Winning back our freedom from the market (with Mike Konczal)

Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer

Civic Ventures

Business, Government, News, Politics

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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The relationship between time, work, and freedom has always been a battleground in the American economy. Could our devotion to free-market fundamentalism in fact be making Americans less free? Author Mike Konczal joins the show to talk about positive versus negative freedom and the policies that would make us more free, in a real sense. Mike Konczal is the Director of Progressive Thought at the Roosevelt Institute. His latest book is Freedom from the Market: America’s Fight to Liberate Itself from the Grip of the Invisible Hand. Twitter: @rortybomb Show us some love by leaving a rating or a review! RateThisPodcast.com/pitchforkeconomics Freedom from the Market: https://bookshop.org/books/freedom-from-the-market-america-s-fight-to-liberate-itself-from-the-grip-of-the-invisible-hand/9781620975374 Time is the universal measure of freedom: http://bostonreview.net/class-inequality-law-justice/mike-konczal-time-universal-measure-freedom Our episode with Elizabeth Anderson: https://pitchforkeconomics.com/episode/coercion-in-the-workplace-with-elizabeth-anderson/ Our episode with Anu Partanen and Trevor Corson: https://pitchforkeconomics.com/episode/re-imagining-capitalism-with-anu-partanen-and-trevor-corson/ Website: http://pitchforkeconomics.com/ Twitter: @PitchforkEcon Instagram: @pitchforkeconomics Nick’s twitter: @NickHanauer

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0:00.0	Our old friend, Mike Consol, from the Roosevelt Institute is a new book out called Freedom
0:06.8	from the Market.
0:07.8	The new liberals were very aggressive and affirmative in using the state to carry out their vision
0:12.6	of what they believe freedom in good society is.
0:15.0	It's just one that unfortunately has been suffocating every day people.
0:18.1	It's a super timely book and a very important conversation about what freedom really means
0:23.8	and to whom.
0:25.0	You can't talk about freedom without talking about power.
0:32.9	From the home offices of civic ventures in downtown Seattle, this is pitchfork economics
0:37.9	with Nick Hanauer, the best place to get the truth about who gets what and why.
0:48.8	I'm Nick Hanauer, founder of Civic Ventures.
0:51.8	I'm David Goldstein, senior fellow at Civic Ventures.
1:00.2	On today's episode, we're going to be talking about freedom and to set up the conversation.
1:06.6	She's usually behind the scenes, but we're going to unmute our producer, Annie.
1:11.6	Hello.
1:12.6	I have a little story for you actually.
1:14.4	Yeah.
1:15.4	This is your onboarding story.
1:17.0	Yeah.
1:18.0	This is my onboarding story.
1:19.0	Nick, I'm certain that you've never heard this story, so I'm looking forward to telling
1:22.0	you.
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