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.

Episode Date
Tariffs, Trade, and a Misused Model
May 27, 2025
Between a Chip and a Hard Place: The Economics of Security and Sovereignty in Taiwan
May 13, 2025
An Extra Slice of the Pie: Choosing with Uncertainty
May 01, 2025
Tariffs, Trust, and the Twilight of Norms: U.S.–China Relations in the Trump Era
Apr 29, 2025
War Economies: How Ukraine and Russia Are Adapting in Year Three
Apr 15, 2025
Crypto’s Fatal Flaw: Trust, Scale, and the Economics of Blockchain
Apr 01, 2025
Will They or Won't They? A Former Fed Official on This Week’s Interest Rate Decision
Mar 18, 2025
Should Performance Reviews Be Scrapped?
Mar 14, 2025
The Future of U.S. Energy Policy Under Trump
Mar 04, 2025
The Economics of Health Insurance: Denials, Pre-Authorizations, and Cost Control
Feb 18, 2025
Powering Innovation: How Government Subsidies Accelerate Electric Vehicle Breakthroughs
Feb 04, 2025
Five Years Later: How COVID-19 Reshaped Our Economy and Lives
Jan 21, 2025
Unlocking Higher Education: Undergraduate Re-Enrollment and Graduate Student Lending
Jan 07, 2025
What Economics Taught Us in 2024
Dec 24, 2024
Balancing Purse and Peace: Tax Collection, Public Goods, and Protests
Dec 10, 2024
Pricing Pollution: Measuring Carbon Externalities for US Corporations
Nov 26, 2024
Deadly Prescriptions: What Happens When Doctors Compete for Patients
Nov 12, 2024
An Extra Slice of the Pie, with James Robinson: History, Politics, and the Road to an Economics Nobel
Nov 05, 2024
Economics Meets Ecology: The Huge Costs of Ecosystem Declines
Oct 29, 2024
How Do Buyouts Impact Hospital Performance? Evaluating the Role of Private Equity in Healthcare
Oct 15, 2024
What Can the North Dakota Railroad War of 1905 Tell Us About Regulating Modern Monopolies?
Oct 01, 2024
Understanding the Fed: How Perception Drives Market Reactions
Sep 17, 2024
Promises Delivered? The Economic Effects of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
Sep 05, 2024
Creative Destruction: Why Innovation is Crucial for Growth
Aug 20, 2024
Using Machine Learning to Predict—and Prevent—Police Misconduct
Aug 06, 2024
What Went Wrong With Federal Student Loans?
Jul 23, 2024
The Uncertainties of Climate Change
Jul 15, 2024
Using Cellphone Data to Observe Religious Worship in the United States
Jun 25, 2024
India’s Economic Future
Jun 11, 2024
ChatGPT: Who’s Adopting, Who’s Abstaining, and Why?
May 28, 2024
Is College Worth It? Measuring the Returns to Higher Education
May 14, 2024
Fighting Traffic in Chicago: Lower Fares, More Trains, Fewer Buses
Apr 30, 2024
Which Companies Discriminate Most? Experimental Evidence on Callback Rates by Applicant Race and Gender
Apr 16, 2024
Recessions: What Are They Good For? Possibly Your Health
Apr 02, 2024
Knowing When to Stop: The Unintended Consequences of Monetary Policy
Mar 19, 2024
From Authoritarianism to Democracy: The Political Economy of Latin America
Mar 05, 2024
Closing the Achievement Gap: Is There an App for That?
Feb 20, 2024
Two Economies, Two Years of War: An Update on Economic Conditions in Russia and Ukraine
Feb 06, 2024
Conflict-Free or Conflict Displaced? Mine Certifications and Conflict in the Congo
Jan 23, 2024
Tearing Down Healthcare to Rebuild it for Everyone: A Panel on the Economics of Insurance Reform
Jan 09, 2024
12 Months of Economics: Vultures, ChatGPT, Student Loans, and the Social Safety Net
Dec 26, 2023
The Economics of Reproductive Choice
Dec 12, 2023
Are you Trapped on Social Media?
Nov 28, 2023
The New Normal: Working from Home in 2023
Nov 14, 2023
The Price of Crime: What Time Behind Bars Does to Earning Potential on Release
Oct 31, 2023
Restorative Justice: What Happened When Chicago Public Schools Replaced Suspensions with Restitution?
Oct 17, 2023
A New Tactic for Police Reform: Using Behavioral Economics to Curb Unnecessary Arrests
Oct 03, 2023
How Much Would it Cost to Save the Rainforest?
Sep 19, 2023
Lessons from Pandemic Unemployment Benefits: When Government Generosity Becomes Necessity
Sep 05, 2023
The Hidden Economic Forces That Determine How Much You Earn
Aug 22, 2023
A Case for Public School Choice? Lessons from Los Angeles
Aug 08, 2023
Do You Even Crypto, Bro?
Jul 25, 2023
Social Distancing in 2023: The Economic Costs of Lingering COVID Fears
Jul 11, 2023
Harvesting Green Investments: The Promise and Perils of ESG
Jun 27, 2023
How Debt Relief Raised Debts: The Untold Story of the Student Loan Moratorium
Jun 06, 2023
Quid Pro Vote: The Politics and Economics of Vote-Buying
May 30, 2023
Can ChatGPT Describe Company Performance Better than… the Company?
May 16, 2023
Misperceived Truths: Global Support for Women in the Workplace is More Than You Might Think
May 03, 2023
Inflation: The Good, The Bad, and the Baffling
Apr 18, 2023
Sometimes Bigger IS Better: The Case for Bringing Rural Healthcare to Urban Hospitals
Apr 04, 2023
Social Media Algorithms: How You’re Curating a Biased News Feed
Mar 21, 2023
Evaluating US Healthcare 3 Years after Lockdown
Mar 07, 2023
Scavenging for Answers: The Human Toll of Vulture Population Collapse
Feb 21, 2023
Law of Unintended Consequences: Welfare Reform and Crime
Feb 07, 2023
Economics of Discrimination: How to Measure Systemic Injustices
Jan 24, 2023
What Drives Racial Differences in Speeding Tickets and Fines?
Jan 10, 2023
2023: An Economic Nudge for the New Year
Dec 27, 2022
China Faltering? Why COVID Is Not Its Biggest Economic Problem
Dec 13, 2022
Economic Warfare: Are Russian Sanctions Working?
Nov 30, 2022
Fighting Inflation: Is the Fed’s Work Just Beginning?
Nov 15, 2022
Tax vs Ban: The Unexpected Results on Gun Sales
Nov 01, 2022
COVID and Schools: Elementary Lessons
Oct 18, 2022
WFH… Gone Global
Oct 04, 2022
We're Back with More of The Pie
Sep 27, 2022
How Does Access to Safe Water Affect Child Mortality?
Mar 30, 2022
Global Warming, Local Impact: The Economic Landscape of Climate Change
Dec 02, 2021
Can Monetary Policy Solve Inflation and Unemployment?
Oct 21, 2021
Nudge: The Final Edition Book Talk with Richard Thaler
Aug 05, 2021
Economics of Courage
Jul 01, 2021
Vaccine Lotteries: Worth a Shot?
Jun 17, 2021
Pay Now or Pay Later
Jun 03, 2021
College Sports: Show Me The Money
May 20, 2021
Discrimination is Expensive
May 06, 2021
Are Carbon Offsets Bogus?
Apr 22, 2021
WFH… Forever?
Apr 08, 2021
Incentives and the Race to Vaccinate
Mar 25, 2021
Is the Future Cashless?
Mar 12, 2021
The Surprising Results of Pandemic Unemployment Benefits
Feb 25, 2021
When Good Debt Goes Bad
Feb 11, 2021
Shots on Goal: How to Jumpstart the Economy
Jan 28, 2021
The Big Tech Threat?
Jan 14, 2021
The Pandemic Recession’s Gender Gap
Dec 30, 2020
A Vaccine for Billions
Dec 17, 2020
Pre-existing Confusion: The US Health Insurance System
Dec 03, 2020
The Pie
Nov 24, 2020