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Capitalisn't

University of Chicago Podcast Network

We investigate how capitalism is—or more often isn’t—working in our world today. Hosted by economist Luigi Zingales and business journalist Bethany McLean, our podcast explains why capitalism can go wrong and what we can do to fix it. Send…

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2026 Midterms: Promises vs. Economics 2026-10-22 · 37m
The Case That Could End Super PACs - ft. Larry Lessig 2026-10-08 · 48m
The Workplace Is a Dictatorship? - ft. Elizabeth Anderson 2026-09-24 · 48m
Why Congress Protects Car Dealers More Than Elon Musk - ft. Eric Zwick 2026-09-17 · 52m
Can Capitalism Serve the Common Good? - ft. Mariana Mazzucato 2026-09-10 · 57m
The One Thing That Could Decide If AI Takes Your Job - Ft. Luis Garicano 2026-08-27 · 61m
Can Liberalism Survive This Kind of Capitalism? - ft. Daron Acemoglu 2026-08-13 · 54m
How Washington Privatized The Capital Market - ft. Renée Jones 2026-08-06 · 49m
A Conservative's Attack On Neoliberalism - Ft. Chris Griswold 2026-07-30 · 46m
Was The Constitution An Anti-Democratic Coup? - ft. Michael Klarman 2026-07-16 · 51m
Our Personal Finance Mistakes Are The Industry's Profits - ft. John Campbell & Tarun Ramadorai 2026-07-02 · 50m
Was Free Trade Ever Really Free? - ft. Fmr. Biden Trade Rep. Katherine Tai 2026-06-18 · 51m
Why Corporations Always Win At The Supreme Court - ft. Adam Winkler 2026-06-04 · 46m
You Can't Buy Trust - ft. Wikipedia Co-Founder Jimmy Wales 2026-05-28 · 43m
Is Healthcare Making Capitalism Sick? - ft. Zack Cooper 2026-05-21 · 60m
How “Muskism” Is Changing American Capitalism - ft. Quinn Slobodian 2026-05-07 · 56m
Is Capitalism Delivering For The Majority? - ft. Steve Kaplan 2026-04-23 · 65m
Is The College Promise Broken? - ft. Noam Scheiber 2026-04-16 · 41m
The Real Cause Of Wage Stagnation - ft. Arin Dube 2026-04-02 · 48m
Is Everyone Getting Adam Smith Wrong? - ft. Glory Liu 2026-03-26 · 31m
Why Human Progress Is Not Inevitable - ft. Carl Frey 2026-03-12 · 42m
The Hidden Economic Dangers Of Supreme Court Overreach - ft. Steve Vladeck 2026-03-05 · 50m
Adam Smith In The Age of The “Epstein Class” - ft. MP Jesse Norman 2026-02-26 · 56m
How Inequality Distorts the Law - ft. Katharina Pistor 2026-02-19 · 49m
Are Betting Apps Engineered for Addiction? - ft. Jonathan Cohen 2026-02-05 · 57m
Can We Build a Middle Class Without Factories? - ft. Dani Rodrik 2026-01-22 · 42m
Who Should The Fed Answer To? - ft. Sir Paul Tucker 2026-01-15 · 53m
How To Fix The American Tax System - ft. Ray Madoff 2026-01-06 · 55m
How Capitalism Became Global ft. Sven Beckert 2025-12-18 · 53m
How to Stop “Ensh*ttification” Before It Kills the Internet - ft. Cory Doctorow 2025-12-11 · 56m
Why Matthew Yglesias Is Skeptical Of Anti-Monopoly Policies 2025-12-04 · 58m
Are Big Tech’s Regulators “Cowards”? ft. Tim Wu 2025-11-20 · 62m
Why Economists Should Care About Inequality, with Branko Milanovic 2025-11-06 · 47m
Nobel Economist Reveals Why Economic Models Keep Failing Us, ft. Richard Thaler 2025-10-30 · 46m
What Everyone’s Getting Wrong About AI, with Arvind Narayanan 2025-10-16 · 49m
Why Capitalism Stopped Working In Japan, with Takeo Hoshi 2025-10-02 · 48m
How Profit and Politics Hijacked Scientific Inquiry, with John Ioannidis 2025-09-18 · 48m
Will Privatizing The Mortgage Giants Solve The Housing Crisis? 2025-09-04 · 45m
Trump's Great Private Equity Bailout, with Dan Rasmussen 2025-08-21 · 54m
Should Chatbots Teach Our Children? With Khan Academy CEO Sal Khan 2025-08-07 · 45m
Can The Dollar Be Dethroned?, with Ken Rogoff 2025-07-24 · 58m
Revealing the Secret Architects of Capitalism, with Chris Hughes 2025-07-10 · 49m
How The Democrats Lost Labor And Found Capital, with David Sirota 2025-06-26 · 50m
Why Cliff Asness Believes Markets Are Getting Dumber 2025-06-12 · 51m
How Democrats Forgot To Be Normal, with Joan Williams 2025-05-29 · 44m
Lina Khan's Vision of Capitalism 2025-05-15 · 48m
The Economics of Law Firms’ Resistance to Trump, with John Morley 2025-05-01 · 48m
Profit or Purpose? OpenAI's $300 Billion Question, with Rose Chan Loui 2025-04-17 · 48m
Is Silicon Valley Turning Fascist? 2025-04-03 · 38m
Why Trump Is Deregulating In The Wrong Way, with Sam Peltzman 2025-03-20 · 45m
Trump’s War on Universities, with Nicholas Dirks 2025-03-06 · 50m
Did NIMBYs Kill the American Dream?, with Yoni Appelbaum 2025-02-20 · 45m
Can AI Even Be Regulated?, with Sendhil Mullainathan 2025-02-13 · 50m
Why This Nobel Economist Thinks Bitcoin Is Going to Zero, with Eugene Fama 2025-01-30 · 45m
Should Companies Have A Social Responsibility To Be “Great Businesses”?, with John Kay 2025-01-16 · 47m
How Big Money Changed The Democratic Game, with Daniel Ziblatt 2025-01-02 · 50m
America’s Addiction to Easy Money, with Ruchir Sharma 2024-12-19 · 49m
The Argentinian DOGE 2024-12-05 · 48m
The Fertility Crisis: Capitalism's Next Challenge, with Sir Niall Ferguson 2024-11-21 · 46m
Visa's Hidden Tax on Americans 2024-11-07 · 47m
How Lobbying Led to Crony Capitalism, with Brody Mullins 2024-10-24 · 43m
Mailbag: UBI, AI, and Does Luigi Believe in "Free Time"? 2024-10-10 · 38m
Harris vs. Trump: Economics Beyond The "Vibes" 2024-10-03 · 41m
Can Democracy Coexist With Big Tech? with Marietje Schaake 2024-09-26 · 45m
Universities and Politics: Should They Mix? with Hanna Gray 2024-09-12 · 47m
Raj Chetty's Surprising New Insights On How Children Succeed 2024-08-29 · 51m
The End of Google As We Know It? 2024-08-15 · 51m
Dani Rodrik on the New Economics of Industrial Policy 2024-08-01 · 45m
The Economic Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood, with Jonathan Haidt 2024-07-18 · 49m
Immigration in America: Data and Myths, Revisited With Leah Boustan 2024-07-04 · 36m
Joseph Stiglitz's Vision of a New Progressive Capitalism 2024-06-20 · 49m
Capitalism-Was: What Happened to the American Dream? With David Leonhardt 2024-06-06 · 48m
The Money Behind Ultra-Processed Foods, with Marion Nestle 2024-05-23 · 48m
The Economics of Student Protests 2024-05-09 · 35m
Is Private Credit In The Public Interest? with Jim Grant 2024-04-25 · 49m
Ralph Nader's Capitalism 2024-04-11 · 49m
The New Business Of News, with Ben Smith 2024-03-28 · 50m
Poverty in America: Terrible Scourge or a Measurement Error? 2024-03-14 · 48m
When a Few Financial Institutions Control Everything, with John Coates 2024-02-29 · 50m
Is Short Selling Dead? With Jim Chanos 2024-02-15 · 50m
Manufacturing Influence, with Emily Hund 2024-02-01 · 44m
The Capitalisn't of Banking, with Anat Admati 2024-01-18 · 39m
Ask Luigi Zingales Anything 2024-01-04 · 64m
Who Controls AI? With Sendhil Mullainathan 2023-12-21 · 52m
Raghuram Rajan’s Vision Of An Indian Path To Development 2023-12-08 · 48m
How Big Law Firms Shape Capitalism, With David Enrich 2023-11-30 · 56m
The Capitalisn't of Crypto: SBF and Beyond, with Zeke Faux 2023-11-16 · 53m
When Capitalism Becomes Tyranny, with Sohrab Ahmari 2023-11-02 · 47m
The Capitalisn't Of The U.S. COVID Response, With Bethany McLean 2023-10-19 · 42m
Science for Sale, with David Michaels 2023-10-05 · 54m
A Conservative Critique Of Capitalism, With Patrick Deneen 2023-09-21 · 58m
The Most Important Guidelines You Didn’t Know About, With Susan Athey 2023-09-07 · 63m
Key Lessons From The “Chicago Boys” Chile Experiment 2023-08-31 · 55m
The Evolution of Antitrust: From Brandeis To Biden 2023-08-17 · 46m
An Insider's Look At ESG Revisited 2023-08-10 · 52m
The Private Equity Debate Revisited 2023-07-27 · 60m
Rebooting American Health Care, with Amy Finkelstein 2023-07-13 · 47m
Why America's Poor Remain Poor, With Matthew Desmond 2023-06-29 · 55m
Bonus: Sen. Phil Gramm on Banking Deregulation 2023-06-22 · 19m
Is American Inequality a Myth? With Sen. Phil Gramm 2023-06-15 · 51m
Reinventing Democracy, With Hélène Landemore 2023-06-01 · 48m
Is Technological Progress Good For Everyone? With Daron Acemoglu 2023-05-18 · 52m
Can Labor Markets Save Capitalism? With David Autor 2023-05-04 · 50m
Has ‘Thinking Like An Economist’ Distorted Our Politics? 2023-04-20 · 48m
Raghuram Rajan: Why The Banking Crisis Isn’t Over 2023-04-06 · 38m
Are The Twitter Files A Scandal? 2023-03-30 · 41m
SVB: The End of Banking as We Know It? 2023-03-16 · 54m
The Capitalisn't Of Consulting: McKinsey And Beyond 2023-03-02 · 50m
ProMarket: Why Martin Wolf Changed His Mind on Milton Friedman 2023-02-23 · 12m
Martin Wolf: Is Capitalism Killing Democracy? 2023-02-16 · 52m
Google: The New Vampire Squid? With Dina Srinivasan 2023-02-09 · 50m
The End Of China’s Miracle? 2023-02-02 · 50m
Shattering Immigration Myths: Data Beyond Borders 2023-01-19 · 36m
Revisiting The Meritocracy Debate With Adrian Wooldridge And Michael Sandel 2023-01-05 · 54m
He Foresaw Inflation. Here’s What He Expects Next. Feat. Lord Mervyn King 2022-12-22 · 49m
Taylor Swift, Ticketmaster, and Chokepoint Capitalism with Cory Doctorow 2022-12-08 · 56m
The "Woke" Capitalism Game With Vivek Ramaswamy 2022-11-24 · 51m
The Capitalisn't of Elon Musk's Twitter 2022-11-10 · 40m
A Different Story Of Inflation With John Cochrane 2022-10-27 · 40m
[Unedited]: Thomas Piketty On Creating A More Equal Society 2022-10-13 · 58m
Antitrust-Isn't: The Story Of Declining Enforcement In America 2022-09-29 · 38m
Capitalism In Our Attention Economy With Albert Wenger 2022-09-15 · 44m
The Student Debt Dilemma With Constantine Yannelis 2022-09-01 · 48m
Does Software Actually Slow Innovation? 2022-08-18 · 42m
Is Labor Benefiting From The Union Boom? 2022-08-04 · 42m
Is Inflation The Fed’s Fault? + Uber Leaks 2022-07-21 · 58m
How Corporations Get Away With Crime + SCOTUS EPA Ruling 2022-07-07 · 60m
Rethinking (Neo)liberalism? 2022-06-23 · 43m
A Defense of the Neoliberal Order with Glenn Hubbard + Big Tech Antitrust Bills 2022-06-09 · 53m
Liberalism And Its Discontents With Francis Fukuyama + The Baby Formula Shortage 2022-05-26 · 57m
The Intangible Economy with Jonathan Haskel + Roe v Wade & Corporate America 2022-05-12 · 57m
Is Common Good Capitalism The Answer? With Oren Cass + Elon Musk Buys Twitter 2022-04-28 · 67m
Ukraine: The Price of Democracy with Tymofiy Mylovanov 2022-04-14 · 42m
Ukraine: Sanctioning the Oligarchs' Enablers With Bill Browder 2022-03-31 · 42m
Ukraine: The Privatization of Sanctions with Richard Edelman 2022-03-17 · 38m
Ukraine: A Restart Of History 2022-03-03 · 29m
The Private Equity Debate: Is it a Good Investment? 2022-02-17 · 59m
The Causes And Effects Of Today's Inflation, With Raghuram Rajan 2022-02-03 · 54m
Meritocracy: The Genetic Lottery with Kathryn Paige Harden 2022-01-20 · 55m
Capitalism As A Contradiction With Yanis Varoufakis 2022-01-06 · 51m
The Political Polarization of Corporate America 2021-12-16 · 42m
Is “Woke” Capitalism A Threat To Democracy? 2021-12-02 · 49m
How Antitrust Failed Workers With Eric Posner 2021-11-18 · 51m
A Turning Point In The History Of Capitalism? 2021-11-04 · 44m
Is Evergrande Really China’s Lehman Moment? 2021-10-21 · 57m
Is Discrimination Still Causing The Gender Pay Gap With Claudia Goldin 2021-10-07 · 52m
Why Capitalism Isn't Without Democracy 2021-09-23 · 25m
The Smoke and Mirrors of ESG Investing with Tariq Fancy 2021-09-09 · 52m
The Breaking Point Of Democracy With Morton Schapiro and Gary Morson 2021-08-27 · 46m
The Cost of Meritocracy With Michael Sandel 2021-08-12 · 54m
Introducing: Entitled 2021-08-05 · 37m
The Promise Of Meritocracy With Adrian Wooldridge 2021-07-29 · 44m
The Engine No. 1 David vs Exxon Goliath With Chris James 2021-07-15 · 50m
The Price Of A Vaccine With Moderna CFO David Meline 2021-07-01 · 42m
How The Elites Are Losing Control With Martin Gurri 2021-06-17 · 47m
Why Do We Have High Prices But Stagnating Wages? 2021-06-03 · 46m
Who Will Regulate The Regulators: Stigler 50 Years Later 2021-05-20 · 30m
Worried about Inflation? So is Fmr Central Banker Mervyn King 2021-05-06 · 42m
Is The Federal Reserve An "Engine of Inequality"? 2021-04-22 · 44m
The Power Of Access In Journalism And Academia With Kara Swisher 2021-04-08 · 44m
Communisn’t: Crony Capitalism In China With David Barboza 2021-03-25 · 47m
Why We Should Tax Digital Advertising With Paul Romer 2021-03-11 · 40m
When the Profit Motive Kills With Anand Giridharadas 2021-02-25 · 50m
GameStop, Robinhood And Our Troubling Obsession With Speculation 2021-02-11 · 38m
Manufacturing Dissent With Matt Taibbi 2021-01-28 · 53m
Microsoft 1998 vs Google 2020: Antitrust and Big Tech 2021-01-14 · 57m
Why Capitalism Needs Democracy 2020-12-31 · 25m
How Do You Solve A Problem Like Student Debt? 2020-12-17 · 46m
Francis Fukuyama’s Proposal to Rein In Big Tech 2020-12-03 · 42m
How The Supreme Court Influences Our Economy 2020-11-19 · 47m
Capitalisn't Presents: The "Big Brains" Podcast 2020-11-13 · 35m
What Is The Alternative To Friedman's Capitalism? 2020-11-05 · 48m
Should We Lockdown Again? 2020-10-22 · 52m
The Right And Wrong Of MMT (Modern Monetary Theory) 2020-10-08 · 38m
The Capitalisn't Of Vaccines 2020-09-24 · 44m
Season 2 Trailer: Can Economists and Journalists Work Together to Improve Capitalism? 2020-09-23 · 3m
Revisiting A Conversation On Money In Politics 2020-09-03 · 33m
A College Admission Scandal Revisited 2020-08-20 · 37m
A Continuing Conversation On The Lack Of Diversity In Economics 2020-08-06 · 27m
Why A Lack of Diversity Is Hurting Economics 2020-07-23 · 55m
How A Spectrum Auction Cost Taxpayers Millions 2020-07-09 · 34m
Should Luigi's Pizza File for Bankruptcy? 2020-06-25 · 39m
Should We Defund The Police? 2020-06-12 · 48m
Too Big To Jail 2020-05-29 · 35m
Coronavirus: The Future Of Universities 2020-05-15 · 41m
Coronavirus: The State Bankruptcy Debate 2020-05-01 · 38m
Coronavirus: The Risk Of Reopening 2020-04-24 · 34m
Coronavirus: How Are We Going To Pay For It? 2020-04-17 · 39m
Coronavirus: How To Make An Exit 2020-04-10 · 37m
Coronavirus: The Winners And Losers In The Stimulus Bill 2020-04-03 · 40m
Coronavirus: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of The Economic Shutdown 2020-03-27 · 31m
What Happened To The Middle With Paul Krugman 2020-03-23 · 31m
The CapitalIsn’t Of Coronavirus 2020-03-10 · 43m
The Gig Economy Isn’t What You Think It Is 2020-02-27 · 39m
Did Economists Ruin The Economy With Binyamin Appelbaum 2020-02-13 · 39m
The Controversial Tax Policies Of Emmanuel Saez 2020-01-30 · 40m
Is The American Presidency For Sale? 2020-01-16 · 33m
The Failure of Russian Capitalism With Bill Browder 2020-01-02 · 37m
Silicon Valley’s Corporate Culture Problem With Mike Isaac 2019-12-19 · 36m
Optimizing Our Healthcare System 2019-12-05 · 39m
Shareholder Vote Suppression With SEC Commissioner Rob Jackson 2019-11-21 · 40m
Is Elizabeth Warren Right About Private Equity? 2019-11-07 · 38m
College Admission (In)Justice: Harvard and Beyond 2019-10-24 · 36m
What It Takes To Win The Nobel Prize In Economics 2019-10-10 · 35m
Economic Research: Nothing Precisely or Precisely Nothing? 2019-09-26 · 36m
Should We Let Walmart Regulate Itself? 2019-09-12 · 36m
Shareholders vs. Stakeholders 2019-08-29 · 36m
Are Stock Buybacks Evil? 2019-08-15 · 35m
Universal Basic Income: Why and How? 2019-08-01 · 40m
The Student Debt Crisis: There's No Such Thing As A Free College 2019-07-18 · 38m
The Mickey Mouse Monopoly Club 2019-07-04 · 34m
Luigi Submits A Patent 2019-06-20 · 33m
Regulating Facebook and Google Pt 3: Tyler Cowen Rebuttals 2019-06-06 · 35m
Regulating Facebook and Google Pt 2: Politics 2019-05-23 · 34m
Regulating Facebook and Google Pt 1: Markets 2019-05-09 · 39m
The Morality or Immorality of A Wealth Tax 2019-04-25 · 34m
The Ups and Downs of IPOs 2019-04-11 · 39m
Codetermination: A Seat At The Table 2019-03-28 · 33m
Is Global Antitrust Off the Rails? 2019-03-14 · 28m
Millennial Socialists 2019-02-28 · 35m
Pollution Pt 2: Contaminated Research 2019-02-14 · 30m
Pollution Pt 1: The Sticky Side of Teflon 2019-01-31 · 31m
Warrenomics 2019-01-17 · 30m
Why Capitalism Needs Journalism 2019-01-03 · 34m
The Financial Assassin 2018-12-20 · 33m
Global Inequality Pt 2: Divergence 2018-12-06 · 28m
Global Inequality Pt 1: Convergence 2018-11-22 · 30m
The People Vs. Democracy 2018-11-08 · 32m
Brazil on the Brink 2018-10-25 · 32m
Ten Years Later Pt 3: The Next Crisis 2018-10-11 · 34m
Live taping of Capitalisn't in Chicago on October 8th 2018-10-03
Ten Years Later Pt 2: The Aftermath 2018-09-27 · 32m
Ten Years Later Pt 1: The Build-Up 2018-09-13 · 44m
Sex, Power and the Ivory Tower 2018-08-31 · 30m
Antitrust Pt 3: The Europeans 2018-08-16 · 33m
Antitrust Pt 2: The Populists 2018-08-02 · 30m
Antitrust Pt 1: The Establishment 2018-07-19 · 28m
The Reluctant Central Banker 2018-07-05 · 30m
Abdomenable Transactions 2018-06-21 · 30m
All Roads Lead to Rome 2018-06-07 · 28m
Two Billion 'Truman Shows' 2018-05-24 · 28m
Opinions for Sale 2018-05-10 · 32m
Mo Crypto Mo Problems 2018-04-26 · 30m
Worse Than Brexit 2018-04-12 · 31m
Regulating Financial Weapons of Mass Destruction 2018-03-29 · 32m
A Firm Grip on the Labor Market 2018-03-15 · 29m
O. Contin Pusher, M.D. 2018-03-01 · 29m
The Moral Case Against the MBA 2018-02-15 · 27m
Capital Isn't in the 21st Century 2018-02-01 · 30m
Strange Fedfellows 2018-01-18 · 28m
College: What is it Good For? 2018-01-04 · 27m
Mutual Understanding: Is Your 401k Working Against You? 2018-01-04 · 26m
Obama Wanted a Corporate Tax Cut Too 2018-01-04 · 30m
Hail to the Chief of Facebook 2018-01-04 · 27m
Capitalisn't Trailer 2017-12-17 · 2m
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