John Donvan
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13 recordings
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 18 Sep
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Currently, you teach economics at Harvard.
You're defending capitalism for us.
And I'm wondering, are you surprised that that question is even on the table to being asked to defend capitalism nowadays?
All right, thank you.
We're going to get to the back and forth portion of the program right after this break.
I'm John Donvan.
This is Open to Debate, and we'll be right back.
Welcome back to Open to Debate.
I'm John Donvan.
We're debating the question, is capitalism broken with Nick Hanauer and Jason Furman?
We've heard both of them make their cases.
I want to just tell you what I'm hearing in terms of your opening arguments.
Nick, and before I even say that, I want to be clear.
Both of you are capitalists.
You believe in capitalism.
You both support a well-functioning capitalism.
This debate right now is whether capitalism in the U.S.
functions in a mostly desirable way.
Nick, you're arguing it absolutely does not.
that the assumed priorities of capitalism as it now functions, of letting markets and the drive for efficiency decide what investment should be made, what wages should be, even what moral choices prevail, has led us to what you're describing as a woeful place of extreme concentrations of wealth and power, and as a consequence, a broken American spirit.
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