A Freakonomics Contest: The Friendly Skies
…and goggles, leaving customers plenty frustrated. In a bid to allow you some much-needed release, as well as blacken the airlines’ names so that they’ll seize the most loathed industry…
The art market is so opaque and illiquid that it barely functions like a market at all. A handful of big names get all the headlines (and most of the…
…and goggles, leaving customers plenty frustrated. In a bid to allow you some much-needed release, as well as blacken the airlines’ names so that they’ll seize the most loathed industry…
…he did others, and he gave me a short response. “I don’t see the fighters on SportsCenter.” So why aren’t we hearing boxers’ names alongside the likes of Brett Favre…
…hundred or so authors’ names, a handful of book titles, and a few recommendations as to where to-or where not to-start. I’m writing to ask you please (please) to go…
…Google Alerts is also a great substitute for email, at least for the thousands of academics, journalists, and webheads who have alerts on their own names. Quasi-famous people who might…
…feel enough hatred to want to spend $5 to make that hatred known. The current list of the 10 most hated people includes some well known names (I’ve omitted the…
…hair trimmer for $12.99, but in the same catalog offers the identical product, called the Trim-a-Pet, for $7.99. Dr. Leonard’s Dr. Leonard’s Other than the names on the packages and…
…names and then, after business ended for the week, simultaneously seized all five branches of Chicago’s Heritage Community Bank. The F.D.I.C. takes pains to keep its takeovers secret until the…
…the start of each school year, it comes via a password-protected Excel spreadsheet. Keep in mind this list doesn’t contain Social Security numbers or bank information — just names, addresses,…
…than the more expensive name brands. The episode discusses the various reasons that brand names might be more appealing despite the higher cost. A listener named Mike Dimore has written…
…whether it be the ones with the usual unpronounceable conglomeration of ingredients, or fresh produce with branded names like Emeril tomatoes, or Green Giant potatoes. As far as we’re concerned…
…only one and a half econometrics classes under his belt. His econometrics professors must know what they are doing. Andy, if you read this, please post the names of your…
…Submissions are up around 50 percent over the previous year, with the great majority of the increase accounted for by “no revisions” submissions. Some of the biggest names in the…
…the road. It’s our responsibility. –Dan A quick glance at the names on these comments indicates an unsurprising fact: women tend to think they are better (22 of 32 who…
…the category is dominated by well-known vehicles, generally starring famous names (for example, Jude Law in Hamlet, and Al Pacino in The Merchant of Venice). Again, I want to emphasize…
…Griffin III, the two players who led the Heisman vote. After these two, we see names like Ryan Tannehill, Brock Osweiler, Nick Foles, Brandon Weeden, Kirk Cousins, Kellen Moore, Russell…
As James Altucher reports on his daily blog watch on TheStreet.com, the sale of domain names remains a very big business. This year, Diamonds.com went for $7.5 million, Vodka.com for…
…than the buyer’s piggish reclaimers. And do we really want sellers to have to spend money paying attention to the e-mail names and boilerplate messages of other consumers? Here’s a…
…all. A handful of big names get all the headlines (and most of the dollars). Beneath the surface is a tangled web of dealers, curators, auction houses, speculators — and,…
…here from time to time. (One assumes that in order to be any use at all, the “live” data would have to be anonymized, so the bit about Muslim names…
…of vulgarity. Or the professed lack of a “unifying theme.” Or the inclusion of first names like OrangeJello, LemonJello, and Shithead, which would surely seem to be no more than…
Thanks to the section of Freakonomics that dealt with unusual first names, we regularly get e-mails from readers telling us about a particularly good example. (Maybe we should make such…
…of the more strict, if not bizarre, laws regulating the retail sales of booze. Wine and spirits are sold only by state-owned stores, which don’t even have names; they’re designated…
…Spain, a new step in dog-waste management: unscooped poop is hand-delivered back to the owner. (HT: Peter Kauss) The power of words and names. (HT: RealClearScience) New study shows that…
…United Kingdom was battling Islamic fundamentalists and no longer, for instance, Irish militants, the arrested suspects invariably had Muslim names. This would turn out to be one of the strongest…
…And here, as compiled by the Greater Dallas Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse, are an extraordinarily entertaining index of cocaine street names: For cocaine powder: Badrock, Bazooka, Beam, Berni,…
…the top young economists, but also because I know how old the economists here are with much more precision than at other schools. So apologies to those whose names I…
…is filled with names you know: Suzuki’s current chairman and CEO, 81 year-old Osamu Suzuki, is an adopted son — the fourth one in fact — to run the company….
…the book that lists the popularity of names and accompanying average education level of the mother. Like many suburban kids, they are overscheduled. True to the stereotype of Korean-American mothers,…
What do Bruce Pardo and Atif Irfan have in common? In case you’re not familiar with their names, let me rephrase: What do the white guy who dressed up as…