…interesting working paper by Sherry Glied and Matthew Neidell called “The Economic Value of Teeth” (abstract here or download here). The paper asks whether good teeth improve a person’s labor-market…
In our latest Freakonomics Radio podcast, “The Upside of Quitting,” we talk about strategic quitting. You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, or read the transcript here. One…
…you need right on their web page. (On the right-hand side of the page there’s a link you can follow that lets you download a CSV file with the data…
A team of economists has been running the numbers on the U.N.’s development goals. They have a different view of how those billions of dollars should be spent.
[omny:https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/aaea4e69-af51-495e-afc9-a9760146922b/14a43378-edb2-49be-8511-ab0d000a7030/043d4702-62ed-441b-af3d-ab0d001bd58f/audio.mp3] (Photo: Argonne National Laboratory) Our latest Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace podcast is called “The Patent Gap.” (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen via the media…
…your health. That’s the topic of our latest Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace podcast, “Retirement Kills.” (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen via the media player above,…
[omny:https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/aaea4e69-af51-495e-afc9-a9760146922b/14a43378-edb2-49be-8511-ab0d000a7030/fe47469a-bcb3-45f1-9297-ab0d001ac34e/audio.mp3] (Photo: Philip Matarese) New York City’s subways and buses carry roughly seven million passengers a day, which goes a long way toward explaining why New Yorkers have one of…
…earlier podcasts, with only a bit of new material, we will not be releasing the hours into our podcast stream (iTunes version; RSS feed version), but you can download or…
…our latest podcast, “The Church of Scionology,” tries to answer. (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, or read the transcript here.) Stanford economist Francisco Pérez-González has looked…
Most of us feel we face more headwinds and obstacles than everyone else — which breeds resentment. We also undervalue the tailwinds that help us — which leaves us ungrateful…
Podcast Freakonomics Radio Two Book Authors and a Microphone: Levitt, Dubner and other future guests help preview the new Freakonomics Radio. Download/Subscribe at iTunes » Subscribe to RSS feed Listen…
…this makes suicide (gulp) a luxury good. There’s a more extensive blog post with background research, photos, and links coming shortly. For now, you can listen or download via the…
…a spike in patients who have been struck by cars during this time of year: ESPOSITO: I’d rather work New Year’s Eve than New Year’s Day. Because a lot of…
[omny:https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/aaea4e69-af51-495e-afc9-a9760146922b/14a43378-edb2-49be-8511-ab0d000a7030/00ce5b5e-c26c-41f4-ad82-ab0d001a7627/audio.mp3] Our latest Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace podcast is called “Introducing ‘Freakonomics Experiments.’” (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen via the media player above, or read…
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This week’s New Yorker features an interesting article by Hendrik Hertzberg about American presidential dynasties. He quotes an A.P. article by Nancy Benac which states that “[f]orty per cent of…
Holy cow, people. We love you and everything — really, we do. But what’s happening with the demand for signed bookplates? When we first offered to send a free bookplate…
…right now. I’m just sitting here.” Our latest Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace podcast is called “Baby, You Can Program My Car.” Yes, it’s about driverless vehicles. (You can download/subscribe at…
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In our latest Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace podcast, “How American Food Got Bad,” Tyler Cowen gives some specific, surprising reasons why food got so bad. (You can download/subscribe at iTunes,…
…from the Apollo on the podcast (download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, or read the transcript here) and check out the photos here. [slideshow] (All photos by Diana Huynh)…
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…Bowl between the New York Giants and New England Patriots. (Download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen via the media player above, or read the transcript.) We figured that…
…to help you track the numbers as they come in. Their complaint with the usual television talking heads is that the usual discussion of aggregate vote shares is uninformative. For…
…experienced through most of our history is a thing of the past? That’s the topic of our latest Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace podcast. (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the…
…combining traditional TV viewing and streams from official network sites. Downloading, both legal and illegal, has long been the focus of the debate over digital music. But what impact will…
…new distribution scheme being floated by musicians Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse. Their new album, Dark Night of the Soul, was supposed to be released by EMI but was canceled in…
…I started looking for other examples of a product that lost its monetary value completely, but somehow returned from the dead. Fascinating question. My mind immediately goes to a category…
You wouldn’t think you could win a Nobel Prize for showing that humans tend to make irrational decisions. But that’s what Richard Thaler has done. The founder of behavioral economics…
…Games Through State Comparison.” As Edds writes: To assess the economic impact of hosting the Olympics, the host state/region will be compared to a same-country state/region that did not host…
