Podcast Episodes

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

Season 2 Episode 167

Were the foundations of American governance engineered to protect the wealthy? Harvard Law professor Michael Klarman argues that the US Constitution …

4 hours ago

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

Season 2 Episode 166

Is personal finance rigged against ordinary people? Economists John Campbell and Tarun Ramadorai argue the system rewards the wealthy and financially…

2 weeks ago

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

Season 2 Episode 165

Free trade was never actually free? That's the case Katherine Tai, Joe Biden's former U.S. Trade Representative, brings Bethany McLean and Luigi Zing…

4 weeks ago

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

Season 2 Episode 164

Corporations are people in the eyes of the law. But how did that happen, and why does it hand them rights you don't have? 

UCLA law professor Adam Wi…

1 month, 1 week ago

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

Season 2 Episode 163

How does a free, decentralized, volunteer-run encyclopedia produce something more trusted than nearly any for-profit institution?

Luigi Zingales and …

1 month, 2 weeks ago

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Is Healthcare Making Capitalism Sick? - ft. Zack Cooper

Season 2 Episode 162

Are stagnant wages the hidden price tag of a broken healthcare system? On this week's Capitalisn't, Yale health economist Zack Cooper tells Bethany M…

1 month, 3 weeks ago

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

Season 2 Episode 161

For the better part of the 20th century, the American economy relied on the steady social peace of "Fordism"—an era of mass production and consumptio…

2 months, 1 week ago

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

Season 2 Episode 160

The US economy looks great on paper: high GDP, low unemployment, and booming markets. So why does it feel like the system is broken for so many peopl…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

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Is The College Promise Broken? - ft. Noam Scheiber

Season 2 Episode 159

For decades, Americans were promised that a college degree guaranteed a secure spot in the middle class. But instead of entering corporate management…

3 months ago

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The Real Cause Of Wage Stagnation - ft. Arin Dube

Season 2 Episode 158

Economic models have treated the labor market like a perfectly competitive system where wages naturally align with worker value. Arin Dube, economics…

3 months, 2 weeks ago

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