What Do Medieval Nuns and Bo Jackson Have in Common? (Rebroadcast)

Levitt and Dubner field questions from the public and hold forth on everything from dating strategies and rock-and-roll accordion music to whether different nations have different economic identities....

19 Jan 201116min

How economics -- and emotion -- have turned our garbage into such a mess Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for...

13 Jan 201121min

Having already amassed an eventful resume -- the Clinton White House, the Department of Justice, and Bertelsmann -- Joel I. Klein spent the past eight years at chancellor of the biggest school system ...

5 Jan 201114min

What happens when the most disturbing ideas are also the best? Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertisi...

29 Des 201026min

They should! It's a cardinal rule: more expensive items are supposed to be qualitatively better than their cheaper versions. But is that true for wine? Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pc...

15 Des 201024min

It’s the banking tool that got millions of people around the world to stop wasting money on the lottery. So why won't state and federal officials in the U.S. give it a chance? Hosted by Simplecast, an...

1 Des 201021min

For the most part, Americans don't like the simple, boring act of putting money in a savings account. We do, however, love to play the lottery. So what if you combined the two, creating a new kind of ...

17 Nov 201025min

The U.S. president is often called the "leader of free world." But if you ask an economist or a Constitutional scholar how much the occupant of the Oval Office matters, they won't say much. We look at...

3 Nov 201032min