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Cover of Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

Freakonomics

Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner · 2005
Mentioned 13 times across 6 podcasts · 2021–2026
Mention timeline13 mentions
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Where it's mentioned
2026
100. Is It Weird for Adults to Have Imaginary Friends?
No Stupid Questions · Nov 2026
“she's sitting by the pool reading for economics”
99. Do You Mind if I Borrow Your Personality?
No Stupid Questions · Nov 2026
“I cannot take a paragraph out of freakonomics, copy it and paste it into my next book. call it my own and have it be anything other than plagiarism, plagiarism”
685. How to Survive the A.I. Shock
Freakonomics Radio · Sep 2026
“many of you who listen to Freeconomics radio have never read Freekonomics, which is fine. even awesome. But in case you are curious, we recently published a 20th anniversary edition of Freakonomics with the new forward, and you can get it wherever you get your books”
Seth Godin: The Smallest Viable Audience and the Work That Might Not Work [From the Archive]
The James Altucher Show · Aug 2026
“I could think of other books like Free economics, or even my book Choose Yourself”
81. Why Is It So Hard to Talk About Money?
No Stupid Questions · Jun 2026
“and then I met Steve Levit, and then we wrote a free economics book and then another and I put it in a drawer”
78. Why Do We Put Things Off Until the Very Last Minute?
No Stupid Questions · Jun 2026
“One example that we highlighted in Free Conomics in our first book was about how in America, especially in the last 50 to 100 years, new names tend to be adopted by higher income families”
77. How Can You Avoid Boredom?
No Stupid Questions · May 2026
“Back in our first free economics book, we did write a bit about how most people are pretty terrible at assessing risk”
Al Roth on Why People Should Be Free to Sell Their Kidneys
The Good Fight · May 2026
“A free economics style argument that you could make about this”
64. Are Women Required to Be Nicer Than Men?
No Stupid Questions · Mar 2026
“I do remember the number of copies of Free Economics that we sold the first week, and it was thrilling because this was my first New York Times bestseller”
All You Need Is Nudge (Update)
Freakonomics Radio · Feb 2026
“So When you and Levitt were writing freeconomics, it was all Dubner's voice, right”
2025
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My First Million · Jul 2025
“I think there was um a b uh Freakonomics wrote a book where they like look at drug dealers and like how much work they do and they like it turns out they only make like fourteen dollars an hour for how much work”
2023
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The Tim Ferriss Show · Mar 2023
“on the book page for Outlive you can find quotes from Steven Levit. who is the best selling author of Freakonomics”
2021
#526: B. Jeffrey Madoff — Dealmaking, The Hidden Persuaders, Working with Ralph Lauren, and Finding the Secret to Life in the Mojave Desert
The Tim Ferriss Show · Aug 2021
“I read Moneyball and Freakonomics back to back”