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Introducing: The Book of Odds

…fun exercise. Shapiro likens it to punning or metaphorical poetry: “You find a subterranean relationship between two unlike things you had never thought of before.” We hope you’ll share your…



Introducing "Applied Freakonomics"

…this exercise. So, overnight, I had increased my income by thousands. After three years of earning in the low $40,000 range, I finished that first year at $60,000 in earnings.”…




End-of-the-Year Altruists

…times when charity is particularly salient.” Yes, today is December 31. So get off this site and go find someplace to exercise your altruism, as impure as it may be….



From Cap and Trade to Carbon Farming

…the prospect of EPA dominance. Instead, industry should take the hint that’s it high time to push hard for climate-change legislation. Sure, the move by the EPA to exercise regulatory…



LED Astray

…lights, and many times the situation resolves itself. When lights are out, motorists should know to exercise caution and treat them as if they are stop signs. However, to this…



When the Solution Has No Price

…obesity. True, billions of dollars have been made selling all sorts of diet and exercise and weight-loss products, but perhaps the best solution is the free one: eat a bit…



The Self-Help Psychologist Is In

…to requests, for example; smiling will trick your brain into being happier; being conscious of the amount of exercise you get just walking around going about your everyday life can…



Making Math More Appetizing

…but on the real-world applications of math, from sports to politics to video games to exercise.” So far, they’ve used the Pythagorean Theorem to determine how big a 42-inch TV…




Hayek Propped Up by Government Intervention

…score to 2064. I also tried searching only on surnames, and received roughly similar rankings (although the counts of Smith, Summers and Friedman were grossly inflated by?eponymous?authors). This exercise suggests…



Have You Accidentally Sold Your Soul Lately?

…option to claim, for now and for ever more, your immortal soul. Should We wish to exercise this option, you agree to surrender your immortal soul, and any claim you…



Preferences, Revealed

…saving only ? of X. Maybe you don’t exercise or vote or go to church as often as you might tell a pollster that you do. Hey: I’m not here…



The Kids are Alright

American high school students today take significantly fewer health risks than did their counterparts in the early 1990s, although they do slightly worse in terms of obesity, asthma, exercise, and…



What Car Thieves Think of the Club

…in the form of a higher risk that his car will be stolen. The Club is a perfect exercise in self-interest. Having read this passage, a man named Jim Burns…





Gold's Magic Price

…too much. Apparently, potential suppliers were waiting for the price to hit $,1000; thereafter, only those who hadn’t paid attention, like me, were left to enter the market. Exercise for…



Hope and Ye Shall Find

(Photo: Tom Thai) I am not an avid runner but I do it pretty regularly because it is good, cheap, easy exercise. I often run in Central Park. The other…




Against (Discretionary) Snow Days

…their kids to school.? Many parents would exercise this option. This rant is more evidence that economics is a dismal science.? I take one of our nation’s most beloved institutions…



A Mandate to Be Inefficient

…owners) and changes in fuel efficiency (which influence the relative benefits of hybrids to the drivers).? This would be an exercise in futility, and nonstop bickering. This is one of…




Graph Fight! More on Taylor’s Scatterplot

…I think it’s worth examining whether his conclusion follows. Here’s the simple exercise that this logic suggests: Let’s replace the unemployment rate in Taylor’s scatter plot with the unemployment rate,…




The 100 Rules for Being an Entrepreneur

…R) Sleep. Don’t buy into the 20 hours a day entrepreneur myth. You need to sleep 8 hours a day to have a focused mind. S) Exercise. Same as above….



How Predictable Are Nobel Prizes in Economics?

…part in the exercise, although seeing how good the predictions have turned out, I’m going to assert (rightly or wrongly) that I was one of the predictors. For your entertainment,…



Winners of Heart + Mind Donations Contest

…trials than any other microfinance organization, to the best of my knowledge. And they were the first to attempt a randomized trial on microcredit (as far as I know) well…




Cornering the Market… for He-Man?

…collected 136 Ram Man figures, an exercise he’s dubbed “You Will be Rare” and is documenting on Youtube. Moakes has been at it for well over a year. Judging by…