Re-imagining capitalism (with Anu Partanen and Trevor Corson)

Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer

Civic Ventures

Business, Government, News, Politics

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Contrary to popular belief, Nordic countries aren’t actually socialist! No, friends, the Nords are capitalists—but they pull it off much better than we do. To help re-imagine American capitalism, writers Anu Partanen and Trevor Corson join us this week all the way from Finland. Anu Partanen is a journalist and the author of The Nordic Theory of Everything. The book debunks some of the most common myths about Nordic societies and discusses what the United States might be able to borrow from aspects of Nordic success in the twenty-first century. She has written for The New York Times and The Atlantic. Twitter: @anupartanen Trevor Corson is an award-winning author and editor. His articles and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, and many more. Twitter: @TrevorCorson Further reading: The Nordic Theory of Everything: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780062316547 Finland Is a Capitalist Paradise: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/07/opinion/sunday/finland-socialism-capitalism.html What Americans Don’t Get About Nordic Countries: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/03/bernie-sanders-nordic-countries/473385/ Capitalism Redefined: https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/31/capitalism-redefined/ Safe, happy and free: does Finland have all the answers? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/12/safe-happy-and-free-does-finland-have-all-the-answers Make sure you check out Majority.FM’s AM Quickie, the morning news podcast for progressives in the know: amquickie.com Website: http://pitchforkeconomics.com/ Twitter: @PitchforkEcon Instagram: @pitchforkeconomics Nick’s twitter: @NickHanauer

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0:00.0	Real quick before we get to the show, we wanted to take a second to make sure that you've heard about a new
0:04.1	podcast from the hosts of the majority report. It's majority fm's AM Quickie and it's the morning news
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0:27.9	In the lukewarm world of nBR and CNN, majority fm's AM quickie lays out the day's headlines with some heat
0:33.7	letting progressives know how to navigate the endless news cycle while knowing what's right.
0:37.6	Go to AM Quicky.com to subscribe on your favorite podcast platform today and brace
0:42.4	yourself because here comes the intro music.
0:46.1	One of the things that a Nordic person I think notices quickly when you come to America how
0:49.7	much Americans talk about freedom.
0:51.6	But the longer I lived in the United States
0:53.2	and the more I observed the life around me,
0:55.0	it didn't seem to me that Americans were actually that free.
0:58.0	I look at the Finnish model and I say,
1:00.0	free health care, free daycare, good public schools free college and long-term care when you get old
1:06.7	that's the type of market capitalism for me and you know none of these things are out of
1:11.2	reach for Americans.
1:13.2	From the offices of Civic Ventures in downtown Seattle, this is Pitch Fork Economics with Nick Hanauer.
1:25.0	A pointed conversation about who gets what and why, with one of America's most
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