FREAKquel: Jimmy Carter and Israeli “Apartheid”
…cover — and note that Amazon.com has indeed inserted a colon after “Palestine,” as has BarnesandNoble.com. But the New York Times treats all four words as the title — and,…
…cover — and note that Amazon.com has indeed inserted a colon after “Palestine,” as has BarnesandNoble.com. But the New York Times treats all four words as the title — and,…
…that is what you need to finance a secure retirement. If your new employer offers a retirement plan with a company match, start with that. Always contribute enough to qualify…
…— where, she says, “I worked at a little community outfit called the Sun Tribune Newspapers, where I was a copy editor and page designer, so my name was doubly…
…pre-recorded message informing him of nothing (other than that the company was trying to raise the transaction costs associated with canceling their insurance). When Jon complained to Orbitz, the company…
Also: Which professions have the happiest people?…
…published by our publisher and, the last time I checked Amazon.com, was paired with Freakonomics in a discount deal: While Number Freaking is the closest there is to an outright…
Dr. Will Flanary, a.k.a Dr. Glaucomflecken, has always been a comedy fan. During the pandemic, he found an audience. But should doctors be funny with their patients? Bapu Jena asks…
…is the product I want!” Then all decisions come from that. With stockpickr.com I was obsessed with putting in new features. But every single new feature was something that had…
In a special episode of No Stupid Questions, Stephen Dubner and Angela Duckworth discuss classroom design, open offices, and cognitive drift….
The U.S. is home to seven of the world’s 10 biggest companies. How did that happen? The answer may come down to two little letters: V.C. Is venture capital good…
She’s the author of the bestselling book Grit, and a University of Pennsylvania professor of psychology — a field Steve says he knows nothing about. But once Angela gives Steve…
The National Institutes of Health is the backbone of health research in the U.S., and Collins has been in charge for more than a decade. Now that he’s stepping down,…
…Krugman. Photo from Economist.com This photo posted on Economist.com (from Agence France-Presse) makes me wish I were better at reading body language. I’m going to shamelessly rip off The New…
How a pain-in-the-neck girl from rural Virginia came to run the most powerful university in the world.
…New Year’s Day – that just about everyone feels compelled to watch it, even if they don’t care one bit about football. One consequence of this fact is that the…
Photo: Andrew Magill Thanks to Time.com for naming this blog one of the top “financial” blogs — and the nice writeup from the Wall Street Journal‘s Robert Frank — but…
Chances are, at some point you’ll be treated by a nurse practitioner or a physician assistant instead of a doctor. Will your care suffer?…
An article in today’s Wall Street Journal about online lending reports that Zopa, a British person-to-person lending market, is starting operations in the U.S. It will join, among others, Prosper.com,…
This week we solicited your questions for Dan Hamermesh, a regular Freakonomics contributor, and author of the new book Beauty Pays: Why Attractive People Are More Successful. A lot of…
…my computer, for free, thanks to Hulu.com. Hulu is a likely game-changer for TV, an ad-supported site with, as of a few days ago, programming from three of the four…
…stunned. So was Bapu Jena. He talks with them and a physician this week about the “Friday Effect,” a common problem with big repercussions for the safety of the medications….
…overall play and momentum. Here, ranked in order of their season-ending PRD, are the 12 teams still in contention: Green Bay (42.01) New Orleans (24.06) Houston (23.68) New England (19.58)…
…in baseball began, 10 teams – and their fans – were very happy. But the playoffs being what they are, we knew that only one team – and its fans…
…competitive, this production had to be replaced. And when Iverson’s contract expired at the end the 2008-09 season, the Pistons had an opportunity to acquire productive talent in the free…
Steve Levitt has a novel idea for helping people make tough decisions.
Can a little dishonesty be a good thing? How many fibs does Angela tell every day? And why does Stephen have a forehead?…
A conversation with the Shark Tank star, entrepreneur, and Dallas Mavericks owner recorded for the Freakonomics Radio series “The Hidden Side of Sports.”…
It’s harder than you’d think to measure the value of a boss. But some enterprising economists have done just that — and the news is good.
…of higher prices or came out of profits that would otherwise go to investors. Today, though, most companies are in fierce competition because new technologies combined with globalization have destroyed…
…wares for free: the Philly brewery serving locally made beer. Presumably this reflects the difficulty of obtaining licensing to sell their brews. So the beer tasting was free, and instead…
