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Episodes (356)
Piles of cash and a town of solutions in Kenya, Nigeria (Summer School)
Jul 24, 2026
Big Lettuce meets Small Intestine
Jul 22, 2026
New NPR Series: "We Keep Us Safe" from the Embedded podcast
Jul 21, 2026
Can World Cup mania grow MLS in the U.S.?
Jul 17, 2026
Building things and breaking things in China (Summer School World Tour)
Jul 15, 2026
Seven allegedly fake Chanel bags vs The RealReal
Jul 10, 2026
Our mission: Find the world’s best economic ideas (Summer School World Tour)
Jul 8, 2026
How to win a penalty shootout (with game theory)
Jul 3, 2026
Can the Trump administration make college cheaper?
Jul 1, 2026
We almost had a smartphone in the 90s. Why did it fail?
Jun 26, 2026
Before Kalshi and Polymarket there was the Iowa Electronic Markets
Jun 24, 2026
The real horror of ‘Alien’ and how it explains why we’re not paid enough
Jun 19, 2026
Can computer hackers get inside your mind?
Jun 17, 2026
It’s my tree. Why can’t I cut it down?
Jun 12, 2026
Two indicators for lowering the rent
Jun 10, 2026
Why is there a supplement craze if they don’t even work?
Jun 5, 2026
There's no business like dough business
Jun 3, 2026
The sneaky way companies get new chemicals into our food
May 29, 2026
The leaked tapes that show how the rich avoid taxes
May 27, 2026
The giant factory town that might be a giant mistake
May 22, 2026
Vacation and why Americans take so little
May 20, 2026
Jerome Powell and the Future of Fed Independence
May 15, 2026
The secret meeting that launched OPEC
May 13, 2026
Diary of a WNBA negotiator
May 9, 2026
How we got free agents in baseball
May 6, 2026
How to make a BOOK into a bestseller
May 2, 2026
Spirit Airlines and the future of cheap flights
Apr 29, 2026
Battlefield rare earths: How the U.S. lost to China
Apr 24, 2026
Live: Anthropic co-founder on AI and jobs
Apr 22, 2026
Do prediction market bettors make anything better?
Apr 18, 2026
How to get through the Strait of Hormuz
Apr 14, 2026
BOOKstore Economics
Apr 10, 2026
A pro-worker experiment in private equity
Apr 8, 2026
Reese’s heir vs. chocolate skimpflation
Apr 4, 2026
Dark times for Cuba’s economic experiment
Apr 2, 2026
The skyscrapers that NIMBYs and zoning couldn't stop
Mar 28, 2026
Our BOOK vs. the global supply chain
Mar 26, 2026
Inside a BOOK auction
Mar 21, 2026
The little pet fish that saved a town in the Amazon
Mar 18, 2026
Chef vs. Robot
Mar 13, 2026
The laws of the office revisited
Mar 11, 2026
Planet Money vs. the NBA’s tanking problem
Mar 6, 2026
The Business of Heated Rivalry
Mar 4, 2026
Don't hate the replicator, hate the game
Feb 27, 2026
The ICE hiring boom
Feb 25, 2026
The Supreme Court struck down a bunch of Trump's tariffs. Now what?
Feb 21, 2026
How to get what Greenland has, with permission
Feb 18, 2026
Betty Boop, Excel Olympics, Penny-isms: Our 2026 Valentines
Feb 13, 2026
The Invention Invention
Feb 11, 2026
Iran, protests, and sanctions
Feb 7, 2026