Fixing the World, Bang-for-the-Buck Edition (Ep. 181 Rebroadcast)
A team of economists have 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.
A team of economists have 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.
At issue: Even a brutal natural disaster doesn’t diminish our appetite for procreating. This surely means we’re heading toward massive overpopulation, right? Probably not.
Our latest Freakonomics Radio episode is a rebroadcast called “How to Save $1 Billion Without Even Trying." (You can subscribe to the podcast at iTunes or elsewhere, get the RSS feed, or listen via the media player above.)
The gist: Doctors, chefs, and other experts are much more likely than the rest of us to buy store-brand products. What do they know that we don’t? And if we all did like they do, how much fatter might our wallets be?
This week's Freakonomics Radio episode is a rebroadcast of the episode "Failure Is Your Friend" (You can subscribe to the podcast at iTunes or elsewhere, get the RSS feed, or listen via the media player above. You can also read the transcript, which includes credits for the music you’ll hear in the episode.)
This week's Freakonomics Radio episode is a rebroadcast of the episode "Think Like a Child" (You can subscribe to the podcast at iTunes or elsewhere, get the RSS feed, or listen via the media player above. You can also read the transcript, which includes credits for the music you’ll hear in the episode.)
Our latest podcast is called “Think Like a Child.” (You can subscribe to the podcast at iTunes, get the RSS feed, or listen via the media player above. You can also read the transcript, which includes credits for the music you’ll hear in the episode.) Why would anyone want to think like a child? Aren't kids just sloppy, inchoate versions of us, who can't even say “I Don’t Know”?
Hardly. As Stephen Dubner and Steve Levitt describe in their new book, Think Like a Freak, thinking like a child can be very fruitful.