Sanjoy Mahajan answers your questions.
The role of behavioral economics in policy.
Will the estate tax return next year?
Dealing with the media, by the IPCC.
Intrade’s new app.
Gary Becker’s take on the financial-reform bill.
Dubner’s World Cup memories.
The appearance of height seems to matter.
The three major dietary sources of sodium are grains; meat, poultry, fish, mixtures; and vegetables. Surprised? So was Dubner. The explanation lies in the daily sodium density metric.
A drunk-walking warning in rural South Africa.
Does missing your flight now and then make sense?
A piracy gathering and world record attempt.
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.
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