Freakonomics Radio
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 engines, and the quirks of human behavior. To get every show in the Freakonomics Radio Network without ads and a monthly bonu
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- 1 A Visit from the Goon SquadJennifer Egan · 1× across 1 episode
- 2 HamletWilliam Shakespeare · 1× across 1 episode
- 3 Manhattan BeachJennifer Egan · 1× across 1 episode
- 4 The Candy HouseJennifer Egan · 1× across 1 episode
“I just published this book. Maricius' book is called Democracy Without politicians”
“Ellen Landemore recently published a book called Politics Without. politicians”
“It's the theme of literature, like from Lord of the Rings. The ring will corrupt you”
“It's an evolution of the long tail theory popularized by Chris Anderson of Wired Magazine. The long tail is this wonderful idea that suppose your local bookstore has fifty thousand books”
“In 1994, he published a book called Out of Control”
“I wrote the books Coexistence and Cointelligence about AI”
“The title is Plunder. Private equity's plan to pillage America”
“And he has written a book. Called two and twenty. How the masters of private equity always win”
“There's The American Story: Conversations with Master Historians”
“And the American experiment Dialogues on a Dream”
“He just published a new book called Inside the Owners Box Conversations on Power and Leadership in Sports”
“When the famous book was written Moneyball, that book Was Written at a time that many people didn't realize”
“I am an author of the book Tars and Economics. Retitled Pivot as a paperback”
“I recently published a book called Barron's Money Power and the Corruption of America's Food Industry”
“A couple decades ago, Horowitz a book called Putting Meat on the American Table”
“The Jungle is Upton Sinclair's nineteen oh six novel, an expose. of the harsh work conditions in Chicago's meatpacking industry”
“Tetlock argued in his book Super Forecasting that when it comes to predicting the future, even an expert can be beat by a thoughtful amateur”
“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”
“Michael Roth isn't even scared of the free speech debate. He wrote a book called Safe Enough Spaces”
“And this is from a book called Raised by Wolves, uh, which is a story of kids”
“And then he did a a book from which this is taken called Pictures from Home”
“including a Pulitzer Prize for a visit from the Goon Squad, a kaleidoscope of a book about music, ambition, and the nature of time and memory”
“And it's funny because with Manhattan Beach, I initially thought, Oh, I'm gonna use some tricky narrative strategies”
“I dedicated the candy house to them. I mean I couldn't do what I do without feedback”
“Consider the book he published in 2020. It's called The Brutish. Museums. The Benin Bronze's colonial violence and cultural restitution”
“Eight years later, he published Deliver Me From Nowhere, The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska”
“Well, I think his his memoir, Born to Run, is One of the great rock books”
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