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Stephen J. Dubner

6/14/10

This Is What Keeps Dilbert in Business

What to do when the preferred printer is farther away?

6/11/10

Why the World Cup Is an Economist’s Dream

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.

6/10/10
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6/10/10

What Car Thieves Think of the Club

It can be a useful tool…for the thieves!

6/8/10

Bring Your Questions for Rational Optimist Matt Ridley

Science writer Matt Ridley will respond to reader questions.

6/4/10

When Your iPad Says Something You Didn't

Does auto-correct know the difference between excitement and excrement?

5/28/10

The "Identity Economists" Answer Your Questions

Akerlof and Kranton respond to readers’ questions.

5/27/10
5/27/10
5/26/10

A Different Angle on Climate-Change Economics

Climate-change capitalists.

5/24/10

What's the Best Advice You Ever Got?

The advice that’s haunted Dubner all his life.

5/14/10

Bring Your Questions for the "Identity Economists"

George Akerlof and Rachel Kranton will respond to readers’ questions.

5/13/10

How Is a Bad Radio Station Like the Public School System?

In this episode of Freakonomics Radio, we explore a way to make 1.1 million schoolkids feel like they have 1.1 million teachers.

5/12/10
28:33

Contest Answer: What Was That Yellow Object?

Sulfur at the Athabasca oil sands mining facility.

5/10/10

A Rational Shark-Bite Victim — and She's Only 10

A bitten 10-year-old understands it was “a freak thing.”

5/6/10

A Freakonomics Contest: What Are You Looking At?

Identify this picture for some Freakonomics schwag.

5/6/10

Our Daily Bleg: What to Do in Madrid?

Dubner plans a trip to Madrid.

5/4/10

In Favor of Price Gouging?

Do high prices discourage unnecessary hoarding?

5/4/10
5/3/10
5/3/10

The Sports Economists Answer Your Questions

Readers’ sports questions answered.

4/30/10

Preferences, Revealed

Revealed preferences in airplane dining.

4/29/10

Did the Flag-Burning Law Really Stop Flag Burning?

Or are there broader forces at work?

4/28/10

Is This What a Newspaper War Looks Like?

Is the Journal’s new Greater New York section a direct assault on the Times’s metro section?

4/27/10

Our Daily Bleg: Tell Us the Songs You Hate the Most

Bad songs will be featured on our next podcast.

4/26/10

A New Kind of Starting Pitcher?

A new position for relief pitchers.

4/23/10

Who Profits From Less Salt?

Will anyone benefit from a salt ban?

4/22/10

How Badly Does Europe Want to Convert to Wind Power?

Very, but the obstacles are significant.

4/22/10

One More Organ Donor

Dubner acts as a signing witness for a new organ donor.

4/21/10

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