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University of Chicago Podcast Network · Business

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

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Can The Dollar Be Dethroned?, with Ken Rogoff

24 Jul 2025
57m
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Revealing the Secret Architects of Capitalism, with Chris Hughes

10 Jul 2025
49m
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How The Democrats Lost Labor And Found Capital, with David Sirota

26 Jun 2025
49m
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Why Cliff Asness Believes Markets Are Getting Dumber

12 Jun 2025
51m
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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...

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How Democrats Forgot To Be Normal, with Joan Williams

29 May 2025
43m
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Lina Khan's Vision of Capitalism

15 May 2025
47m
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The Economics of Law Firms’ Resistance to Trump, with John Morley

01 May 2025
48m
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Profit or Purpose? OpenAI's $300 Billion Question, with Rose Chan Loui

17 Apr 2025
47m
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Is Silicon Valley Turning Fascist?

03 Apr 2025
37m
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Why Trump Is Deregulating In The Wrong Way, with Sam Peltzman

20 Mar 2025
45m
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Trump’s War on Universities, with Nicholas Dirks

06 Mar 2025
49m
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Did NIMBYs Kill the American Dream?

20 Feb 2025
44m
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Can AI Even Be Regulated?, with Sendhil Mullainathan

13 Feb 2025
49m
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Why This Nobel Economist Thinks Bitcoin Is Going to Zero, with Eugene Fama

30 Jan 2025
45m
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Should Companies Have A Social Responsibility To Be “Great Businesses”?, with John Kay

16 Jan 2025
46m
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How Big Money Changed The Democratic Game, with Daniel Ziblatt

02 Jan 2025
49m
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America’s Addiction to Easy Money, with Ruchir Sharma

19 Dec 2024
49m
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The Argentinian DOGE

05 Dec 2024
47m
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The Fertility Crisis: Capitalism's Next Challenge, with Sir Niall Ferguson

21 Nov 2024
45m
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Visa's Hidden Tax on Americans

07 Nov 2024
47m
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