Podd: Freakonomics Radio

Is San Francisco a Failed State? (And Other Questions You Shouldn’t Ask the Mayor)

22 januari | 59 min

618. Are Realtors Having an Existential Crisis?

17 januari | 53 min

617. Are You Really Allergic to Penicillin?

10 januari | 64 min

Highway Signs and Prison Labor

6 januari | 39 min

Can Academic Fraud Be Stopped? (Update)

2 januari | 69 min

Why Is There So Much Fraud in Academia? (Update)

26 december 2024 | 75 min

Your Brain Doesn’t Work the Way You Think

23 december 2024 | 48 min

616. How to Make Something from Nothing

19 december 2024 | 48 min

615. Is Ozempic as Magical as It Sounds?

12 december 2024 | 57 min

How the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War (Update)

9 december 2024 | 39 min

614. Is the U.S. Sleeping on Threats from Russia and China?

5 december 2024 | 51 min

613. Dying Is Easy. Retail Is Hard.

28 november 2024 | 62 min

612. Is Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade Its Most Valuable Asset?

21 november 2024 | 53 min

How to Stop Worrying and Love the Robot Apocalypse (Update)

18 november 2024 | 49 min

611. Fareed Zakaria on What Just Happened, and What Comes Next

14 november 2024 | 59 min

610. Who Wins and Who Loses Once the U.S. Legalizes Weed?

7 november 2024 | 43 min

609. What Does It Take to Run a Cannabis Farm?

31 oktober 2024 | 40 min

Abortion and Crime, Revisited (Update)

28 oktober 2024 | 55 min

608. Cannabis Is Booming, So Why Isn’t Anyone Getting Rich?

24 oktober 2024 | 51 min

607. Is America Switching From Booze to Weed?

17 oktober 2024 | 46 min

606. How to Predict the Presidency

11 oktober 2024 | 56 min

Has the U.S. Presidency Become a Dictatorship? (Update)

10 oktober 2024 | 47 min

605. What Do People Do All Day?

3 oktober 2024 | 61 min

EXTRA: Roland Fryer Refuses to Lie to Black America (Update)

30 september 2024 | 60 min

604. Did the N.F.L. Solve Diversity Hiring? (Part 2)

26 september 2024 | 47 min

603. Did the N.F.L. Solve Diversity Hiring? (Part 1)

19 september 2024 | 48 min

EXTRA: In Praise of Maintenance (Update)

16 september 2024 | 43 min

602. Is Screen Time as Poisonous as We Think?

12 september 2024 | 40 min

601. Multitasking Doesn’t Work. So Why Do We Keep Trying?

5 september 2024 | 58 min

What Is the Future of College — and Does It Have Room for Men? (Update)

29 augusti 2024 | 49 min

EXTRA: Why Quitting Is Usually Worth It

26 augusti 2024 | 40 min

The University of Impossible-to-Get-Into (Update)

22 augusti 2024 | 71 min

What Exactly Is College For? (Update)

15 augusti 2024 | 50 min

EXTRA: Here’s Why You’re Not an Elite Athlete (Update)

12 augusti 2024 | 66 min

600. “If We’re All in It for Ourselves, Who Are We?”

8 augusti 2024 | 45 min

599. The World's Most Valuable Unused Resource

1 augusti 2024 | 40 min

EXTRA: Why Rent Control Doesn’t Work (Update)

29 juli 2024 | 48 min

598. Is Overconsolidation a Threat to Democracy?

25 juli 2024 | 37 min

597. Why Do Your Eyeglasses Cost $1,000?

18 juli 2024 | 55 min

EXTRA: People Aren’t Dumb. The World Is Hard. (Update)

15 juli 2024 | 53 min

596. Farewell to a Generational Talent

11 juli 2024 | 53 min

595. Why Don't We Have Better Candidates for President?

4 juli 2024 | 62 min

594. Your Brand’s Spokesperson Just Got Arrested — Now What?

27 juni 2024 | 44 min

593. You Can Make a Killing, but Not a Living

20 juni 2024 | 50 min

EXTRA: The Fascinatingly Mundane Secrets of the World’s Most Exclusive Nightclub

17 juni 2024 | 45 min

592. How to Make the Coolest Show on Broadway

13 juni 2024 | 65 min

591. Signs of Progress, One Year at a Time

6 juni 2024 | 53 min

EXTRA: The Opioid Tragedy — How We Got Here

3 juni 2024 | 42 min

590. Can $55 Billion End the Opioid Epidemic?

30 maj 2024 | 41 min

589. Why Has the Opioid Crisis Lasted So Long?

23 maj 2024 | 49 min

Extra: Car Colors & Storage Units

20 maj 2024 | 35 min

588. Confessions of a Black Conservative

16 maj 2024 | 57 min

Should Companies Be Owned by Their Workers?

9 maj 2024 | 47 min

586. How Does the Lost World of Vienna Still Shape Our Lives?

2 maj 2024 | 57 min

Extra: Why Is 23andMe Going Under? (Update)

29 april 2024 | 62 min

585. A Social Activist in Prime Minister’s Clothing

25 april 2024 | 52 min

How to Pave the Road to Hell

18 april 2024 | 44 min

Extra: The Men Who Started a Thinking Revolution (Update)

14 april 2024 | 35 min

Why Are There So Many Bad Bosses?

11 april 2024 | 50 min

583. Are We Living Through the Most Revolutionary Period in History?

4 april 2024 | 63 min

Extra: How Much Do You Know About Immigration?

1 april 2024 | 28 min

582. Why Is Everyone Moving to Canada?

28 mars 2024 | 50 min

581. What Both Parties Get Wrong About Immigration

21 mars 2024 | 56 min

Extra: Madeleine Albright’s Warning on Immigration

18 mars 2024 | 29 min

580. The True Story of America’s Supremely Messed-Up Immigration System

14 mars 2024 | 55 min

579. Are You Caught in a Social Media Trap?

7 mars 2024 | 42 min

Extra: What Is Sportswashing — and Does It Work? (Update)

4 mars 2024 | 65 min

578. Water, Water Everywhere — But You Have to Stop and Think

29 februari 2024 | 52 min

Is Google Getting Worse? (Update)

22 februari 2024 | 57 min

Extra: Mr. Feynman Takes a Trip — But Doesn’t Fall

19 februari 2024 | 48 min

The Vanishing Mr. Feynman

15 februari 2024 | 61 min

The Brilliant Mr. Feynman

8 februari 2024 | 53 min

How the San Francisco 49ers Stopped Being Losers (Update)

5 februari 2024 | 64 min

The Curious Mr. Feynman

1 februari 2024 | 62 min

574. “A Low Moment in Higher Education”

25 januari 2024 | 47 min

5 Psychology Terms You’re Probably Misusing (Replay)

22 januari 2024 | 49 min

573. Can Academic Fraud Be Stopped?

18 januari 2024 | 63 min

572. Why Is There So Much Fraud in Academia?

11 januari 2024 | 74 min

571. Greeting Cards, Pizza Boxes, and Personal Injury Lawyers

4 januari 2024 | 49 min

570. Is Gynecology the Best Innovation Ever?

28 december 2023 | 46 min

569. Do You Need Closure?

21 december 2023 | 40 min

568. Why Are People So Mad at Michael Lewis?

14 december 2023 | 61 min

567. Do the Police Have a Management Problem?

7 december 2023 | 48 min

513. Should Public Transit Be Free? (Update)

30 november 2023 | 56 min

566. Why Is It So Hard (and Expensive) to Build Anything in America?

23 november 2023 | 55 min

Extra: Jason Kelce Hates to Lose

19 november 2023 | 57 min

565. Are Private Equity Firms Plundering the U.S. Economy?

16 november 2023 | 51 min

480. How Much Does Discrimination Hurt the Economy? (Replay)

9 november 2023 | 58 min

564. How to Succeed at Failing, Part 4: Extreme Resiliency

2 november 2023 | 52 min

563. How to Succeed at Failing, Part 3: Grit vs. Quit

26 oktober 2023 | 64 min

562. How to Succeed at Failing, Part 2: Life and Death

19 oktober 2023 | 54 min

561. How to Succeed at Failing, Part 1: The Chain of Events

12 oktober 2023 | 55 min

232. A New Nobel Laureate Explains the Gender Pay Gap (Replay)

10 oktober 2023 | 45 min

560. Is This “the Worst Job in Corporate America” — or Maybe the Best?

5 oktober 2023 | 40 min

559. Are Two C.E.O.s Better Than One?

28 september 2023 | 51 min

558. The Facts Are In: Two Parents Are Better Than One

21 september 2023 | 64 min

When Is a Superstar Just Another Employee?

14 september 2023 | 61 min

556. A.I. Is Changing Everything. Does That Include You?

7 september 2023 | 49 min

555. New Technologies Always Scare Us. Is A.I. Any Different?

31 augusti 2023 | 48 min

554. Can A.I. Take a Joke?

24 augusti 2023 | 48 min

553. The Suddenly Diplomatic Rahm Emanuel

17 augusti 2023 | 56 min

Should Traffic Lights Be Abolished? (Ep. 454 Replay)

10 augusti 2023 | 47 min

Extra: A Modern Whaler Speaks Up

6 augusti 2023 | 27 min

552. Freakonomics Radio Presents: The Economics of Everyday Things

3 augusti 2023 | 47 min

551. What Can Whales Teach Us About Clean Energy, Workplace Harmony, and Living the Good Life?

27 juli 2023 | 48 min

550. Why Do People Still Hunt Whales?

20 juli 2023 | 37 min

549. The First Great American Industry

13 juli 2023 | 44 min

548. Why Is the U.S. So Good at Killing Pedestrians?

6 juli 2023 | 45 min

Why Did You Marry That Person? (Ep. 511 Replay)

29 juni 2023 | 47 min

547. Satya Nadella’s Intelligence Is Not Artificial

22 juni 2023 | 37 min

546. Are E.S.G. Investors Actually Helping the Environment?

15 juni 2023 | 55 min

545. Enough with the Slippery Slopes!

8 juni 2023 | 44 min

544. Ari Emanuel Is Never Indifferent

1 juni 2023 | 66 min

Make Me a Match (Ep. 209 Update)

25 maj 2023 | 69 min

543. How to Return Stolen Art

18 maj 2023 | 52 min

542. Is a Museum Just a Trophy Case?

11 maj 2023 | 52 min

541. The Case of the $4 Million Gold Coffin

4 maj 2023 | 53 min

Why Your Projects Are Always Late — and What to Do About It (Ep. 323 Replay)

27 april 2023 | 43 min

540. Swearing Is More Important Than You Think

20 april 2023 | 45 min

539. Why Does One Tiny State Set the Rules for Everyone?

13 april 2023 | 47 min

538. A Radically Simple Way to Boost a Neighborhood

6 april 2023 | 48 min

How to Hate Taxes a Little Bit Less (Ep. 400 Replay)

30 mars 2023 | 43 min

537. “Insurance Is Sexy.” Discuss.

23 mars 2023 | 53 min

Why Are There So Many Bad Bosses? (Ep. 495 Replay)

16 mars 2023 | 50 min

536. Is Your Plane Ticket Too Expensive — or Too Cheap?

9 mars 2023 | 58 min

535. Why Is Flying Safer Than Driving?

2 mars 2023 | 56 min

534. Air Travel Is a Miracle. Why Do We Hate It?

23 februari 2023 | 58 min

Why Does the Most Monotonous Job in the World Pay $1 Million? (Ep. 493 Update)

16 februari 2023 | 53 min

The Economics of Everyday Things: Used Hotel Soaps

13 februari 2023 | 17 min

533. Will the Democrats “Make America Great Again”?

9 februari 2023 | 51 min

The Economics of Everyday Things: “My Sharona”

6 februari 2023 | 18 min

Is Economic Growth the Wrong Goal? (Ep. 429 Update)

2 februari 2023 | 42 min

The Economics of Everyday Things: Girl Scout Cookies

30 januari 2023 | 14 min

532. Do You Know Who Owns Your Vet?

26 januari 2023 | 47 min

Introducing “The Economics of Everyday Things”

23 januari 2023 | 15 min

531. Should You Trust Private Equity to Take Care of Your Dog?

19 januari 2023 | 42 min

Extra: Samin Nosrat Always Wanted to Be Famous

16 januari 2023 | 39 min

530. What's Wrong with Being a One-Hit Wonder?

12 januari 2023 | 49 min

529. Can Our Surroundings Make Us Smarter?

5 januari 2023 | 47 min

528. Yuval Noah Harari Thinks Life is Meaningless and Amazing

29 december 2022 | 52 min

527. Can Adam Smith Fix Our Economy?

22 december 2022 | 49 min

526. Was Adam Smith Really a Right-Winger?

15 december 2022 | 69 min

Freakonomics Radio Needs Your Help

12 december 2022 | 6 min

525. In Search of the Real Adam Smith

8 december 2022 | 47 min

524. How Important Is Breastfeeding, Really?

1 december 2022 | 32 min

523. Did Michael Lewis Just Get Lucky with “Moneyball”?

24 november 2022 | 53 min

522. Is Google Getting Worse?

17 november 2022 | 53 min

The Most Interesting Fruit in the World (Ep. 375 Update)

10 november 2022 | 39 min

521. I’m Your Biggest Fan!

3 november 2022 | 44 min

The Unintended Consequences of Working from Home

27 oktober 2022 | 40 min

519. Has Globalization Failed?

20 oktober 2022 | 46 min

518. Are Personal Finance Gurus Giving You Bad Advice?

13 oktober 2022 | 62 min

517. Are M.B.A.s to Blame for Wage Stagnation?

6 oktober 2022 | 48 min

Please Get Your Noise Out of My Ears (Ep. 439 Update)

29 september 2022 | 52 min

516. Nuclear Power Isn’t Perfect. Is It Good Enough?

22 september 2022 | 54 min

Extra: Ken Burns | People I (Mostly) Admire

19 september 2022 | 46 min

515. When You Pray to God Online, Who Else Is Listening?

15 september 2022 | 45 min

This Is Your Brain on Pollution (Ep. 472 Update)

8 september 2022 | 48 min

514. Roland Fryer Refuses to Lie to Black America

1 september 2022 | 60 min

513. Should Public Transit Be Free?

25 augusti 2022 | 46 min

Why Is U.S. Media So Negative? (Ep. 477 Replay)

18 augusti 2022 | 48 min

The Pros and Cons of America’s (Extreme) Individualism (Ep. 470 Replay)

11 augusti 2022 | 48 min

The U.S. Is Just Different — So Let’s Stop Pretending We’re Not (Ep. 469 Replay)

4 augusti 2022 | 52 min

512. Does Philosophy Still Matter?

28 juli 2022 | 50 min

511. Why Did You Marry That Person?

21 juli 2022 | 46 min

The Economist’s Guide to Parenting: 10 Years Later (Ep. 479 Replay)

14 juli 2022 | 51 min

510. What Problems Does Crypto Solve, Anyway?

7 juli 2022 | 52 min

509. Are N.F.T.s All Scams?

30 juni 2022 | 48 min

508. Does the Crypto Crash Mean the Blockchain Is Over?

23 juni 2022 | 50 min

507. 103 Pieces of Advice That May or May Not Work

16 juni 2022 | 40 min

506. What Is Sportswashing (and Does It Work)?

9 juni 2022 | 50 min

505. Did Domestic Violence Really Spike During the Pandemic?

2 juni 2022 | 51 min

504. Introducing “Off Leash”

26 maj 2022 | 39 min

503. What Is the Future of College — and Does It Have Room for Men?

19 maj 2022 | 48 min

Abortion and Crime, Revisited (Ep. 384 Update)

12 maj 2022 | 58 min

502. “I Don’t Think the Country Is Turning Away From College.”

5 maj 2022 | 44 min

501. The University of Impossible-to-Get-Into

28 april 2022 | 59 min

500. What Exactly Is College For?

21 april 2022 | 46 min

Is the U.S. Really Less Corrupt Than China — and How About Russia? (Ep. 481 Update)

14 april 2022 | 68 min

499. Don't Worry, Be Tacky

7 april 2022 | 38 min

498. In the 1890s, the Best-Selling Car Was … Electric

31 mars 2022 | 43 min

497. Can the Big Bad Wolf Save Your Life?

24 mars 2022 | 47 min

How to Change Your Mind (Ep. 379 Update)

17 mars 2022 | 48 min

Do Unions Still Work?

10 mars 2022 | 52 min

Why Are There So Many Bad Bosses?

3 mars 2022 | 49 min

494. Why Do Most Ideas Fail to Scale?

24 februari 2022 | 49 min

Why Does the Richest Country in the World Have So Many Poor Kids? (Ep. 475 Update)

17 februari 2022 | 54 min

493. Why Does the Most Monotonous Job in the World Pay $1 Million?

10 februari 2022 | 51 min

Are You Ready for a Fresh Start? (Ep. 455 Replay)

3 februari 2022 | 45 min

492. How Did a Hayfield Become One of America’s Hottest Cities?

27 januari 2022 | 39 min

491. Why Is Everyone Moving to Dallas?

20 januari 2022 | 48 min

490. What Do Broken-Hearted Knitters, Urinating Goalkeepers, and the C.I.A. Have in Common?

13 januari 2022 | 47 min

489. Is “Toxic Positivity” a Thing?

6 januari 2022 | 36 min

488. Does Death Have to Be a Death Sentence?

30 december 2021 | 54 min

487. Is It Okay to Have a Party Yet?

23 december 2021 | 31 min

486. “The Art Market Is in Massive Disruption.”

16 december 2021 | 42 min

485. “I’ve Been Working My Ass Off for You to Make that Profit?”

9 december 2021 | 46 min

484. “A Fascinating, Sexy, Intellectually Compelling, Unregulated Global Market.”

2 december 2021 | 53 min

How Do You Cure a Compassion Crisis? (Ep. 444 Replay)

25 november 2021 | 51 min

483. What’s Wrong With Shortcuts?

18 november 2021 | 43 min

482. Is Venture Capital the Secret Sauce of the American Economy?

11 november 2021 | 46 min

481. Is the U.S. Really Less Corrupt Than China?

4 november 2021 | 56 min

480. How Much Does Discrimination Hurt the Economy?

28 oktober 2021 | 53 min

479. The Economist’s Guide to Parenting: 10 Years Later

21 oktober 2021 | 51 min

478. How Can We Break Our Addiction to Contempt?

14 oktober 2021 | 42 min

477. Why Is U.S. Media So Negative?

7 oktober 2021 | 47 min

That’s a Great Question! (Ep. 192 Rebroadcast)

30 september 2021 | 19 min

“This Didn't End the Way It’s Supposed to End.” (Bonus)

27 september 2021 | 33 min

476. What Are the Police for, Anyway?

23 september 2021 | 46 min

475. Why Does the Richest Country in the World Have So Many Poor Kids?

16 september 2021 | 49 min

474. All You Need Is Nudge

9 september 2021 | 59 min

Is There Really a “Loneliness Epidemic”? (Ep. 407 Rebroadcast)

2 september 2021 | 36 min

473. These Jobs Were Not Posted on ZipRecruiter

26 augusti 2021 | 47 min

Reasons to Be Cheerful (Ep. 417 Rebroadcast)

19 augusti 2021 | 53 min

472. This Is Your Brain on Pollution

12 augusti 2021 | 46 min

471. Mayor Pete and Elaine Chao Hit the Road

5 augusti 2021 | 49 min

Two (Totally Opposite) Ways to Save the Planet (Rebroadcast)

29 juli 2021 | 53 min

470. The Pros and Cons of America’s (Extreme) Individualism

22 juli 2021 | 48 min

469. The U.S. Is Just Different — So Let’s Stop Pretending We’re Not

15 juli 2021 | 50 min

468. Nap Time for Everyone!

8 juli 2021 | 37 min

How Stupid Is Our Obsession With Lawns? (Ep. 289 Rebroadcast)

1 juli 2021 | 27 min

467. Is the Future of Farming in the Ocean?

24 juni 2021 | 43 min

466. She’s From the Government, and She’s Here to Help

17 juni 2021 | 45 min

465. Introducing a New “Freakonomics of Medicine” Podcast

10 juni 2021 | 23 min

464. Will Work-from-Home Work Forever?

3 juni 2021 | 48 min

463. How to Get Anyone to Do Anything

27 maj 2021 | 58 min

These Shoes Are Killing Me! (Ep. 296 Rebroadcast)

20 maj 2021 | 40 min

462. The Future of New York City Is in Question. Could Andrew Yang Be the Answer?

13 maj 2021 | 43 min

461. How to Stop Worrying and Love the Robot Apocalypse

6 maj 2021 | 48 min

460. The True Story of the Minimum-Wage Fight

29 april 2021 | 44 min

459. Let’s Be Blunt: Marijuana Is a Boon for Older Workers

22 april 2021 | 35 min

458. How to Manage Your Goal Hierarchy

15 april 2021 | 51 min

457. Is Dialysis a Test Case of Medicare for All?

8 april 2021 | 53 min

456. How to Fix the Hot Mess of U.S. Healthcare

1 april 2021 | 50 min

Policymaking Is Not a Science (Yet) (Ep. 405 Rebroadcast)

25 mars 2021 | 46 min

How Does New York City Keep Reinventing Itself? (Bonus)

21 mars 2021 | 52 min

455. Are You Ready for a Fresh Start?

18 mars 2021 | 42 min

454. Should Traffic Lights Be Abolished?

11 mars 2021 | 45 min

453. A Rescue Plan for Black America

4 mars 2021 | 57 min

Am I Boring You? (Ep. 225 Rebroadcast)

25 februari 2021 | 39 min

452. Jeff Immelt Knows He Let You Down

18 februari 2021 | 46 min

451. Can I Ask You a Ridiculously Personal Question?

11 februari 2021 | 43 min

450. How to Be Better at Death

4 februari 2021 | 58 min

449. How to Fix the Incentives in Cancer Research

28 januari 2021 | 44 min

448. The Downside of Disgust

21 januari 2021 | 46 min

447. How Much Do We Really Care About Children?

14 januari 2021 | 48 min

446. “We Get All Our Great Stuff from Europe — Including Witch Hunting.”

7 januari 2021 | 40 min

Trust Me (Ep. 266 Rebroadcast)

31 december 2020 | 31 min

445. Why Do We Seek Comfort in the Familiar?

24 december 2020 | 37 min

444. How Do You Cure a Compassion Crisis?

17 december 2020 | 49 min

443. A Sneak Peek at Biden’s Top Economist

10 december 2020 | 43 min

PLAYBACK (2015): Could the Next Brooklyn Be ... Las Vegas?!

6 december 2020 | 57 min

442. Is it Too Late for General Motors to Go Electric?

3 december 2020 | 45 min

441. Does Advertising Actually Work? (Part 2: Digital)

26 november 2020 | 48 min

440. Does Advertising Actually Work? (Part 1: TV)

19 november 2020 | 37 min

439. Please Get Your Noise Out of My Ears

12 november 2020 | 50 min

438. How to Succeed by Being Authentic (Hint: Carefully)

5 november 2020 | 48 min

Why the Left Had to Steal the Right’s Dark-Money Playbook

31 oktober 2020 | 45 min

437. Many Businesses Thought They Were Insured for a Pandemic. They Weren’t.

29 oktober 2020 | 41 min

436. Forget Everything You Know About Your Dog

22 oktober 2020 | 58 min

435. Why Are Cities (Still) So Expensive?

15 oktober 2020 | 45 min

434. Is New York City Over?

8 oktober 2020 | 49 min

“Don’t Neglect the Thing That Makes You Weird” | People I (Mostly) Admire: Ken Jennings

3 oktober 2020 | 47 min

433. How Are Psychedelics and Other Party Drugs Changing Psychiatry?

1 oktober 2020 | 54 min

432. When Your Safety Becomes My Danger

24 september 2020 | 48 min

“One Does Not Know Where an Insight Will Come From” | People I (Mostly) Admire: Kerwin Charles

19 september 2020 | 39 min

Does Anyone Really Know What Socialism Is? (Ep. 408 Rebroadcast)

17 september 2020 | 44 min

What if Your Company Had No Rules?

12 september 2020 | 55 min

431. Why Can’t Schools Get What the N.F.L. Has?

10 september 2020 | 50 min

"I Started Crying When I Realized How Beautiful the Universe Is” | People I (Mostly) Admire Ep. 2: Mayim Bialik

5 september 2020 | 45 min

America’s Hidden Duopoly (Ep. 356 Rebroadcast)

3 september 2020 | 53 min

430. Will a Covid-19 Vaccine Change the Future of Medical Research?

27 augusti 2020 | 58 min

Introducing “People I (Mostly) Admire"

22 augusti 2020 | 43 min

The Economics of Sports Gambling (Ep. 388 Rebroadcast)

20 augusti 2020 | 55 min

429. Is Economic Growth the Wrong Goal?

13 augusti 2020 | 41 min

How the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War (Ep. 386 Rebroadcast)

6 augusti 2020 | 44 min

428. The Simple Economics of Saving the Amazon Rain Forest

30 juli 2020 | 32 min

427. The Pros and Cons of Reparations

23 juli 2020 | 40 min

426. Should America (and FIFA) Pay Reparations?

16 juli 2020 | 44 min

425. Remembrance of Economic Crises Past

9 juli 2020 | 52 min

424. How to Make Your Own Luck

2 juli 2020 | 60 min

423. The Doctor Will Zoom You Now

25 juni 2020 | 53 min

422. Introducing "No Stupid Questions"

18 juni 2020 | 34 min

421. How to Prevent Another Great Depression

11 juni 2020 | 38 min

420. Which Jobs Will Come Back, and When?

4 juni 2020 | 42 min

How to Make Meetings Less Terrible (Ep. 389 Rebroadcast)

28 maj 2020 | 43 min

419. 68 Ways to Be Better at Life

21 maj 2020 | 37 min

418. What Will College Look Like in the Fall (and Beyond)?

14 maj 2020 | 56 min

417. Reasons to Be Cheerful

7 maj 2020 | 50 min

416. How Do You Reopen a Country?

30 april 2020 | 54 min

415. How Rahm Emanuel Would Run the World

27 april 2020 | 47 min

414. Will Covid-19 Spark a Cold War (or Worse) With China?

23 april 2020 | 58 min

413. Who Gets the Ventilator?

16 april 2020 | 48 min

412. What Happens When Everyone Stays Home to Eat?

9 april 2020 | 46 min

411. Is $2 Trillion the Right Medicine for a Sick Economy?

2 april 2020 | 53 min

410. What Does Covid-19 Mean for Cities (and Marriages)?

26 mars 2020 | 40 min

409. The Side Effects of Social Distancing

19 mars 2020 | 48 min

Why Rent Control Doesn’t Work (Ep. 373 Rebroadcast)

12 mars 2020 | 47 min

408. Does Anyone Really Know What Socialism Is?

5 mars 2020 | 43 min

407. Is There Really a “Loneliness Epidemic”?

27 februari 2020 | 33 min

406. Can You Hear Me Now?

20 februari 2020 | 48 min

405. Policymaking Is Not a Science (Yet)

13 februari 2020 | 45 min

404. Does the President Matter as Much as You Think?

6 februari 2020 | 52 min

How the San Francisco 49ers Stopped Being Losers (Ep. 350 Update)

30 januari 2020 | 61 min

403. The Opioid Tragedy, Part 2: “It’s Not a Death Sentence”

23 januari 2020 | 46 min

402. The Opioid Tragedy, Part 1: “We’ve Addicted an Entire Generation”

16 januari 2020 | 48 min

5 Psychology Terms You’re Probably Misusing (Rebroadcast)

9 januari 2020 | 48 min

The Zero-Minute Workout (Rebroadcast)

2 januari 2020 | 39 min

401. How Many Prince Charleses Can There Be in One Room?

26 december 2019 | 34 min

Why Is This Man Running for President? (Update)

19 december 2019 | 59 min

400. How to Hate Taxes a Little Bit Less

12 december 2019 | 43 min

399. Honey, I Grew the Economy

5 december 2019 | 43 min

How to Change Your Mind (Rebroadcast)

28 november 2019 | 45 min

398. The Truth About the Vaping Crisis

21 november 2019 | 44 min

397. How to Save $32 Million in One Hour

14 november 2019 | 45 min

396. Why Does Tipping Still Exist?

7 november 2019 | 47 min

395. Speak Softly and Carry Big Data

31 oktober 2019 | 63 min

394. Does Hollywood Still Have a Princess Problem?

24 oktober 2019 | 50 min

393. Can Britain Get Its “Great” Back?

17 oktober 2019 | 60 min

392. The Prime Minister Who Cried Brexit

10 oktober 2019 | 52 min

391. America’s Math Curriculum Doesn’t Add Up

3 oktober 2019 | 46 min

390. Fed Up

26 september 2019 | 42 min

389. How to Make Meetings Less Terrible

19 september 2019 | 42 min

Yes, the Open Office Is Terrible — But It Doesn’t Have to Be

12 september 2019 | 42 min

388. The Economics of Sports Gambling

5 september 2019 | 55 min

The Future of Meat (Rebroadcast)

29 augusti 2019 | 53 min

Should America Be Run by … Trader Joe’s? (Rebroadcast)

22 augusti 2019 | 48 min

387. Hello, My Name Is Marijuana Pepsi!

15 augusti 2019 | 39 min

How Much Does Your Name Matter? (Rebroadcast )

8 augusti 2019 | 51 min

386. How the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War

1 augusti 2019 | 40 min

America’s Hidden Duopoly (Rebroadcast)

25 juli 2019 | 53 min

385. What Do Nancy Pelosi, Taylor Swift, and Serena Williams Have in Common?

18 juli 2019 | 36 min

384. Abortion and Crime, Revisited

11 juli 2019 | 55 min

A Better Way to Eat (Rebroadcast )

4 juli 2019 | 27 min

383. The Zero-Minute Workout

27 juni 2019 | 37 min

382. How Goes the Behavior-Change Revolution?

20 juni 2019 | 51 min

381. Long-Term Thinking in a Start-Up Town

13 juni 2019 | 50 min

380. Notes From an Imperfect Paradise

6 juni 2019 | 50 min

379. How to Change Your Mind

30 maj 2019 | 46 min

Here’s Why All Your Projects Are Always Late — and What to Do About It (Rebroadcast)

23 maj 2019 | 42 min

378. 23andMe (and You, and Everyone Else)

16 maj 2019 | 49 min

377. The $1.5 Trillion Question-How to fix student loan debt?

9 maj 2019 | 48 min

376. The Data-Driven Guide to Sane Parenting

2 maj 2019 | 50 min

The Invisible Paw (Rebroadcast)

25 april 2019 | 47 min

375. The Most Interesting Fruit in the World

18 april 2019 | 37 min

374. How Spotify Saved the Music Industry (But Not Necessarily Musicians)

11 april 2019 | 58 min

373. Why Rent Control Doesn’t Work

4 april 2019 | 48 min

372. Freakonomics Radio Live: “Would You Eat a Piece of Chocolate Shaped Like Dog Poop?”

28 mars 2019 | 54 min

Why You Shouldn’t Open a Restaurant (Update)

21 mars 2019 | 49 min

371. A Free-Trade Democrat in the Trump White House

14 mars 2019 | 48 min

370. How to Fail Like a Pro

7 mars 2019 | 41 min

369. A Good Idea Is Not Good Enough

28 februari 2019 | 54 min

368. Where Do Good Ideas Come From?

21 februari 2019 | 62 min

367. The Future of Meat

14 februari 2019 | 52 min

366. This Economist Predicted the Last Crisis. What’s the Next One?

7 februari 2019 | 49 min

Extra: Domonique Foxworth Full Interview

2 februari 2019 | 90 min

365. Not Just Another Labor Force

31 januari 2019 | 60 min

Extra: Mark Cuban Full Interview

26 januari 2019 | 42 min

364. Inside the Sports-Industrial Complex

24 januari 2019 | 53 min

Extra: Mark Teixeira Full Interview

19 januari 2019 | 59 min

363. Think Like a Winner

17 januari 2019 | 55 min

Hacking the World Bank (Update)

12 januari 2019 | 36 min

362. Why Is This Man Running for President?

10 januari 2019 | 52 min

How to Be Happy (Rebroadcast)

3 januari 2019 | 38 min

How to Win Games and Beat People (Rebroadcast)

27 december 2018 | 52 min

People Aren’t Dumb. The World Is Hard. (Rebroadcast)

20 december 2018 | 58 min

Freakonomics Radio Live: “The World’s a Mess. But Oysters, They Hold it Down.”

15 december 2018 | 57 min

Freakonomics Radio Live: “Where Does Fear Live in the Brain?”

15 december 2018 | 55 min

Freakonomics Radio Live: “We Thought of a Way to Manipulate Your Perception of Time.”

15 december 2018 | 57 min

361. Freakonomics Radio Live: “Jesus Could Have Been a Pigeon.”

13 december 2018 | 60 min

360. Is the Protestant Work Ethic Real?

6 december 2018 | 41 min

359. Should America Be Run by … Trader Joe’s?

29 november 2018 | 47 min

There’s a War on Sugar. Is It Justified? (Rebroadcast)

22 november 2018 | 47 min

358. Yes, the Open Office Is Terrible — But It Doesn’t Have to Be

15 november 2018 | 41 min

357. Can an Industrial Giant Become a Tech Darling?

8 november 2018 | 54 min

356. America’s Hidden Duopoly

1 november 2018 | 54 min

Extra: Elvis Costello Full Interview

27 oktober 2018 | 80 min

355. Where Does Creativity Come From (and Why Do Schools Kill It Off)?

25 oktober 2018 | 74 min

Extra: Jeremy Lin Full Interview

20 oktober 2018 | 43 min

354. How to Be Creative

18 oktober 2018 | 53 min

353. How to Optimize Your Apology

11 oktober 2018 | 49 min

352. Can This Man Stop a Trade War?

4 oktober 2018 | 43 min

Extra: Shawn Johnson Full Interview

1 oktober 2018 | 67 min

351. Here’s Why You’re Not an Elite Athlete

27 september 2018 | 68 min

Extra: Full Interviews With Jimmy Garoppolo, Joe Staley, Mike McGlinchey, and Kyle Juszczyk

23 september 2018 | 80 min

350. How to Stop Being a Loser

20 september 2018 | 61 min

349. How Sports Became Us

13 september 2018 | 52 min

348. Is the Government More Entrepreneurial Than You Think?

6 september 2018 | 35 min

347. Why You Shouldn’t Open a Restaurant

30 augusti 2018 | 37 min

346. Two (Totally Opposite) Ways to Save the Planet

23 augusti 2018 | 51 min

345. How to Be Happy

16 augusti 2018 | 38 min

344. Who Decides How Much a Life Is Worth?

9 augusti 2018 | 38 min

A Conversation With PepsiCo C.E.O. Indra Nooyi (Ep. 316 Update)

7 augusti 2018 | 46 min

343. An Astronaut, a Catalan, and Two Linguists Walk Into a Bar…

2 augusti 2018 | 54 min

342. Has Lance Armstrong Finally Come Clean?

26 juli 2018 | 51 min

341. Why We Choke Under Pressure (and How Not To)

19 juli 2018 | 45 min

340. People Aren’t Dumb. The World Is Hard.

12 juli 2018 | 57 min

339. The Future of Freakonomics Radio

3 juli 2018 | 36 min

In Praise of Incrementalism (Rebroadcast)

28 juni 2018 | 49 min

In Praise of Maintenance (Rebroadcast)

21 juni 2018 | 42 min

338. How to Catch World Cup Fever

14 juni 2018 | 57 min

337. How to Build a Smart City

7 juni 2018 | 39 min

How Stupid Is Our Obsession With Lawns? (Rebroadcast)

31 maj 2018 | 28 min

336. The Most Vilified Industry in America Is Also the Most Charitable

24 maj 2018 | 33 min

335. Does Doing Good Give You License to Be Bad?

17 maj 2018 | 37 min

334. 5 Psychology Terms You’re Probably Misusing

10 maj 2018 | 50 min

Evolution, Accelerated (Rebroadcast)

3 maj 2018 | 36 min

333. The Most Ambitious Thing Humans Have Ever Attempted

26 april 2018 | 52 min

332. Why the Trump Tax Cuts Are Terrible/Awesome (Part 2)

19 april 2018 | 45 min

331. Why the Trump Tax Cuts are Awesome/Terrible (Part 1)

12 april 2018 | 45 min

330. Extra: Ray Dalio Full Interview

9 april 2018 | 77 min

329. The Invisible Paw

5 april 2018 | 48 min

328. Extra: Mark Zuckerberg Full Interview

2 april 2018 | 46 min

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Money (But Were Afraid to Ask) (Rebroadcast)

29 mars 2018 | 45 min

327. Extra: Carol Bartz Full Interview

26 mars 2018 | 51 min

The Stupidest Thing You Can Do With Your Money (Rebroadcast)

22 mars 2018 | 47 min

326. Extra: Jack Welch Full Interview

19 mars 2018 | 56 min

325. How to Train Your Dragon Child

15 mars 2018 | 36 min

324. Extra: Satya Nadella Full Interview

12 mars 2018 | 40 min

323. Here’s Why All Your Projects Are Always Late — and What to Do About It

8 mars 2018 | 41 min

322. Extra: David Rubenstein Full Interview

5 mars 2018 | 89 min

Does “Early Education” Come Way Too Late? (Rebroadcast)

1 mars 2018 | 47 min

321. Extra: Richard Branson Full Interview

26 februari 2018 | 54 min

320. Letting Go

22 februari 2018 | 45 min

319. After the Glass Ceiling, a Glass Cliff

15 februari 2018 | 52 min

318. It’s Your Problem Now

8 februari 2018 | 44 min

317. What Can Uber Teach Us About the Gender Pay Gap?

6 februari 2018 | 43 min

An Egghead’s Guide to the Super Bowl (Rebroadcast)

3 februari 2018 | 28 min

316. “I Wasn’t Stupid Enough to Say This Could Be Done Overnight”

1 februari 2018 | 48 min

315. How to Become a C.E.O.

25 januari 2018 | 44 min

What Does a C.E.O. Actually Do?

18 januari 2018 | 39 min

313. How to Be a Modern Democrat — and Win

11 januari 2018 | 38 min

Why Is My Life So Hard? (Rebroadcast)

4 januari 2018 | 30 min

Trust Me (Rebroadcast)

28 december 2017 | 30 min

Make Me a Match (Rebroadcast)

21 december 2017 | 53 min

312. Not Your Grandmother’s I.M.F.

14 december 2017 | 38 min

311. Why Is the Live-Event Ticket Market So Screwed Up?

7 december 2017 | 48 min

310. Are We Running Out of Ideas?

30 november 2017 | 37 min

Is America Ready for a “No-Lose Lottery”? (Update)

23 november 2017 | 45 min

309. Nurses to the Rescue!

16 november 2017 | 58 min

308. How Can I Do the Most Social Good With $100? And Other FREAK-quently Asked Questions

9 november 2017 | 43 min

Why Is There So Much Ground Beef in the World? (Special Feature)

7 november 2017 | 43 min

307. Thinking Is Expensive. Who’s Supposed to Pay for It?

2 november 2017 | 39 min

306. How to Launch a Behavior-Change Revolution

26 oktober 2017 | 45 min

305. The Demonization of Gluten

19 oktober 2017 | 44 min

304. What Are the Secrets of the German Economy — and Should We Steal Them?

12 oktober 2017 | 57 min

“Tell Me Something I Don't Know” on the topic of Behavior Change (Special Feature)

1 oktober 2017 | 54 min

303. Why Larry Summers Is the Economist Everyone Hates to Love

28 september 2017 | 50 min

302. Why Learn Esperanto?

26 september 2017 | 31 min

301. What Would Be the Best Universal Language? (Earth 2.0 Series)

21 september 2017 | 41 min

300. Why Don’t We All Speak the Same Language? (Earth 2.0 Series)

14 september 2017 | 43 min

299. "How Much Brain Damage Do I Have?"

7 september 2017 | 47 min

Bad Medicine, Part 3: Death by Diagnosis (Rebroadcast)

31 augusti 2017 | 49 min

Bad Medicine, Part 2: (Drug) Trials and Tribulations (Rebroadcast)

24 augusti 2017 | 46 min

Bad Medicine, Part 1: The Story of 98.6 (Rebroadcast)

17 augusti 2017 | 44 min

What Are You Waiting For? (Rebroadcast)

10 augusti 2017 | 36 min

298. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Money (But Were Afraid to Ask)

3 augusti 2017 | 44 min

297. The Stupidest Thing You Can Do With Your Money

27 juli 2017 | 48 min

296. These Shoes Are Killing Me!

20 juli 2017 | 39 min

295. When Helping Hurts

13 juli 2017 | 51 min

294. The Fracking Boom, a Baby Boom, and the Retreat From Marriage

6 juli 2017 | 44 min

The Harvard President Will See You Now (Rebroadcast)

29 juni 2017 | 39 min

293. Why Hate the Koch Brothers? (Part 2)

23 juni 2017 | 37 min

292. Why Hate the Koch Brothers? (Part 1)

22 juni 2017 | 45 min

"Tell Me Something I Don't Know" on the topic of Rivalry

20 juni 2017 | 57 min

291. Evolution, Accelerated

15 juni 2017 | 36 min

290. He’s One of the Most Famous Political Operatives in America. America Just Doesn’t Know It Yet.

8 juni 2017 | 42 min

289. How Stupid Is Our Obsession With Lawns?

1 juni 2017 | 28 min

288. Are the Rich Really Less Generous Than the Poor?

25 maj 2017 | 42 min

287. Hoopers! Hoopers! Hoopers!

18 maj 2017 | 39 min

286. How Big is My Penis? (And Other Things We Ask Google)

11 maj 2017 | 34 min

Food + Science = Victory! (Rebroadcast)

4 maj 2017 | 37 min

285. There’s a War on Sugar. Is It Justified?

27 april 2017 | 46 min

284. Is Income Inequality Inevitable? (Earth 2.0 Series)

20 april 2017 | 41 min

283. What Would Our Economy Look Like? (Earth 2.0 Series)

13 april 2017 | 43 min

282. Could Solving This One Problem Solve All the Others?

6 april 2017 | 35 min

281. Big Returns from Thinking Small

30 mars 2017 | 31 min

280. “Tell Me Something I Don’t Know” on the topic of Collections.

28 mars 2017 | 51 min

How Safe Is Your Job? (Rebroadcast)

23 mars 2017 | 33 min

279. Why Is My Life So Hard?

16 mars 2017 | 31 min

278. Chuck E. Cheese’s: Where a Kid Can Learn Price Theory

9 mars 2017 | 31 min

277. The Taboo Trifecta

2 mars 2017 | 32 min

276. No Hollywood Ending for the Visual-Effects Industry

23 februari 2017 | 56 min

275. Professor Hendryx vs. Big Coal

16 februari 2017 | 37 min

How to Get More Grit in Your Life

9 februari 2017 | 42 min

274. An Egghead’s Guide to the Super Bowl

2 februari 2017 | 28 min

273. Did China Eat America’s Jobs?

26 januari 2017 | 38 min

Is the American Dream Really Dead?

19 januari 2017 | 39 min

272. Trevor Noah Has a Lot to Say

12 januari 2017 | 35 min

271. The Men Who Started a Thinking Revolution

5 januari 2017 | 35 min

How to Become Great at Just About Anything (Rebroadcast)

29 december 2016 | 50 min

How to Be More Productive (Rebroadcast)

22 december 2016 | 39 min

270. Bad Medicine, Part 3: Death by Diagnosis

15 december 2016 | 49 min

269. Bad Medicine, Part 2: (Drug) Trials and Tribulations

8 december 2016 | 45 min

268. Bad Medicine, Part 1: The Story of 98.6

1 december 2016 | 45 min

The No-Tipping Point (Rebroadcast)

24 november 2016 | 44 min

267. How to Make a Bad Decision

17 november 2016 | 36 min

Introducing Stephen J. Dubner's new podcast, "Tell Me Something I Don't Know"

15 november 2016 | 53 min

266. Trust Me

10 november 2016 | 28 min

How Much Does the President Really Matter? (Rebroadcast )

9 november 2016 | 33 min

265. The White House Gets Into the Nudge Business

3 november 2016 | 42 min

264. In Praise of Incrementalism

27 oktober 2016 | 49 min

263. In Praise of Maintenance

20 oktober 2016 | 42 min

262. This Is Your Brain on Podcasts

13 oktober 2016 | 45 min

How To Win A Nobel Prize (Rebroadcast)

6 oktober 2016 | 45 min

261. Why Are We Still Using Cash?

29 september 2016 | 43 min

260. Has the U.S. Presidency Become a Dictatorship?

22 september 2016 | 48 min

259. Ten Signs You Might Be a Libertarian

15 september 2016 | 51 min

258. Why Uber Is an Economist’s Dream

8 september 2016 | 38 min

257. The Future (Probably) Isn’t as Scary as You Think

1 september 2016 | 35 min

Are You Ready for a Glorious Sunset? (Rebroadcast)

25 augusti 2016 | 38 min

Aziz Ansari Needs Another Toothbrush (Rebroadcast)

18 augusti 2016 | 31 min

256. What Are You Waiting For?

11 augusti 2016 | 35 min

Is It Okay for Restaurants to Racially Profile Their Employees? (Rebroadcast)

4 augusti 2016 | 52 min

255. Ten Ideas to Make Politics Less Rotten

28 juli 2016 | 43 min

254. What Are Gender Barriers Made Of?

21 juli 2016 | 37 min

253. Is the Internet Being Ruined?

14 juli 2016 | 48 min

252. Confessions of a Pothole Politician

7 juli 2016 | 44 min

The Suicide Paradox (Rebroadcast )

30 juni 2016 | 57 min

How Much Does the President Really Matter? (Rebroadcast)

23 juni 2016 | 33 min

Why Do We Really Follow the News? (Rebroadcast)

16 juni 2016 | 36 min

Time to Take Back the Toilet

9 juni 2016 | 32 min

251. Are We in a Mattress-Store Bubble?

9 juni 2016 | 37 min

250. Why Does Everyone Hate Flying? And Other Questions Only a Pilot Can Answer

2 juni 2016 | 44 min

249. The Longest Long Shot

26 maj 2016 | 43 min

248. How to Be Tim Ferriss

19 maj 2016 | 42 min

247. How to Win Games and Beat People

12 maj 2016 | 53 min

246. How to Get More Grit in Your Life

5 maj 2016 | 44 min

245. Being Malcolm Gladwell

2 maj 2016 | 28 min

244. How to Become Great at Just About Anything

28 april 2016 | 48 min

243. How to Be More Productive

21 april 2016 | 39 min

242. Is the World Ready for a Guaranteed Basic Income?

14 april 2016 | 37 min

241. Are Payday Loans Really as Evil as People Say?

7 april 2016 | 50 min

The Economics of Sleep, Part 2 (Rebroadcast)

31 mars 2016 | 43 min

The Economics of Sleep, Part 1 (Rebroadcast)

24 mars 2016 | 46 min

240. Yes, the American Economy Is in a Funk -- But Not for the Reasons You Think

17 mars 2016 | 34 min

239. The No-Tipping Point

11 mars 2016 | 43 min

238. The United States of Cory Booker

3 mars 2016 | 39 min

237. Ask Not What Your Podcast Can Do for You

25 februari 2016 | 42 min

236. How Can This Possibly Be True?

18 februari 2016 | 41 min

235. Who Needs Handwriting?

11 februari 2016 | 40 min

How to Fix a Broken High Schooler, in Four Easy Steps (Rebroadcast)

4 februari 2016 | 29 min

Is America’s Education Problem Really Just a Teacher Problem? (Rebroadcast)

28 januari 2016 | 37 min

234. Do Boycotts Work?

21 januari 2016 | 37 min

233. How to Be Less Terrible at Predicting the Future

14 januari 2016 | 47 min

232. The True Story of the Gender Pay Gap

7 januari 2016 | 43 min

When Willpower Isn’t Enough (Rebroadcast)

31 december 2015 | 31 min

Fixing the World, Bang-for-the-Buck Edition (Rebroadcast)

24 december 2015 | 42 min

231. Is Migration a Basic Human Right?

17 december 2015 | 61 min

230. The Cheeseburger Diet

10 december 2015 | 32 min

229. Ben Bernanke Gives Himself a Grade

3 december 2015 | 47 min

Why Do People Keep Having Children? (Rebroadcast)

26 november 2015 | 40 min

228. Does “Early Education” Come Way Too Late?

19 november 2015 | 46 min

227. Should Everyone Be in a Rock Band?

12 november 2015 | 46 min

226. Food + Science = Victory!

5 november 2015 | 38 min

225. Am I Boring You?

29 oktober 2015 | 40 min

How to Save $1 Billion Without Even Trying (Rebroadcast)

22 oktober 2015 | 36 min

224. How To Win A Nobel Prize

15 oktober 2015 | 45 min

223. Should Kids Pay Back Their Parents for Raising Them?

8 oktober 2015 | 47 min

222. Meet the Woman Who Said Women Can’t Have It All

1 oktober 2015 | 42 min

221. How Did the Belt Win?

24 september 2015 | 31 min

220. “I Don't Know What You've Done With My Husband, But He's a Changed Man.”

17 september 2015 | 47 min

219. Preventing Crime for Pennies on the Dollar

10 september 2015 | 42 min

218. The Harvard President Will See You Now

3 september 2015 | 39 min

217. Are You Ready for a Glorious Sunset?

27 augusti 2015 | 37 min

216. How to Make a Smart TV Ad

20 augusti 2015 | 31 min

The Dangers of Safety (Rebroadcast)

13 augusti 2015 | 31 min

215. Why Do We Really Follow the News?

6 augusti 2015 | 36 min

214. How to Create Suspense

30 juli 2015 | 39 min

213. Aziz Ansari Needs Another Toothbrush

23 juli 2015 | 32 min

212. The Economics of Sleep, Part 2

16 juli 2015 | 43 min

211. The Economics of Sleep, Part 1

9 juli 2015 | 45 min

A Better Way to Eat (Rebroadcast)

2 juli 2015 | 28 min

210. Is It Okay for Restaurants to Racially Profile Their Employees?

25 juni 2015 | 54 min

209. Make Me a Match

18 juni 2015 | 50 min

208. Making Sex Offenders Pay -- and Pay and Pay and Pay

11 juni 2015 | 35 min

207. Should We Really Behave Like Economists Say We Do?

4 juni 2015 | 55 min

Tell Me Something I Don’t Know (Rebroadcast)

28 maj 2015 | 63 min

Failure Is Your Friend (Rebroadcast)

21 maj 2015 | 32 min

206. Ten Years of Freakonomics

14 maj 2015 | 46 min

205. Could the Next Brooklyn Be ... Las Vegas?!

7 maj 2015 | 55 min

Think Like a Child (Rebroadcast)

30 april 2015 | 30 min

204. Nate Silver Says: “Everyone Is Kind of Weird”

23 april 2015 | 39 min

203. Diamonds Are a Marriage Counselor’s Best Friend

16 april 2015 | 40 min

202. How Many Doctors Does It Take to Start a Healthcare Revolution?

9 april 2015 | 54 min

201. How Do We Know What Really Works in Healthcare?

2 april 2015 | 42 min

The Perfect Crime (Rebroadcast)

26 mars 2015 | 30 min

What You Don’t Know About Online Dating (Rebroadcast)

19 mars 2015 | 40 min

200. When Willpower Isn’t Enough

12 mars 2015 | 33 min

199. This Idea Must Die

5 mars 2015 | 55 min

198. The Maddest Men of All

26 februari 2015 | 33 min

197. Hacking the World Bank

19 februari 2015 | 36 min

196. Is There a Better Way to Fight Terrorism?

12 februari 2015 | 43 min

195. How Efficient Is Energy Efficiency?

5 februari 2015 | 33 min

194. How Safe Is Your Job?

29 januari 2015 | 34 min

193. Someone Else’s Acid Trip

22 januari 2015 | 29 min

192. That’s a Great Question!

15 januari 2015 | 25 min

191. Why Doesn’t Everyone Get the Flu Vaccine?

8 januari 2015 | 36 min

What’s the “Best” Exercise? (Rebroadcast)

1 januari 2015 | 15 min

What’s More Dangerous: Marijuana or Alcohol? (Rebroadcast)

25 december 2014 | 25 min

190. Time to Take Back the Toilet

18 december 2014 | 35 min

The Troubled Cremation of Stevie the Cat (Rebroadcast)

11 december 2014 | 45 min

189. How to Fix a Broken High Schooler, in Four Easy Steps

4 december 2014 | 29 min

188. Is America’s Education Problem Really Just a Teacher Problem?

27 november 2014 | 34 min

187. The Man Who Would Be Everything

20 november 2014 | 28 min

186. Why Do People Keep Having Children?

13 november 2014 | 39 min

185. Should the U.S. Merge With Mexico?

6 november 2014 | 56 min

184. What Can Vampires Teach Us About Economics?

30 oktober 2014 | 25 min

183. “Tell Me Something I Don’t Know”

23 oktober 2014 | 62 min

182. How Can Tiny Norway Afford to Buy So Many Teslas?

16 oktober 2014 | 36 min

How to Raise Money Without Killing a Kitten (Rebroadcast)

9 oktober 2014 | 33 min

181. Fixing the World, Bang-for-the-Buck Edition

2 oktober 2014 | 42 min

180. Fitness Apartheid

25 september 2014 | 31 min

179. Outsiders by Design

18 september 2014 | 40 min

178. How to Save $1 Billion Without Even Trying

11 september 2014 | 34 min

177. Regulate This!

4 september 2014 | 56 min

Who Runs the Internet? (Rebroadcast)

28 augusti 2014 | 32 min

Parking Is Hell (Rebroadcast)

21 augusti 2014 | 35 min

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

14 augusti 2014 | 39 min

Should Tipping be Banned? (Rebroadcast)

7 augusti 2014 | 41 min

How Much Does Your Name Matter? (Rebroadcast)

31 juli 2014 | 52 min

176. Does Religion Make You Happy?

24 juli 2014 | 29 min

175. Why You Should Bribe Your Kids

17 juli 2014 | 28 min

174. What Do King Solomon and David Lee Roth Have in Common?

10 juli 2014 | 33 min

173. A Better Way to Eat

3 juli 2014 | 26 min

172. How to Screen Job Applicants, Act Your Age, and Get Your Brain Off Autopilot

26 juni 2014 | 26 min

171. There’s No Such Thing as a Free Appetizer

19 juni 2014 | 36 min

170. Why America Doesn’t Love Soccer (Yet)

12 juni 2014 | 37 min

169. Failure Is Your Friend

5 juni 2014 | 31 min

The Upside of Quitting (Rebroadcast )

29 maj 2014 | 58 min

168. Think Like a Child

22 maj 2014 | 28 min

167. The Three Hardest Words in the English Language

15 maj 2014 | 29 min

166. How to Think Like a Freak -- and Other FREAK-quently Asked Questions

8 maj 2014 | 27 min

165. The Perfect Crime

1 maj 2014 | 28 min

164. Which Came First, the Chicken or the Avocado?

24 april 2014 | 29 min

163. What’s More Dangerous: Marijuana or Alcohol?

17 april 2014 | 25 min

162. “If Mayors Ruled the World”

10 april 2014 | 31 min

161. How to Make People Quit Smoking

3 april 2014 | 33 min

160. Why Everybody Who Doesn’t Hate Bitcoin Loves It

27 mars 2014 | 35 min

Women Are Not Men (Rebroadcast)

20 mars 2014 | 37 min

159. “It’s Fun to Smoke Marijuana”

13 mars 2014 | 23 min

158. Is Learning a Foreign Language Really Worth It?

6 mars 2014 | 21 min

157. Why Are Japanese Homes Disposable?

27 februari 2014 | 23 min

156. Why Marry? (Part 2)

20 februari 2014 | 23 min

155. Why Marry? (Part 1)

13 februari 2014 | 20 min

154. What You Don’t Know About Online Dating

6 februari 2014 | 36 min

153. Reasons to Not Be Ugly

30 januari 2014 | 25 min

152. Everybody Gossips (and That’s a Good Thing)

23 januari 2014 | 35 min

Fear Thy Nature (Rebroadcast)

16 januari 2014 | 37 min

151. Are We Ready to Legalize Drugs? And Other FREAK-Quently Asked Questions

9 januari 2014 | 28 min

150. What’s the “Best” Exercise?

2 januari 2014 | 15 min

Save Me From Myself (Rebroadcast)

26 december 2013 | 36 min

149. Pontiff-icating on the Free-Market System

19 december 2013 | 37 min

148. Are Gay Men Really Rich?

12 december 2013 | 20 min

147. The Most Dangerous Machine

5 december 2013 | 32 min

146. Fighting Poverty With Actual Evidence

27 november 2013 | 37 min

145. What Do Skating Rinks, Ultimate Frisbee, and the World Have in Common?

21 november 2013 | 46 min

144. Who Runs the Internet?

14 november 2013 | 32 min

Freakonomics Goes to College, Part 2 (Rebroadcast)

7 november 2013 | 33 min

Freakonomics Goes to College, Part 1 (Rebroadcast)

31 oktober 2013 | 30 min

143. Why Bad Environmentalism Is Such an Easy Sell

24 oktober 2013 | 24 min

142. The Troubled Cremation of Stevie the Cat

14 oktober 2013 | 46 min

141. How to Raise Money Without Killing a Kitten

10 oktober 2013 | 33 min

140. How to Think About Money, Choose Your Hometown, and Buy an Electric Toothbrush

3 oktober 2013 | 25 min

139. Would a Big Bucket of Cash Really Change Your Life?

26 september 2013 | 28 min

The Economist’s Guide to Parenting (Rebroadcast)

19 september 2013 | 57 min

138. Whatever Happened to the Carpal Tunnel Epidemic?

12 september 2013 | 17 min

The Suicide Paradox (Rebroadcast)

5 september 2013 | 57 min

137. Who Are the Most Successful Immigrants in the World?

29 augusti 2013 | 26 min

The Folly of Prediction (Rebroadcast)

22 augusti 2013 | 57 min

136. The Middle of Everywhere

15 augusti 2013 | 30 min

The Church of "Scionology" (Rebroadcast)

8 augusti 2013 | 57 min

135. Do Baby Girls Cause Divorce?

1 augusti 2013 | 19 min

The Upside of Quitting (Rebroadcast)

22 juli 2013 | 58 min

134. Government Employees Gone Wild

18 juli 2013 | 19 min

133. A Burger a Day

11 juli 2013 | 7 min

132. Jane Austen, Game Theorist

3 juli 2013 | 27 min

Legacy of a Jerk (Rebroadcast)

27 juni 2013 | 43 min

131. Do You Really Want to Know Your Future?

20 juni 2013 | 31 min

130. Why Family and Business Don’t Mix

12 juni 2013 | 6 min

129. Should Tipping be Banned?

3 juni 2013 | 37 min

128. Baby, You Can Program My Car

29 maj 2013 | 6 min

127. Can You Be Too Smart for Your Own Good? And Other FREAK-quently Asked Questions

23 maj 2013 | 26 min

The Hidden Cost of False Alarms (Rebroadcast)

15 maj 2013 | 6 min

126. What Do Medieval Nuns and Bo Jackson Have in Common?

9 maj 2013 | 38 min

125. It’s Crowded at the Top

1 maj 2013 | 6 min

124. Running to Do Evil

25 april 2013 | 25 min

123. Help Wanted. No Smokers Need Apply

17 april 2013 | 6 min

122. How Much Does Your Name Matter?

8 april 2013 | 50 min

121. The Tax Man Nudgeth

3 april 2013 | 10 min

120. 100 Ways to Fight Obesity

27 mars 2013 | 36 min

119. How Money Is March Madness?

21 mars 2013 | 6 min

118. Parking Is Hell

13 mars 2013 | 35 min

117. When Is a Negative a Positive?

6 mars 2013 | 8 min

116. Women Are Not Men

24 februari 2013 | 37 min

115. The Downside of More Miles Per Gallon

20 februari 2013 | 6 min

114. How to Think About Guns

13 februari 2013 | 29 min

113. Sure, I Remember That

6 februari 2013 | 6 min

112. Would You Let a Coin Toss Decide Your Future?

30 januari 2013 | 26 min

111. Introducing “Freakonomics Experiments”

23 januari 2013 | 5 min

110. Who Owns the Words That Come Out of Your Mouth?

16 januari 2013 | 31 min

109. How to Live Longer

9 januari 2013 | 6 min

108. How Did “Freakonomics” Get Its Name? … and Other FREAK-quently Asked Questions

2 januari 2013 | 27 min

107. How Much Does a Good Boss Really Matter?

26 december 2012 | 14 min

106. The House of Dreams

19 december 2012 | 22 min

105. Have a Very Homo Economicus Christmas

12 december 2012 | 15 min

104. The Things They Taught Me

5 december 2012 | 23 min

103. Free-conomics

28 november 2012 | 6 min

102. I Consult, Therefore I Am

21 november 2012 | 36 min

101. Mass Transit Hysteria

14 november 2012 | 7 min

100. Our 100th Episode!

5 november 2012 | 15 min

99. How to Maximize Your Halloween Candy Haul

31 oktober 2012 | 6 min

98. We the Sheeple

24 oktober 2012 | 23 min

97. Lying to Ourselves

17 oktober 2012 | 6 min

96. The Cobra Effect

10 oktober 2012 | 34 min

95. Why America’s Economic Growth May Be (Shh!) Over

3 oktober 2012 | 6 min

94. The Tale of the $15 Tomato

23 september 2012 | 9 min

93. Why Online Poker Should Be Legal

19 september 2012 | 5 min

92. Fear Thy Nature

12 september 2012 | 37 min

91. Can Selling Beer Cut Down on Public Drunkenness?

5 september 2012 | 6 min

90. How Deep Is the Shadow Economy?

29 augusti 2012 | 19 min

89. There’s Cake in the Breakroom!

22 augusti 2012 | 6 min

88. Freakonomics Goes to College, Part 2

15 augusti 2012 | 34 min

87. The Season of Death

8 augusti 2012 | 6 min

86. Freakonomics Goes to College, Part 1

29 juli 2012 | 29 min

85. Olympian Economics

25 juli 2012 | 7 min

84. Legacy of a Jerk

18 juli 2012 | 43 min

83. What's Wrong With Cash for Grades?

10 juli 2012 | 6 min

82. Please Steal My Car

4 juli 2012 | 23 min

81. Star-Spangled Banter?

26 juni 2012 | 7 min

80. Riding the Herd Mentality

20 juni 2012 | 36 min

79. A Cheap Employee Is … a Cheap Employee

13 juni 2012 | 6 min

78. You Eat What You Are, Part 2

6 juni 2012 | 29 min

77. Playing the Nerd Card

30 maj 2012 | 5 min

76. You Eat What You Are, Part 1

23 maj 2012 | 30 min

75. Retirement Kills

16 maj 2012 | 6 min

74. Soul Possession

7 maj 2012 | 28 min

73. A Rose By Any Other Distance

2 maj 2012 | 6 min

72. Lottery Loopholes and Deadly Doctors

25 april 2012 | 57 min

71. Is Good Corporate Citizenship Also Good for the Bottom Line?

18 april 2012 | 6 min

70. Eating and Tweeting

11 april 2012 | 57 min

69. The Hidden Cost of False Alarms

3 april 2012 | 6 min

68. The Power of the President -- and the Thumb

28 mars 2012 | 57 min

67. The Patent Gap

22 mars 2012 | 5 min

66. Show and Yell

14 mars 2012 | 58 min

65. It’s Not the President, Stupid

7 mars 2012 | 5 min

64. The Days of Wine and Mouses

27 februari 2012 | 56 min

63. The Dilbert Index?

22 februari 2012 | 5 min

62. How Biased Is Your Media?

15 februari 2012 | 36 min

61. Does This Recession Make Me Look Fat?

8 februari 2012 | 5 min

60. Save Me From Myself

1 februari 2012 | 34 min

59. The Hidden Side of the Super Bowl

25 januari 2012 | 5 min

58. What Do Hand-Washing and Financial Illiteracy Have in Common?

19 januari 2012 | 34 min

57. Does Money Really Buy Elections?

11 januari 2012 | 6 min

56. Why Is “I Don’t Know” So Hard to Say?

4 januari 2012 | 16 min

55. The Perils of Drunk Walking

27 december 2011 | 5 min

54. How Is a Bad Radio Station Like Our Public-School System? (Encore)

21 december 2011 | 30 min

53. How American Food Got So Bad

13 december 2011 | 5 min

52. Weird Recycling

2 december 2011 | 24 min

51. What Makes a Donor Donate?

29 november 2011 | 5 min

50. The Truth Is Out There…Isn’t It?

22 november 2011 | 30 min

49. Unnatural Turkeys

16 november 2011 | 5 min

48. Boo…Who?

8 november 2011 | 30 min

47. Wildfires, Cops, and Keggers

2 november 2011 | 5 min

46. Misadventures in Baby-Making

25 oktober 2011 | 27 min

45. Those Cheating Teachers!

18 oktober 2011 | 5 min

44. Where Have All the Hitchhikers Gone?

10 oktober 2011 | 28 min

43. The Decline and Fall of Violence

5 oktober 2011 | 6 min

42. The Upside of Quitting

28 september 2011 | 57 min

41. The Folly of Prediction

14 september 2011 | 57 min

40. The Suicide Paradox

31 augusti 2011 | 57 min

39. The Economist’s Guide to Parenting

16 augusti 2011 | 57 min

38. The Church of "Scionology"

3 augusti 2011 | 57 min

37. Mouse in the Salad

20 juli 2011 | 27 min

36. Hey Baby, Is That a Prius You're Driving?

6 juli 2011 | 27 min

35. Live From St. Paul!

22 juni 2011 | 28 min

34. Things Our Fathers Gave Us

8 juni 2011 | 14 min

33. To Catch a Fugitive

25 maj 2011 | 19 min

32. Growing Up Buffett

11 maj 2011 | 15 min

31. Gambling With Your Life

27 april 2011 | 19 min

30. Does College Still Matter? And Other Freaky Questions Answered ...

13 april 2011 | 16 min

29. Smarter Kids at 10 Bucks a Pop

6 april 2011 | 20 min

28. Why Can’t We Predict Earthquakes?

30 mars 2011 | 21 min

27. Death by Fire? Probably Not

23 mars 2011 | 20 min

26. The Health of Nations

16 mars 2011 | 23 min

25. Is Twitter a Two-Way Street?

9 mars 2011 | 26 min

24. The Power of Poop

2 mars 2011 | 19 min

23. Millionaires vs. Billionaires

24 februari 2011 | 28 min

22. Why Cities Rock

17 februari 2011 | 17 min

21. Bring on the Pain!

9 februari 2011 | 25 min

20. Waiter, There’s a Physicist in My Soup! (Part 2)

2 februari 2011 | 27 min

19. Waiter, There’s a Physicist in My Soup! (Part 1)

26 januari 2011 | 25 min

18. Freakonomics FAQ, No. 1

19 januari 2011 | 16 min

17. Trashed

13 januari 2011 | 21 min

16. Exit Interview: Schools Chancellor, NYC

5 januari 2011 | 15 min

15. You Say Repugnant, I Say … Let's Do It!

29 december 2010 | 26 min

14. Do More Expensive Wines Taste Better?

15 december 2010 | 25 min

13. The "No-Lose Lottery," Part 2

1 december 2010 | 21 min

12. Is America Ready for a "No-Lose Lottery"?

17 november 2010 | 25 min

11. How Much Does the President of the U.S. Really Matter?

3 november 2010 | 32 min

10. The NFL's Best Real Estate Isn't For Sale. Yet.

28 oktober 2010 | 22 min

9. Reading, Rockets, and 'Rithmetic

21 oktober 2010 | 20 min

8. Who Stole All the Runs in Major League Baseball?

7 oktober 2010 | 14 min

7. Two Book Authors and a Microphone

30 september 2010 | 12 min

6. Why the World Cup Is an Economist's Dream

10 juni 2010 | 9 min

5. How Is a Bad Radio Station Like Our Public-School System?

13 maj 2010 | 29 min

4. Faking It

13 april 2010 | 19 min

3. What Would the World Look Like if Economists Were in Charge?

24 mars 2010 | 20 min

2. Is America's Obesity Epidemic For Real?

26 februari 2010 | 21 min

1. The Dangers of Safety

6 februari 2010 | 26 min

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640. Why Governments Are Betting Big on Sports

How to Make Your Own Luck (Update)

639. “This Country Kicks My Ass All the Time”

638. Are You Ready for the Elder Swell?

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

637. What It’s Like to Be Middle-Aged (in the Middle Ages)

636. Why Aren’t We Having More Babies?

An Economics Lesson from a Talking Pencil (Update)

635. Can a Museum Be the Conscience of a Nation?

634. “Fault-Finder Is a Minimum-Wage Job”

633. The Most Powerful People You’ve Never Heard Of

How to Succeed at Failing, Part 4: Extreme Resiliency (Update)

How to Succeed at Failing, Part 3: Grit vs. Quit (Update)

How to Succeed at Failing, Part 2: Life and Death (Update)

How to Succeed at Failing, Part 1: The Chain of Events (Update)

632. When Did We All Start Watching Documentaries?

631. Will "3 Summers of Lincoln" Make It to Broadway?

Is It a Theater Piece or a Psychological Experiment? (Update)

630. On Broadway, Nobody Knows Nothing

629. How Is Live Theater Still Alive?

Policymaking Is Not a Science — Yet (Update)

628. Sludge, Part 2: Is Government the Problem, or the Solution?

627. Sludge, Part 1: The World Is Drowning in It

Should America Be Run by … Trader Joe’s? (Update)

626. Ten Myths About the U.S. Tax System

625. The Biden Policy That Trump Hasn’t Touched

EXTRA: The Downside of Disgust (Update)

624. The Animal No One Loves, Until They Do

623. Can New York City Win Its War on Rats?

The Show That Never Happened

622. Why Does Everyone Hate Rats?

621. Is Professional Licensing a Racket?

When Is a Superstar Just Another Employee?

620. Why Don’t Running Backs Get Paid Anymore?

619. How to Poison the A.I. Machine

Is San Francisco a Failed State? (And Other Questions You Shouldn’t Ask the Mayor)

618. Are Realtors Having an Existential Crisis?

617. Are You Really Allergic to Penicillin?

Highway Signs and Prison Labor

Can Academic Fraud Be Stopped? (Update)

Why Is There So Much Fraud in Academia? (Update)

Your Brain Doesn’t Work the Way You Think

616. How to Make Something from Nothing

615. Is Ozempic as Magical as It Sounds?

How the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War (Update)

614. Is the U.S. Sleeping on Threats from Russia and China?

613. Dying Is Easy. Retail Is Hard.

612. Is Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade Its Most Valuable Asset?

How to Stop Worrying and Love the Robot Apocalypse (Update)

611. Fareed Zakaria on What Just Happened, and What Comes Next

610. Who Wins and Who Loses Once the U.S. Legalizes Weed?

609. What Does It Take to Run a Cannabis Farm?

Abortion and Crime, Revisited (Update)

608. Cannabis Is Booming, So Why Isn’t Anyone Getting Rich?

607. Is America Switching From Booze to Weed?

606. How to Predict the Presidency

Has the U.S. Presidency Become a Dictatorship? (Update)

605. What Do People Do All Day?

EXTRA: Roland Fryer Refuses to Lie to Black America (Update)

604. Did the N.F.L. Solve Diversity Hiring? (Part 2)

603. Did the N.F.L. Solve Diversity Hiring? (Part 1)

EXTRA: In Praise of Maintenance (Update)

602. Is Screen Time as Poisonous as We Think?

601. Multitasking Doesn’t Work. So Why Do We Keep Trying?

What Is the Future of College — and Does It Have Room for Men? (Update)

EXTRA: Why Quitting Is Usually Worth It

The University of Impossible-to-Get-Into (Update)

What Exactly Is College For? (Update)

EXTRA: Here’s Why You’re Not an Elite Athlete (Update)

600. “If We’re All in It for Ourselves, Who Are We?”

599. The World's Most Valuable Unused Resource

EXTRA: Why Rent Control Doesn’t Work (Update)

598. Is Overconsolidation a Threat to Democracy?

597. Why Do Your Eyeglasses Cost $1,000?

EXTRA: People Aren’t Dumb. The World Is Hard. (Update)

596. Farewell to a Generational Talent

595. Why Don't We Have Better Candidates for President?

594. Your Brand’s Spokesperson Just Got Arrested — Now What?