What is capitalism…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Revisiting the Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order (with Gary Gerstle)
Every era runs on an economic story. For the last half-century, ours has been neoliberalism — the belief that if you free markets from constraints, prosperity…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Revisiting How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic Against Workers (with Elizabeth Anserson)
Americans have been told that working harder is the path to dignity, security, and success. But what if that promise was hijacked? This week, we’re revisiting…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
The Story That Built Today’s Economy (with George Monbiot and Binyamin Appelbaum)
Most people buy the fiction that markets are “natural,” inequality is inevitable, and government should step aside — but where did that idea come from? In this…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
How Economists Cause Harm Even as They Aspire to Do Good (with George DeMartino)
For more than a century, economists have told us they’re simply “describing the world as it is.” But what if their theories aren’t neutral — and are quietly…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
If America Is “Winning,” Why Does the Economy Feel Like This? (with Talmon Joseph Smith)
America has never been wealthier—so why does it feel so hard to get by? New York Times economics reporter Talmon Joseph Smith joins Nick and Goldy this week to…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding (with Osita Nwanevu)
Extreme inequality and democratic decline aren’t separate crises—they’re the same crisis. This week, Osita Nwanevu joins Paul and Goldy to explain how…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
From Abundance to Enshittification: 2025’s Must-Read Economics Books
This week, Paul and Goldy look back at the most notable economics books of the year. They discuss Ezra Klein and David Thompson’s Abundance, Cory Doctorow’s…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
CORE Econ: Rewriting Econ 101 for the Real World (with Suresh Naidu and Wendy Carlin)
Econ 101 shapes how millions of people understand the economy—but what if the textbooks are teaching a worldview that’s outdated, oversimplified, and in some…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America (with Mehrsa Baradaran)
Law professor Mehrsa Baradaran joins Nick and Goldy to reveal how neoliberalism wasn’t just a misguided economic theory—it was a “quiet coup” that rewired our…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
The Measure of Progress: Counting What Really Matters (with Diane Coyle)
For nearly a century, GDP has been the world’s go-to measure of economic success—but what if it’s been telling us the wrong story? It treats cigarette sales…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud (with Ben McKenzie)
Actor and author Ben McKenzie didn’t set out to become one of crypto’s fiercest critics—but when the pandemic hit and Hollywood shut down, his curiosity turned…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Stock Buybacks and the Trillion Dollar Heist (with Senator Cory Booker)
Corporations are on track to spend more than $1.3 trillion on stock buybacks this year—money that could have gone toward higher wages, innovation, or community…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Competing Visions on Trade: A Race to the Bottom Vs. Building the Middle Class (with Thea Lee featuring Todd Tucker)
In the final episode of our Trade series, Nick and Goldy talk with Thea Lee, former Deputy Undersecretary for International Affairs at the U.S. Department of…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
South of the Border: A Mexican Perspective on the Free Trade Era (with Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid)
In the sixth episode of our trade series, Pitchfork Economics producer Freddy Doss talks with Mexican economist Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid about how NAFTA — and…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
North of the Border: A Canadian Perspective on the Free Trade Era (with Luke Savage)
In the fifth episode of our series on trade, journalist and author Luke Savage joins Pitchfork Economics Producer Freddy Doss to unpack how decades of “free…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Trade Wars Are Class Wars (with Matthew C. Klein)
What if global trade isn’t really a fight between nations—but between classes? In the fourth episode of our Trade series, Nick and Goldy talk with economist…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
You Can't Tariff Knowledge (with César Hidalgo)
Tariffs won’t save America’s economy—but knowledge might. In the third episode of our Trade series, Nick and Goldy sit down with physicist César Hidalgo to…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray (with Nat Dyer)
In the second episode of our Trade series, Nick and Goldy talk with author Nat Dyer about his book Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Trade Wars, Class Wars & Globalization: Unpacking The Truth About Trade (featuring David Autor & Marc Palen)
In this kickoff to our special series on trade, Nick and Goldy unpack why trade policy isn’t just about tariffs and treaties—it’s about people, power, and…