Hey, if you're just joining Pitch Fork Economics in this episode, thank you for being here, but I'd love for you to consider going back to the first episodes.

What we're trying to do is lay out a case

that neoclassical economics and neoliberalism

largely a protection racket for rich people.

And some of the content in the early episodes will help you understand the

content in later episodes. So in any case, thanks for listening.

If you look at the top list of shareholders across most competitors, what you find is that they're all owned by the same people.

Facebook has bought the photo sharing application Instagram for $1 billion.

These are very much politically motivated assumptions that serve one class over another and it's that

class that's been winning for a long time.

U.S. Airways is no more. The carrier completed its final flight early this morning,

the last leg of its merger with American Airlines.

They understood that monopolization was a threat to democracy.

From the offices of Civic Ventures in downtown Seattle, this is Pitch Fork Economics, with

Nick Hanauer. Confessions of an American capitalist caught on tape. take. So we choose who goes first by whoever spins higher, right?

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