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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 velocity of money (with Ann Pettifor)
Over the last century, the velocity of money—the rate at which money changes hands through the economy—has declined. Today, money moves at one of the slowest…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Re-post: Does the market pay you what you’re worth? (with Marshall Steinbaum and Saru Jayaraman)
The theory of marginal product of labor says that every worker is paid exactly what they’re worth—the value that their labor generates. Employers cite marginal…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
What’s the deal with the CBO report?
The big news in the minimum wage world this week is the brand new CBO report—which, among many benefits, also found that a $15 federal minimum wage would cost…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Ask Nick Anything
You know the drill: Nick and Goldy answer your questions! Did we see ‘pitchforks’ at the Capitol insurrection? What should people who subscribe to the economic…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Repost: How to spot a bogus minimum wage study (with Ben Zipperer)
Here’s another resource from the archive that will help you wade through the loud and often misleading coverage of the Raise the Wage Act. Not all minimum-wage…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Do wealthy Americans have too much power? (with Thom Hartmann)
Is the U.S. an oligarchy, or does it just have a bunch of super-rich people living in it? Is there a difference? Author Thom Hartmann joins Nick and Paul to…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Repost: Why raising the minimum wage doesn’t raise unemployment (with Mayor Eric Garcetti and Alan Krueger)
You may have noticed that the trickle-downers are out in full force again spouting bad ideas in response to the Raise the Wage Act, which will raise the…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
How can Democrats win back rural America? (with Bill Hogseth)
Democrats used to win elections in rural areas, but that seems like a distant memory now. This week, Zach is joined by Bill Hogseth, a political organizer from…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
The sounds of the new administration
Celebrate the end of inauguration week with this compilation of fun soundbites from past guests who are now serving in the Biden Administration! Featuring…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
The economic challenges Biden faces (with Idrees Kahloon)
Idrees Kahloon from The Economist joins us for inauguration week to assess the daunting economic challenges that the Biden-Harris administration will face the…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
The case for a True New Deal (with Bharat Ramamurti)
In a recent report, The Roosevelt Institute called for a new set of policies to mitigate the economic suffering caused by the pandemic. Taken all together…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
How banking deregulation makes you unsafe (with Anat Admati)
No matter what some politicians may claim, there’s actually no such thing as ‘less regulation’ — there are only regulations that favor the powerful, and those…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Tax me more, I’m rich (with Abigail Disney and Chye-Ching Huang)
Trickle-down economics would have you believe that the rich are job creators. For decades we’ve been told that the more money the wealthy have to invest in…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Why should we cancel student debt? (with Fenaba Addo)
The CARES Act delayed student loan payments as a form of stimulus, raising an important question: if forgiving student loan debt is good policy and broadly…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Why conventional wisdom is finally pushing for higher wages (with Binyamin Appelbaum)
Six years after the beginning of the Fight for $15 movement, conventional wisdom is finally waking up to economic reality. How do we know? Because the New York…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Author Interview: Competition is Killing Us (with Michelle Meagher)
Neoliberal economics says free trade is always good, and its followers try to lower trade barriers without discretion. Freedom is an essential ingredient for…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Restoring conservative economics (with Oren Cass)
“Conservative economics” in the U.S. has become synonymous with libertarian principles. But that’s not what American conservatism was originally about. Oren…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
What would you do if you were benevolent dictator?
We’re continuing to celebrate our 100th episode this week with another compilation — the best of the benevolent dictator question. What would you do to fix the…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Why do you do this work?
It’s our 100th episode! To celebrate, we pulled together some of our favorite answers to the question we love to ask our guests: Why do you do this work? Plus…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
What happens when unemployment benefits run out? (with Ioana Marinescu)
Right now, 26.3 million workers are either on unemployment or waiting to be approved for unemployment benefits. But for many of these jobless workers, the…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Who is Ron Klain?
In the first major staffing announcement of his incoming administration, President-elect Biden named Ron Klain, Obama’s ebola czar, as his chief of staff. We…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
The case for a millionaires tax (with Governor Phil Murphy)
This September, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy enacted a budget deal with his legislature that increased state taxes on incomes over $1 million. As the…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Election Day AMA Special (with Cristina Uribe)
When are we going to know the results of this election? What can we do about voter suppression? And are Democrats finally giving up on trickle-down economics?…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
BONUS: The Haunting of Buchanan Manor
This strange Halloween, we bring to you the harrowing tale of two young trick-or-treaters who dare to stop at James Buchanan’s house. To learn more about the…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
The real looting in America (with Robert Reich)
The real looting in America is the looting of the wages and savings of the bottom 90% by the wealthiest 1%. And although it’s not in the news nearly as much as…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
The pro-business case for reimagining capitalism (with Rebecca Henderson)
Harvard Business School professor Rebecca Henderson tells Nick and Goldy why businesses should reject the idea that the sole purpose of the corporation is to…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Author Interview: How to rebuild the middle class (with Jim Tankersley)
Why did the American middle class boom after WWII, and how do we get it booming again? New York Times economics reporter Jim Tankersley joins Paul to lay out…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Ask Nick Anything
What’s the opposite of neoliberal economics? What would the manifesto of the perfect political party look like? How much money do corporations spend lobbying…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
The future of health care (with Abdul El-Sayed)
This week, Biden-Sanders unity task force appointee Dr. Abdul El-Sayed walks Nick and Goldy through the Biden transition team’s health care plan. Abdul…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
The powerlessness of forced labor (with Suresh Naidu)
This week, labor market economist Suresh Naidu explains how his field attempts to account for the influence of power while studying employee/employer…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Inequality is costing workers $50 trillion (with Carter Price)
Yesterday, a groundbreaking study by the RAND Corporation put the first-ever price tag on how much income inequality costs American workers. The bill? $50…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Redefining rural America (with Olugbenga Ajilore)
Economist Olugbenga Ajilore explains how policymakers should be thinking about rural America (it’s not a monolith), and what interventions we should pursue to…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Coercion in the workplace (with Elizabeth Anderson)
What would the workplace look like if workers were truly free? Elizabeth Anderson, a leading theorist of democracy and social justice, joins Nick and Goldy for…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Winning on growth (with Michael Linden)
In this special bonus episode, Zach talks to political expert Michael Linden about the message that progressives can, and must, hammer home to win. Michael…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Author Interview: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes (with Zachary Carter)
Neoliberalism arose in the 1970s as a response to the failure of Keynesianism to deal with the effects of stagflation. But what is Keynesianism—and who is John…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
A long walk off a short economic cliff (with Trevon Logan)
Recessions are inevitable—but the complete economic catastrophe that we’ve experienced for the last five months was not. Professor Trevon Logan explains where…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
You can’t starve your way out of a recession (with Kitty Richards)
We know that state budget cuts and other austerity policies worsened the 2008 recession and led to a prolonged, uneven recovery. With state and local leaders…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Care work is more valuable than ever (with Kate Bahn)
Child care in the U.S. has been in crisis mode for a long time. It’s wildly expensive for families to afford, and difficult for providers to make ends meet…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
It’s time to stop relying on crisis legislation (with Lindsay Owens)
In 12 years, we’ve seen two economic crises with devastating long-term impacts. It seems by now we should be prepared to expect the unexpected… but instead…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
2020 Election AMA (with Cristina Uribe)
It’s less than 100 days until Election Day. What are the chances of political realignment? Is vote-by-mail a panacea? And how can despairing citizens…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
BONUS: Nancy MacLean - Unedited Conversation
Enjoy the full conversation with historian Nancy MacLean, with an extra twelve minutes that didn’t make it into this week’s episode. Nancy MacLean is an…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
How the radical right weaponized ideology (with Nancy MacLean)
If it seems to you like the ultimate goal of the most extreme conservatives is to undermine democracy and cripple democratic institutions—well, according to…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
How Econ 101 upholds racist systems (with Joelle Gamble)
The foundational metaphor of neoliberalism is that a rising tide lifts all boats. But, like many other assumptions in economic thought, that idea willfully…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
There’s no herd immunity to greed (with Thomas Friedman)
Our global system is fragile because we made decisions that made it that way. Where did we go wrong? This week, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman joins…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Debunking deficit myths (with Stephanie Kelton)
Modern Monetary Theory is an attempt to accurately describe how government debt and complex financial systems actually work. MMT can help us responsibly use…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
People are basically good (with Rutger Bregman)
The fundamentals of economic thought are built on the idea that humans are fundamentally self-interested. But, according to historian Rutger Bregman, that’s a…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Vaccine development needs new incentives (with Tahir Amin)
COVID-19 has exposed the limits of the pharmaceutical market model. This week, patent law expert Tahir Amin joins the show to explain why vaccine development…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Re-imagining public safety (with King County Councilmember Girmay Zahilay)
Budgets are a reflection of our values, and the money we budget for the police is no exception. Our state and local budgets for what we call “safety” are not…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Podcast Blackout
This week, we are participating in #PodcastBlackout to amplify the seriousness of the need for action to address institutional racism and police violence…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Why Wall Street gets a bailout and you don’t (with Matt Stoller)
Why are rich corporations getting more stimulus money from the government, and getting it faster, than small businesses and individuals? Matt Stoller returns…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Why the market fails in a crisis (with Joseph Stiglitz)
One of the central theories of classical economics is that markets respond quickly and efficiently to changes in demand. But the pandemic clearly demonstrates…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Author Interview: Inside the Secret War on Voting with Thom Hartmann
Paul is joined this week by radio host Thom Hartmann to introduce Thom’s most recent book, ‘The Hidden History of the War on Voting: Who Stole Your Vote and…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Inequality and coronavirus (with Heather Boushey and Michelle Holder)
The burdens of this pandemic are not borne equally. Economists Heather Boushey and Michelle Holder join the show this week to expose how the coronavirus is…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Austerity will make this recession worse (with Mike Konczal)
When revenues and expenses don’t add up in times of crisis, governments often turn to budget cuts and other austerity measures to balance their accounts. But…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Labor regulations in the gaming industry (with Jennifer Hale)
Prolific voice actor Jennifer Hale joins Paul and Stephen to discuss her work in two very different fields: the video game industry, which largely isn't…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Leadership failure made the U.S. pandemic worse (with Ronald Klain)
Pathogens are inevitable—but the scale of disaster accompanying this pandemic was not. Ronald Klain, President Obama’s Ebola czar, joins Nick and Goldy to…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
What’s happening in professional sports right now? (A curiosity break with Andrew Brandt)
What does the future of American sports look like? Okay, okay—we know this is out of our wheelhouse. But this week, we’re examining how the global pandemic has…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
What’s changed since the 1918 pandemic? (A history lesson with Nancy Bristow)
How does our response to the coronavirus pandemic compare to our response 100 years ago, when what is commonly known as the “Spanish Flu” swept through…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Understanding the CARES Act (with Heidi Shierholz)
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES) is big—but not big enough to protect working people. Economist Heidi Shierholz joins the show to…
- Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
AMA: COVID-19 and the Economy
How bad will this recession be? Why is Congress bailing out big corporations that had record profits last year? What would happen if stock buybacks were…