The Pie Podcast
1) Stuck: How Housing Regulation Ended America's Mobility Revolution
America was once a nation in constant motion: One in three Americans moved every year in the 19th century, chasing opportunity from one town to the next. But that mobility has collapsed, falling by mo...Show More
2) Building Costs vs. Housing Prices: Why Construction Isn't Driving the Crisis
Historically, one major reason has consistently been cited for the growth in housing costs in this country: the rising cost of building homes. But that relationship is changing. In this episode, Unive...Show More
3) Pay Isn’t Everything: How Economists Put a Price on Job Perks
Economists often focus on wages when studying the labor market, but paychecks tell only part of the story. University of Chicago economist Evan Rose and his co-authors surveyed 20,000 Danish workers t...Show More
4) Decoding Educational Content: A Computational Comparison Between Public and Religious School Textbooks
Textbooks don't just teach facts, they shape how children understand the world and their place in it. In this episode, UChicago economist Anjali Adukia discusses her study of textbooks across public s...Show More
5) When Religion Meets the Marketplace: Faith, Farming, and Trade-Offs
What happens when your religion forbids the production of crops that dominate your local economy? In this episode, UChicago economist Eduardo Montero unpacks new research on the economic costs of reli...Show More
6) Green Bubble Stigma: Texting, Status, and Market Power
A text bubble might seem trivial, until it shapes market dynamics, personal identity, and federal lawsuits. In this episode, UChicago economist Leo Bursztyn discusses how Apple’s green bubble design c...Show More
7) AI, the Economy, and Public Policy
How is AI impacting the economy today? What might this mean for tomorrow? This episode brings you inside a discussion hosted at BFI in April. Moderated by Caroline Grossman, Executive Director of the ...Show More
8) Tariffs, Trade, and a Misused Model
Economist Brent Neiman recently returned to UChicago from his position as Deputy Undersecretary for International Finance at The US Treasury, only to find his research being used (and misused) in the ...Show More
9) Between a Chip and a Hard Place: The Economics of Security and Sovereignty in Taiwan
What does Taiwan’s precarious position reveal about global power, economic leverage, and the unraveling of diplomatic norms? In this episode, economist Chang-Tai Hsieh returns to unpack Taiwan’s tangl...Show More
10) Tariffs, Trust, and the Twilight of Norms: U.S.–China Relations in the Trump Era
What happens when trust in longstanding economic norms starts to break down? In this episode, economist Chang-Tai Hsieh explores the geopolitical and economic consequences of the Trump administration’...Show More