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Freakonomics RadioIn their books "Freakonomics" and "SuperFreakonomics," Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner explore "the hidden side of everything," with stories about cheating schoolteachers, self-dealing real-estate agents, and crack-selling mama’s boys. The... Podcast, English, New York City, USA |
| Listen now | Retirement Kills Sure, we all dream of leaving the office forever. But what if it's bad for your health? Wednesday, 16-May-12 22:00 BST |
| Listen now | Soul Possession In a world where nearly everything is for sale, is it always okay to buy what isn’t yours? Monday, 07-May-12 14:00 BST |
| Listen now | A Rose By Any Other Distance At a time when people worry about every mile their food must travel, why is it okay to import most of our cut flowers from thousands of miles away? Wednesday, 02-May-12 21:00 BST |
| Listen now | Lottery Loopholes and Deadly Doctors What do you do when smart people keep making stupid mistakes? And: are we a nation of financial illiterates? Wednesday, 25-Apr-12 20:00 BST |
| Listen now | Is Good Corporate Citizenship Also Good for the Bottom Line? A new study says that yes, it is -- but try telling that to the United Nations officials who are preaching sustainability practices. Wednesday, 18-Apr-12 22:00 BST |
| Listen now | Eating and Tweeting Does the future of food lie in its past – or inside a tank of liquid nitrogen? Also: how anti-social can you be on a social network? Wednesday, 11-Apr-12 20:30 BST |
| Listen now | The Hidden Cost of False Alarms If any other product failed 94 percent of the time, you’d probably stop using it. So why do we put up with burglar alarms? Tuesday, 03-Apr-12 22:00 BST |
| Listen now | The Power of the President -- and the Thumb How much does the President of the United States really matter? And: where did all the hitchhikers go? A pair of "attribution errors." Wednesday, 28-Mar-12 14:00 BST |
| Listen now | The Patent Gap Women hold fewer than one in 10 patents. Why? And what are we missing out on? Thursday, 22-Mar-12 21:13 GMT |
| Listen now | Show and Yell Is booing an act of verbal vandalism or the last true expression of democracy? And: when you drive a Prius, are you guilty of “conspicuous conservation”? Wednesday, 14-Mar-12 14:00 GMT |
| Listen now | It’s Not the President, Stupid Isn’t it time to admit that the U.S. economy doesn’t have a commander in chief? Wednesday, 07-Mar-12 21:31 GMT |
| Listen now | The Days of Wine and Mouses Do more expensive wines taste better? And: what does one little rodent in a salad say about a restaurant’s future? Monday, 27-Feb-12 05:00 GMT |
| Listen now | The Dilbert Index? Measuring workplace morale -- and how to game the sick-day system. Wednesday, 22-Feb-12 22:21 GMT |
| Listen now | How Biased Is Your Media? The left and the right blame each other for pretty much everything, including slanted media coverage. Can they both be right? Wednesday, 15-Feb-12 22:00 GMT |
| Listen now | Does This Recession Make Me Look Fat? A look at some non-obvious ways to lose weight. Wednesday, 08-Feb-12 23:30 GMT |
| Listen now | Save Me From Myself A commitment device forces you to be the person you really want to be. What could possibly go wrong? Wednesday, 01-Feb-12 21:00 GMT |
| Listen now | The Hidden Side of the Super Bowl A football cheat sheet to help you sound like the smartest person at the party. Wednesday, 25-Jan-12 22:37 GMT |
| Listen now | What Do Hand-Washing and Financial Illiteracy Have in Common? Education is the surest solution to a lot of problems. Except when it’s not. Thursday, 19-Jan-12 05:00 GMT |
| Listen now | Does Money Really Buy Elections? We all know the answer is yes. But the data -- and Rudy Giuliani -- say no. Wednesday, 11-Jan-12 20:27 GMT |
| Listen now | Why Is “I Don’t Know” So Hard to Say? Levitt and Dubner answer your FREAK-quently Asked Questions about certifying politicians, irrational fears, and the toughest three words in the English language. Wednesday, 04-Jan-12 05:00 GMT |
| Listen now | The Perils of Drunk Walking We know it's terribly dangerous to drive drunk. But heading home on foot isn't the solution. Tuesday, 27-Dec-11 22:00 GMT |
| Listen now | How Is a Bad Radio Station Like Our Public-School System? (Encore) The thrill of customization, via Pandora and a radical new teaching method Wednesday, 21-Dec-11 05:00 GMT |
| Listen now | How American Food Got So Bad Tyler Cowen points fingers. There's plenty of blame to go around. Tuesday, 13-Dec-11 22:47 GMT |
| Listen now | Weird Recycling Clever ways to not waste our waste. Friday, 02-Dec-11 14:44 GMT |
| Listen now | What Makes a Donor Donate? The science of charity, with economist John List. Tuesday, 29-Nov-11 22:05 GMT |
| Listen now | The Truth Is Out There…Isn’t It? There’s a nasty secret about hot-button topics like global warming: knowledge is not always power. Tuesday, 22-Nov-11 20:47 GMT |
| Listen now | Unnatural Turkeys Our appetite for breast meat renders our holiday birds unable to reproduce. Wednesday, 16-Nov-11 17:12 GMT |
| Listen now | Wildfires, Cops, and Keggers On Election Day, most people focus on the obvious winners and losers -- that is, the candidates. But we went looking for some of the strange side effects that elections produce. Wednesday, 02-Nov-11 01:36 GMT |
| Listen now | Misadventures in Baby-Making We are constantly wowed by new technologies and policies meant to make childbirth better. But beware the unintended consequences. Tuesday, 25-Oct-11 21:17 BST |
| Listen now | Those Cheating Teachers! High-stakes testing has produced some rotten apples. But they can be caught. Tuesday, 18-Oct-11 19:05 BST |
| Listen now | Where Have All the Hitchhikers Gone? Did we needlessly scare ourselves into ditching a good thing? And, with millions of cars driving around with no passengers, should we be rooting for a renaissance? Monday, 10-Oct-11 04:05 BST |
| Listen now | The Decline and Fall of Violence The world is a more peaceful place today that at any time in history -- by a long, long shot. Wednesday, 05-Oct-11 00:39 BST |
| Listen now | The Upside of Quitting You know the saying: a winner never quits and a quitter never wins. To which Freakonomics Radio says … Are you sure? Wednesday, 28-Sep-11 06:08 BST |
| Listen now | The Folly of Prediction Human beings love to predict the future, but we're quite terrible at it. So how about punishing all those bad predictions? Wednesday, 14-Sep-11 15:00 BST |
| Listen now | The Suicide Paradox There are more than twice as many suicides as murders in the U.S., but suicide attracts far less scrutiny. Freakonomics Radio digs through the numbers and finds all kinds of surprises. Wednesday, 31-Aug-11 15:00 BST |
| Listen now | The Economist’s Guide to Parenting Think you know how much parents matter? Think again. Economists crunch the numbers to learn the ROI on child-rearing. Tuesday, 16-Aug-11 16:00 BST |
| Listen now | The Church of "Scionology" We worship the tradition of handing off a family business to the next generation. But is that really such a good idea? Wednesday, 03-Aug-11 16:00 BST |
| Listen now | Mouse in the Salad In restaurants and in life, bad things happen. But what happens next is just as important. Wednesday, 20-Jul-11 17:37 BST |
| Listen now | Hey Baby, Is That a Prius You're Driving? "Conspicuous conservation" is about showing off your environmental bona fides. In other words, if you lean green, there's extra value in being seen leaning green. Wednesday, 06-Jul-11 21:04 BST |
| Listen now | Live From St. Paul! Freakonomics Radio hits the road, and plays some Quiz Bowl Wednesday, 22-Jun-11 09:00 BST |
| Listen now | Things Our Fathers Gave Us What did Levitt and Dubner learn as kids from their dads? Wednesday, 08-Jun-11 16:39 BST |
| Listen now | To Catch a Fugitive Who is likelier to get to the fugitive first? When a fugitive is on the run, it’s not only the police he has to worry about. A bounty hunter could be coming after him, too. Wednesday, 25-May-11 19:10 BST |
| Listen now | Growing Up Buffett What’s it like to wake up one day and realize Dad is a multi-billionaire? That's what happened to Warren Buffett’s son Peter -- who then started to think about whether or not to join the family business. Wednesday, 11-May-11 21:41 BST |
| Listen now | Gambling With Your Life Does Las Vegas increase your risk of suicide? A researcher embeds himself in the city where Americans are most likely to kill themselves. Wednesday, 27-Apr-11 21:08 BST |
| Listen now | Does College Still Matter? And Other Freaky Questions Answered ... In our second round of FREAK-quently Asked Questions, Steve Levitt answers some queries from listeners and readers. Wednesday, 13-Apr-11 22:19 BST |
| Listen now | Smarter Kids at 10 Bucks a Pop It won’t work for everyone, but there’s a cheap, quick, and simple way to lift some students’ grades. Wednesday, 06-Apr-11 22:38 BST |
| Listen now | Why Can’t We Predict Earthquakes? We talk to a U.S. Geological Survey physicist about the science -- and folly -- of predicting earthquakes. There are lots of known knowns; and, fortunately, not too many unknown unknowns. But it's the known unknowns -- the timing of the next Big One... Wednesday, 30-Mar-11 17:13 BST |
| Listen now | Death by Fire? Probably Not Fire deaths in the U.S. have fallen 90 percent over the past 100 years, a great and greatly underappreciated gain. How did it happen -- and could we ever get to zero? Wednesday, 23-Mar-11 20:27 GMT |
| Listen now | The Health of Nations For decades, GDP has been the yardstick for measuring living standards around the world. Martha Nussbaum would rather use something that actually works. Wednesday, 16-Mar-11 22:30 GMT |
| Listen now | Is Twitter a Two-Way Street? To get a lot of followers on Twitter, do you need to follow a lot of other Tweeps? And if not, why not? Wednesday, 09-Mar-11 21:24 GMT |
| Listen now | The Power of Poop Since the beginning of civilization, we’ve thought that human waste was worthless and dangerous. What if we were wrong? Wednesday, 02-Mar-11 17:51 GMT |
