Get Started With Freakonomics Radio: Our Most Downloaded Episodes
…you enjoy. Happy listening! Most Popular Episodes “Air Travel Is a Miracle. Why Do We Hate It?” (Ep. 534): It’s an unnatural activity that has become normal. You’re stuck in…
Trump says it would destroy us. Biden needs the voters who support it (especially the Bernie voters). The majority of millennials would like it to replace capitalism. But what is…
Trump says it would destroy us. Sanders says it will save us. The majority of millennials would like it to replace capitalism. But what is “it”? We bring in the…
…you enjoy. Happy listening! Most Popular Episodes “Air Travel Is a Miracle. Why Do We Hate It?” (Ep. 534): It’s an unnatural activity that has become normal. You’re stuck in…
Also: how can we stop confusing correlation with causation?
They can’t vote or hire lobbyists. The policies we create to help them aren’t always so helpful. Consider the car seat: parents hate it, the safety data are unconvincing, and…
…a tight earnings window, a high injury rate, little choice in where they work — and a very early forced retirement. (Ep. 6 of “The Hidden Side of Sports” series.)…
…San Francisco, and a smattering of municipal and state positions across the country. In many of these races, incumbents are fighting to keep their seats. In our latest Freakonomics Radio…
[omny:https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/aaea4e69-af51-495e-afc9-a9760146922b/14a43378-edb2-49be-8511-ab0d000a7030/b9b380d4-dcb1-4d37-b3d3-ab0d001c5e24/audio.mp3] Photo: Martin Pettitt In our latest Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace podcast, we’re talking turkey, literally. (Download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen via the media player above, or…
[omny:https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/aaea4e69-af51-495e-afc9-a9760146922b/14a43378-edb2-49be-8511-ab0d000a7030/e00d399b-cbd4-45f8-aeab-ab0d0019cf4d/audio.mp3] (Photo: Isabell Schulz) Our latest Freakonomics Radio podcast on Marketplace podcast is called “Why Family and Business Don’t Mix.” (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen…
…myopia exploded, even among premier athletes? We talk to Susan Vitale, a research epidemiologist with the NIH’s National Eye Institute, who worked on a large study on myopia in the…
…start before they’re adults and that it’s incredibly hard to quit once you’ve started.” Emanuel also appeared in an earlier Freakonomics Radio podcast, “Is the Obesity Epidemic for Real?” In…
…least keep the environment as safe as you can. That was always my goal — to try and make the environment safe.” Luck has since consulted with other schools looking…
[omny:https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/aaea4e69-af51-495e-afc9-a9760146922b/14a43378-edb2-49be-8511-ab0d000a7030/3321f252-bc4f-4fc8-8b7e-ab0d001a60e9/audio.mp3] Do you remember this skeet-shooting outing with Stephen Dubner, Kai Ryssdal, Barack Obama, and John Boehner? Our latest Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace podcast is called “Sure, I Remember That.”…
[omny:https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/aaea4e69-af51-495e-afc9-a9760146922b/14a43378-edb2-49be-8511-ab0d000a7030/a2aa80c9-b5c1-443d-a32a-ab0d001a5646/audio.mp3] (Photo: Joel) Our latest Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace podcast is called “The Downside of More Miles Per Gallon.” (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen via…
[omny:https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/aaea4e69-af51-495e-afc9-a9760146922b/14a43378-edb2-49be-8511-ab0d000a7030/33b86a34-957a-4047-8c78-ab0d001c4cc2/audio.mp3] (Hemera) In our latest Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace podcast, we look at the economics of charity — specifically, what works (and what doesn’t) when trying to incentivize people to…
[omny:https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/aaea4e69-af51-495e-afc9-a9760146922b/14a43378-edb2-49be-8511-ab0d000a7030/4dfda635-0118-4ff8-bf67-ab0d001a9282/audio.mp3] (Photo: Ben Dalton, Creative Commons ) Our latest Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace podcast is called “How Much Does a Good Boss Really Matter?” (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get…
[omny:https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/aaea4e69-af51-495e-afc9-a9760146922b/14a43378-edb2-49be-8511-ab0d000a7030/a4709bd0-2130-4205-8eaa-ab0d001a83c1/audio.mp3] (Photo: Ethan Prater) Our latest Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace podcast is called “How to Live Longer.” (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen via the media…
[omny:https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/aaea4e69-af51-495e-afc9-a9760146922b/14a43378-edb2-49be-8511-ab0d000a7030/1e7bf4da-4a5e-48bf-9b95-ab0d001c099a/audio.mp3] (Photo: Ingo Bernhardt) We seem to be in the midst of a national obsession with obesity. Our latest Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace podcast is about some of the surprising…
[omny:https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/aaea4e69-af51-495e-afc9-a9760146922b/14a43378-edb2-49be-8511-ab0d000a7030/17ef3558-3a0e-4f60-bda1-ab0d001a9fcf/audio.mp3] (Photo: ahenobarbus) Our latest Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace podcast is called “Have a Very Homo Economicus Christmas.” (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen via the…
…the economists. In this episode, you’ll hear from John List, the University of Chicago economist who has been featured here many times (and in SuperFreakonomics), often for his excellent research…
…negative feedback,’ ‘Maybe I can just say positive things!’ ‘If I just keep saying positive things, then somehow this person will work to their fullest potential and everything will turn…
…pleasures of operating this blog is having a channel by which to turn readers into radio guests — thanks!) We then hear from Zeynep Ton, who teaches management at MIT’s…
…a step back and ask the basic questions like: How much does company morale matter to a company’s bottom line? What’s the best way to measure morale? And, in the…
…bit. In this episode, former White House economist Austan Goolsbee tells us why the government doesn’t try too hard to collect tax on all the cash that sloshes around the…
…the transcript here.) The episode was inspired by a recent poll I saw on Yahoo! Finance: Does anyone believe for a minute that this many people would actually leave the…
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…Julie Gilchrist, a medical epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which catalogs drowning deaths and the many other ways in which Americans die; Mike Baron of the…
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