How Algorithms, Money, & Bureaucracy Distance us from Democracy

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The Wealth of Wall Street with Oren Cass

As the stock market continues to break records, Jon is joined by Oren Cass, Chief Economist at American Compass, to examine how America's economy was reengineered to serve shareholders instead of workers. Together, they trace the history of financialization that enabled this tran ...  Show more

The Irrational Economy with Richard Thaler

With economic systems failing millions of Americans, Jon is joined by Nobel laureate and University of Chicago Professor Richard Thaler, one of the founding fathers of behavioral economics. Together, they explore why conventional economics fails to account for how people actually ...  Show more

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