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Chicago Booth Review Podcast — 179 episodes

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When should you choose to be ignorant?

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Why leaders should show vulnerability

3

Will Salesforce and Adobe survive the SaaS Apocalypse?

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Why the economy is now intangible

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Why is housing so segregated?

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How do informal markets work?

7

Does replaying videos change how we watch them?

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Who Has Time to Be a "Good" Parent?

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Do you trust your bank?

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Will private credit spark a financial crisis?

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Should we debate less and dialogue more?

12

Why selfies harm your happiness

13

Does anyone trust Washington?

14

Why do we avoid talking to people?

15

Do you identify as a leader?

16

How Universal is the Marshmallow Test?

17

How hard should you push to make change?

18

How to Get Into Private Equity

19

Can emotions be good for business?

20

Who sets supermarket prices?

21

Do consumers care about corporate social responsibility?

22

What a missing cat tells us about high-stakes situations

23

Should AI disagree with you?

24

Are we too obsessed with numerical data?

25

Can technology make us smarter?

26

Could using credit cards more save you money?

27

How to Become a Venture Capitalist

28

Do gay men have a tougher time buying used cars?

29

Will alternative investments underperform?

30

What Trader Joe's tells us about strategy

31

Can you catch AI-written reviews?

32

Is Atlanta a better real-estate investment than New York?

33

How take-out and delivery boosts productivity

34

What makes welfare recipients invest in their kids' human capital?

35

How much does a CEO really matter?

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Why economics is not about numbers

37

You Might Also Like: Markets for Pollution, from Shocked

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Does choosing your friends make you happier?

39

Does collaboration really produce better ideas?

40

Apart from the paycheck, why do we work?

41

Why are home prices so high?

42

Are AI interviews better?

43

Should we pay people to walk?

44

The 'Professor of Uncertainty' on AI

45

Can virtual reality increase empathy?

46

Is self-awareness always a good thing?

47

Do all loans have "a pound of flesh" clause?

48

What investors look for in a startup pitch

49

Why students lie about using AI

50

Why is apologizing so hard?

51

Trumponomics: How robust are America's institutions?

52

Decoding the signals in private equity reports

53

Should we pay coal miners to go to college?

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How can we address conflicts of interest in research?

55

Is America's cultural divide growing?

56

If the bank won't lend to you, who will?

57

Why AI isn't boosting the economy

58

How to negotiate home prices

59

Low-cost ways to tackle America's murder rate

60

What the Right and Left get wrong about gun violence

61

The data on sex, marriage, and happiness

62

Why nonprofits should be more like corporations

63

Are customers more important than revenue?

64

Why is some news more newsworthy?

65

Trumponomics: Will DOGE actually cut government spending?

66

Trumponomics: Is the media taking orders from the White House?

67

BONUS: The Many Faces of Capitalism

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How to negotiate salary

69

Don't avoid workplace conflict

70

What's behind the AI gender gap?

71

How will climate change affect culture?

72

Trumponomics: Will DOGE fail?

73

Trumponomics: Will the White House wage war on the Fed?

74

Trumponomics: Do more tax cuts make sense?

75

Trumponomics: Could Trump's dealmaking damage the economy?

76

Trumponomics: Expect higher inflation—with or without tariffs

77

How to make the best of layoffs

78

Do other people make us more happy, or less?

79

Trump 2025 vs. Trump 2016

80

Should performance reviews be scrapped?

81

How to argue for change within an organization

82

What do you want to achieve in 2025?

83

Why Bitcoin will fail

84

How to craft a winning startup pitch

85

How to fix the stock market

86

Does your portfolio need impact investments?

87

This 100-year-old pattern explains Trump's victory

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What do we get wrong about impact investing?

89

Writing matters. Here's how to get better at it.

90

Does hybrid work, work?

91

Is Insider Trading always bad?

92

Must you lose your morals on Wall St?

93

Does remote work kill productivity?

94

Do Data-Privacy Laws Actually Hurt Consumers?

95

Do companies hire the right CEOs?

96

Is Leadership a Choice?

97

Should Billionaires Pay Higher Fines?

98

What's so bad about private equity?

99

Is the customer always right?

100

Would you accept a pay-free promotion?

101

Hidden fees, drip pricing, and shrinkflation

102

How can we fix US healthcare?

103

The economics of the refugee crisis

104

What if your coworker earns more than you?

105

Why is frugality a virtue?

106

How to navigate leadership "moments of truth"

107

Why are refugees more likely to be entrepreneurs?

108

How unfairness at work can lead to sabotage

109

Why is US healthcare so expensive?

110

Is money or marriage the key to happiness?

111

How should companies respond to 'woke capitalism'?

112

Why AI might not make you more productive

113

Raghuram Rajan: your doctor could be in India

114

David Brooks on how to make others feel valued

115

How to fix a toxic working culture

116

Can India's economy break the mold?

117

Do you really get more conservative as you age?

118

How low productivity cost you $25,000

119

Does tackling global warming require global reporting rules?

120

Is Elon Musk a modern-day Odysseus?

121

Could reporting carbon emissions help cut them?

122

Why are workers so disengaged?

123

What's wrong with charity?

124

Would you call out a microaggression?

125

An economist debunks "Gone with the Wind"

126

When will the Fed start cutting interest rates?

127

Is it fair to charge people different prices?

128

Why AI may be your best strategist

129

How should you deliver negative feedback?

130

Would you call out a workplace bully?

131

A Nobel laureate on the limits of evidence-based policy

132

Challenge your assumptions, and embrace ambiguity

133

Why a soft landing is so hard

134

How to keep your New Year's Resolutions

135

Steve Jobs' Ghost Haunts Silicon Valley

136

Who does Raghuram Rajan blame for inflation?

137

How to navigate a volatile world

138

Find your "gist" and become a better leader

139

Could you be a successful entrepreneur?

140

Are women leaders being set up to fail?

141

How many poor people do you really know?

142

Three ways AI can improve decision-making

143

What are we learning when we're on social media?

144

Why are the very rich getting even richer?

145

Meet the man who gave America no-frills air travel

146

Are You Responsible for Your 'Passive' Investments?

147

Break up Big Tech?

148

Is the Startup World Really Like 'Super Pumped'?

149

Does poverty make you behave differently?

150

Has capitalism moved on from 'American Psycho'?

151

How do you develop leadership skills?

152

Why do we say less when a Black child goes missing?

153

Why did McKinsey's former CEO go to jail?

154

What's the best way to motivate yourself?

155

Can social networks explain our politics?

156

How is WFH shaping the job market?

157

What should the uberrich do with their money?

158

Is wealth inequality overstated?

159

How irrational are we?

160

What explains the volatility in financial markets?

161

Are AI startups worth the investment?

162

How can we restore trust In democracy?

163

Are You Self-Interested? Or Just Selfish?

164

What's Wrong with Little White Lies?

165

Who Is Fueling America's Debt Binge?

166

Should We Care If Google Is a Monopoly?

167

Does Social Media Make Companies Behave Better?

168

Do We Trust AI to Make the Right Decisions?

169

Are You Shopping Irrationally?

170

Are Great CEOs Born or Made?

171

What Are the Limits of Capitalism?

172

Is the Tax Code Beyond Fixing?

173

Who Is In the 0.01 Percent—And How Did They Get So Rich?

174

Why is Everyone So Bad at Communicating? (And How Can We All Get Better?)

175

Are You a Sellout? Should You Care?

176

Is the Price Right? Two Nobel Laureates Debate How Markets Work

177

Does the Gender Gap Begin at Home?

178

What Can the 1930s Tell Us about the Coming Climate Migration?

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