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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.
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584. How to Pave the Road to Hell
So you want to help people? That’s great — but beware the law of unintended consequences. Three stories from the modern workplace.
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Extra: The Men Who Started a Thinking Revolution (Update)
The psychologist Daniel Kahneman — a Nobel laureate and the author of “Thinking, Fast and Slow” — recently died at age 90. Along with his collaborator Amos Tversky, he changed how we all think about decision-making. The journalist Michael Lewis told the Kahneman-Tversky story in a 2016 book called "The Undoing Project." In this episode, Lewis explains why they had such a profound influence.
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Extra: The Men Who Started a Thinking Revolution (Update)
The psychologist Daniel Kahneman — a Nobel laureate and the author of “Thinking, Fast and Slow” — recently died at age 90. Along with his collaborator Amos Tversky, he changed how we all think about decision-making. The journalist Michael Lewis told the Kahneman-Tversky story in a 2016 book called "The Undoing Project." In this episode, Lewis explains why they had such a profound influence.
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Why Are There So Many Bad Bosses? (Update)
People who are good at their jobs routinely get promoted into bigger jobs they’re bad at. We explain why firms keep producing incompetent managers — and why that’s unlikely to change.
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583. Are We Living Through the Most Revolutionary Period in History?
Fareed Zakaria says yes. But it’s not just political revolution — it’s economic, technological, even emotional. He doesn’t offer easy solutions but he does offer some hope.
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Extra: How Much Do You Know About Immigration?
The political debates over immigration can generate a lot of fuzzy facts. We wanted to test Americans’ knowledge — so, to wrap up our special series on immigration, we called some Freakonomics Radio listeners and quizzed them.
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Life changing
Congrats on reaching 500 episodes! I’ve been listening to this show for almost a decade now and it has given me so much insight into things I didn’t even know could be interesting. Sports, well-being, education, environment - you name it, this podcast always uncovers a delightful, economic side of things.
Stephen is a master at asking the interesting, thought provoking questions, and does it in a way that disarms the interviewee even when the question could be taken as challenging or confrontational.
It’s also incredible how prepared he is for every single interview. I’m sure there is a whole team dedicated to research but the way Stephen presents it and guides the conversations (maybe it’s simply editing magic) is simply superb.
Fantastic!
First of all, thank you so much for presenting a brilliant podcast like this!
I am an English learner meanwhile have some sleeping issues because of the job.
But I have to say listening to this podcast at bed is really relaxing and helpful for me.
You speak clearly and wittily, and also the selected topic every time is very interesting!
Last but not least, hope this podcast could keep ROCKING in the future!
Always a good show
Thank you for all the research you do on topics and guests.