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In celebration of the 10th anniversary of Freakonomics comes this curated collection from the most readable economics blog in the universe. When Freakonomics was first published, its authors, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, started a blog — and they’ve kept it up.
Freakonomics - The hidden side of everything. Follow this show. Multitasking Doesn’t Work. So Why Do We Keep Trying? Only a tiny number of “supertaskers” are capable of doing two things at once. The rest of us are just making ourselves miserable, and less productive.
Pounds and ounces. MAUGHAN: But anyway, in 1975, in the Metric Conversion Act, the U.S. stripped out the 10-year deadline and said it would be voluntary. And if it is voluntary, because people respond to incentives, it never happened. And so, today, we still don’t have it, even though everybody else kind of switched.
Based on the success of the original book, Levitt and Dubner have grown the Freakonomics brand into a multi-media franchise, with a sequel book, a feature film, a regular radio segment on National Public Radio, and a weekly blog.
Freakonomics episode that talks about how the best employees leave when a corporation is in trouble accelerating its decline.
