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Nov 14, 2011 · The Inefficiency of Local Food. Two members of Congress earlier this month introduced legislation advancing a food reform movement promising to help resolve the great environmental and nutritional problems of the early 21 st century. The intent is to remake the agricultural landscape to look more like it did decades ago.
Aug 8, 2014 · Concept 1: Winner Takes All Labor Market. This describes a situation in which many laborers compete for a position in the market, but few actually succeed in finding employment. Those few who do are paid extraordinarily large salaries. In the example of the Chicago drug gang, only 2.2% of the members earned more than half the profits.
Jul 20, 2016 · Freakonomics Radio is produced by WNYC Studios and Dubner Productions. Today’s episode was produced by Kim Gittleson . The rest of our staff includes Arwa Gunja , Merritt Jacob, Christopher Werth, Jay Cowit , Greg Rosalsky, Caitlin Pierce, Alison Hockenberry, Jolenta Greenberg and Emma Morgenstern.
Special Series. Sometimes there’s a topic we want to dive into at the Freakonomics Radio Network that’s just too big — and too fascinating — to cover in a single episode. Some of these run for several weeks, and others become recurring series. Here are some of the topics we’ve covered in depth. Stereophonic.
Jun 17, 2024 · June 19, 2024. 593. You Can Make a Killing, but Not a Living. Broadway operates on a winner-take-most business model. A runaway hit like Stereophonic — which just won five Tony Awards — will ...
Jan 24, 2024 · DUBNER: So that blog post that you published on October 7th, the day of the Hamas attack on southern Israel, you called the blog post “Sickening Violence.” You wrote, “The kidnapping and slaughter of civilians, and the celebration of vicious murder by armed fighters, recalls the worst dimensions of human violence.
May 14, 2021 · Nobel laureate, bestselling author, and groundbreaking psychologist Daniel Kahneman is also a friend and former business partner of Steve’s. In discussing Danny’s new book Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment, the two spar over inconsistencies in criminal sentencing and Danny tells Steve that “Your attitude is unusual” — no surprise there.
