A Baltimore condominium considers a sampling program.
Should spas charge by the day or the hour?
Panera tries a new nonprofit model.
A criminal’s name.
Photographs of Canada’s oil sands.
Australian teachers cheat too.
Is an extra runway good or bad for the environment?
The strengths and limitations of data.
Hay and the cleanup effort.
A profile of Tyler Cowen.
Buyers can also direct some or all of their payment to charity.
Fabrice Tourre read Freakonomics.
A promising method emerges.
People are living longer, but getting cancer.
Drunk walkers are a big problem in Australia.
Students today spend less time studying.
The Fed releases its 2004 transcripts.
A new software generates news stories from data.
Roundup-resistant weeds and drought-resistant seeds.
The link between height and crime in early America.
We’ve got new schwag.
Illegal downloading doesn’t just hurt the music industry.
Now taking suggestions for new holidays.
A restaurant explores a new pricing model.
Is it a cost-benefit decision? Or a simple fairness preference?
Asian-Americans in New Jersey are America’s happiest people.
Hosting sporting events improves national wellbeing.
The documentary based on Freakonomics is in theaters this fall. Variety calls it “a revelatory trip.”
Russ Roberts tells a different story.
The Freakonomics documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival.
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