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Capitalisn't — 246 episodes
Was The Constitution An Anti-Democratic Coup? - ft. Michael Klarman
Our Personal Finance Mistakes Are The Industry's Profits - ft. John Campbell & Tarun Ramadorai
Was Free Trade Ever Really Free? - ft. Fmr. Biden Trade Rep. Katherine Tai
Why Corporations Always Win At The Supreme Court - ft. Adam Winkler
You Can't Buy Trust - ft. Wikipedia Co-Founder Jimmy Wales
Is Healthcare Making Capitalism Sick? - ft. Zack Cooper
How “Muskism” Is Changing American Capitalism - ft. Quinn Slobodian
Is Capitalism Delivering For The Majority? - ft. Steve Kaplan
Is The College Promise Broken? - ft. Noam Scheiber
The Real Cause Of Wage Stagnation - ft. Arin Dube
Is Everyone Getting Adam Smith Wrong? - ft. Glory Liu
Why Human Progress Is Not Inevitable - ft. Carl Frey
The Hidden Economic Dangers Of Supreme Court Overreach - ft. Steve Vladeck
Adam Smith In The Age of The “Epstein Class” - ft. MP Jesse Norman
How Inequality Distorts the Law - ft. Katharina Pistor
Are Betting Apps Engineered for Addiction? - ft. Jonathan Cohen
Can We Build a Middle Class Without Factories? - ft. Dani Rodrik
Who Should The Fed Answer To? - ft. Sir Paul Tucker
How To Fix The American Tax System - ft. Ray Madoff
How Capitalism Became Global ft. Sven Beckert
How to Stop “Ensh*ttification” Before It Kills the Internet - ft. Cory Doctorow
Why Matthew Yglesias Is Skeptical Of Anti-Monopoly Policies
Are Big Tech’s Regulators “Cowards”? ft. Tim Wu
Why Economists Should Care About Inequality, with Branko Milanovic
Nobel Economist Reveals Why Economic Models Keep Failing Us, ft. Richard Thaler
What Everyone’s Getting Wrong About AI, with Arvind Narayanan
Why Capitalism Stopped Working In Japan, with Takeo Hoshi
How Profit and Politics Hijacked Scientific Inquiry, with John Ioannidis
Will Privatizing The Mortgage Giants Solve The Housing Crisis?
Trump's Great Private Equity Bailout, with Dan Rasmussen
Should Chatbots Teach Our Children? With Khan Academy CEO Sal Khan
Can The Dollar Be Dethroned?, with Ken Rogoff
Revealing the Secret Architects of Capitalism, with Chris Hughes
How The Democrats Lost Labor And Found Capital, with David Sirota
Why Cliff Asness Believes Markets Are Getting Dumber
How Democrats Forgot To Be Normal, with Joan Williams
Lina Khan's Vision of Capitalism
The Economics of Law Firms’ Resistance to Trump, with John Morley
Profit or Purpose? OpenAI's $300 Billion Question, with Rose Chan Loui
Is Silicon Valley Turning Fascist?
Why Trump Is Deregulating In The Wrong Way, with Sam Peltzman
Trump’s War on Universities, with Nicholas Dirks
Did NIMBYs Kill the American Dream?, with Yoni Appelbaum
Can AI Even Be Regulated?, with Sendhil Mullainathan
Why This Nobel Economist Thinks Bitcoin Is Going to Zero, with Eugene Fama
Should Companies Have A Social Responsibility To Be “Great Businesses”?, with John Kay
How Big Money Changed The Democratic Game, with Daniel Ziblatt
America’s Addiction to Easy Money, with Ruchir Sharma
The Argentinian DOGE
The Fertility Crisis: Capitalism's Next Challenge, with Sir Niall Ferguson
Visa's Hidden Tax on Americans
How Lobbying Led to Crony Capitalism, with Brody Mullins
Mailbag: UBI, AI, and Does Luigi Believe in "Free Time"?
Harris vs. Trump: Economics Beyond The "Vibes"
Can Democracy Coexist With Big Tech? with Marietje Schaake
Universities and Politics: Should They Mix? with Hanna Gray
Raj Chetty's Surprising New Insights On How Children Succeed
The End of Google As We Know It?
Dani Rodrik on the New Economics of Industrial Policy
The Economic Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood, with Jonathan Haidt
Immigration in America: Data and Myths, Revisited With Leah Boustan
Joseph Stiglitz's Vision of a New Progressive Capitalism
Capitalism-Was: What Happened to the American Dream? With David Leonhardt
The Money Behind Ultra-Processed Foods, with Marion Nestle
The Economics of Student Protests
Is Private Credit In The Public Interest? with Jim Grant
Ralph Nader's Capitalism
The New Business Of News, with Ben Smith
Poverty in America: Terrible Scourge or a Measurement Error?
When a Few Financial Institutions Control Everything, with John Coates
Is Short Selling Dead? With Jim Chanos
Manufacturing Influence, with Emily Hund
The Capitalisn't of Banking, with Anat Admati
Ask Luigi Zingales Anything
Who Controls AI? With Sendhil Mullainathan
Raghuram Rajan’s Vision Of An Indian Path To Development
How Big Law Firms Shape Capitalism, With David Enrich
The Capitalisn't of Crypto: SBF and Beyond, with Zeke Faux
When Capitalism Becomes Tyranny, with Sohrab Ahmari
The Capitalisn't Of The U.S. COVID Response, With Bethany McLean
Science for Sale, with David Michaels
A Conservative Critique Of Capitalism, With Patrick Deneen
The Most Important Guidelines You Didn’t Know About, With Susan Athey
Key Lessons From The “Chicago Boys” Chile Experiment
The Evolution of Antitrust: From Brandeis To Biden
An Insider's Look At ESG Revisited
The Private Equity Debate Revisited
Rebooting American Health Care, with Amy Finkelstein
Why America's Poor Remain Poor, With Matthew Desmond
Bonus: Sen. Phil Gramm on Banking Deregulation
Is American Inequality a Myth? With Sen. Phil Gramm
Reinventing Democracy, With Hélène Landemore
Is Technological Progress Good For Everyone? With Daron Acemoglu
Can Labor Markets Save Capitalism? With David Autor
Has ‘Thinking Like An Economist’ Distorted Our Politics?
Raghuram Rajan: Why The Banking Crisis Isn’t Over
Are The Twitter Files A Scandal?
SVB: The End of Banking as We Know It?
The Capitalisn't Of Consulting: McKinsey And Beyond
ProMarket: Why Martin Wolf Changed His Mind on Milton Friedman
Martin Wolf: Is Capitalism Killing Democracy?
Google: The New Vampire Squid? With Dina Srinivasan
The End Of China’s Miracle?
Shattering Immigration Myths: Data Beyond Borders
Revisiting The Meritocracy Debate With Adrian Wooldridge And Michael Sandel
He Foresaw Inflation. Here’s What He Expects Next. Feat. Lord Mervyn King
Taylor Swift, Ticketmaster, and Chokepoint Capitalism with Cory Doctorow
The "Woke" Capitalism Game With Vivek Ramaswamy
The Capitalisn't of Elon Musk's Twitter
A Different Story Of Inflation With John Cochrane
[Unedited]: Thomas Piketty On Creating A More Equal Society
Antitrust-Isn't: The Story Of Declining Enforcement In America
Capitalism In Our Attention Economy With Albert Wenger
The Student Debt Dilemma With Constantine Yannelis
Does Software Actually Slow Innovation?
Is Labor Benefiting From The Union Boom?
Is Inflation The Fed’s Fault? + Uber Leaks
How Corporations Get Away With Crime + SCOTUS EPA Ruling
Rethinking (Neo)liberalism?
A Defense of the Neoliberal Order with Glenn Hubbard + Big Tech Antitrust Bills
Liberalism And Its Discontents With Francis Fukuyama + The Baby Formula Shortage
The Intangible Economy with Jonathan Haskel + Roe v Wade & Corporate America
Is Common Good Capitalism The Answer? With Oren Cass + Elon Musk Buys Twitter
Ukraine: The Price of Democracy with Tymofiy Mylovanov
Ukraine: Sanctioning the Oligarchs' Enablers With Bill Browder
Ukraine: The Privatization of Sanctions with Richard Edelman
Ukraine: A Restart Of History
The Private Equity Debate: Is it a Good Investment?
The Causes And Effects Of Today's Inflation, With Raghuram Rajan
Meritocracy: The Genetic Lottery with Kathryn Paige Harden
Capitalism As A Contradiction With Yanis Varoufakis
The Political Polarization of Corporate America
Is “Woke” Capitalism A Threat To Democracy?
How Antitrust Failed Workers With Eric Posner
A Turning Point In The History Of Capitalism?
Is Evergrande Really China’s Lehman Moment?
Is Discrimination Still Causing The Gender Pay Gap With Claudia Goldin
Why Capitalism Isn't Without Democracy
The Smoke and Mirrors of ESG Investing with Tariq Fancy
The Breaking Point Of Democracy With Morton Schapiro and Gary Morson
The Cost of Meritocracy With Michael Sandel
Introducing: Entitled
The Promise Of Meritocracy With Adrian Wooldridge
The Engine No. 1 David vs Exxon Goliath With Chris James
The Price Of A Vaccine With Moderna CFO David Meline
How The Elites Are Losing Control With Martin Gurri
Why Do We Have High Prices But Stagnating Wages?
Who Will Regulate The Regulators: Stigler 50 Years Later
Worried about Inflation? So is Fmr Central Banker Mervyn King
Is The Federal Reserve An "Engine of Inequality"?
The Power Of Access In Journalism And Academia With Kara Swisher
Communisn’t: Crony Capitalism In China With David Barboza
Why We Should Tax Digital Advertising With Paul Romer
When the Profit Motive Kills With Anand Giridharadas
GameStop, Robinhood And Our Troubling Obsession With Speculation
Manufacturing Dissent With Matt Taibbi
Microsoft 1998 vs Google 2020: Antitrust and Big Tech
Why Capitalism Needs Democracy
How Do You Solve A Problem Like Student Debt?
Francis Fukuyama’s Proposal to Rein In Big Tech
How The Supreme Court Influences Our Economy
Capitalisn't Presents: The "Big Brains" Podcast
What Is The Alternative To Friedman's Capitalism?
Should We Lockdown Again?
The Right And Wrong Of MMT (Modern Monetary Theory)
The Capitalisn't Of Vaccines
Season 2 Trailer: Can Economists and Journalists Work Together to Improve Capitalism?
Revisiting A Conversation On Money In Politics
A College Admission Scandal Revisited
A Continuing Conversation On The Lack Of Diversity In Economics
Why A Lack of Diversity Is Hurting Economics
How A Spectrum Auction Cost Taxpayers Millions
Should Luigi's Pizza File for Bankruptcy?
Should We Defund The Police?
Too Big To Jail
Coronavirus: The Future Of Universities
Coronavirus: The State Bankruptcy Debate
Coronavirus: The Risk Of Reopening
Coronavirus: How Are We Going To Pay For It?
Coronavirus: How To Make An Exit
Coronavirus: The Winners And Losers In The Stimulus Bill
Coronavirus: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of The Economic Shutdown
What Happened To The Middle With Paul Krugman
The CapitalIsn’t Of Coronavirus
The Gig Economy Isn’t What You Think It Is
Did Economists Ruin The Economy With Binyamin Appelbaum
The Controversial Tax Policies Of Emmanuel Saez
Is The American Presidency For Sale?
The Failure of Russian Capitalism With Bill Browder
Silicon Valley’s Corporate Culture Problem With Mike Isaac
Optimizing Our Healthcare System
Shareholder Vote Suppression With SEC Commissioner Rob Jackson
Is Elizabeth Warren Right About Private Equity?
College Admission (In)Justice: Harvard and Beyond
What It Takes To Win The Nobel Prize In Economics
Economic Research: Nothing Precisely or Precisely Nothing?
Should We Let Walmart Regulate Itself?
Shareholders vs. Stakeholders
Are Stock Buybacks Evil?
Universal Basic Income: Why and How?
The Student Debt Crisis: There's No Such Thing As A Free College
The Mickey Mouse Monopoly Club
Luigi Submits A Patent
Regulating Facebook and Google Pt 3: Tyler Cowen Rebuttals
Regulating Facebook and Google Pt 2: Politics
Regulating Facebook and Google Pt 1: Markets
The Morality or Immorality of A Wealth Tax
The Ups and Downs of IPOs
Codetermination: A Seat At The Table
Is Global Antitrust Off the Rails?
Millennial Socialists
Pollution Pt 2: Contaminated Research
Pollution Pt 1: The Sticky Side of Teflon
Warrenomics
Why Capitalism Needs Journalism
The Financial Assassin
Global Inequality Pt 2: Divergence
Global Inequality Pt 1: Convergence
The People Vs. Democracy
Brazil on the Brink
Ten Years Later Pt 3: The Next Crisis
Live taping of Capitalisn't in Chicago on October 8th
Ten Years Later Pt 2: The Aftermath
Ten Years Later Pt 1: The Build-Up
Sex, Power and the Ivory Tower
Antitrust Pt 3: The Europeans
Antitrust Pt 2: The Populists
Antitrust Pt 1: The Establishment
The Reluctant Central Banker
Abdomenable Transactions
All Roads Lead to Rome
Two Billion 'Truman Shows'
Opinions for Sale
Mo Crypto Mo Problems
Worse Than Brexit
Regulating Financial Weapons of Mass Destruction
A Firm Grip on the Labor Market
O. Contin Pusher, M.D.
The Moral Case Against the MBA
Capital Isn't in the 21st Century
Strange Fedfellows
College: What is it Good For?
Mutual Understanding: Is Your 401k Working Against You?
Obama Wanted a Corporate Tax Cut Too
Hail to the Chief of Facebook
Capitalisn't Trailer