

Capitalisn't
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 us your questions or comments by emailing [email protected] Cover photo attributions: https://www.chicagobooth.edu/research/stigler/about/capitalisnt.
Episodes


Revealing the Secret Architects of Capitalism, with Chris Hughes

How The Democrats Lost Labor And Found Capital, with David Sirota

Why Cliff Asness Believes Markets Are Getting Dumber
Financial markets have become increasingly prone to bouts of extreme inefficiency, driven by the rise of social media and prolonged periods of low interest rates. Cliff Asness, founder of AQR Capital Management, argues that while quantitative strategies and disciplined valuation-based investing act as forces for equili...

How Democrats Forgot To Be Normal, with Joan Williams

Lina Khan's Vision of Capitalism

The Economics of Law Firms’ Resistance to Trump, with John Morley

Profit or Purpose? OpenAI's $300 Billion Question, with Rose Chan Loui

Is Silicon Valley Turning Fascist?

Why Trump Is Deregulating In The Wrong Way, with Sam Peltzman

Trump’s War on Universities, with Nicholas Dirks

Did NIMBYs Kill the American Dream?

Can AI Even Be Regulated?, with Sendhil Mullainathan

Why This Nobel Economist Thinks Bitcoin Is Going to Zero, with Eugene Fama

Should Companies Have A Social Responsibility To Be “Great Businesses”?, with John Kay

How Big Money Changed The Democratic Game, with Daniel Ziblatt

America’s Addiction to Easy Money, with Ruchir Sharma

The Argentinian DOGE

The Fertility Crisis: Capitalism's Next Challenge, with Sir Niall Ferguson

Visa's Hidden Tax on Americans
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