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In their books Freakonomics and SuperFreakonomics, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner use the tools of economics to explore real-world behavior. As boring as that may sound, what they really do is tell stories — about cheating schoolteachers, self-dealing real-estate agents, and crack-selling mama’s boys. American Public Media’s Marketplace and public-radio station WNYC are now bringing ...read more

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Nate Silver Says: “Everyone Is Kind of Weird”
Could the Next Brooklyn Be ... Las Vegas?!
This Idea Must Die
The Economics of Sleep, Part 1
When Willpower Isn’t Enough
Diamonds Are a Marriage Counselor’s Best Friend
Should We Really Behave Like Economists Say We Do?
How to Create Suspense
Someone Else’s Acid Trip
The Maddest Men of All
How Do We Know What Really Works in Healthcare?
What You Don’t Know About Online Dating
How Efficient Is Energy Efficiency?
Is It Okay for Restaurants to Racially Profile Their Employees?
Hacking the World Bank
Is There a Better Way to Fight Terrorism?
How Many Doctors Does It Take to Start a Healthcare Revolution?
Why Doesn’t Everyone Get the Flu Vaccine?
That’s a Great Question!
How Safe Is Your Job?
Making Sex Offenders Pay -- and Pay and Pay and Pay
Time to Take Back the Toilet
The Economics of Sleep, Part 2
Make Me a Match
Is America’s Education Problem Really Just a Teacher Problem?
Ten Years of Freakonomics
Aziz Ansari Needs Another Toothbrush
Yes, the American Economy Is in a Funk -- But Not for the Reasons You Think
How Did the Belt Win?
The Suicide Paradox (Rebroadcast)
How Can This Possibly Be True?
Are You Ready for a Glorious Sunset?
How to Fix a Broken High Schooler, in Four Easy Steps
Why Do We Really Follow the News?
Am I Boring You?
“I Don't Know What You've Done With My Husband, But He's a Changed Man.”
Preventing Crime for Pennies on the Dollar
How to Make a Smart TV Ad
The Cheeseburger Diet
Who Needs Handwriting?
The True Story of the Gender Pay Gap
Failure Is Your Friend (Rebroadcast)
People Aren’t Dumb. The World Is Hard.
How to Be Less Terrible at Predicting the Future
Food + Science = Victory!
How to Be Happy (Ep. 345)
Are Payday Loans Really as Evil as People Say?
Why We Choke Under Pressure (and How Not To)
Meet the Woman Who Said Women Can’t Have It All
The No-Tipping Point
The Harvard President Will See You Now
Is the World Ready for a Guaranteed Basic Income?
Should Kids Pay Back Their Parents for Raising Them?
Do Boycotts Work?
What’s More Dangerous: Marijuana or Alcohol? (Rebroadcast)
The Perfect Crime (Rebroadcast)
Should Everyone Be in a Rock Band?
Is Migration a Basic Human Right?
Why You Shouldn’t Open a Restaurant (Ep. 347)
Why Do People Keep Having Children?
Think Like a Child (Rebroadcast)
What’s the “Best” Exercise? (Rebroadcast)
Does “Early Education” Come Way Too Late?
Whatever Happened to the Carpal Tunnel Epidemic?
A Better Way to Eat (Rebroadcast)
Two (Totally Opposite) Ways to Save the Planet (Ep. 346)
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Money (But Were Afraid to Ask)
How To Win A Nobel Prize
How to Save $1 Billion Without Even Trying (Rebroadcast)
The Future of Freakonomics Radio
Who Are the Most Successful Immigrants in the World?
How to Stop Being a Loser (Ep. 350)
The Man Who Would Be Everything
5 Psychology Terms You’re Probably Misusing
Tell Me Something I Don’t Know (Rebroadcast)
How to Be More Productive
Should the U.S. Merge With Mexico?
The Demonization of Gluten
359. Should America Be Run by … Trader Joe’s?
Which Came First, the Chicken or the Avocado?
Has Lance Armstrong Finally Come Clean?
Do Baby Girls Cause Divorce?
Are We Running Out of Ideas?
Would a Big Bucket of Cash Really Change Your Life?
Ben Bernanke Gives Himself a Grade
Is America’s Education Problem Really Just a Teacher Problem? (Rebroadcast)
The Three Hardest Words in the English Language
The Troubled Cremation of Stevie the Cat (Rebroadcast)
The United States of Cory Booker
358. Yes, the Open Office Is Terrible — But It Doesn’t Have to Be
Why Do People Keep Having Children? (Rebroadcast)
522. Is Google Getting Worse?
There’s a War on Sugar. Is It Justified? (Ep. 285 Rebroadcast)
Why the Trump Tax Cuts are Awesome/Terrible (Part 1)
Here’s Why You’re Not an Elite Athlete (Ep. 351)
How to Think About Money, Choose Your Hometown, and Buy an Electric Toothbrush
The Stupidest Thing You Can Do With Your Money
How to Save $1 Billion Without Even Trying
What’s More Dangerous: Marijuana or Alcohol?
Why Don’t We All Speak the Same Language? (Earth 2.0 Series)
Ask Not What Your Podcast Can Do for You
How to Make People Quit Smoking
Does Religion Make You Happy?
Why Marry? (Part 1)
The Economics of Sleep, Part 1 (Rebroadcast)
How to Win Games and Beat People
419. 68 Ways to Be Better at Life
The Middle of Everywhere
How Can Tiny Norway Afford to Buy So Many Teslas?
How to Launch a Behavior-Change Revolution
Reasons to Not Be Ugly
Why Everybody Who Doesn’t Hate Bitcoin Loves It
516. Nuclear Power Isn’t Perfect. Is It Good Enough?
Fighting Poverty With Actual Evidence
356. America’s Hidden Duopoly
What Does a C.E.O. Actually Do?
Thinking Is Expensive. Who’s Supposed to Pay for It?
The Perfect Crime
Why Is the Live-Event Ticket Market So Screwed Up?
“Tell Me Something I Don’t Know”
Is the Internet Being Ruined?
Why Is My Life So Hard?
Is Learning a Foreign Language Really Worth It?
An Astronaut, a Catalan, and Two Linguists Walk Into a Bar…
Is America Ready for a “No-Lose Lottery”? (Update)
“It’s Fun to Smoke Marijuana”
A Better Way to Eat
Regulate This!
507. 103 Pieces of Advice That May or May Not Work
How Big is My Penis? (And Other Things We Ask Google)
Fixing the World, Bang-for-the-Buck Edition
Can This Man Stop a Trade War? (Ep. 352)
What Can Vampires Teach Us About Economics?
Why Are Japanese Homes Disposable?
501. The University of Impossible-to-Get-Into
What Do Skating Rinks, Ultimate Frisbee, and the World Have in Common?
354. How to Be Creative
These Shoes Are Killing Me!
What Would Be the Best Universal Language? (Earth 2.0 Series)
Think Like a Child
Why Marry? (Part 2)
Government Employees Gone Wild
What Are the Secrets of the German Economy — and Should We Steal Them?
Hacking the World Bank (Ep. 197 Update)
Should Tipping be Banned?
367. The Future of Meat
Fixing the World, Bang-for-the-Buck Edition (Rebroadcast)
A Burger a Day
366. This Economist Predicted the Last Crisis. What’s the Next One?
509. Are N.F.T.s All Scams?
Is the U.S. Really Less Corrupt Than China — and How About Russia? (Ep. 481 Update)
500. What Exactly Is College For?
510. What Problems Does Crypto Solve, Anyway?
Is the Government More Entrepreneurial Than You Think? (Ep. 348)
Why Hate the Koch Brothers? (Part 1)
Why Bad Environmentalism Is Such an Easy Sell
Why Are We Still Using Cash?
How to Think Like a Freak -- and Other FREAK-quently Asked Questions
How Much Does the President of the U.S. Really Matter?
Jane Austen, Game Theorist
Outsiders by Design
The Troubled Cremation of Stevie the Cat
“If Mayors Ruled the World”
Can You Be Too Smart for Your Own Good? And Other FREAK-quently Asked Questions
Are We in a Mattress-Store Bubble?
Fitness Apartheid
The Economist’s Guide to Parenting (Rebroadcast)
Does Anyone Really Know What Socialism Is? (Ep. 408 Rebroadcast)
The Opioid Tragedy, Part 1: “We’ve Addicted an Entire Generation”
355. Where Does Creativity Come From (and Why Do Schools Kill It Off)?
How Sports Became Us (Ep. 349)
Chuck E. Cheese’s: Where a Kid Can Learn Price Theory
How Can I Do the Most Social Good With $100? And Other FREAK-quently Asked Questions
How to Fix a Broken High Schooler, in Four Easy Steps (Rebroadcast)
The Dangers of Safety (Rebroadcast)
How to Get More Grit in Your Life
513. Should Public Transit Be Free?
The Folly of Prediction (Rebroadcast)
Everybody Gossips (and That’s a Good Thing)
363. Think Like a Winner
374. How Spotify Saved the Music Industry (But Not Necessarily Musicians)
People Aren’t Dumb. The World Is Hard. (Ep. 340 Rebroadcast)
How to Become Great at Just About Anything
How to Be a Modern Democrat — and Win
424. How to Make Your Own Luck
519. Has Globalization Failed?
"How Much Brain Damage Do I Have?"
429. Is Economic Growth the Wrong Goal?
The Most Vilified Industry in America Is Also the Most Charitable
The Most Ambitious Thing Humans Have Ever Attempted
Why You Should Bribe Your Kids
Are the Rich Really Less Generous Than the Poor?
373. Why Rent Control Doesn’t Work
Who Runs the Internet?
​Letting Go
How to Become a C.E.O.
Failure Is Your Friend
When Willpower Isn’t Enough (Rebroadcast)
There’s No Such Thing as a Free Appetizer
How to Screen Job Applicants, Act Your Age, and Get Your Brain Off Autopilot
508. Does the Crypto Crash Mean the Blockchain Is Over?
The Church of "Scionology" (Rebroadcast)
When Helping Hurts
520. The Unintended Consequences of Working from Home
Policymaking Is Not a Science (Yet)
How to Raise Money Without Killing a Kitten
Evolution, Accelerated
How to Build a Smart City
Nurses to the Rescue!
375. The Most Interesting Fruit in the World
Why Uber Is an Economist’s Dream
Why Does Everyone Hate Flying? And Other Questions Only a Pilot Can Answer
Women Are Not Men (Rebroadcast)
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Money (But Were Afraid to Ask) (Rebroadcast)
Baby, You Can Program My Car
511. Why Did You Marry That Person?
How Does New York City Keep Reinventing Itself? (Bonus)
369. A Good Idea Is Not Good Enough
420. Which Jobs Will Come Back, and When?
494. Why Do Most Ideas Fail to Scale?
There’s a War on Sugar. Is It Justified?
Could Solving This One Problem Solve All the Others?
499. Don't Worry, Be Tacky
512. Does Philosophy Still Matter?
360. Is the Protestant Work Ethic Real?
Is the American Dream Really Dead?
357. Can an Industrial Giant Become a Tech Darling?
Why America Doesn’t Love Soccer (Yet)
The Taboo Trifecta
Not Your Grandmother’s I.M.F.
The Patent Gap
503. What Is the Future of College — and Does It Have Room for Men?
Is Twitter a Two-Way Street?
362. Why Is This Man Running for President?
368. Where Do Good Ideas Come From?
The Invisible Paw
How Stupid Is Our Obsession With Lawns?
Ten Ideas to Make Politics Less Rotten
The Stupidest Thing You Can Do With Your Money (Rebroadcast)
What Do King Solomon and David Lee Roth Have in Common?
Bad Medicine, Part 1: The Story of 98.6
Trust Me
496. Do Unions Still Work?
463. How to Get Anyone to Do Anything
427. The Pros and Cons of Reparations
The Fracking Boom, a Baby Boom, and the Retreat From Marriage
495. Why Are There So Many Bad Bosses?
Is There Really a “Loneliness Epidemic”?
After the Glass Ceiling, a Glass Cliff
The Suicide Paradox
What Are Gender Barriers Made Of?
Does Doing Good Give You License to Be Bad?
Reading, Rockets, and 'Rithmetic
425. Remembrance of Economic Crises Past
The Men Who Started a Thinking Revolution
How Stupid Is Our Obsession With Lawns? (Ep. 289 Rebroadcast)
Big Returns from Thinking Small
How to Catch World Cup Fever
Trevor Noah Has a Lot to Say
Things Our Fathers Gave Us
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