Or are there broader forces at work?
Is the Journal’s new Greater New York section a direct assault on the Times’s metro section?
Bad songs will be featured on our next podcast.
A new position for relief pitchers.
Will anyone benefit from a salt ban?
Very, but the obstacles are significant.
Dubner acts as a signing witness for a new organ donor.
Researchers may be able to identify individual bacteria sources.
Probably not – it’s just not that big of an eruption.
A scholar finds no evidence of cannibalism among Donner Party members.
Will faking it make a cilantro-lover out of you?
Maternal health advocates.
Do you “fake it?” If so, you’re hardly alone. In this episode, you’ll hear how everyone from the President of the United States to a kosher-keeping bacon-lover lives in a state of fallen grace. All the time. And gets by.
A walk though the many angles at play.
The Freakonomics documentary gets a distributor.
Political science, climate science, and geoengineering.
A new program giving Federal workers an incentive to improve efficiency pays dividends.
Alright, I’ll admit it: when I first sat down with Steve Levitt in the econ department at the University of Chicago back in 2003, and asked him to explain how economists use regression analyses to measure the impact of individual variables within a complex scenario, I was thinking, “Man, this is the kind of material that would really light up the silver screen.”
During the 2008 presidential election, a lot of people — myself included — wondered if some sort of October Surprise might be launched. None were. In the U.K., however, Conservative leader David Cameron — the likely winner, per the prediction markets, in the yet-to-be called election — has just unleashed a doozy: his wife Samantha is expecting the couple’s fourth child.
We’ve blogged a few times about the effect of calorie-count postings in restaurants in New York City – the extra information is valuable, but its efficacy in changing eating habits may be minimal among the people most likely to need a change. That said, the New York movement is now going national as part of the new healthcare law, which requires restaurant chains with 20 or more outlets to post calorie information at all their restaurants.
In this episode, we speculate what would happen if economists got to run the world. Hear from a high-end call girl; an Estonian who ran his country according to the gospel of Milton Friedman; and a guy who wants to start building new nations in the middle of the ocean.
One point of our upcoming podcast is that economists — academic economists in particular — are generally free from the political and moral boundaries that restrict most people, and are therefore able to offer analysis or recommendations that politicians, e.g., wouldn’t go near with a ten-foot pole.
I have a brief visit to Hong Kong soon (my first!) and would like to bring back some material for our Freakonomics Radio podcast. Suggestions?
The inspiration for a recent Obama speech.
The origins of a classic phrase.
Unintended consequences of aid in Haiti.
Americans keep putting on pounds. So is it time for a cheeseburger tax? Or would a chill pill be the best medicine? In this episode, we explore the underbelly of fat through the eyes of a 280-pound woman, a top White House doctor, and a couple of overweight academics.
A preview of the second episode of Freakonomics radio.
A Freakonomics reader in Texas fakes her religion for the sake of her kids.
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