Is Freakonomics Driving Unemployment?
Well, probably not. But at least one person has lost her job — albeit not an actual full-time, paying job — in a fracas over Freakonomics and other books. A…
Well, probably not. But at least one person has lost her job — albeit not an actual full-time, paying job — in a fracas over Freakonomics and other books. A…
The following is a cross-post from NFL.com, where we’ve recently launched a Football Freakonomics Project. What do Dan Marino, Jerry Rice, and MarTay Jenkins have in common? Yes, wise guy,…
We launched the Football Freakonomics series in the spring with an episode called “The Quarterback Quandary.” It examined the difficulty of drafting QB’s since they tend to be a) vital…
In this segment of “Football Freakonomics,” Dubner looks at how players perform after returning from controversial suspensions and jail-time. Last time on “Football Freakonomics,” how impressive stats sometimes indicate bad…
Last week came word that the film version of Freakonomics — a feature-length documentary made by an all-star lineup of directors — would close the Tribeca Film Festival. Now we…
(Photo: tyle_r) The following is a cross-post from NFL.com, where we’ve recently launched a Football Freakonomics Project. The preliminaries are finally over. As we head into the first weekend of…
Four Vince Lombardi trophies belonging to the Dallas Cowboys. (Photo: Brandi Korte) The following is a cross-post from NFL.com, where we’ve recently launched a Football Freakonomics Project. Today’s question on…
The following is a cross-post from NFL.com, where we’ve recently launched a Football Freakonomics Project. It doesn’t take a genius to argue that injuries can have a massive effect on…
We have just released five hour-long Freakonomics Radio episodes that will be airing this fall and winter on NPR affiliates around the country. Because these hours are primarily mashups of…
…Freakonomics swag. Although that is a meager set of hints, I’ve found that no matter how hard the quiz, Freakonomics blog readers can answer just about any question within an…
(Photo: Victor1558) We are working on a short Freakonomics Radio piece about “the value of bosses,” derived from a new working paper of that name (abstract; PDF) by Edward Lazear,…
…like. So here, friends, is our current assortment of Freakonomics schwag. The T-shirt and yo-yo are, as they say, unavailable in any store. (So is Don King, as far as…
The following is a cross-post from NFL.com, where we’ve recently launched a Football Freakonomics Project. Economics is all about tradeoffs. If you want to buy a top-tier performance car, it’ll…
A few days ago, we asked whether blogging is perhaps dangerous to professors seeking tenure. Here is proof that citing Freakonomics can be dangerous to your academic health as well….
…called “Football Freakonomics.” We did a short program together for the NFL Draft, called “The Quarterback Quandary,” and now we’re partnering up for an ongoing set of segments. The first…
The following is a cross-post from NFL.com, where we’ve recently launched a Football Freakonomics Project. Do home teams really have an advantage? Absolutely. In their book Scorecasting, Toby Moskowitz and…
We recently released our third set of hour-long Freakonomics Radio programs to NPR stations across the country. If you regularly listen to our podcast, there isn’t much new to hear…
Would you like to hear your voice on a future Freakonomics Radio episode? Hope so! Here are the details: We recently put out a two-part episode on education reform, the…
The Freakonomics movie that premiered this spring at the Tribeca Film Festival is released to the public today — but only on iTunes (and on some Video on Demand cable…
…been kind enough to create the official Freakonomics Prediction Center. It can be found in the right-hand column of our home page. We’ll post questions and you’ll supply the predictions….
Despite our slight incredulity, Freakonomics has beaten Jane Austen and advanced to the final round of Time Out New York‘s “Ultimate Book Bracket,” meant to determine the book most essential…
Former Kansas City Chiefs head coach Todd Haley, who was fired earlier this month. (Photo: The following is a cross-post from NFL.com, where we’ve recently launched a Football Freakonomics Project….
I had a blast working with the NFL Network/NFL.com on our Football Freakonomics series this season, and now we’ve been nominated for a Sports Emmy in “Outstanding New Approaches, Sports…
…including Freakonomics: Drew Barrymore stars as a free-spirited Northwestern economics grad student who ventures into the Cabrini Green projects on the south side of Chicago to research the lives of…
It might surprise you to learn that more members of the Freakonomics Fan Club hail from New Jersey than any other state. Well, actually, all of the Freakonomics Fan Club…
…Xbox 360. Latino men like baseball and Xbox 360. Asian men, it turns out, mention Freakonomics and Malcolm Gladwell a lot. Here’s the problem: Asian women also write about Malcolm…