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Capitalisnt
249 episodes · by University of Chicago Podcast Network
About Capitalisnt
Capitalisnt is a podcast with 249 episodes in the PodLexicon database, each accompanied by a full searchable transcript and AI-generated summary. Is capitalism the engine of destruction or the engine of prosperity? On this podcast we talk about the ways capitalism is—or more often isn’t—working in our world today. Hosted by Vanity Fair contributing editor, Bethany McLean and world renowned economics professor Luigi Zingales, we explain how capitalism can go wrong, and what we can do to fix it. Cover photo attributions: https://www.chicagobooth.edu/research/stigler/about/capitalisnt. If you would like to send us feedback, suggestions fo... PodLexicon indexes every episode of Capitalisnt and turns each one into a searchable AI summary — find the episode that covers a topic, track how that topic evolved over time, or compare what different guests said about it.
Topics Covered on Capitalisnt
Revised History of Antitrust Decline Chicago School Ideas and Evolution Empirical Evidence of Enforcement Collapse Unelected Regulators and Judges Powell Memorandum and Corporate Strategy Persistence of Antitrust Rollback Lessons for Present-Day Antitrust Politics Poverty Measurement Critique
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Can Liberalism Survive This Kind of Capitalism? - ft. Daron Acemoglu — August 13, 2026How Washington Privatized The Capital Market - ft. Renée Jones — August 06, 2026A Conservative's Attack On Neoliberalism - Ft. Chris Griswold — July 30, 2026Was The Constitution An Anti-Democratic Coup? - ft. Michael Klarman — July 16, 2026Our Personal Finance Mistakes Are The Industry's Profits - ft. John Campbell & Tarun Ramadorai — July 02, 2026Was Free Trade Ever Really Free? - ft. Fmr. Biden Trade Rep. Katherine Tai — June 18, 2026Why Corporations Always Win At The Supreme Court - ft. Adam Winkler — June 04, 2026You Can't Buy Trust - ft. Wikipedia Co-Founder Jimmy Wales — May 28, 2026Is Healthcare Making Capitalism Sick? - ft. Zack Cooper — May 21, 2026How “Muskism” Is Changing American Capitalism - ft. Quinn Slobodian — May 07, 2026Is Capitalism Delivering For The Majority? - ft. Steve Kaplan — April 23, 2026Is The College Promise Broken? - ft. Noam Scheiber — April 16, 2026The Real Cause Of Wage Stagnation - ft. Arin Dube — April 02, 2026Is Everyone Getting Adam Smith Wrong? - ft. Glory Liu — March 26, 2026Why Human Progress Is Not Inevitable - ft. Carl Frey — March 12, 2026The Hidden Economic Dangers Of Supreme Court Overreach - ft. Steve Vladeck — March 05, 2026Adam Smith In The Age of The “Epstein Class” - ft. MP Jesse Norman — February 26, 2026How Inequality Distorts the Law - ft. Katharina Pistor — February 19, 2026Are Betting Apps Engineered for Addiction? - ft. Jonathan Cohen — February 05, 2026Can We Build a Middle Class Without Factories? - ft. Dani Rodrik — January 22, 2026Who Should The Fed Answer To? - ft. Sir Paul Tucker — January 15, 2026How To Fix The American Tax System - ft. Ray Madoff — January 06, 2026How Capitalism Became Global ft. Sven Beckert — December 18, 2025How to Stop “Ensh*ttification” Before It Kills the Internet - ft. Cory Doctorow — December 11, 2025Why Matthew Yglesias Is Skeptical Of Anti-Monopoly Policies — December 04, 2025Are Big Tech’s Regulators “Cowards”? ft. Tim Wu — November 20, 2025Why Economists Should Care About Inequality, with Branko Milanovic — November 06, 2025Nobel Economist Reveals Why Economic Models Keep Failing Us, ft. Richard Thaler — October 30, 2025What Everyone’s Getting Wrong About AI, with Arvind Narayanan — October 16, 2025Why Capitalism Stopped Working In Japan, with Takeo Hoshi — October 02, 2025How Profit and Politics Hijacked Scientific Inquiry, with John Ioannidis — September 18, 2025Will Privatizing The Mortgage Giants Solve The Housing Crisis? — September 04, 2025Trump's Great Private Equity Bailout, with Dan Rasmussen — August 21, 2025Should Chatbots Teach Our Children? With Khan Academy CEO Sal Khan — August 07, 2025Can The Dollar Be Dethroned?, with Ken Rogoff — July 24, 2025Revealing the Secret Architects of Capitalism, with Chris Hughes — July 10, 2025How The Democrats Lost Labor And Found Capital, with David Sirota — June 26, 2025Why Cliff Asness Believes Markets Are Getting Dumber — June 12, 2025How Democrats Forgot To Be Normal, with Joan Williams — May 29, 2025Lina Khan's Vision of Capitalism — May 15, 2025The Economics of Law Firms’ Resistance to Trump, with John Morley — May 01, 2025Profit or Purpose? OpenAI's $300 Billion Question, with Rose Chan Loui — April 17, 2025Is Silicon Valley Turning Fascist? — April 03, 2025Why Trump Is Deregulating In The Wrong Way, with Sam Peltzman — March 20, 2025Trump’s War on Universities, with Nicholas Dirks — March 06, 2025Did NIMBYs Kill the American Dream?, with Yoni Appelbaum — February 20, 2025Can AI Even Be Regulated?, with Sendhil Mullainathan — February 13, 2025Why This Nobel Economist Thinks Bitcoin Is Going to Zero, with Eugene Fama — January 30, 2025Should Companies Have A Social Responsibility To Be “Great Businesses”?, with John Kay — January 16, 2025How Big Money Changed The Democratic Game, with Daniel Ziblatt — January 02, 2025
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