william.maggosJun 3, 2025
It's the economy, stupid. #capitalisnt
https://www.capitalisnt.com/episodes/how-democrats-forgot-to-be-normal-with-joan-williams
How Democrats Forgot To Be Normal, with Joan Williams | Capitalisn't

Back in 2016, Joan Williams, distinguished professor of law (emerita) at UC Law San Francisco, wrote an essay for the Harvard Business Review on why President Donald Trump attracted so many non-college voters. It went viral with almost four million views, becoming the most-read article in the 90-year history of the publication. Williams’ new book, Outclassed: How the Left Lost the Working Class and How to Win Them Back, outlines how the seemingly common view that her fellow progressives must abandon their social causes to win back those non-college-educated voters is wrong. What is required, she argues, is a renewed understanding of class. She introduces her conceptualization of the “diploma divide,” or the gap between Americans with and without college degrees. Her worldview divides the electorate into three class-based groups: the college-educated, upper-class “Brahmin left”, the low-income working (middle) class, and the right-wing merchant class, which pushes for economic policies that benefit the rich. Her argument is that a new coalition between the latter two has shifted politics to the right. In this week’s Capitalisn’t episode, Luigi and Bethany invite Williams to discuss whether our society indeed breaks down so neatly. If it does, how does her breakdown help us understand recent electoral shifts and trends in populism and why the left is on the losing end of both? As she writes in her book and discusses in the episode, “[the Brahmin] left’s anger is coded as righteous. Why is non-elite anger discounted as “grievance?” Together, their conversation sheds light on how the left can win back voters without compromising on progressive values.Over the last four years, Capitalisn’t has interviewed conservative thinkers like Oren Cass, Patrick Deneen, and Sohrab Ahmari to understand how the political right developed a new platform after President Joe Biden’s victory in 2020. With this episode, we begin the same project with the left by asking: What could be the economic basis for a new progressive platform?

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william.maggosOct 3, 2024
Maybe the best conversation you're gonna hear about economics and this election. I just wish it was longer. #Capitalisnt
https://pca.st/episode/f75d82e9-0201-4975-95e8-b842b1f530c7
Harris vs. Trump: Economics Beyond The "Vibes" - Capitalisn't

Is capitalism the engine of destruction or the engine of prosperity? On this podcast we talk about the ways capitalism is—or more often isn’t—working in our world today. Hosted by Vanity Fair contributing editor, Bethany McLean and world renowned economics professor Luigi Zingales, we explain how capitalism can go wrong, and what we can do to fix it. Cover photo attributions: https://www.chicagobooth.edu/research/stigler/about/capitalisnt. If you would like to send us feedback, suggestions for guests we should bring on, or connect with Bethany and Luigi, please email: contact at capitalisnt dot com. If you like our show, we'd greatly appreciate you giving us a rating or a review. It helps other listeners find us too.

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Marietje SchaakeSep 28, 2024

RT by @MarietjeSchaake: Can democracy coexist with #BigTech? Are we approaching a point of no return?

On #Capitalisnt, @MarietjeSchaake discusses her new book, "The Tech Coup: How To Save Democracy from Silicon Valley," (@PrincetonUPress) exploring these questions.

Listen: https://www.capitalisnt.com/episodes/can-democracy-coexist-with-big-tech

[2024-09-27 20:53 UTC]

Can Democracy Coexist With Big Tech? with Marietje Schaake | Capitalisn't

International technology policy expert, Stanford University academic, and former European parliamentarian Marietje Schaake writes in her new book that a “Tech Coup” is happening in democratic societies and fast approaching the point of no return. Both Big Tech and smaller companies are participating in it, through the provision of spyware, microchips, facial recognition, and other technologies that erode privacy, speech, and other human rights. These technologies shift power to the tech companies at the expense of the public and democratic institutions, Schaake writes. Schaake joins Bethany and Luigi to discuss proposals for reversing this shift of power and maintaining the balance between innovation and regulation in the digital age. If a "tech coup" is really underway, how did we get here? And if so, how can we safeguard democracy and individual rights in an era of algorithmic governance and surveillance capitalism? Marietje Schaake’s new book, “The Tech Coup: Saving Democracy From Silicon Valley,” is available here. Read an excerpt from the book on ProMarket here.

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Marietje SchaakeSep 27, 2024

RT by @MarietjeSchaake: NEW on #Capitalisnt:

@MarietjeSchaake (@StanfordCyber) joins @bethanymac12 and @Zingales to share her insights on saving democracy from #BigTech and maintaining the right balance between innovation and regulation in the digital age.

Listen: https://capitalisnt.com/episodes/can-democracy-coexist-with-big-tech

[2024-09-26 12:01 UTC]

Can Democracy Coexist With Big Tech? with Marietje Schaake | Capitalisn't

International technology policy expert, Stanford University academic, and former European parliamentarian Marietje Schaake writes in her new book that a “Tech Coup” is happening in democratic societies and fast approaching the point of no return. Both Big Tech and smaller companies are participating in it, through the provision of spyware, microchips, facial recognition, and other technologies that erode privacy, speech, and other human rights. These technologies shift power to the tech companies at the expense of the public and democratic institutions, Schaake writes. Schaake joins Bethany and Luigi to discuss proposals for reversing this shift of power and maintaining the balance between innovation and regulation in the digital age. If a "tech coup" is really underway, how did we get here? And if so, how can we safeguard democracy and individual rights in an era of algorithmic governance and surveillance capitalism? Marietje Schaake’s new book, “The Tech Coup: Saving Democracy From Silicon Valley,” is available here. Read an excerpt from the book on ProMarket here.

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StrypeyApr 21, 2024

"If you look around our country, there's almost no area of our political economy, and culture, and society, that is not being strategically planned by corporations."

#RalphNader, 2024

https://capitalisnt.com/episodes/ralph-naders-capitalism-8KbK0HGj

#podcasts #Capitalisnt #corporations

Ralph Nader's Capitalism | Capitalisn't

"The only true aging is the erosion of one's ideals," says Ralph Nader, the former third-party presidential candidate who just turned 90 after more than 60 years of consumer advocacy and fighting for small business in America. From influencing the transformative passage of car safety legislation to advancing numerous environmental protection and public accountability causes, Nader has fought against the proliferation and insinuation of corporate power in our government. In between all of that, Nader has also found the time to develop a prolific writing career. In this week’s episode, Nader joins Bethany and Luigi to discuss his new book, "Rebellious CEO: 12 Leaders Who Got It Right." The three talk about the possibilities of ethically profitable business, Nader’s lifelong pursuit of justice, his views on the state of capitalism today, the political disillusionment of the public, and how we can reclaim democratic control of capitalism.

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william.maggosApr 11, 2024
Great interview with #RalphNader by #Capitalisnt. From the University of Chicago business school, but one of the hosts wrote a fantastic book about being pro market but not pro business. Please listen.
https://pca.st/episode/5aa9f193-b0ba-4f5b-ab99-c13b813c3f8a
Ralph Nader's Capitalism - Capitalisn't

Is capitalism the engine of destruction or the engine of prosperity? On this podcast we talk about the ways capitalism is—or more often isn’t—working in our world today. Hosted by Vanity Fair contributing editor, Bethany McLean and world renowned economics professor Luigi Zingales, we explain how capitalism can go wrong, and what we can do to fix it. Cover photo attributions: https://www.chicagobooth.edu/research/stigler/about/capitalisnt. If you would like to send us feedback, suggestions for guests we should bring on, or connect with Bethany and Luigi, please email: contact at capitalisnt dot com. If you like our show, we'd greatly appreciate you giving us a rating or a review. It helps other listeners find us too.

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Stigler CenterMar 13, 2024

In his new book, Harvard Professor @jciv discusses the challenges of concentrated financial power and its impact on markets, economies, and society.

Listen to our interview with him on #Capitalisnt: https://www.chicagobooth.edu/review/capitalisnt-when-few-financial-institutions-control-everything#

Capitalisn’t: When a Few Financial Institutions Control Everything

Harvard law professor John Coates discusses the potential dangers of financial consolidation.

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william.maggosFeb 4, 2024
Anybody know if #EmilyHund is here? She wrote the book #TheInfluencerIndustry about social media, #algos and #propaganda. Here's a short interview with #Capitalisnt. It's wild to hear the hosts kinda struggle with waking up to how #ManufacturingConsent works.
https://pca.st/episode/cb523eed-bc8a-4416-a1c1-384fc73bd025
Manufacturing Influence, with Emily Hund - Capitalisn't

Is capitalism the engine of destruction or the engine of prosperity? On this podcast we talk about the ways capitalism is—or more often isn’t—working in our world today. Hosted by Vanity Fair contributing editor, Bethany McLean and world renowned economics professor Luigi Zingales, we explain how capitalism can go wrong, and what we can do to fix it. Cover photo attributions: https://www.chicagobooth.edu/research/stigler/about/capitalisnt. If you would like to send us feedback, suggestions for guests we should bring on, or connect with Bethany and Luigi, please email: contact at capitalisnt dot com. If you like our show, we'd greatly appreciate you giving us a rating or a review. It helps other listeners find us too.

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Stigler CenterFeb 1, 2024

NEW on #Capitalisnt:

Emily Hund (@AnnenbergPenn) joins Bethany McLean and Luigi Zingales to unpack how social media "influence" has become a powerful currency, shaping news consumption, consumer behavior, and modern capitalism itself.

Listen to the episode: https://www.capitalisnt.com/episodes/manufacturing-influence-with-emily-hund

Read an excerpt from Emily Hund's book (@princetonupress): https://www.promarket.org/2024/02/01/influencers-work-in-opacity-and-need-professional-organization/

Manufacturing Influence, with Emily Hund | Capitalisn't

According to the latest industry statistics, the global influencer economy grew from $1.7 billion in 2016 to $21.1 billion in 2023 — and it's only expected to grow exponentially from here with advances in artificial intelligence. In 1988, Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman investigated how mass media sways audiences to conform to social norms without coercion, or what they called “manufacturing consent.” In her new book, “The Influencer Industry: The Quest for Authenticity on Social Media,” Dr. Emily Hund investigates how social media influencers have manufactured a new media economy to which we’ve unwittingly consented. Hund, a research affiliate at the Center on Digital Culture and Society at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication, joins Bethany and Luigi to unpack this new digital landscape where influence has become a powerful currency, shaping not only news consumption and consumer behavior but the very fabric of modern capitalism. Together, they discuss whether influencers are empowered entrepreneurs rewriting market rules or victims of a system that commodifies identity. What are the hidden incentives driving influencer messaging and, thus, the news and content we receive? Read an excerpt from Hund's book (Princeton University Press, 2023) on ProMarket.

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Stigler CenterJan 18, 2024

NEW on #Capitalisnt:
Dissecting new financial developments, Stanford professor Anat Admati joins Bethany McLean and Luigi Zingales to discuss how the current system is rigged — and how we can build and regulate a more accountable financial system.

Listen: https://lnkd.in/grPjw6-q

Also, read an excerpt from the new and expanded edition of Admati's book (with Martin Hellwig), "The Bankers’ New Clothes: What’s Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It" (@princetonupress):
https://lnkd.in/gqFpsRwD

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