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...
Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
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Any society that allows itself to become radically unequal eventually collapses into an uprising or a police state—or both. Join venture capitalist Nick Hanauer and some of the world’s leading economic and political thinkers in an exploration of who gets what and why. Turns out, everything you learned about economics is wrong. And if we don’t do something about rising inequality, the pitchforks are coming.
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 p...
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 incl...
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? Econo...
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. G...
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Universities across America are still teaching an outdated, neoclassical way of economic thinking.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 cla...
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 year...
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 opportuni...
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 ma...
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 functi...