The Decline and Fall of Violence (Ep. 43)
…all the genocides, all the man-made famines, you get to about 3 percent. Here’s where you can find Marketplace on the radio near you. You can read the transcript here….
…all the genocides, all the man-made famines, you get to about 3 percent. Here’s where you can find Marketplace on the radio near you. You can read the transcript here….
…having to worry about an embarrassing transcript. But in the face of evidence that self reported levels of learning have mostly fallen since the introduction of grade non-disclosure policies, this…
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…
…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,…
…Ship” Maintaining Relationships Back Home Chapter 3: ” I Have the Perfect Schedule– All My Classes Are on Wednesday” Writing the Personal Narrative Called Your Transcript Chapter 4: Alliance, Fellows,…
…about the music: we recently started listing the music credits in each show’s transcript, which accompanies the blog post published with each episode. Our podcast archive page is here. Enjoy!…
…to get hold of the music that appears. FWIW, every time we put out a podcast, the accompanying blog post includes a transcript of the episode which lists the music….
…was way too hard for me. Some of the techniques he has developed (like GMM) have become absolute workhorse models in economics. It would be priceless to read a transcript…
He’s so fascinating that Steve Levitt brought him back for a second conversation. Yul Kwon currently works at Google, but he’s been a lawyer, political organizer, government regulator, organ donation…
Charles Koch, the mega-billionaire C.E.O. of Koch Industries and half of the infamous political machine, sees himself as a classical liberal. So why do most Democrats hate him so much?…
A famous economics essay features a pencil (yes, a pencil) arguing that “not a single person on the face of this earth knows how to make me.” Is the pencil…
Standing in line represents a particularly sloppy — and frustrating — way for supply and demand to meet. Why haven’t we found a better way to get what we want?…
The online universe doesn’t have nearly as many rules, or rulemakers, as the real world. Discuss.
The online universe doesn’t have nearly as many rules, or rulemakers, as the real world. Discuss.
Among O.E.C.D. nations, the U.S. has one of the highest rates of child poverty. How can that be? To find out, Stephen Dubner speaks with a Republican senator, a Democratic…
What’s a college degree really worth these days?
Among O.E.C.D. nations, the U.S. has one of the highest rates of child poverty. Until recently, it looked as if Washington was about to change that. But then … Washington…
Changing the clocks has been linked to car accidents and heart attacks. This week, Bapu Jena sheds some light on the damage we might be doing by springing forward and…
Celebrities influence the clothes we wear and the books we read. Do they also affect our health decisions? Bapu Jena looks at what happens when people take medical advice from…
Fear is a popular tool in public health campaigns. But is it an effective one? Bapu Jena discusses new research on whether we can — and should — scare people…
Dogs are, above all, creatures of the nose. What can they sniff out, and what can we learn about smelling by following them? Alexandra Horowitz talks to a detection-dog handler…
Bapu Jena talks with Albert Bourla about his unusual path to the top, developing a life-saving vaccine in record time, and the second-hardest decision he made along the way.
To the law, everything is either a “person,” with rights, or a “thing,” without. Where does that leave dogs? Alexandra Horowitz considers animate things, living property, and what happens when…
You’ve heard that the weather can make your joints hurt. Maybe you’ve even felt it yourself. But, is it true? Bapu Jena looks at why we think we know certain…
Robert Solow is 98 years old and a giant among economists. He tells Steve about cracking German codes in World War II, why it’s so hard to reduce inequality, and…
In a special episode of People I (Mostly) Admire, Steve Levitt talks to Cat Bohannon about her new book Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human…
How can you strive for excellence without overworking yourself? Why is perfectionism on the rise? And is Angela part of the problem?…
The economist and social critic Glenn Loury has led a remarkably turbulent life, both professionally and personally. In a new memoir, he has chosen to reveal just about everything. Why?…
