It’s our 300th episode! To mark this milestone, we’ve gathered some of the most thoughtful and inspiring answers to one of our favorite questions: Why do you do this work? Plus, Nick and Goldy share what keeps them in the fight for a better economy. We're deeply grateful for the wisdom of our incredible guests and, most of all, for YOU—our listeners—who’ve supported us along the way. Here’s to many more conversations unpacking who gets what and why in our economy, and how to build the economy from the middle out.

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Guests Featured:

Jared Bernstein - Chair, White House Council of Economic Advisors

Reshma Saujani - Founder, Girls Who Code and the Marshall Plan for Moms

Mark Blyth - Political Economist and author of Diminishing Returns: The New Politics of Growth and Stagnation

Rohit Chopra - Director, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)

Joseph Stiglitz (3-time guest) - Economist and author of The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society

Caitlin Myers - Professor of Economics at Middlebury College and Co-Director of the Middlebury Initiative for Data and Digital Methods.

Kim Stanley Robinson - American Science Fiction writer and author of The Ministry for the Future

Marshall Steinbaum (2-time guest) - Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Utah and a Senior Fellow in Higher Education Finance at Jain Family Institute.

Elizabeth Anderson - Professor of Public Philosophy at the University of Michigan and author of Hijacked: How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic against Workers and How Workers Can Take It Back

Bharat Ramamurti - Former Deputy Director of the White House National Economic Council

Elizabeth Wilkins - Senior Fellow at the American Economic Liberties Project and former Director of the Office of Policy and Planning at the Federal Trade Commission

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