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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
Higher minimum wages are creating more jobs (with Michael Reich)
Ten years ago, Nick was called "near insane" for saying that substantially raising the minimum wage would create jobs. In retrospect, it seems obvious: After…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Do we need an Economic Bill of Rights? (with Mark Paul)
We learn in grade school that American citizens are endowed with certain inalienable rights, but basic necessities like housing and education aren’t protected…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
The case for inclusive growth (with JP Julien)
At the core of middle-out economics is the idea that the more people we include in the economy, the faster and more prosperous it grows. And this inclusionary…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Can economics save the world? (with Erik Angner)
We all want to live happier, more fulfilling lives and build a better future for ourselves, but can economics help to make that dream a reality? Economist and…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
How college broke the American dream (with Will Bunch)
This week we’re continuing our exploration into the ways that higher education contributes to America’s political, cultural, and economic divisions. Goldy…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Econ 101 is failing college students (with Abigail Acheson and Nouhaila Oudija)
Universities across America are still teaching an outdated, neoclassical way of economic thinking. The trickle-down curriculums taught in Econ 101 classrooms…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
How rich people dodge taxes (with Gabriel Zucman)
As Tax Day approaches in the United States, we’re revisiting our conversation with Gabriel Zucman, the authority on wealth taxes. For the last 40 years…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Banning noncompetes is good, actually (with Evan Starr)
One in five American workers has signed a noncompete clause. The FTC believes that the elimination of these clauses would generate extra job opportunities for…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
How we all fell for The Big Myth (with Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway)
When did ordinary people come to believe that free market solutions are always better than government intervention? How do we create a future where markets…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Slouching towards economic utopia (with Brad DeLong)
Between 1870 and 2010 an unprecedented explosion of material wealth transformed the globe, but that wave of prosperity failed to create a fully functioning and…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
The problem with unequal cities (with Richard McGahey)
We've released dozens of episodes exploring how to improve the lives of Americans that live in rural areas, but we don’t often discuss how cities (and the…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
The high price of misclassification (with Heidi Shierholz)
A new report from the Economic Policy Institute found that anywhere from 10 to 30 percent of employers are essentially stealing thousands of dollars from their…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Why Walmart workers are still broke (with Rick Wartzman)
Goldy and Paul interview author Rick Wartzman about how America’s biggest employer (Walmart) began taking better care of its workers (by raising wages)—and why…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Why stock buybacks should be taxed more (with Cory Booker)
Stock buybacks are one of the worst excesses of modern capitalism, which naturally means they're one of our favorite subjects to cover on the podcast. And…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
How Biden is restoring economic competition (with David Dayen)
In July 2021, President Biden signed an executive order directing government agencies to rewrite policies to encourage competition in the U.S. economy…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Why canceling student debt makes great economic sense (with Fenaba Addo)
When the Biden Administration announced last year that they would forgive up to $20,000 student loan debt per individual, millions of people celebrated—and for…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
The many benefits of a guaranteed job program (with Max Kasy and Lukas Lehner)
Oxford economists are currently running the world’s first Universal Job Guarantee program in Austria, and so far the results are very promising. When…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
The legacy of the Fight for $15 (with NELP)
Exactly one decade ago, activists and civic leaders launched the Fight for $15. It’s hard to recall now, but the idea was wildly controversial at the…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Sci-Fi Economics (with Kim Stanley Robinson)
We can’t tear down the existing economic framework and replace it with a better one without first telling a persuasive story about how the economy actually…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
The real reasons why inflation soared last year (with Ira Regmi)
For most of last year economists and pundits engaged in a long, circular debate about why inflation was spiking around the world, and who was to blame for…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
New Year, New AMA
Nick and Goldy kick off the New Year by answering more of your questions! Has there ever been a time period with strong deflation? Should folks prepare for an…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Revisiting the economics of abortion (with Caitlin Myers)
Out of all the topics we discussed in 2022 one stayed at the top of headlines all year long: abortion. We spoke to Professor Caitlin Myers in February of this…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Revisiting corporate greed’s effect on the supply chain (with Rakeen Mabud)
Judging by the amount of downloads for this episode, we’d say it was our listeners’ favorite from the past year. “Did Corporate Greed Break the Supply Chain?”…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
CEO Pay is out of control (with Mark Kreidler)
A new report from the Economic Policy Institute looks into the salary and stock packages of America’s most overcompensated corporate titans and the numbers are…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
America isn’t lost, it’s Adrift (with Scott Galloway)
Inequality has grown so large that a number of pessimists believe America is lost. But Professor Scott Galloway argues that our nation is actually adrift, and…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Fair Social Contracts (with Eric Beinhocker)
Human society is built on social contracts, but decades of neoliberalism have left many of our most fundamental contracts—worker power, social safety nets…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Charting a new path forward (LIVE from EconCon Presents)
In one of the highlights of last week’s EconCon Presents event in Washington D.C., Washington Post columnist Perry Bacon Jr. convened an all-star panel of…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Why we can't let Kroger buy Albertsons (with Stacy Mitchell)
Kroger wants to buy Albertsons and effectively become the second-largest grocery chain in the United States. This merger would result in less competition…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
The reality of voter suppression in America (with Andrea Hailey)
If there's one thing we learned from the far-right campaign against voting rights following the 2020 election, it's how fragile our democracy really is. That’s…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Chokepoint Capitalism (with Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin)
Corporate concentration has strained the labor market for virtually all workers, but the resulting lack of competition has caused unique harm to the creative…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Middle-Out Messaging for the Midterms (with Melissa Morales and Bobby Clark)
Economics is another form of storytelling—specifically, it’s the story of who gets what and why. And as the rise of trickle-down and middle-out economics shows…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
A brief 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
Why won't trickle-down die? (with Mark Blyth)
While President Biden has embraced middle-out economics here in the states, the UK’s new leaders have decided to enthusiastically revive trickle-down…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
How to repair the housing crisis (with Jenny Schuetz)
The United States is in the midst of a housing crisis. Prices are skyrocketing, supply is dwindling, and wages haven't kept up with cost of living. It's a…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
How student loan forgiveness rebuilds the economy from the middle out (with Marshall Steinbaum)
President Biden recently announced his plan for student loan forgiveness. It’s a policy that helps build the economy from the middle out by erasing some of the…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Measuring long Covid's impact on the labor market (with Katie Bach)
Millions of Americans are being kept out of the workforce due to the lingering effects of Covid, resulting in billions of dollars in lost wages and…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
We need to fix overtime pay in America (with Marcus Baram)
If you're a salaried worker, chances are you're no longer eligible for the overtime pay that you would have received 40 years ago. A robust federal overtime…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
How the Inflation Reduction Act benefits the middle class (with Rose Khattar)
The Inflation Reduction Act may be smaller than the original Build Back Better plan, but it still represents a huge leap forward in middle-out economic…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
The limits of the market (with Joseph Stiglitz)
One of the central theories of classical economics is that markets respond quickly and efficiently to changes in demand. But the supply chain disruptions that…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Why essential work is essentially forced labor (with Suresh Naidu)
What became known as “essential work” during the pandemic was really just forced labor, according to labor market economist Suresh Naidu. He shares employers'…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
How inequality cost workers $50 trillion (with Carter Price)
Did you know that since 1975 a staggering $50 trillion has been diverted from the paychecks of working Americans to the pockets of the wealthiest 1%? That…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Reclaiming conservative economics (with Oren Cass)
These days "conservative economics" can mean anything from strict libertarianism to formless Trumpism. But what were the foundations of American conservatism?…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Mission Economy (with Mariana Mazzucato)
What do the internet and COVID vaccines have in common? Neither would be possible without the work of DARPA, a mission-focused federal agency responsible for…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
How American tax policy fosters racial inequality (with Dorothy A. Brown)
While most Americans know that our tax system advantages wealthy white families, not as many people realize how much it also actively disadvantages Black…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
We can redefine worker power (with Elizabeth Anderson)
What are the ethical limits of the market? How do we shift the balances of power back towards workers? What does true freedom really look like? Nick and Goldy…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Can corporations help repair society? (with Ben & Jerry)
Business leaders can use their power and resources to make meaningful change, but should they? Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, the founders of iconic ice cream…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Ask Nick Anything
Nick and Goldy answer more of your questions! What’s the deal with cryptocurrency? How are people still saying that inflation was caused by the stimulus? Is…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Has Chile defeated neoliberalism? (with Marcelo Casals)
Chile has a proud tradition of protests, but the unrest of 2019 was different. More than a million people took to the streets to protest their nation’s vast…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Marshall Plan for Moms (with Reshma Saujani)
Millions of Americans lost their jobs because of the pandemic. While men have returned to their pre-pandemic level of employment, a million women are still…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
The inequality of progress (with Oded Galor)
What can the history of human progress teach us about modern inequality? In his new book, ‘The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality,’…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
How thinking like economists holds us back (with Elizabeth Popp Berman)
When it comes to crafting economic policy, cost-effectiveness, efficiency, choice, and competition have reigned supreme among policymakers for decades…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Exploring global solutions to inequality (with Faiza Shaheen)
Reducing inequality is not only possible, but it’s actually happening all across the globe. Faiza Shaheen, the Inequality Program Lead at NYU, has been…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Inclusion is an economic necessity (with john a. powell)
john a. powell, the Director of the Othering & Belonging Institute, explains why the concept of belonging is so important for a healthy community and why…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Consumers deserve an inflation rebate (with Congressman Ro Khanna)
Gas prices have reached record highs in the United States. Is inflation actually to blame, or is it the greed of Big Oil, which is enjoying record profits?…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
How Biden’s budget proposal takes on corporate power (with Niko Lusiani)
The Biden Administration’s 2023 budget proposal includes a Billionaire Minimum Income Tax and a rewrite of stock buyback practices. Will these changes actually…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Pirate equity (with Jim Baker)
The idea behind private equity firms—to buy failing companies and turn them around for a profit—is not inherently bad. So why is private equity such a major…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Companies can't self-regulate their way to inclusive capitalism (with Katie Bach)
In 2019, a group of business leaders signed a high-profile pledge promising that they would voluntarily move toward a more inclusive stakeholder-focused…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Why your non-compete clause is probably illegal (with Attorney General Bob Ferguson)
Non-compete clauses, and the lesser-known no-poach agreements between franchises, are shockingly common for low-wage workers. Although these contracts were…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
How neoliberalism happened (with George Monbiot and Binyamin Appelbaum)
It’s trendy to mock the malicious pervasiveness of neoliberalism now, but have you ever wondered what its origins are? This week, George Monbiot and Binyamin…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
The economics of mass incarceration (with Robynn Cox)
What role does the criminal justice system play in economic inequality? How does economic inequality cause mass incarceration? And how do we tease those two…