You know your publisher is big when…
…plugs our book: “The 2005 edition of The Best American Crime Writing offers the year’s most shocking, compelling, and gripping writing about real-life crime, including … a piece from The…
Imagine that both substances were undiscovered until today. How would we think about their relative risks?
…plugs our book: “The 2005 edition of The Best American Crime Writing offers the year’s most shocking, compelling, and gripping writing about real-life crime, including … a piece from The…
…and a really nice interface. I would think it’s pretty easy to do a good mashup with crime statistics, using the data from sources like this excellent NYPD site —…
Bernard L. Madoff is not a young man, and if he is convicted of the crimes of which he stands accused, he may spend the rest of his life in…
…one always has to make in theory papers about crime is whether one wants to include the utility the criminal gets from committing the crime when adding up social welfare….
Did we needlessly scare ourselves into ditching a good thing? And, with millions of cars driving around with no passengers, should we be rooting for a renaissance?
…or less concentrated markets, and also across places with high and low property crime.? Black sellers do especially bad in high crime cities, which the authors interpret as evidence that…
Imagine that both substances were undiscovered until today. How would we think about their relative risks?
We often look to other countries for smart policies on education, healthcare, infrastructure, etc. But can a smart policy be simply transplanted into a country as culturally unusual (and as…
…poverty to crime, they also attribute one-third of the costs of poverty-related crime to divorce, and also attribute further tax costs to the intergenerational transmission of poverty. Add enough of…
The million-plus surveillance cameras that monitor London’s citizens haven’t stopped much crime, the BBC reports. According to a police report, just one crime was solved by every 1,000 cameras, creating…
In an episode from 2012, we looked at what Sleep No More and the Stanford Prison Experiment can tell us about who we really are….
The Encyclopedia of Ethical Failures catalogs the fiscal, sexual, and mental lapses of federal workers — all with an eye toward preventing the next big mistake….
Is it better to be the best player on the worst team or the worst player on the best team? How did Angela cope with her extremely impressive freshman dorm-mates?…
A special episode: Steve reports on a passion of his. Most high-school math classes are still preparing students for the Sputnik era. Steve wants to get rid of the “geometry…
…shouted, “This may be the only crime that a black man can’t be rounded up for!” The episode was a bit sluggish for the Thugs, and so the conversation drifted…
…(E.g. I used to think that abortion was okay when the fetus is three months old. But having a kid and seeing a sonogram changed that view.) Nevertheless, I’d argue…
…Unnatural Selection about the consequences of ultrasound machines and sex-selective abortion. Or consider this bizarre story from SuperFreakonomics: It used to be that when a baby presented itself awkwardly, there…
Also: is a little knowledge truly a dangerous thing?
He’s an M.I.T. cosmologist, physicist, and machine-learning expert, and once upon a time, almost an economist. Max and Steve continue their conversation about the existential threats facing humanity, and what…
How do you come back from being “canceled”? Are we more likely to forgive someone if they cry? And what makes a successful public apology?…
…abortion; and 2) the emphasis on birth parent rights. We did give some serious thought to adopting either a black child domestically, or adopting from Africa. It turns out that…
…and abortion, and economic outcomes. They don’t call economics the soft science for nothing. My response: 1. Thanks, Realtors, for continuing to publicize our book. 2. Does anyone besides me…
…published!” Sandy said. “No Iranian will beat us on our home turf!” This is reminiscent of how Planned Parenthood responds to abortion-clinic protestors: by soliciting donations based on how many…
…I think we will be seeing a lot of Steve Sailer on this site in the near future — this issue is even closer to his heart than legalized abortion….
(Brand X Pictures) Our latest Freakonomics podcast, “Misadventures in Baby-Making,” includes a discussion of how sex-selective abortion has led to 160 million missing females in Asia. Closer to home, however,…
…at least in an age and polity where contraception, abortion, and the chance to terminate one’s parental rights exist. Thus, despite the general common law rule in favor of maximizing…
…time has probably come to admit that neither of us were Ku Klux Klan members either, or sumo wrestlers or Realtors or abortion providers or schoolteachers or even pimps. And…
Also: is it better to be right or “not wrong”?…
In this episode of No Stupid Questions — a Freakonomics Radio Network show launched earlier this year — Stephen Dubner and Angela Duckworth debate why we watch, read and eat…
