Guity Becker roasts Gary Becker
…the phone, he seemed quite genial. I asked how come he wouldn’t come down on the price, but he trusted me with the table before paying for it. He said:…
…the phone, he seemed quite genial. I asked how come he wouldn’t come down on the price, but he trusted me with the table before paying for it. He said:…
It takes fungi-sniffing dogs, back-room deals, and a guy named “The Kingpin” for the world’s most coveted morsel to end up on your plate. Zachary Crockett picks up the scent.
…benefits. … Products such as butter, oil, sausage, cheese and cream were subject to increases of as much as 9% immediately after the new tax was enacted. “What made consumers…
Bill Bennett and I have a fair amount in common. We’ve both written about crime (his “superpredator” theory gets a quick discussion in Freakonomics), we have both thought a lot…
What “Sleep No More” and the Stanford Prison Experiment tell us about who we really are.
No one wants mass shootings. Unfortunately, no one has a workable plan to stop them either.
It’s hard enough to save for a house, tuition, or retirement. So why are we willing to pay big fees for subpar investment returns? Enter the low-cost index fund. The…
It’s a surprisingly hard question to answer. Bapu talks with a health economist about a natural experiment that led to some unexpected findings….
I still love the book “A Million Little Pieces,” but having carefully read the outstanding investigative reporting done by thesmokinggun.com, I’m pretty disgusted that someone would try to pass this…
…Driving?” stickers for teenagers. Check out tell-my-mom.com (howsmydriving.com has a special program for senior drivers as well). Bumper stickers might also keep your car from getting stolen. The Feds help…
That’s how PMSBuddy.com pitches itself. To wit: PMSBuddy.com is a free service created with a single goal in mind: to keep you aware of when your wife, girlfriend, mother, sister,…
…rural communities and in the South and Midwest. Jezebel.com includes the numbers on abortion providers by religion: 40.2 percent of Jewish doctors say yes, compared with 1.2 percent of Evangelical…
Everyone agrees that massive deforestation is an environmental disaster. But most of the standard solutions — scolding the Brazilians, invoking universal morality — ignore the one solution that might actually…
…account the user-defined level of compatibility. OkCupid measures compatibility by the “match percentage,” which is based on the degree to which users give the answer desired by another user (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….
…be as important.? When it comes to commitments, there’s safety in numbers. Indeed, on the same New Year’s morning when Justin was committing to go to church, Andy Mayer, an…
Also: is it better to be a thinker, a doer, or a charmer?
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…
