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Nick Hanauer: Today, we get to talk to one of my favorite people, our old friend Matt Stoller. Nick Hanauer: I’m Nick Hanauer, founder of Civic Ventures.ĭavid Goldstein: I’m David Goldstein, senior fellow at Civic Ventures. This is Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer, confessions of an American capitalist caught on tape. Speaker 3: From the offices of civic ventures in downtown Seattle. This is the physical manifestation of what you often talk about, which is the rise of Plutocracy. Everywhere in our society, you’ve seen this concentration of power in our markets in the hands of the few. So things like peanut butter or coffins or missiles and munitions or voting machines. You also see it in pretty much every market. Matt Stoller: It’s not just the big markets where you see this problem. You have been at the forefront of identifying and pushing back on one of the most corrosive elements of the modern neoliberal economy, which is concentrated wealth and power, monopoly power in particular. It’s first come, first serve while supplies last. So to get one, all you have to do is head to Instagram and follow us at Pitchfork Economics and comment on the mug post to enter. And to celebrate, we’re giving away some of our awesome, fun, trickle down economics coffee mugs.

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House of Representatives during the financial crisis. He is a former policy advisor to the Senate Budget Committee, and also worked for a member of the Financial Services Committee in the U.S. Matt Stoller is the author of ‘Goliath: The Hundred-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy’ and a fellow at the Open Markets Institute. This week, Matt joins Nick and Goldy for a conversation about creating a new democracy. In his new book ‘Goliath’, author Matt Stoller explains how the 2016 election heralded the return of authoritarianism and populism to American politics, due largely to concentrated financial power and rampant consumerism.