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Pitchfork Economics
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About Pitchfork Economics
Pitchfork Economics is a podcast with 449 episodes in the PodLexicon database, each accompanied by a full searchable transcript and AI-generated summary. 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. PodLexicon indexes every episode of Pitchfork Economics 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 Pitchfork Economics
Conservatism vs. Libertarianism Historical Conservative Economics Education and Non-College Pathways Labor Power and Worker Representation Critique of Market-Failure Thinking Political Realignment and Persuasion AI-Driven Job Displacement Unemployment Insurance Reform
Notable Guests on Pitchfork Economics
Recent Episodes
Chains of Command: How Franchising Turned Control Without Responsibility Into a Business Model (with Brian Callaci) — August 25, 2026The Joy of Money (with Carrie Joy Grimes) — August 18, 2026What Happened to Liberal Democracy (with Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu) — August 11, 2026What Happens When the Other Washington Stops Enforcing Antitrust? (with WA State Attorney General Nick Brown) — August 04, 2026The Good Life Economy (with Elizabeth Wilkins) — July 28, 2026Myths That Built Trickle-Down Economics: Productivity Doesn’t Trickle Down (with Preston Mui) — July 21, 2026Myths That Built Trickle-Down Economics: Austerity Politics (with Clara Mattei) — July 14, 2026Myths That Built Trickle-Down Economics: Zombie Economics (with Paul Krugman) — July 07, 2026Myths That Built Trickle-Down Economics: Shareholder Value (with William Lazonick and Lenore Palladino) — June 30, 2026Myths That Built Trickle-Down Economics: Regulations Kill Growth (with Robert Reich) — June 23, 2026AI Job Loss Is Real. The Catastrophe Is Optional (with Kathryn Edwards) — June 16, 2026The Policy Choices That Suppressed American Wages (with Josh Bivens and Larry Mishel) — June 09, 2026Market Humanism: A New Operating System for the Economy (with Nick Hanauer) — June 02, 2026What Comes After Neoliberalism? (with Nick Hanauer & Eric Beinhocker) — May 26, 2026The Worker Power Missing From the Abundance Debate (with Kate Andrias and Alexander Hertel-Fernandez) — May 19, 2026How the AI Oligarchy Went Hyperscale (with Tim Murphy) — May 12, 2026Why Philanthropy [STILL] Isn’t the Answer with (with Anand Giridharadas) — May 05, 2026Crypto, Cryptocurrency Scams, and the Illusion of Easy Money (with Ben McKenzie) — April 28, 2026From Safety Net to Power Base: Reclaiming Economic Power for Working People (with Jamie Keene) — April 21, 2026The Second Estate: Where Billionaires Don’t Pay. You Do. (with Ray D. Madoff) — April 14, 2026The Wage Standard: What’s Wrong in the Labor Market and How to Fix It (with Arin Dube) — April 07, 2026The Boomcession: Booming on Paper. Brutal in Real Life. (with Matt Stoller) — March 31, 2026The $79 Trillion Price of Inequality (with Carter Price) — March 24, 2026Swiftynomics: Who’s Afraid of Women’s Economic Power? (with Misty Heggeness) — March 17, 2026Same Cart, Different Price: When the Invisible Hand Becomes an Algorithm (with Lindsay Owens) — March 10, 2026Should There Be a Limit to Wealth? (with Ingrid Robeyns) — March 03, 2026AI Won’t Decide the Future of Work—We Will (with David Autor) — February 24, 2026LIVE FROM DC: The Magic Wand Question — Policy Pitches for Working People — February 17, 2026LIVE FROM DC: Abundance and Social Democracy: Enemies or Allies? — February 10, 2026A Government Built to Stall—and What That Means for Democracy (with Hannah Garden-Monheit) — February 03, 2026Revisiting Reimagining Capitalism (with Rebecca Henderson) — January 27, 2026Revisiting the Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order (with Gary Gerstle) — January 20, 2026Revisiting How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic Against Workers (with Elizabeth Anserson) — January 13, 2026The Story That Built Today’s Economy (with George Monbiot and Binyamin Appelbaum) — January 06, 2026How Economists Cause Harm Even as They Aspire to Do Good (with George DeMartino) — December 30, 2025If America Is “Winning,” Why Does the Economy Feel Like This? (with Talmon Joseph Smith) — December 23, 2025The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding (with Osita Nwanevu) — December 16, 2025From Abundance to Enshittification: 2025’s Must-Read Economics Books — December 09, 2025CORE Econ: Rewriting Econ 101 for the Real World (with Suresh Naidu and Wendy Carlin) — December 02, 2025The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America (with Mehrsa Baradaran) — November 25, 2025The Measure of Progress: Counting What Really Matters (with Diane Coyle) — November 18, 2025Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud (with Ben McKenzie) — November 11, 2025Stock Buybacks and the Trillion Dollar Heist (with Senator Cory Booker) — November 04, 2025Competing Visions on Trade: A Race to the Bottom Vs. Building the Middle Class (with Thea Lee featuring Todd Tucker) — October 28, 2025South of the Border: A Mexican Perspective on the Free Trade Era (with Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid) — October 21, 2025North of the Border: A Canadian Perspective on the Free Trade Era (with Luke Savage) — October 14, 2025Trade Wars Are Class Wars (with Matthew C. Klein) — October 07, 2025You Can't Tariff Knowledge (with César Hidalgo) — September 30, 2025How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray (with Nat Dyer) — September 23, 2025Trade Wars, Class Wars & Globalization: Unpacking The Truth About Trade (featuring David Autor & Marc Palen) — September 16, 2025
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