Canice Prendergast's guest appearances

Canice Prendergast

EconTalk

EconTalk at the Hoover Institution

Alain De Botton

Reid Hoffman

Jordan Peterson

Yuval Harari

Benedict Evans

Tyler Cowen

Patrick Collison

Marc Andreessen

David Zetland

Chuck Klosterman

Alison Wolf

Erica Sandberg

Yuval Levin

David Epstein

Jason Zweig

OwlTail

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 for the national food bank Feeding America so that local food banks could bid on the types of food that were the most valuable to them. Prendergast explains the results of the new system and the cultural and practical challenges of bringing prices, even artificial ones, to a world accustomed to giving things away.

<p>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 for the national food bank Feeding America so that local food banks could bid on the types of food that were the most valuable to them. Prendergast explains the results of the new system and the cultural and practical challenges of bringing prices, even artificial ones, to a world accustomed to giving things away.</p>

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