Stephen Dubner, the journalist, podcaster and bestselling author behind the Freakonomics franchise, is getting in front of ...

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Reading or listening to any of the Freakonomics phenomenon of 20 years ago felt like standing at the top of a three-legged fire tower: The perspective was interesting, but you felt as if it could ...

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A brand new study by Steven D. Levitt (of Freakonomics fame), John A. List, Susanne Neckermann, and Sally Sadoff finds that Chicago students in low-performing schools did better on tests when they ...

The New York Times is preparing to erect a pay gate around its website, but Freakonomics, the popular blog started by economist Steven Levitt and journalist Stephen J. Dubner, won't be behind it. That ...

Equal parts journalistic exposé and targeted anthropological dissection, the slick anthology production “Freakonomics” makes heavy ideas go down easy. That’s the point, of course: Based on Steven ...