Why do you continue to do this work?

Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer

Civic Ventures

Business, Government, News, Politics

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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It’s our 300th episode! To mark this milestone, we’ve gathered some of the most thoughtful and inspiring answers to one of our favorite questions: Why do you do this work? Plus, Nick and Goldy share what keeps them in the fight for a better economy. We're deeply grateful for the wisdom of our incredible guests and, most of all, for YOU—our listeners—who’ve supported us along the way. Here’s to many more conversations unpacking who gets what and why in our economy, and how to build the economy from the middle out. Love what you’re hearing on the pod? Follow us on social media using the links below for updates and spicy takes on the economy! And if you haven’t already, make sure to follow the show so you never miss an episode. While you’re at it, give us a rating and leave a review wherever you get your podcasts—it helps us reach more people interested in rethinking or better understanding the economy and want to build a better future. Thanks for listening! Guests Featured: Jared Bernstein - Chair, White House Council of Economic Advisors Reshma Saujani - Founder, Girls Who Code and the Marshall Plan for Moms Mark Blyth - Political Economist and author of Diminishing Returns: The New Politics of Growth and Stagnation Rohit Chopra - Director, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Joseph Stiglitz (3-time guest) - Economist and author of The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society Caitlin Myers - Professor of Economics at Middlebury College and Co-Director of the Middlebury Initiative for Data and Digital Methods. Kim Stanley Robinson - American Science Fiction writer and author of The Ministry for the Future Marshall Steinbaum (2-time guest) - Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Utah and a Senior Fellow in Higher Education Finance at Jain Family Institute. Elizabeth Anderson - Professor of Public Philosophy at the University of Michigan and author of Hijacked: How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic against Workers and How Workers Can Take It Back Bharat Ramamurti - Former Deputy Director of the White House National Economic Council Elizabeth Wilkins - Senior Fellow at the American Economic Liberties Project and former Director of the Office of Policy and Planning at the Federal Trade Commission Website: http://pitchforkeconomics.com Twitter: @PitchforkEcon, @NickHanauer, @civicaction Instagram: @pitchforkeconomics Threads: pitchforkeconomics YouTube: @pitchforkeconomics Substack: The Pitch

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0:00.0	I know it's been easy to lose track of time Nick since the pandemic.
0:17.0	Yeah. Living now in the in the after times, but did you know you know that this is our 300th pitchfork economics episode?
0:28.0	Goldie, it turns out I did not know that until you told me that two minutes ago.
0:35.0	Yeah, I did not know.
0:36.5	Can you believe it, Nick?
0:37.6	We've been doing, we've been doing this particular podcast
0:41.9	since December of 2018.
0:45.8	Yeah, time flies when you're having fun.
0:48.2	Wow.
0:49.2	Yeah, it's uh, it is, you know, and I have to tell you, I don't think that I have ever in my life managed to have such long and in-depth conversations with my employer without ultimately getting myself fired.
1:06.6	You have set a record here in toleration.
1:09.4	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:10.6	Wow, that's amazing, 300 episodes. Cheapers,
1:14.8	who to thunk it? Yeah, yeah. That's a that's a lot of a lot of talk about economics
1:20.8	More than most people can bear.
1:23.2	But the thing is, we don't just talk about economics, obviously,
1:27.6	we take all this personally because economics should be personal.
1:32.0	It's not just, you know, math and models and charts and whatever, you know, well, that's the theory, however it works out in the real world.
1:41.0	And one of my favorite parts, and I know it and one of my favorite parts I know it's one of your
1:44.4	favorite parts of the podcast is at the very end when we ask that final question
1:49.2	why do you do this work? Yeah it's always interesting to hear that answer. People come from
1:54.5	all sorts of different places and have all sorts of different motivations for doing what
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