Your N.F.L. Questions Answered, by George Atallah
…course, their competitive nature requires that I will now receive phone calls and texts from everyone else I didn’t name here. It’s the greatest experience to work with and for…
…course, their competitive nature requires that I will now receive phone calls and texts from everyone else I didn’t name here. It’s the greatest experience to work with and for…
…Yi Qian for the National Bureau of Economic Research looked at data from 31 branded shoe companies, as well as a number of counterfeiters, operating in China in 1993–2004. The…
…Power of Choice: The Life and Ideas of Milton Friedman. Friedman has turned up pretty reliably in various postings of this blog (type in his name in the search box…
The N.B.A. superstar Chris Bosh was still competing at the highest level when a blood clot abruptly ended his career. In his new book, Letters to a Young Athlete, Bosh…
…the first episode of a three-part series, we look at the grotesque mistakes produced by centuries of trial-and-error, and ask whether the new era of evidence-based medicine is the solution….
We tend to look down on artists who can’t match their breakthrough success. Should we be celebrating them instead?…
Whether it’s a giant infrastructure plan or a humble kitchen renovation, it’ll inevitably take way too long and cost way too much. That’s because you suffer from “the planning fallacy.”…
…and Steve talk about the power (and limits) of behavioral economics and also how people respond to change — the topic of her new podcast A Slight Change of Plans….
…questions. Q: How does the U.S. compare with other nations in its quest to create a common paper currency? A: Many countries at comparable stages of economic development embraced uniform,…
No — but he does have a knack for stumbling into the perfect moment, including the recent FTX debacle….
No — but he does have a knack for stumbling into the perfect moment, including the recent FTX debacle. In this installment of the Freakonomics Radio Book Club, we revisit…
Whether it’s a giant infrastructure plan or a humble kitchen renovation, it’ll inevitably take way too long and cost way too much. That’s because you suffer from “the planning fallacy.”…
Economists preach the gospel of “creative destruction,” whereby new industries — and jobs — replace the old ones. But has creative destruction become too destructive?
In ancient Rome, it was bread and circuses. Today, it’s a World Cup, an Olympics, and a new Saudi-backed golf league that’s challenging the P.G.A. Tour. Can a sporting event…
Whether it’s a giant infrastructure plan or a humble kitchen renovation, it’ll inevitably take way too long and cost way too much. That’s because you suffer from “the planning fallacy.”…
Chicago has given the world more than sausage, crooked politics and Da Bears.
As the Supreme Court considers overturning Roe v. Wade, we look back at Steve Levitt’s controversial research on an unintended consequence of the 1973 ruling….
Economists have discovered an odd phenomenon: many people who use social media (even you, maybe?) wish it didn’t exist. But that doesn’t mean they can escape….
​If you’re a C.E.O., there are a lot of ways to leave your job, from abrupt firing to carefully planned succession (which may still go spectacularly wrong). In this final…
…to check if the data had come in. I knew it would take a while for our local team in China to enter and validate the data, but I couldn’t…
The environmentalists say we’re doomed if we don’t drastically reduce consumption. The technologists say that human ingenuity can solve just about any problem. A debate that’s been around for decades…
…Big Picture reports, the cause of the accident is still unknown, but there were at least 74 fatalities and a massive oil spill. (Earlier: a coal-ash disaster in Tennessee.) [%comments]…
From the (U.K.) Times: Up to a million obese people will be offered weight-loss surgery on the NHS, under controversial new guidelines. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice)…
Dubner and Levitt talk about circadian rhythms, gay marriage, autism, and whether “pay what you want” is everything it’s cracked up to be.
Tim Harford, the affable British economist who is a star of book writing, journalism, and even TV (his BBC program was called Trust Me, I’m an Economist), is now taking…
…Side, where I park my car for the relatively cheap rate of $350 a month. It’s possible to park for free on the street in New York, but competition for…
The picture below is of a “beer” I drank at a friend’s house this past weekend. It actually tasted pretty good; but why 0.5 percent alcohol, which surely added to…
…be that these hangers had much value on the secondary market, and the number of flight attendants hasn’t changed, so I can only guess that the cost reductions come from…
Reader Andria Lam sent us this photo of a rather super. A pricing mistake? A pile of food past its pull date? In any case, the more you buy, the…
The U.N.’s World Happiness Report — created to curtail our unhealthy obsession with G.D.P. — is dominated every year by the Nordic countries. We head to Denmark to learn the…
