How college broke the American dream (with Will Bunch)
This week we’re continuing our exploration into the ways that higher education contributes to America’s political, cultural, and economic divisions. Goldy chats with author Will Bunch about how our le...
25 Apr 202342min
Econ 101 is failing college students (with Abigail Acheson and Nouhaila Oudija)
Universities across America are still teaching an outdated, neoclassical way of economic thinking. The trickle-down curriculums taught in Econ 101 classrooms aren’t just bad for students—they have had...
18 Apr 202332min
How rich people dodge taxes (with Gabriel Zucman)
As Tax Day approaches in the United States, we’re revisiting our conversation with Gabriel Zucman, the authority on wealth taxes. For the last 40 years, trickle-down politicians have slashed tax rates...
11 Apr 202345min
Banning noncompetes is good, actually (with Evan Starr)
One in five American workers has signed a noncompete clause. The FTC believes that the elimination of these clauses would generate extra job opportunities for 30 million workers and raise wages by $30...
4 Apr 202333min
How we all fell for The Big Myth (with Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway)
When did ordinary people come to believe that free market solutions are always better than government intervention? How do we create a future where markets serve democracy instead of stifling it? In t...
28 Mars 202341min
Slouching towards economic utopia (with Brad DeLong)
Between 1870 and 2010 an unprecedented explosion of material wealth transformed the globe, but that wave of prosperity failed to create a fully functioning and equal society. How did we manage to crea...
21 Mars 202342min
The problem with unequal cities (with Richard McGahey)
We've released dozens of episodes exploring how to improve the lives of Americans that live in rural areas, but we don’t often discuss how cities (and the folks that live in them) are being left behin...
14 Mars 202339min
The high price of misclassification (with Heidi Shierholz)
A new report from the Economic Policy Institute found that anywhere from 10 to 30 percent of employers are essentially stealing thousands of dollars from their workers every year by misclassifying the...
7 Mars 202335min
