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Capitalisn't
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Capitalism is the engine of prosperity. Capitalism sows the seeds of its own demise. Could both be right? Economists Luigi Zingales (University of Chicago) and Kate Waldock (Georgetown) share the sort of irreverent banter you’d hear between economists at a bar, if economists…
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- The Student Debt Dilemma With Constantine Yannelis
- Does Software Actually Slows Innovation?
- Are Workers 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?
- Putting the 'Liberal' Back In 'Neoliberal' With Glenn Hubbard + Big Tech Antitrust Bill
- 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 Transcended? 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
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