Freakonomics Radio
Freakonomics co-author Stephen J. Dubner uncovers the hidden side of everything. Why is it safer to fly in an airplane than drive a car? How do we decide whom to marry? Why is the media so full of bad news? Also: things you never knew you wanted to know about wolves, bananas, pollution, search engines, and the quirks of human behavior. Join the Freakonomics Radio Plus membership program for weekly member-only episodes of Freakonomics Radio. You’ll also get every show in our network without ads. To sign up, visit our show page on Apple Podcasts or go to freakonomics.com/plus.
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451. Can I Ask You a Ridiculously Personal Question?
2021-02-11 • 42min
450. How to Be Better at Death
2021-02-04 • 57min
449. How to Fix the Incentives in Cancer Research
2021-01-28 • 44min
448. The Downside of Disgust
2021-01-21 • 45min
447. How Much Do We Really Care About Children?
2021-01-14 • 47min
446. “We Get All Our Great Stuff from Europe — Including Witch Hunting.”
2021-01-07 • 40min
Trust Me (Ep. 266 Rebroadcast)
2020-12-31 • 30min
445. Why Do We Seek Comfort in the Familiar?
2020-12-24 • 36min
444. How Do You Cure a Compassion Crisis?
2020-12-17 • 48min
443. A Sneak Peek at Biden’s Top Economist
2020-12-10 • 43min
PLAYBACK (2015): Could the Next Brooklyn Be ... Las Vegas?!
2020-12-06 • 57min
442. Is it Too Late for General Motors to Go Electric?
2020-12-03 • 44min
441. Does Advertising Actually Work? (Part 2: Digital)
2020-11-26 • 48min
440. Does Advertising Actually Work? (Part 1: TV)
2020-11-19 • 37min
439. Please Get Your Noise Out of My Ears
2020-11-12 • 49min
438. How to Succeed by Being Authentic (Hint: Carefully)
2020-11-05 • 47min
Why the Left Had to Steal the Right’s Dark-Money Playbook
2020-10-31 • 45min
437. Many Businesses Thought They Were Insured for a Pandemic. They Weren’t.
2020-10-29 • 40min
436. Forget Everything You Know About Your Dog
2020-10-22 • 57min
435. Why Are Cities (Still) So Expensive?
2020-10-15 • 44min
434. Is New York City Over?
2020-10-08 • 49min
“Don’t Neglect the Thing That Makes You Weird” | People I (Mostly) Admire: Ken Jennings
2020-10-03 • 47min
433. How Are Psychedelics and Other Party Drugs Changing Psychiatry?
2020-10-01 • 53min
432. When Your Safety Becomes My Danger
2020-09-24 • 47min
“One Does Not Know Where an Insight Will Come From” | People I (Mostly) Admire: Kerwin Charles
2020-09-19 • 39min
Does Anyone Really Know What Socialism Is? (Ep. 408 Rebroadcast)
2020-09-17 • 44min
What if Your Company Had No Rules?
2020-09-12 • 55min
431. Why Can’t Schools Get What the N.F.L. Has?
2020-09-10 • 49min
"I Started Crying When I Realized How Beautiful the Universe Is” | People I (Mostly) Admire Ep. 2: Mayim Bialik
2020-09-05 • 45min
America’s Hidden Duopoly (Ep. 356 Rebroadcast)
2020-09-03 • 53min
430. Will a Covid-19 Vaccine Change the Future of Medical Research?
2020-08-27 • 58min
Introducing “People I (Mostly) Admire"
2020-08-22 • 42min
The Economics of Sports Gambling (Ep. 388 Rebroadcast)
2020-08-20 • 54min
429. Is Economic Growth the Wrong Goal?
2020-08-13 • 41min
How the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War (Ep. 386 Rebroadcast)
2020-08-06 • 43min
428. The Simple Economics of Saving the Amazon Rain Forest
2020-07-30 • 32min
427. The Pros and Cons of Reparations
2020-07-23 • 40min
426. Should America (and FIFA) Pay Reparations?
2020-07-16 • 44min
425. Remembrance of Economic Crises Past
2020-07-09 • 51min
424. How to Make Your Own Luck
2020-07-02 • 1h 4s
423. The Doctor Will Zoom You Now
2020-06-25 • 52min
422. Introducing "No Stupid Questions"
2020-06-18 • 33min
421. How to Prevent Another Great Depression
2020-06-11 • 37min
420. Which Jobs Will Come Back, and When?
2020-06-04 • 42min
How to Make Meetings Less Terrible (Ep. 389 Rebroadcast)
2020-05-28 • 42min
419. 68 Ways to Be Better at Life
2020-05-21 • 37min
418. What Will College Look Like in the Fall (and Beyond)?
2020-05-14 • 55min
417. Reasons to Be Cheerful
2020-05-07 • 49min
416. How Do You Reopen a Country?
2020-04-30 • 53min
415. How Rahm Emanuel Would Run the World
2020-04-27 • 46min