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   2 days ago · 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 engin…

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     Freakonomics Summary (Animated) — Understand Incentives, the 3 Hidden Forces That Drive Our Lives

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   May 18, 2024 · Freakonomics applies the tools of economics to explain real-world phenomena that are not conventionally thought of as “economic.” Authored by Steven D. Levitt and...

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   What is the purpose of Freakonomics?

   • The book Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, is designed to pose fundamental questions concerning economics using a variety of imaginative comparisons and questions.

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   What is the message of Freakonomics?

   • Assume nothing, question everything. This is the message at the heart of Freakonomics, Levitt and Dubner's rule-breaking, iconoclastic book about crack dealers, cheating teachers and bizarre baby names that turned everyone's view of the world upside-down and became an international multi-million-copy-selling phenomenon.

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   How does Freakonomics explain human behavior?

   • Freakonomics shows how the three incentives can be used to explain almost any kind of human behavior. If there is any measurable change in human behavior—a crime wave, a decrease in abortions, a spike in movie ticket sales, etc.—this change must be the result of a change in one of the three incentives.

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   How does Freakonomics define human nature?

   • Ultimately, Freakonomics (and economics) defines human beings according to the things they desire and fear—material, social, and moral rewards and punishments. Human nature, one could argue, is a combination of these three competing desires, no single one of which is the most powerful in every case.

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6. freakonomics.com › podcast › whats-wrong-with-beingWhat’s Wrong With Being a Little Neurotic? - Freakonomics

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   May 18, 2024 · Episode 196. What’s Wrong With Being a Little Neurotic? Is there any upside to negative emotions? What can comedians teach us about dealing with pain? And why did Angela eat off of a stranger’s plate at a sushi bar? May 18, 2024. By Angela Duckworth and Mike Maughan. Produced by Rebecca Lee Douglas. Comments. Share this episode.

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   May 15, 2024 · by Freakonomics Radio (2023). May 1, 2024. 586. How Does the Lost World of Vienna Still Shape Our Lives? From politics and economics to psychology and the arts, many of the modern ideas we take ...

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   May 22, 2024 · As for the new research by David Cutler and Travis Donahoe: they estimate that spillover effects — social contagion, basically — can explain roughly 90 percent of opioid deaths. Spillovers, they write, “are the main reason deaths have increased for so long.”.

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   May 15, 2024 · Confessions of a Black Conservative. The economist and social critic Glenn Loury has led a remarkably turbulent life, both professionally and personally. In a new memoir, he has chosen to reveal just about everything. Why? May 15, 2024. By Stephen J. Dubner. Produced by Gabriel Roth, Julie Kanfer, and Alina Kulman. Comments. Share this episode.