The Pie: An Economics Podcast
By Becker Friedman Institute at UChicago
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Economists are always talking about The Pie – how it grows and shrinks, how it’s sliced, and who gets the biggest shares. Join host Tess Vigeland as she talks with leading economists from the University of Chicago about their cutting-edge research and key events of the day. Hear how the economic pie is at the heart of issues like the aftermath of a global pandemic, jobs, energy policy, and more.
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The Geography of Human Capital: Why Rich Regions Stay Rich
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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Eugene Fama on 60 Years of Finance Research, Index Funds, and Market Efficiency
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Mar 12, 2026 |
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The Transformation of Capitalism: 250 Years After Adam Smith
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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Laboratories of Autocracy: What Happens When China Shuts Down Its Policy Experiments
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Feb 17, 2026 |
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Who Really Paid for the Tariffs? Brent Neiman on Liberation Day's Economic Aftermath
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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Venezuela After Maduro: What Comes Next?
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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Why Banks Exist and Why They Fail: Douglas Diamond on Runs, Regulation, and the Risks of Short-Term Debt
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Jan 13, 2026 |
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At What Age Does Family Income Most Shape Your Future? Timing and Intergenerational Mobility
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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The Pie, Wrapped: Innovation, Faith, Purpose, and Market Power
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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A Conversation with Roger Myerson: Harmonicas, Xenophon, and Why Your Mayor Matters More Than You Think
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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Chat2Learn: Using Simple Conversation Prompts to Boost Early Childhood Development
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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Human Capital for Humans: An Accessible Introduction to the Economic Science of People
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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Liberalism and the Great Enrichment: Why Ideas, Not Capital, Made the Modern World
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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Economics for Everyone: Teaching the World to Think Like an Economist
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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You Might Also Like: Farmer’s A.I. Manac, from Shocked
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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Economic Cheat Codes: How Game Theory Can Help You Win at Work, Love, and Life
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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Moving to Opportunity: Together?
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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The Economics of Early Childhood: Why the First Five Years Matter Most
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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The Law of Unintended Consequences: How Dobbs Changed Contraceptive Choices
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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Finding Your Why at Work: The Economics of Purpose
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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Stuck: How Housing Regulation Ended America's Mobility Revolution
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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Building Costs vs. Housing Prices: Why Construction Isn't Driving the Crisis
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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Pay Isn’t Everything: How Economists Put a Price on Job Perks
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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Decoding Educational Content: A Computational Comparison Between Public and Religious School Textbooks
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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When Religion Meets the Marketplace: Faith, Farming, and Trade-Offs
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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Green Bubble Stigma: Texting, Status, and Market Power
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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AI, the Economy, and Public Policy
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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Tariffs, Trade, and a Misused Model
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May 27, 2025 |
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Between a Chip and a Hard Place: The Economics of Security and Sovereignty in Taiwan
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May 13, 2025 |
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An Extra Slice of the Pie: Choosing with Uncertainty
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May 01, 2025 |
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Tariffs, Trust, and the Twilight of Norms: U.S.–China Relations in the Trump Era
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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War Economies: How Ukraine and Russia Are Adapting in Year Three
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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Crypto’s Fatal Flaw: Trust, Scale, and the Economics of Blockchain
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Will They or Won't They? A Former Fed Official on This Week’s Interest Rate Decision
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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Should Performance Reviews Be Scrapped?
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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The Future of U.S. Energy Policy Under Trump
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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The Economics of Health Insurance: Denials, Pre-Authorizations, and Cost Control
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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Powering Innovation: How Government Subsidies Accelerate Electric Vehicle Breakthroughs
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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Five Years Later: How COVID-19 Reshaped Our Economy and Lives
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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Unlocking Higher Education: Undergraduate Re-Enrollment and Graduate Student Lending
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Jan 07, 2025 |
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What Economics Taught Us in 2024
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Dec 24, 2024 |
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Balancing Purse and Peace: Tax Collection, Public Goods, and Protests
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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Pricing Pollution: Measuring Carbon Externalities for US Corporations
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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Deadly Prescriptions: What Happens When Doctors Compete for Patients
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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An Extra Slice of the Pie, with James Robinson: History, Politics, and the Road to an Economics Nobel
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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Economics Meets Ecology: The Huge Costs of Ecosystem Declines
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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How Do Buyouts Impact Hospital Performance? Evaluating the Role of Private Equity in Healthcare
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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What Can the North Dakota Railroad War of 1905 Tell Us About Regulating Modern Monopolies?
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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Understanding the Fed: How Perception Drives Market Reactions
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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Promises Delivered? The Economic Effects of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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Creative Destruction: Why Innovation is Crucial for Growth
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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Using Machine Learning to Predict—and Prevent—Police Misconduct
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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What Went Wrong With Federal Student Loans?
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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The Uncertainties of Climate Change
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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Using Cellphone Data to Observe Religious Worship in the United States
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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India’s Economic Future
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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ChatGPT: Who’s Adopting, Who’s Abstaining, and Why?
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May 28, 2024 |
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Is College Worth It? Measuring the Returns to Higher Education
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May 14, 2024 |
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Fighting Traffic in Chicago: Lower Fares, More Trains, Fewer Buses
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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Which Companies Discriminate Most? Experimental Evidence on Callback Rates by Applicant Race and Gender
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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Recessions: What Are They Good For? Possibly Your Health
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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Knowing When to Stop: The Unintended Consequences of Monetary Policy
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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From Authoritarianism to Democracy: The Political Economy of Latin America
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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Closing the Achievement Gap: Is There an App for That?
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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Two Economies, Two Years of War: An Update on Economic Conditions in Russia and Ukraine
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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Conflict-Free or Conflict Displaced? Mine Certifications and Conflict in the Congo
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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Tearing Down Healthcare to Rebuild it for Everyone: A Panel on the Economics of Insurance Reform
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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12 Months of Economics: Vultures, ChatGPT, Student Loans, and the Social Safety Net
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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The Economics of Reproductive Choice
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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Are you Trapped on Social Media?
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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The New Normal: Working from Home in 2023
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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The Price of Crime: What Time Behind Bars Does to Earning Potential on Release
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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Restorative Justice: What Happened When Chicago Public Schools Replaced Suspensions with Restitution?
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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A New Tactic for Police Reform: Using Behavioral Economics to Curb Unnecessary Arrests
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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How Much Would it Cost to Save the Rainforest?
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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Lessons from Pandemic Unemployment Benefits: When Government Generosity Becomes Necessity
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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The Hidden Economic Forces That Determine How Much You Earn
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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A Case for Public School Choice? Lessons from Los Angeles
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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Do You Even Crypto, Bro?
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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Social Distancing in 2023: The Economic Costs of Lingering COVID Fears
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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Harvesting Green Investments: The Promise and Perils of ESG
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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How Debt Relief Raised Debts: The Untold Story of the Student Loan Moratorium
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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Quid Pro Vote: The Politics and Economics of Vote-Buying
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May 30, 2023 |
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Misperceived Truths: Global Support for Women in the Workplace is More Than You Might Think
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May 03, 2023 |
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Inflation: The Good, The Bad, and the Baffling
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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Sometimes Bigger IS Better: The Case for Bringing Rural Healthcare to Urban Hospitals
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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Social Media Algorithms: How You’re Curating a Biased News Feed
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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Evaluating US Healthcare 3 Years after Lockdown
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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Scavenging for Answers: The Human Toll of Vulture Population Collapse
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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Law of Unintended Consequences: Welfare Reform and Crime
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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Economics of Discrimination: How to Measure Systemic Injustices
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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What Drives Racial Differences in Speeding Tickets and Fines?
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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2023: An Economic Nudge for the New Year
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Dec 27, 2022 |
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China Faltering? Why COVID Is Not Its Biggest Economic Problem
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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Economic Warfare: Are Russian Sanctions Working?
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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Fighting Inflation: Is the Fed’s Work Just Beginning?
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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Tax vs Ban: The Unexpected Results on Gun Sales
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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COVID and Schools: Elementary Lessons
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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WFH… Gone Global
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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We're Back with More of The Pie
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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How Does Access to Safe Water Affect Child Mortality?
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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Global Warming, Local Impact: The Economic Landscape of Climate Change
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Dec 02, 2021 |
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Can Monetary Policy Solve Inflation and Unemployment?
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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Nudge: The Final Edition Book Talk with Richard Thaler
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Aug 05, 2021 |
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Economics of Courage
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Jul 01, 2021 |
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Vaccine Lotteries: Worth a Shot?
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Jun 17, 2021 |
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Pay Now or Pay Later
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Jun 03, 2021 |
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College Sports: Show Me The Money
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May 20, 2021 |
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Discrimination is Expensive
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May 06, 2021 |
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Are Carbon Offsets Bogus?
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Apr 22, 2021 |
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WFH… Forever?
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Apr 08, 2021 |
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Incentives and the Race to Vaccinate
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Mar 25, 2021 |
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Is the Future Cashless?
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Mar 12, 2021 |
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The Surprising Results of Pandemic Unemployment Benefits
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Feb 25, 2021 |
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When Good Debt Goes Bad
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Feb 11, 2021 |
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Shots on Goal: How to Jumpstart the Economy
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Jan 28, 2021 |
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The Big Tech Threat?
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Jan 14, 2021 |
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The Pandemic Recession’s Gender Gap
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Dec 30, 2020 |
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A Vaccine for Billions
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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Pre-existing Confusion: The US Health Insurance System
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Dec 03, 2020 |
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The Pie
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Nov 24, 2020 |