[omny:https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/aaea4e69-af51-495e-afc9-a9760146922b/14a43378-edb2-49be-8511-ab0d000a7030/b5654708-d803-4619-9d10-ab0d001b97dd/audio.mp3] Are you bummed out that you might have to postpone retirement for financial reasons? Well, there may be a silver lining: it looks like retirement may be bad for…
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[omny:https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/aaea4e69-af51-495e-afc9-a9760146922b/14a43378-edb2-49be-8511-ab0d000a7030/63c65c3f-9e7a-4218-bc2f-ab0d001b8b4a/audio.mp3] (Photo: photosteve101) Our latest Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace podcast is called “Playing the Nerd Card.” (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen via the media player…
Economist Tyler Cowen‘s Twitter feed was recently hacked — for the purposes of selling a weight-loss product. In response, and following in the heels of his successful and hilarious #FedValentines…
[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,…
Arabic Knowledge@Wharton interviews Tyler Cowen about food and economics. Here’s a particularly interesting bit about why Wal-Mart’s presence in places like Africa might actually make it easier for the poor…
[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…
…Radio on Marketplace podcast is called “Olympian Economics,” with Tess Vigeland sitting in for Kai Ryssdal this week. (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen via the…
…you. (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen via the media player above, or read the transcript here.) If you’re a longtime reader, you probably already have…
…podcast is called “Can Selling Beer Cut Down on Public Drunkenness?” (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen via the media player above, or read the transcript…
…two primary perspectives on this topic: Employees think about how much better their lives would be if they didn’t have to deal with commuting, the office culture, etc. Employers think…
…is called “Why Online Poker Should Be Legal.” You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen via the media player above, or read the transcript here. In case…
…a quest to boost profits. Industrial operations don’t strike me as caring all that much about animal welfare, so the latter scenario seems more likely. Producers, aware that welfare reforms…
…earlier podcasts, with only a bit of new material, we will not be releasing the hours into our podcast stream (iTunes version; RSS feed version), but you can download or…
…about the great inventions of the last ten years, you think of iPods, you think of the iPad, iPhones, but each of those is an incremental improvement on what we…
[omny:https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/aaea4e69-af51-495e-afc9-a9760146922b/14a43378-edb2-49be-8511-ab0d000a7030/f2f67c5a-f4ce-4129-b04a-ab0d001aea6c/audio.mp3] Our latest Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace podcast is called “Lying to Ourselves.” (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen via the media player above, or read…
…at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen via the media player above, or read the transcript here.) After speaking to Vishal and his daughter, Sophia, we learned that their neighborhood…
…(mostly dogs and cats). To put it bluntly, what do you think about using these carcasses as a meat source? We expend enormous resources — land, money, and energy —…
[omny:https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/aaea4e69-af51-495e-afc9-a9760146922b/14a43378-edb2-49be-8511-ab0d000a7030/3ffad0a1-4a81-404b-ab01-ab0d001aae74/audio.mp3] (Photo: Ken Hawkins) Our latest Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace podcast is called “Free-conomics.” (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen via the media player above, or…
…is called “Mass Transit Hysteria.” (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen via the media player above, or read the transcript here.) It’s based on a recent…
…the RSS feed, listen via the media player above, or read the transcript here.) It’s based on a recent working paper called “The Value of Bosses” (abstract; PDF) by Edward…
…ease our holiday stress by pointing to “the spotlight effect”: You tend to think that you’re in the spotlight and everyone’s looking at you. Applying that to Christmas, it’s like…
[omny:https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/aaea4e69-af51-495e-afc9-a9760146922b/14a43378-edb2-49be-8511-ab0d000a7030/a4709bd0-2130-4205-8eaa-ab0d001a83c1/audio.mp3] (Photo: Ethan Prater) Our latest Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace podcast is called “How to Live Longer.” (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen via the media…
…(You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen via the media player above, or read the transcript here.) It’s about false memory, particularly in the political realm, and…
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(Photo: David DeHetre) The idea of patenting a living organism is strange to some people, if not frightening. Nonetheless, these kinds of patents have existed for decades. On Tuesday, the…
…by that I mean the more someone thinks that they absolutely have to do it, they like doing it, it’s important for them to do it — the more negative…
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We’ve now been making Freakonomics Radio for three years. (Here is a complete archive; you can also subscribe at iTunes or get an RSS feed.) We have a good sense…