The Pie: An Economics Podcast
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 ...
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- Brent Neiman2 eps
- Randall Kroszner1 ep
- John List1 ep
Also: Raghuram Rajan, Chris Campos, Ryan Kellogg, Paul Poast, Jake Braun, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Eugene Fama, Yueran Ma, Shaoda Wang, Matt Notowidigdo, Ariel Kalil, Maggie Shi, Dana Suskind, Konstantin Sonin, Prachi Sanghavi, Nick Epley
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- 🇺🇸United States · Social SciencesHOME#35100K to 529K
- 🇲🇽Mexico · Social Sciences#402.9K to 15K
- 🇮🇩ID · Social Sciences#222.9K to 15K
- 🇿🇦ZA · Social Sciences#122.6K to 14K
- 🇵🇪PE · Social Sciences#92.5K to 13K
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132K to 698K🎙 Weekly cadence·134 episodes·Last published 2d ago - Monthly Reach
Unique listeners across all episodes (30 days)
264K to 1.4M🇺🇸76%🇲🇽2%🇮🇩2%+14 more - Active Followers
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145K to 768K
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 10/27/26 |  Do Age Verification Laws Work? Evidence from Adult Websites | Since 2023, 25 states have passed laws requiring adult websites to verify visitors' ages. Meanwhile, total time spent on these sites has fallen by only about 10%. In this episode, UChicago economist Matthew Brown discusses new research that uses browsing data to trace where that traffic went, with implications for with implications for how policymakers regulate the internet more broadly. | 24m 26s | ||||||
| 10/13/26 |  The Everywhere Millionaire: Who's Really Rich in America | Roughly 3 million Americans own private businesses and have a net worth of at least $5 million. Together they hold more than $50 trillion, about 13 times the wealth of the entire Forbes 400. In this episode, Chicago Booth economist Eric Zwick discusses The Everywhere Millionaire, his new book with Owen Zidar, which draws on a decade of tax data to characterize this class of car dealers, dentists, and beer distributors in towns across the country. | 1h 07m 05s | ||||||
| 9/29/26 |  Why Your Raise Didn't Keep Up with Inflation | By 2024, inflation was falling and unemployment was low, yet consumer confidence had sunk to levels last seen during the Great Recession. In this episode, Erik Hurst of Chicago Booth and his co-author Christina Patterson draw on payroll records for roughly 16 million workers to show how wages fell behind prices during the recent inflationary period and haven't caught back up. | 34m 37s | ||||||
| 9/15/26 |  But the Cool Kids are Still Online: Behind Australia's Failed Social Media Ban | Last December, Australia banned social media for anyone under 16. Four months later, only one in four 14- and 15-year-olds were complying, a share that has since fallen further. In this episode of The Pie, Leonardo Bursztyn, the Saieh Family Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago and co-director of BFI's Political Economics Initiative, discusses why the ban hasn't worked, and what a successful one might entail. | 43m 13s | ||||||
| 9/1/26 | US sanctionsglobal payment system+3 | Brent Neiman | yuandollar+2 | USRussia+1 | sanctionsglobal payments+6 | — | 49m 08s | ||
| 8/18/26 | gunshot victimshospital transport+3 | Prachi Sanghavi | Department of Public Health SciencesUniversity of Chicago | U.S. | gunshotambulance+5 | — | 30m 41s | ||
| 8/4/26 | social connectionbehavioral science+3 | Nick Epley | University of ChicagoBooth School of Business+1 | — | social connectionbehavioral science+3 | — | 52m 50s | ||
| 7/21/26 | nursing homesinspections+3 | Maggie Shi | University of ChicagoHarris School of Public Policy | United States | nursing homesinspections+3 | — | 27m 32s | ||
| 7/7/26 | AIearly childhood development+3 | Dana Suskind | TMW Center for Early Learning and Public HealthHuman Raised | — | AI toyschatbots+4 | — | 42m 23s | ||
| 6/23/26 | politicseconomics+3 | Konstantin Sonin | University of Chicago Harris School of Public PolicyBFI | — | voterseconomy+3 | — | 29m 38s | ||
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| 6/9/26 | educationparenting+3 | Ariel Kalil | UChicago Harris School of Public PolicyBecker Friedman Institute | — | gradestest scores+3 | — | 47m 27s | ||
| 5/26/26 | immigrationlabor economics+4 | Matt Notowidigdo | Chicago BoothBecker Friedman Institute | Canada | immigrant workersjob-switching rates+4 | — | 25m 16s | ||
| 5/5/26 | field experimentshuman behavior+4 | John List | Becker Friedman InstituteLyft+3 | WisconsinWhite House | field experimentsJohn List+5 | — | 58m 53s | ||
| 4/28/26 | Federal Reservemarket trust+4 | Randall Kroszner | Federal ReserveChicago Booth+3 | — | Federal Reservemarket stability+5 | — | 1h 17m 22s | ||
| 4/21/26 | corporate governancepolitical economy+4 | Raghuram Rajan | Chicago BoothBecker Friedman Institute | — | CEO lettersshareholder value+5 | — | 58m 33s | ||
| 4/14/26 | school choiceeducation equity+3 | Chris Campos | Chicago BoothBecker Friedman Institute | Chicago | school choicemagnet schools+3 | — | 24m 25s | ||
| 3/31/26 | Iran conflictenergy markets+3 | Ryan KelloggPaul Poast+1 | Becker Friedman Institute | IranUS+2 | IranUS+6 | — | 43m 06s | ||
| 3/17/26 | human capitaleconomic development+3 | Esteban Rossi-Hansberg | University of Chicago | NetherlandsCentral African Republic | human capitaleconomic development+3 | — | 49m 00s | ||
| 3/12/26 | financeindex funds+3 | Eugene Fama | Becker Friedman InstituteEfficient Market Hypothesis | — | Eugene Famafinance research+3 | — | 48m 00s | ||
| 3/3/26 | capitalismeconomic history+3 | Yueran Ma | Chicago BoothThe Wealth of Nations | — | capitalismAdam Smith+5 | — | 47m 10s | ||
| 2/17/26 | Chinese governancepolicy experiments+3 | Shaoda Wang | Harris Public Policy | China | Chinagovernance+5 | — | 21m 14s | ||
| 2/3/26 | tariffseconomics+4 | Brent Neiman | UChicago | — | tariffsBrent Neiman+6 | — | 29m 30s | ||
| 1/20/26 |  Venezuela After Maduro: What Comes Next? | Days after the Trump administration's surprise military operation captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, a panel of UChicago scholars gathered to make sense of what it means for Venezuela, the United States, and the region. Professor Christopher Blattman, Deputy Dean Ryan Kellogg, and Associate Professor Paul Poast join moderator Rebecca Wolfe to discuss Venezuela's decline from one of the hemisphere's wealthiest nations, the regional migration crisis that followed, and the uncertain road ahead. | 44m 18s | ||||||
| 1/13/26 |  Why Banks Exist and Why They Fail: Douglas Diamond on Runs, Regulation, and the Risks of Short-Term Debt | Financial crises are "everywhere and always" a problem of short-term debt. In this Extra Slice of The Pie, Nobel laureate Douglas Diamond explains his groundbreaking research on why banks exist in the first place, and why they're vulnerable to runs. Diamond discusses his role advising policymakers during the 2008 crisis, reflects on predicting the savings and loan disaster as a graduate student in the 1970s, and explains why the 30-year mortgage is like Michael Corleone: something good that went bad when it hung around with the wrong crowd. | 1h 06m 27s | ||||||
| 1/6/26 |  At What Age Does Family Income Most Shape Your Future? Timing and Intergenerational Mobility | Standard measures of intergenerational mobility treat parental income as a single average across childhood. In this episode, Steven Durlauf, Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy and Director of the Stone Center for Research on Wealth Inequality and Mobility, describes how parental income during the tween and adolescent years (ages 12-18) is far more predictive of adult outcomes than parental income during early childhood. | 44m 57s | ||||||
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Chart history for The Pie: An Economics Podcast
Peaked at #9 in PE, top 10 in 2 of 48 tracked markets, currently #9 in PE.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE | — | #9 | #9 | — |
| GR | — | #10 | #10 | — |
| SG | — | #11 | #11 | — |
| South Africa | — | #12 | #12 | — |
| ID | — | #22 | #22 | — |
| Denmark | — | #26 | #26 | — |
| TH | — | #26 | #26 | — |
| HK | — | #30 | #30 | — |
| Sweden | — | #34 | #34 | — |
| United States | — | #35 | #35 | — |
| Spain | — | #37 | #37 | — |
| Finland | — | #39 | #39 | — |
| Mexico | — | #40 | #40 | — |
| KE | — | #41 | #41 | — |
| PT | — | #46 | #46 | — |
| VN | — | #47 | #47 | — |
| IL | — | #50 | #50 | — |
| Italy | — | #52 | #52 | — |
| South Korea | — | #57 | #57 | — |
| RO | — | #59 | #59 | — |
Chart Positions
48 placements across 42 markets.
Chart Positions
48 placements across 42 markets.