241 - Is Healthcare Making Capitalism Sick? - ft. Zack Cooper
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 capitalisntpod@gmail.com
Cover photo attributions: https://www.chicagobooth.edu/research/stigler/about/capitalisnt.
241 - Is Healthcare Making Capitalism Sick? - ft. Zack Cooper
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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 capitalisntpod@gmail.com
Cover photo attributions: https://www.chicagobooth.edu/research/stigler/about/capitalisnt.
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241-
Is Healthcare Making Capitalism Sick? - ft. Zack Cooper
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tor., 21 mai 2026
240-
How “Muskism” Is Changing American Capitalism - ft. Quinn Slobodian
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Thu, 7 May 2026 11:00:00 +0000
239-
Is Capitalism Delivering For The Majority? - ft. Steve Kaplan
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tor., 23 apr. 2026
238-
Is The College Promise Broken? - ft. Noam Scheiber
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tor., 16 apr. 2026
237-
The Real Cause Of Wage Stagnation - ft. Arin Dube
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Thu, 2 Apr 2026 11:00:00 +0000
236-
Is Everyone Getting Adam Smith Wrong? - ft. Glory Liu
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tor., 26 mars 2026
235-
Why Human Progress Is Not Inevitable - ft. Carl Frey
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tor., 12 mars 2026
234-
The Hidden Economic Dangers Of Supreme Court Overreach - ft. Steve Vladeck
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Thu, 5 Mar 2026 13:08:32 +0000
233-
Adam Smith In The Age of The “Epstein Class” - ft. MP Jesse Norman
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tor., 26 feb. 2026
232-
How Inequality Distorts the Law - ft. Katharina Pistor
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tor., 19 feb. 2026
231-
Are Betting Apps Engineered for Addiction? - ft. Jonathan Cohen
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Thu, 5 Feb 2026 14:00:00 +0000
230-
Can We Build a Middle Class Without Factories? - ft. Dani Rodrik
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tor., 22 jan. 2026
229-
Who Should The Fed Answer To? - ft. Sir Paul Tucker
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tor., 15 jan. 2026
228-
How To Fix The American Tax System - ft. Ray Madoff
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Tue, 6 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000
227-
How Capitalism Became Global ft. Sven Beckert
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tor., 18 des. 2025
226-
How to Stop “Ensh*ttification” Before It Kills the Internet - ft. Cory Doctorow
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tor., 11 des. 2025
225-
Why Matthew Yglesias Is Skeptical Of Anti-Monopoly Policies
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Thu, 4 Dec 2025 12:00:00 +0000
224-
Are Big Tech’s Regulators “Cowards”? ft. Tim Wu
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tor., 20 nov. 2025
223-
Why Economists Should Care About Inequality, with Branko Milanovic
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Thu, 6 Nov 2025 12:00:00 +0000
222-
Nobel Economist Reveals Why Economic Models Keep Failing Us, ft. Richard Thaler
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tor., 30 okt. 2025
221-
What Everyone’s Getting Wrong About AI, with Arvind Narayanan
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tor., 16 okt. 2025
220-
Why Capitalism Stopped Working In Japan, with Takeo Hoshi
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Thu, 2 Oct 2025 11:00:00 +0000
219-
How Profit and Politics Hijacked Scientific Inquiry, with John Ioannidis
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tor., 18 sep. 2025
218-
Will Privatizing The Mortgage Giants Solve The Housing Crisis?
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Thu, 4 Sep 2025 11:00:00 +0000
217-
Trump's Great Private Equity Bailout, with Dan Rasmussen
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tor., 21 aug. 2025
216-
Should Chatbots Teach Our Children? With Khan Academy CEO Sal Khan
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Thu, 7 Aug 2025 11:00:00 +0000
215-
Can The Dollar Be Dethroned?, with Ken Rogoff
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tor., 24 juli 2025
214-
Revealing the Secret Architects of Capitalism, with Chris Hughes
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tor., 10 juli 2025
213-
How The Democrats Lost Labor And Found Capital, with David Sirota
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tor., 26 juni 2025
212-
Why Cliff Asness Believes Markets Are Getting Dumber
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tor., 12 juni 2025
211-
How Democrats Forgot To Be Normal, with Joan Williams
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tor., 29 mai 2025
210-
Lina Khan's Vision of Capitalism
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tor., 15 mai 2025
209-
The Economics of Law Firms’ Resistance to Trump, with John Morley
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Thu, 1 May 2025 11:00:00 +0000
208-
Profit or Purpose? OpenAI's $300 Billion Question, with Rose Chan Loui
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tor., 17 apr. 2025
207-
Is Silicon Valley Turning Fascist?
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Thu, 3 Apr 2025 11:00:00 +0000
206-
Why Trump Is Deregulating In The Wrong Way, with Sam Peltzman
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tor., 20 mars 2025
205-
Trump’s War on Universities, with Nicholas Dirks
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Thu, 6 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000
204-
Did NIMBYs Kill the American Dream?, with Yoni Appelbaum
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tor., 20 feb. 2025
203-
Can AI Even Be Regulated?, with Sendhil Mullainathan
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tor., 13 feb. 2025
202-
Why This Nobel Economist Thinks Bitcoin Is Going to Zero, with Eugene Fama
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tor., 30 jan. 2025
201-
Should Companies Have A Social Responsibility To Be “Great Businesses”?, with John Kay
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tor., 16 jan. 2025
200-
How Big Money Changed The Democratic Game, with Daniel Ziblatt
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Thu, 2 Jan 2025 12:00:00 +0000
199-
America’s Addiction to Easy Money, with Ruchir Sharma
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tor., 19 des. 2024
198-
The Argentinian DOGE
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Thu, 5 Dec 2024 12:00:00 +0000
197-
The Fertility Crisis: Capitalism's Next Challenge, with Sir Niall Ferguson
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tor., 21 nov. 2024
196-
Visa's Hidden Tax on Americans
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Thu, 7 Nov 2024 12:00:00 +0000
195-
How Lobbying Led to Crony Capitalism, with Brody Mullins
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tor., 24 okt. 2024
194-
Mailbag: UBI, AI, and Does Luigi Believe in "Free Time"?
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tor., 10 okt. 2024
193-
Harris vs. Trump: Economics Beyond The "Vibes"
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Thu, 3 Oct 2024 11:00:00 +0000
192-
Can Democracy Coexist With Big Tech? with Marietje Schaake