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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.
Episodes
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
The Road to Freedom (with Joseph Stiglitz)
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz joins Nick and Goldy to talk about his new book, "The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society.” Stiglitz…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Making Sense of Chaos (with Doyne Farmer)
This week, Nick and Goldy talk to Doyne Farmer, a renowned physicist and mathematician, to discuss his new book, "Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
The Code of Capital (with Katharina Pistor)
This week, Nick and Goldy talk to Katharina Pistor, a legal scholar and professor at Columbia Law School, about her book "The Code of Capital: How the Law…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
The Failed Southern Economic Development Model (with Chandra Childers)
This week, Goldy and Paul talk to Chandra Childers, a senior policy and economic analyst at the Economic Policy Institute and author of their recent report on…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Democracy in Default (with Brian Judge)
This week, Nick and Goldy are joined by political scientist Brian Judge, author of "Democracy in Default: Finance and the Rise of Neoliberalism in America."…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
The FTC's Renewed Fight Against Corporate Power (with Elizabeth Wilkins)
After decades of slow and cautious movement, the Federal Trade Commission has suddenly kicked into overdrive. You’ve likely seen headlines about the FTC…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Ours Was the Shining Future (with David Leonhardt)
This week, Nick and Goldy are joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist David Leonhardt to discuss his latest book, Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
What Does Obama’s Chief Economist Think About Bidenomics? (with Jason Furman)
This week, Nick and Goldy have a wide-ranging conversation with Jason Furman, who served as Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Obama…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Unpacking America’s Housing Affordability Crisis (with Whitney Airgood-Obrycki)
This week, Nick and Goldy are joined by Whitney Airgood-Obrycki from the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University to discuss the urgent issue of…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Junking Junk Fees (with Rohit Chopra)
This week, Nick and Goldy sit down with Rohit Chopra, the Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, to explore the agency's efforts to lower…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Decoding the Tech Layoff Panic of 2024 (with Jeffrey Shulman)
Even though the American labor market is currently stronger than it has been in decades, earlier this year Big Tech companies were laying off workers at an…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
How to Build a Just Economy (with Nick Romeo)
Journalist Nick Romeo joins us to discuss his new book "The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy." Romeo argues that the conventional economic wisdom has…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
The Case Against Extreme Wealth (with Ingrid Robeyns)
This week, Nick and Goldy sit down with ethics professor Ingrid Robeyns to discuss her groundbreaking new book, Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
LIVE from DC: Redefining the Center (with Heather Boushey)
This special episode of Pitchfork Economics features a live conversation from the "Redefining the Center: How to Make Middle-Out Economics the New Mainstream"…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
The True Crime of Wage Theft (with Terri Gerstein)
In the shadows of corporate greed and exploitation lies a sinister crime that is silently perpetrated, leaving countless victims in its wake—a crime that…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Productivity is a Policy Choice (with Preston Mui)
Preston Mui, Senior Economist at Employ America, recently authored a report titled "The Dream of the 90s is Alive in 2024: How Policy Can Revive Productivity…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Why Wages Are Growing From the Bottom Up and Middle Out (with Arin Dube)
Today, Arin Dube, Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, joins us to discuss his latest research, which suggests that the American…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
The True Cost of Trump’s Tax Plan (with Samantha Jacoby)
In his State of the Union Address, President Biden made it clear that taxes and tax policy were his next big target for a middle-out makeover. However, we…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Middle Out to Mainstream
Eleven years ago, Democracy Journal released a special issue on "The Middle Out Moment" that explored the implications of what was then the brand-new theory of…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Why Americans are so displeased with the economy (with Aaron Sojourner)
The latest economic indicators show a historically strong economy. Over the past couple of years, the unemployment rate has consistently stayed below 4%, real…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
A Tale of Two Tax Systems (with David Cay Johnston)
While the average American worker is subject to a progressive income tax system where tax rates increase as income rises, the wealthy often exploit a range of…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Why Flying Is Miserable And How to Fix It (with Ganesh Sitaraman)
Ganesh Sitaraman joins us today to discuss his new book, Why Flying Is Miserable And How to Fix It. Air travel has become an increasingly frustrating…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
The Future of Bidenomics (with Jared Bernstein)
President Biden’s economic policies mark a paradigm shift away from the trickle-down economics that have held sway over Washington DC for the past 40 years…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Making a case for the inheritance tax (with David Stasavage)
Over the next two decades, $30 trillion of wealth is expected to be transferred from Baby Boomers to their heirs. Journalists and financial experts have been…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
How a New Economics Went Mainstream (with Suzanne Kahn)
Over the past few decades, economists have gathered a lot of empirical evidence supporting the underlying truth of middle-out economics: that a thriving middle…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Revisiting the Child Tax Credit (with Wendy Bach)
A bipartisan group of lawmakers has agreed to expand the Child Tax Credit again, but it will be smaller than the pandemic-era credit was. If this version of…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Medicare Drug Price Negotiations with (Margarida Jorge)
The pharmaceutical industry is one of the most opaque industries in America, and they take advantage of this lack of transparency by setting ever-higher prices…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Three Economic Issues that Could Shape the 2024 Elections
National elections are won and lost on the economy. Of course they are: the state of the economy affects individuals' job security, income levels, access to…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Seizing the Middle Out Moment
When Pitchfork Economics was started, our ideas about economic cause and effect were way outside the economic mainstream, and so much has changed in the last…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Middle-Out Wins
2023 was a big year for middle-out policy and research, so we are recapping some of the biggest middle-out moments that are improving people's lives and…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
How the UAW strike benefits all workers (with Kate Bahn)
Business reporting on labor unions tends to focus on speculation about how much striking workers might hurt the economy. But the reality is that successful…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism (with Clara Mattei)
We already know that many mainstream economists advocate against the economic interests of the majority of working Americans and for the benefit of a tiny…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Revisiting the history of Middle-Out Economics (with Michael Tomasky)
We’ve lived in the shadow of trickle-down economics for over 40 years. During that time, our leaders unquestioningly embraced economic policies that prioritize…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Working Toward a Full Employment Economy (with Arnab Datta)
In its quest to combat inflation the Federal Reserve has seemingly done everything in its power to engineer a recession, which would throw millions of people…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Understanding the Sahm Rule (with economist Claudia Sahm)
Mainstream economists have been predicting a recession on the horizon for over a year, with some doomsayers even making up something called “a non-recession…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Exploring American Inequality (with Nobel Laureate Angus Deaton)
No matter which indicator you’re using, American inequality has been increasing in recent decades. Whether you’re measuring the growing wealth gap, the…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
The return of child labor (with Nina Mast and Jennifer Sherer)
At a time when violations of child labor laws are on the rise nationally, state lawmakers around the country are successfully rolling back child labor…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
The path of political disintegration (with Peter Turchin)
When Nick warned back in 2013 that the pitchforks were coming, he meant that if we continued immiserating the majority of citizens by enriching a wealthy few…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Corporate Bullsh*t (with Joan Walsh and Donald Cohen)
Politicians and business interests have lied to the American people for centuries in order to protect their power and profits—and they tell the exact same lies…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
The economics of belonging (with john a. powell)
If you’re a long-time listener, you’ve definitely heard us discuss the golden rule of middle out economics: The more people you include in the economy, the…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
How neoliberalism turned the work ethic against workers (with Elizabeth Anderson)
The majority of U.S. workers aren’t compensated anywhere near the value that they actually create for society, while the few who make the most money often work…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Setting the record straight on inflation (with Mike Konczal)
There have been a lot of bad takes on inflation out there in the media, from wild speculation about its causes to absurd predictions about when and how the…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
The Tyranny of Merit (with Michael Sandel)
In this wide-ranging conversation with one of our favorite authors, philosopher Michael Sandel explains how the concept of meritocracy has helped to create…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
What the new Draft Merger Guidelines could mean for the economy (with Maggie Goodlander)
Earlier this summer, the Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released a draft update of their Merger Guidelines, “which describe and guide…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
The CHIPS Act, explained (with Ronnie Chatterji)
It’s been a little over a year since President Biden signed the CHIPS and Science Act, which invested $231 billion into semiconductor manufacturing in the…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
What labor shortage? (with Heidi Shierholz)
When employers say they can’t find workers, what they really mean is that they can’t find enough people willing to work for what they want to offer. The…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Why don't we fight poverty by just giving people money? (with Paul Niehaus)
We saw during the pandemic that giving people cash is good for individuals and the economy as a whole. It makes sense: When people have more money, they spend…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Power, progress, and technology (with Daron Acemoglu)
New technologies are sold as a net benefit to society as a whole, but the truth is that technological progress is only loosely correlated to the improved…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Ask Nick Anything
Nick and Goldy answer more of your questions! What happens to current economic systems if world population growth goes to zero? Should I feel guilty for…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Wages need a revolution (with Michael Lind)
Today we’re talking about wages—specifically, how the widespread suppression of wages is destroying the American economy. Author, professor, and fellow…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
How Industrial Policy actually works (with Isabel Estevez)
Industrial Policy (IP) has dominated conversations in economic and political circles thanks to President Biden’s big investments in manufacturing…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Private equity’s plan to pillage America (with Brendan Ballou)
Over the last decade, private equity firms wiped out nearly 600,000 jobs in the retail sector by taking over and bankrupting major retailers like Toys R Us and…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Bidenomics (with Bharat Ramamurti)
“Bidenomics” is closely aligned with many—probably even most—of the middle-out economic principles that we discuss on this podcast every week. Much to our…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Why good jobs are good for business (with Zeynep Ton)
Low pay is obviously terrible for workers, but a growing body of research proves that it’s bad for businesses, too. Smaller paychecks lead to higher turnover…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
How economics can create a more sustainable planet (with Sarah Bloom Raskin)
In the 21st century, summertime isn’t just for lounging on the beach and trips to the ice cream shop. Climate change has made summer much more unpleasant—and…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Summer Reading List
It’s Paul and Goldy’s summer reading list! We want to know what you’re reading, too. Leave us a comment on Instagram: @pitchforkeconomics Remember to shop…
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Doughnut Economics (with Andrew Fanning)
On its website, the Doughnut Economics Action Lab describes Doughnut Economics as “a compass for human prosperity in the 21st century.” Its proponents…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
How the franchise system is rigged (with Marshall Steinbaum)
In the 20th century, big corporations sold franchising to Americans as a less risky way to buy into business ownership. But in recent years, the franchise…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Americonned (with Sean Claffey and Dave Pederson)
Americonned, a new documentary featuring our own Nick Hanauer, examines the inequality crisis currently plaguing the United States. The film shows the hidden…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Can the economy be liberated? (with Jeremie Greer)
Even when our nation's prosperity was most broadly shared in the 1950s and 1960s, Black people and other communities of color were purposefully denied the…