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The Pie: An Economics Podcast — 134 episodes
Cut Off: How US Sanctions are Reshaping the Global Payment System
Scoop and Run: How Should Gunshot Victims Get to the Hospital?
Talking to Strangers: The Economics of Social Connection
Passing the Pop Quiz: How Nursing Homes Predict Inspections, and What It Costs Patients
AI and Early Childhood Development: The Importance of Human Interaction
Signal and Noise: Why Politics Is About Culture When Voters Want Economics
How Should Parents Respond When Grades are Good, But Test Scores are Bad?
Tied to the Job: The Gains from Permanent Residency
Life as a Lab: John List on the Art and Ethics of Field Experiments
Wealth of Institutions: Randall Kroszner on Why Markets Stayed Calm While the Fed Came Under Fire
A Conversation with Raghuram Rajan: Corporate Governance, Community, and Political Economy
The Uneven Promise of School Choice: Who Applies vs. Who Benefits
The War in Iran: Oil, Cyber Warfare, and Alliances
The Geography of Human Capital: Why Rich Regions Stay Rich
Eugene Fama on 60 Years of Finance Research, Index Funds, and Market Efficiency
The Transformation of Capitalism: 250 Years After Adam Smith
Laboratories of Autocracy: What Happens When China Shuts Down Its Policy Experiments
Who Really Paid for the Tariffs? Brent Neiman on Liberation Day's Economic Aftermath
Venezuela After Maduro: What Comes Next?
Why Banks Exist and Why They Fail: Douglas Diamond on Runs, Regulation, and the Risks of Short-Term Debt
At What Age Does Family Income Most Shape Your Future? Timing and Intergenerational Mobility
The Pie, Wrapped: Innovation, Faith, Purpose, and Market Power
A Conversation with Roger Myerson: Harmonicas, Xenophon, and Why Your Mayor Matters More Than You Think
Chat2Learn: Using Simple Conversation Prompts to Boost Early Childhood Development
Human Capital for Humans: An Accessible Introduction to the Economic Science of People
Liberalism and the Great Enrichment: Why Ideas, Not Capital, Made the Modern World
Economics for Everyone: Teaching the World to Think Like an Economist
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Economic Cheat Codes: How Game Theory Can Help You Win at Work, Love, and Life
Moving to Opportunity: Together?
The Economics of Early Childhood: Why the First Five Years Matter Most
The Law of Unintended Consequences: How Dobbs Changed Contraceptive Choices
Finding Your Why at Work: The Economics of Purpose
Stuck: How Housing Regulation Ended America's Mobility Revolution
Building Costs vs. Housing Prices: Why Construction Isn't Driving the Crisis
Pay Isn’t Everything: How Economists Put a Price on Job Perks
Decoding Educational Content: A Computational Comparison Between Public and Religious School Textbooks
When Religion Meets the Marketplace: Faith, Farming, and Trade-Offs
Green Bubble Stigma: Texting, Status, and Market Power
AI, the Economy, and Public Policy
Tariffs, Trade, and a Misused Model
Between a Chip and a Hard Place: The Economics of Security and Sovereignty in Taiwan
An Extra Slice of the Pie: Choosing with Uncertainty
Tariffs, Trust, and the Twilight of Norms: U.S.–China Relations in the Trump Era
War Economies: How Ukraine and Russia Are Adapting in Year Three
Crypto’s Fatal Flaw: Trust, Scale, and the Economics of Blockchain
Will They or Won't They? A Former Fed Official on This Week’s Interest Rate Decision
Should Performance Reviews Be Scrapped?
The Future of U.S. Energy Policy Under Trump
The Economics of Health Insurance: Denials, Pre-Authorizations, and Cost Control
Powering Innovation: How Government Subsidies Accelerate Electric Vehicle Breakthroughs
Five Years Later: How COVID-19 Reshaped Our Economy and Lives
Unlocking Higher Education: Undergraduate Re-Enrollment and Graduate Student Lending
What Economics Taught Us in 2024
Balancing Purse and Peace: Tax Collection, Public Goods, and Protests
Pricing Pollution: Measuring Carbon Externalities for US Corporations
Deadly Prescriptions: What Happens When Doctors Compete for Patients
An Extra Slice of the Pie, with James Robinson: History, Politics, and the Road to an Economics Nobel
Economics Meets Ecology: The Huge Costs of Ecosystem Declines
How Do Buyouts Impact Hospital Performance? Evaluating the Role of Private Equity in Healthcare
What Can the North Dakota Railroad War of 1905 Tell Us About Regulating Modern Monopolies?
Understanding the Fed: How Perception Drives Market Reactions
Promises Delivered? The Economic Effects of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
Creative Destruction: Why Innovation is Crucial for Growth
Using Machine Learning to Predict—and Prevent—Police Misconduct
What Went Wrong With Federal Student Loans?
The Uncertainties of Climate Change
Using Cellphone Data to Observe Religious Worship in the United States
India’s Economic Future
ChatGPT: Who’s Adopting, Who’s Abstaining, and Why?
Is College Worth It? Measuring the Returns to Higher Education
Fighting Traffic in Chicago: Lower Fares, More Trains, Fewer Buses
Which Companies Discriminate Most? Experimental Evidence on Callback Rates by Applicant Race and Gender
Recessions: What Are They Good For? Possibly Your Health
Knowing When to Stop: The Unintended Consequences of Monetary Policy
From Authoritarianism to Democracy: The Political Economy of Latin America
Closing the Achievement Gap: Is There an App for That?
Two Economies, Two Years of War: An Update on Economic Conditions in Russia and Ukraine
Conflict-Free or Conflict Displaced? Mine Certifications and Conflict in the Congo
Tearing Down Healthcare to Rebuild it for Everyone: A Panel on the Economics of Insurance Reform
12 Months of Economics: Vultures, ChatGPT, Student Loans, and the Social Safety Net
The Economics of Reproductive Choice
Are you Trapped on Social Media?
The New Normal: Working from Home in 2023
The Price of Crime: What Time Behind Bars Does to Earning Potential on Release
Restorative Justice: What Happened When Chicago Public Schools Replaced Suspensions with Restitution?
A New Tactic for Police Reform: Using Behavioral Economics to Curb Unnecessary Arrests
How Much Would it Cost to Save the Rainforest?
Lessons from Pandemic Unemployment Benefits: When Government Generosity Becomes Necessity
The Hidden Economic Forces That Determine How Much You Earn
A Case for Public School Choice? Lessons from Los Angeles
Do You Even Crypto, Bro?
Social Distancing in 2023: The Economic Costs of Lingering COVID Fears
Harvesting Green Investments: The Promise and Perils of ESG
How Debt Relief Raised Debts: The Untold Story of the Student Loan Moratorium
Quid Pro Vote: The Politics and Economics of Vote-Buying
Misperceived Truths: Global Support for Women in the Workplace is More Than You Might Think
Inflation: The Good, The Bad, and the Baffling
Sometimes Bigger IS Better: The Case for Bringing Rural Healthcare to Urban Hospitals
Social Media Algorithms: How You’re Curating a Biased News Feed
Evaluating US Healthcare 3 Years after Lockdown
Scavenging for Answers: The Human Toll of Vulture Population Collapse
Law of Unintended Consequences: Welfare Reform and Crime
Economics of Discrimination: How to Measure Systemic Injustices
What Drives Racial Differences in Speeding Tickets and Fines?
2023: An Economic Nudge for the New Year
China Faltering? Why COVID Is Not Its Biggest Economic Problem
Economic Warfare: Are Russian Sanctions Working?
Fighting Inflation: Is the Fed’s Work Just Beginning?
Tax vs Ban: The Unexpected Results on Gun Sales
COVID and Schools: Elementary Lessons
WFH… Gone Global
We're Back with More of The Pie
How Does Access to Safe Water Affect Child Mortality?
Global Warming, Local Impact: The Economic Landscape of Climate Change
Can Monetary Policy Solve Inflation and Unemployment?
Nudge: The Final Edition Book Talk with Richard Thaler
Economics of Courage
Vaccine Lotteries: Worth a Shot?
Pay Now or Pay Later
College Sports: Show Me The Money
Discrimination is Expensive
Are Carbon Offsets Bogus?
WFH… Forever?
Incentives and the Race to Vaccinate
Is the Future Cashless?
The Surprising Results of Pandemic Unemployment Benefits
When Good Debt Goes Bad
Shots on Goal: How to Jumpstart the Economy
The Big Tech Threat?
The Pandemic Recession’s Gender Gap
A Vaccine for Billions
Pre-existing Confusion: The US Health Insurance System
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