? Market fundamentalism isn’t the only lens through which we can understand what’s happening in the global economy. The Pitchfork Economics podcast, hosted by venture capitalist Nick Hanauer, sets out to challenge what its host sees as outdated assumptions and power-serving logic of trickle-down economics, offering instead a progressive, policy-oriented take on how economies actually work.

Hanauer believes in middle-out economics — the premise that prosperity breeds from the middle class outwards. In other words, when workers are paid fairly, protected by sound policy, and recognized as the real drivers of the economy, they have both the means and the incentive to fuel robust, inclusive, and sustainable growth.

Each episode explores big, often provocative topics amongst the business community — from Wall Street’s war on workers to arguments against extreme wealth — and unpacks them through a mix of empirical analysis and lived experience. Hanauer and his team do a solid job of grounding abstract ideas in everyday consequences, with an emphasis on who benefits and who loses under current economic arrangements.

WHERE TO LISTEN- Pitchfork Economics is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and the podcast’s website.

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