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2026 Midterms: Promises vs. Economics

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The Case That Could End Super PACs - ft. Larry Lessig

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The Workplace Is a Dictatorship? - ft. Elizabeth Anderson

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Why Congress Protects Car Dealers More Than Elon Musk - ft. Eric Zwick

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Can Capitalism Serve the Common Good? - ft. Mariana Mazzucato

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The One Thing That Could Decide If AI Takes Your Job - Ft. Luis Garicano

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Can Liberalism Survive This Kind of Capitalism? - ft. Daron Acemoglu

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How Washington Privatized The Capital Market - ft. Renée Jones

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A Conservative's Attack On Neoliberalism - Ft. Chris Griswold

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Was The Constitution An Anti-Democratic Coup? - ft. Michael Klarman

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Our Personal Finance Mistakes Are The Industry's Profits - ft. John Campbell & Tarun Ramadorai

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Was Free Trade Ever Really Free? - ft. Fmr. Biden Trade Rep. Katherine Tai

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Why Corporations Always Win At The Supreme Court - ft. Adam Winkler

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You Can't Buy Trust - ft. Wikipedia Co-Founder Jimmy Wales

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Is Healthcare Making Capitalism Sick? - ft. Zack Cooper

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How “Muskism” Is Changing American Capitalism - ft. Quinn Slobodian

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Is Capitalism Delivering For The Majority? - ft. Steve Kaplan

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Is The College Promise Broken? - ft. Noam Scheiber

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The Real Cause Of Wage Stagnation - ft. Arin Dube

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Is Everyone Getting Adam Smith Wrong? - ft. Glory Liu

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Why Human Progress Is Not Inevitable - ft. Carl Frey

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The Hidden Economic Dangers Of Supreme Court Overreach - ft. Steve Vladeck

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Adam Smith In The Age of The “Epstein Class” - ft. MP Jesse Norman

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How Inequality Distorts the Law - ft. Katharina Pistor

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Are Betting Apps Engineered for Addiction? - ft. Jonathan Cohen

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Can We Build a Middle Class Without Factories? - ft. Dani Rodrik

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Who Should The Fed Answer To? - ft. Sir Paul Tucker

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How To Fix The American Tax System - ft. Ray Madoff

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How Capitalism Became Global ft. Sven Beckert

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How to Stop “Ensh*ttification” Before It Kills the Internet - ft. Cory Doctorow

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Why Matthew Yglesias Is Skeptical Of Anti-Monopoly Policies

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Are Big Tech’s Regulators “Cowards”? ft. Tim Wu

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Why Economists Should Care About Inequality, with Branko Milanovic

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Nobel Economist Reveals Why Economic Models Keep Failing Us, ft. Richard Thaler

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What Everyone’s Getting Wrong About AI, with Arvind Narayanan

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Why Capitalism Stopped Working In Japan, with Takeo Hoshi

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How Profit and Politics Hijacked Scientific Inquiry, with John Ioannidis

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Will Privatizing The Mortgage Giants Solve The Housing Crisis?

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Trump's Great Private Equity Bailout, with Dan Rasmussen

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Should Chatbots Teach Our Children? With Khan Academy CEO Sal Khan

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Can The Dollar Be Dethroned?, with Ken Rogoff

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Revealing the Secret Architects of Capitalism, with Chris Hughes

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How The Democrats Lost Labor And Found Capital, with David Sirota

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Why Cliff Asness Believes Markets Are Getting Dumber

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How Democrats Forgot To Be Normal, with Joan Williams

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Lina Khan's Vision of Capitalism

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The Economics of Law Firms’ Resistance to Trump, with John Morley

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Profit or Purpose? OpenAI's $300 Billion Question, with Rose Chan Loui

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Is Silicon Valley Turning Fascist?

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Why Trump Is Deregulating In The Wrong Way, with Sam Peltzman

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Trump’s War on Universities, with Nicholas Dirks

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Did NIMBYs Kill the American Dream?, with Yoni Appelbaum

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Can AI Even Be Regulated?, with Sendhil Mullainathan

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Why This Nobel Economist Thinks Bitcoin Is Going to Zero, with Eugene Fama

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Should Companies Have A Social Responsibility To Be “Great Businesses”?, with John Kay

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How Big Money Changed The Democratic Game, with Daniel Ziblatt

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America’s Addiction to Easy Money, with Ruchir Sharma

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The Argentinian DOGE

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The Fertility Crisis: Capitalism's Next Challenge, with Sir Niall Ferguson

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Visa's Hidden Tax on Americans

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How Lobbying Led to Crony Capitalism, with Brody Mullins

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Mailbag: UBI, AI, and Does Luigi Believe in "Free Time"?

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Harris vs. Trump: Economics Beyond The "Vibes"

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Can Democracy Coexist With Big Tech? with Marietje Schaake

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Universities and Politics: Should They Mix? with Hanna Gray

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Raj Chetty's Surprising New Insights On How Children Succeed

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The End of Google As We Know It?

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Dani Rodrik on the New Economics of Industrial Policy

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The Economic Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood, with Jonathan Haidt

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Immigration in America: Data and Myths, Revisited With Leah Boustan

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Joseph Stiglitz's Vision of a New Progressive Capitalism

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Capitalism-Was: What Happened to the American Dream? With David Leonhardt

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The Money Behind Ultra-Processed Foods, with Marion Nestle

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The Economics of Student Protests

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Is Private Credit In The Public Interest? with Jim Grant

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Ralph Nader's Capitalism

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The New Business Of News, with Ben Smith

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Poverty in America: Terrible Scourge or a Measurement Error?

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When a Few Financial Institutions Control Everything, with John Coates

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Is Short Selling Dead? With Jim Chanos

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Manufacturing Influence, with Emily Hund

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The Capitalisn't of Banking, with Anat Admati

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Ask Luigi Zingales Anything

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Who Controls AI? With Sendhil Mullainathan

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Raghuram Rajan’s Vision Of An Indian Path To Development

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How Big Law Firms Shape Capitalism, With David Enrich

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The Capitalisn't of Crypto: SBF and Beyond, with Zeke Faux

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When Capitalism Becomes Tyranny, with Sohrab Ahmari

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The Capitalisn't Of The U.S. COVID Response, With Bethany McLean

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Science for Sale, with David Michaels

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A Conservative Critique Of Capitalism, With Patrick Deneen

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The Most Important Guidelines You Didn’t Know About, With Susan Athey

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Key Lessons From The “Chicago Boys” Chile Experiment

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The Evolution of Antitrust: From Brandeis To Biden

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An Insider's Look At ESG Revisited

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The Private Equity Debate Revisited

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Rebooting American Health Care, with Amy Finkelstein

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Why America's Poor Remain Poor, With Matthew Desmond

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Bonus: Sen. Phil Gramm on Banking Deregulation

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Is American Inequality a Myth? With Sen. Phil Gramm