Some explanations for England’s World Cup disappointments.
Sanjoy Mahajan answers readers’ questions.
Economic prognostication.
Google’s Easter Eggs.
Trade, specialization and innovation.
Dubner visits England for a promo tour – and gives lots of speeches.
Solving the vuvuzela problem.
Straight down the center.
Goals per game: only 1.67 so far.
What to do when the preferred printer is farther away?
Steve Levitt talks about why the center cannot hold in penalty kicks, why a running track hurts home-field advantage, and why the World Cup is an economist’s dream.
It does for one reader.
It can be a useful tool…for the thieves!
Science writer Matt Ridley will respond to reader questions.
Does auto-correct know the difference between excitement and excrement?
Akerlof and Kranton respond to readers’ questions.
It’s breathtaking.
A Freakonomics reader experiments.
Climate-change capitalists.
The advice that’s haunted Dubner all his life.
George Akerlof and Rachel Kranton will respond to readers’ questions.
In this episode of Freakonomics Radio, we explore a way to make 1.1 million schoolkids feel like they have 1.1 million teachers.
Sulfur at the Athabasca oil sands mining facility.
A bitten 10-year-old understands it was “a freak thing.”
Identify this picture for some Freakonomics schwag.
Dubner plans a trip to Madrid.
Do high prices discourage unnecessary hoarding?
The economics of oxytocin.
Is it the end for offshore drilling?
Readers’ sports questions answered.
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