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Canice Prendergast on How Prices Can Improve a Food Fight (and Help the Poor) - Econlib

Canice Prendergast on How Prices Can Improve a Food Fight (and Help the Poor) - Econlib

Update: 2025-09-18
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If you have 250 million pounds of food to give away every year to local food banks how should you do it? Canice Prendergast of the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about how he and a team of economists created an artificial currency and a daily auction […]

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Canice Prendergast on How Prices Can Improve a Food Fight (and Help the Poor) - Econlib

Canice Prendergast on How Prices Can Improve a Food Fight (and Help the Poor) - Econlib