Why do we call it pitchfork economics? (with Ganesh Sitaraman and Walter Scheidel)
Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
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The Great Leveler, Violence and the History of Economic Quality From the Stone Age of 21st Century
Walter Shydell is a historian at Stanford University. He argues that every single time we observe a major reduction in economic inequality in world history, it was caused by massive violent shocks like the World War's Communist Revolution or state collapse. Do you think perhaps the United States, at least with its mythology of egalitarianism might be a place where we can reverse these trends through political arena?
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