How American Food Got So Bad (Ep. 53)
…the RSS feed, listen live via the media player above, or read the transcript.) In his forthcoming book An Economist Gets Lunch: New Rules for Everyday Foodies, economist Tyler Cowen…
…the RSS feed, listen live via the media player above, or read the transcript.) In his forthcoming book An Economist Gets Lunch: New Rules for Everyday Foodies, economist Tyler Cowen…
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…listen live via the media player above, or read the transcript.) In a paper that tried to isolate the effect of spending in campaigns, here’s what Steve Levitt found: LEVITT:…
No, Brian Williams is not Walter Cronkite. Cory Doctorow: “The Coming War on General Computation” (video; transcript; interesting!) Whole Foods has been thriving in a down economy. Open-sourcing the scientific…
[omny:https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/aaea4e69-af51-495e-afc9-a9760146922b/14a43378-edb2-49be-8511-ab0d000a7030/9be5ca61-8ff9-4c13-9eef-ab0d001c14db/audio.mp3] Fans of the New York Giants celebrate after the Giants win on Sunday. (Photo by Doug Pensinger/Getty Images) Our latest Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace podcast covers the upcoming Super…
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…the transcript.) It’s about workplace morale and the measurement thereof. This segment was largely crowd-sourced from Freakonomics blog readers — so: thanks! It began with a blog post in which…
[omny:https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/aaea4e69-af51-495e-afc9-a9760146922b/14a43378-edb2-49be-8511-ab0d000a7030/65cf18d5-2282-4006-a633-ab0d001be947/audio.mp3] (Photo: Anna Fox) Our latest Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace podcast is called “It’s Not the President, Stupid.” (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen via the…
[omny:https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/aaea4e69-af51-495e-afc9-a9760146922b/14a43378-edb2-49be-8511-ab0d000a7030/043d4702-62ed-441b-af3d-ab0d001bd58f/audio.mp3] (Photo: Argonne National Laboratory) Our latest Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace podcast is called “The Patent Gap.” (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen via the media…
[omny:https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/aaea4e69-af51-495e-afc9-a9760146922b/14a43378-edb2-49be-8511-ab0d000a7030/396acd49-47b5-4462-93db-ab0d001bc1d9/audio.mp3] (Photo: Scott Davidson) Our latest Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace podcast is called “The Hidden Cost of False Alarms.” (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen via…
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[omny:https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/aaea4e69-af51-495e-afc9-a9760146922b/14a43378-edb2-49be-8511-ab0d000a7030/47015353-ac5f-4b39-9282-ab0d001ba74f/audio.mp3] We sent Kai Ryssdal an arrangement of plastic flowers to make our point. Weirdly, the arrangement’s container matched his necktie. Our latest Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace podcast is called…
…your health. That’s the topic of our latest Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace podcast, “Retirement Kills.” (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen via the media player above,…
…of their former NBA brethren think the trend has already gone too far. You’ll also hear from Harvard economist Roland Fryer, a familiar presence to Freakonomics readers. Fryer talks about…
[omny:https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/aaea4e69-af51-495e-afc9-a9760146922b/14a43378-edb2-49be-8511-ab0d000a7030/0b265451-843e-41e1-95a5-ab0d001b77ea/audio.mp3] (Photo: Alan Cleaver) Our latest Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace podcast is called “A Cheap Employee Is … a Cheap Employee.” (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed,…
[omny:https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/aaea4e69-af51-495e-afc9-a9760146922b/14a43378-edb2-49be-8511-ab0d000a7030/b3caf04c-5a6a-424e-b78d-ab0d001b5c43/audio.mp3] (Photo: vxla) Our latest Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace podcast is called “What’s Wrong With Cash for Grades?” (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen via the…
[omny:https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/aaea4e69-af51-495e-afc9-a9760146922b/14a43378-edb2-49be-8511-ab0d000a7030/670387b2-b916-4d8e-b196-ab0d001b4a5e/audio.mp3] A torch bearer carrries the Olympic Torch on a London Bus through Central London on July 26, 2012 in London, England. (Photo by Tom Shaw/Getty Images) Our latest Freakonomics…
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…podcast, “There’s Cake in the Breakroom!” You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen via the media player above, or read the transcript here. There are at least…
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…Committee on Small Business here: (See also his Oral Testimony, Transcript of Hearing, Video of Entire Hearing.) Peter’s supplemental comments are particularly devastating in rebutting two claims of Lawrence Wilson,…
…RSS feed, listen via the media player above in the post, or read the transcript here.) It is largely based on a recent paper by the Northwestern economist Robert J….
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…the economists. In this episode, you’ll hear from John List, the University of Chicago economist who has been featured here many times (and in SuperFreakonomics), often for his excellent research…
We recently put out a two-part podcast called “Freakonomics Goes to College” (Part 1 here, Part 2 here, and together as an hour-long special). The main question we tried to…
…read the transcript here.) The gist: economists are a notoriously self-interested bunch, but a British outfit called Pro Bono Economics is giving away its services to selected charities. Martin Brookes…
…the smallest carbon footprints in the U.S. Doesn’t that mean that mass transit is inevitably good for the environment? Yes, no, and sometimes. Our latest Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace podcast…
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…media player above, or read the transcript here.) It’s the latest in our annual series of explanations about how economists can take all the fun out of the holidays. This…
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