Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer is a podcast about who gets what and why in the American economy. Everything you learned in Econ 101 is wrong.
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Selected Writing
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Opinion: Which capitalism are we defending?
This piece is a reply to Chris DeVore’s “Make Democracy Capitalist Again.”
April 23, 2026
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The Middle-Out Moment Is Still Here
From the Symposium “It’s Still the Post-Neoliberal Moment”
Spring 2025, No. 76
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A New Economics Takes Hold
with David Goldstein | From the Symposium “The Middle-Out Moment Is Here”
Spring 2024, No. 72
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Nick Hanauer: 7 reasons why the capital gains tax is good for Washington state
We asked two Seattle venture capitalists — Civic Ventures’ Nick Hanauer and Madrona’s Matt McIlwain — to defend their opposing viewpoints on the new capital gains tax in Washington state.
March 30, 2023
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Six Ways Existing Economic Models Are Killing the Economy
The alleged science doesn’t match up to the real world.
April 5, 2023
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Better Schools Won’t Fix America
Like many rich Americans, I used to think educational investment could heal the country’s ills—but I was wrong. Fighting inequality must come first.
July 2019
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Progressive Labor Standards
Dangerously high levels of market concentration demand a regulatory regime that holds large employers to higher standards.
Winter 2019, No. 51
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‘Homo Economicus’ Must Die
Nick Hanauer’s rousing speech on the lies on which neoliberalism is built.
October 1, 2018
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Democrats Must Reclaim the Center … by Moving Hard Left
America needs a centrist party that actually represents the economic center, not just zillionaires like me.
August 14, 2018
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The Pitchforks Are Coming… For Us Plutocrats
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Capitalism Redefined
What prosperity is, where growth comes from, why markets work, and how we resolve the tension between a prosperous world and a moral one.
Winter 2014, No. 31
