Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer

It’s so amazing to enjoy listening to conversations about economics and at the same time learn so much. What’s more amazing is there are people out there doing so much to help others in such a meaningful way.

My heart really does get warmed listening to Nick & Goldy provide a plainspoken, highly insightful summary of how economic policy works and can work better. It’s a real trove

Having gone to business school at the turn of the century, I learned the typical neoclassical economic view and, sadly, believed it for a short while until experience in the real world showed how wrong it was. The Pitchfork crew’s belief that narrative is key and that progressive policies can win on growth and facts and not just moral arguments is so important at this point in history and can fuel the necessary pushback against the “well it’s just basic economics” lie that neoliberalism has used to sell its worst excesses. For anyone who wants to be able to vote based on economic issues and do so in an informed fashion, this podcast is a must listen as they have amazing experts from all fields come to break down complex issues in a way that makes them understandable to anybody, even if they don’t have a background in economics (or even if they have a background in neoclassical economics…).

I’ve been following Nick Hanauer since his abortive TED Talk from 2011, where the cognitive dissonance beats he was dealing were just too scary for the typical TED attendees. Since then, feeling like this topic was always going to rise into the zeitgeist’s top ten issues contributing to the demise of our current status quo. Debunking the Chicago School’s messages, at least as that message has been used by the global elite’s PR teams to justify growing inequality, it now seems more a question of WHEN the economy as it is structured melts down, not if. Given today’s temperature of 39°C as I write this, all of the various threads of anti-rationale acquisition ideologies, it feels like the clock is ticking.