Our minivan is ten years old, so we went out to buy a new one this weekend. In Freakonomics and SuperFreakonomics, we write a lot about how the Internet has changed markets in which there are information asymmetries. Buying a new car gave me the chance to see first-hand these forces at work in the new car market.
Peter Leeson’s new research.
Regulating soccer and financial markets.
The contest winner.
Patients die.
Advertisements from days gone by.
What would you say if you met a celebrity?
A humorous paper by Avinash Dixit.
Timothy Knowles calls for an end to tenure in primary and secondary schools.
Why does Levitt find Landis’s allegations so compelling? He describes in great specificity and detail scenarios involving refrigerators hidden in closets, and the precise temperature at which the blood stored in those refrigerators had to be kept; and faked bus breakdowns during which Lance received blood transfusions while lying on the floor of the bus, etc. To make up stories of this kind, with that sort of detail, strikes Levitt as a difficult task.
A European bias in team rankings?
Levitt’s Q&A in Money Magazine.
Jimmy Golen weighs in.
A Freakonomics contest winner.
Where Levitt read a 30-year-old printing of this absurd word?
An interesting politician in Colombia.
Who would you rather buy from on Craigslist?
A guest post from Price Fishback.
Why do people get tattoos?
Freakonomics has a new No. 1 fan.
A copycat logo.
Levitt’s a fan of the documentary.
The award is given to the most influential economist in America under age 40.
Does it work?
The Onion makes fun of Freakonomics.
Levitt weighs in on health care.
This fall, Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov made a bold declaration. With the help of the Russian Air Force, he was going to use cloud seeding techniques to keep it from snowing in Moscow this winter. Did Luzhkov vanquish Mother Nature as he predicted he would?
What can a person do to set off alarm bells at work?
When I tell people about my parents, they never believe me. But the truth is, my father really is the world’s foremost medical expert on intestinal gas, and my mom really is a psychic.
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