The Pie: An Economics Podcast

Becker Friedman Institute at UChicago

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The Pie, Wrapped: Innovation, Faith, Purpose, and Market Power

12/23/2025 • 34 min

As we close out 2025, host Tess Vigeland highlights research from UChicago scholars. Hyuk Su Kwon, Assistant Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy, explains the design of electric vehicle subsidies. Eduardo Montero, Assistant Professor at Harris, reveals how Seventh Day Adventist churches adapt when members face costly trade-offs between faith and farm… Play episode

A Conversation with Roger Myerson: Harmonicas, Xenophon, and Why Your Mayo…
Chat2Learn: Using Simple Conversation Prompts to Boost Early Childhood Dev…
Human Capital for Humans: An Accessible Introduction to the Economic Scien…
Liberalism and the Great Enrichment: Why Ideas, Not Capital, Made the Mode…
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 …
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 Cris…
Pay Isn’t Everything: How Economists Put a Price on Job Perks
Decoding Educational Content: A Computational Comparison Between Public an…
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…
An Extra Slice of the Pie: Choosing with Uncertainty
Tariffs, Trust, and the Twilight of Norms: U.S.–China Relations in the Tru…
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 Rat…
Should Performance Reviews Be Scrapped?
The Future of U.S. Energy Policy Under Trump
The Economics of Health Insurance: Denials, Pre-Authorizations, and Cost C…
Powering Innovation: How Government Subsidies Accelerate Electric Vehicle …
Five Years Later: How COVID-19 Reshaped Our Economy and Lives
Unlocking Higher Education: Undergraduate Re-Enrollment and Graduate Stude…
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…
Economics Meets Ecology: The Huge Costs of Ecosystem Declines
How Do Buyouts Impact Hospital Performance? Evaluating the Role of Private…
What Can the North Dakota Railroad War of 1905 Tell Us About Regulating Mo…
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

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