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The Stupidest Thing You Can Do With Your Money (Rebroadcast)
22 maart 2018 · 47 min
It's hard enough to save for a house, tuition, or retirement. So why are we willing to pay big fees for subpar investment returns? Enter the low-cost index fund. The revolution will not be monetized. Lees meer
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326. Extra: Jack Welch Full Interview
19 maart 2018 · 56 min
Stephen Dubner's conversation with the former longtime C.E.O. of General Electric, recorded for the Freakonomics Radio series “The Secret Life of a C.E.O.” Lees meer
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325. How to Train Your Dragon Child
15 maart 2018 · 36 min
Every 12 years, there's a spike in births among certain communities across the globe, including the U.S. Why? Because the Year of the Dragon, according to Chinese folk belief, confers power, fortune, and more. We look at what happens to Dragon babies when they grow up, and why timing your kid's birth based on the zodiac isn't as ridiculous it sounds. Lees meer
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324. Extra: Satya Nadella Full Interview
12 maart 2018 · 40 min
Stephen Dubner's conversation with the C.E.O. of Microsoft, recorded for the Freakonomics Radio series “The Secret Life of a C.E.O.” Lees meer
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323. Here’s Why All Your Projects Are Always Late — and What to Do About It
8 maart 2018 · 41 min
Whether it's a giant infrastructure plan or a humble kitchen renovation, it'll inevitably take way too long and cost way too much. That's because you suffer from “the planning fallacy.” (You also have an “optimism bias” and a bad case of overconfidence.) But don't worry: we've got the solution. Lees meer
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322. Extra: David Rubenstein Full Interview
5 maart 2018 · 1 uur 29 min
Stephen Dubner's conversation with the co-founder and longtime co-C.E.O. of the Carlyle Group, recorded for the Freakonomics Radio series “The Secret Life of a C.E.O.” Lees meer
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Does “Early Education” Come Way Too Late? (Rebroadcast)
1 maart 2018 · 47 min
In our collective zeal to reform schools and close the achievement gap, we may have lost sight of where most learning really happens — at home. Lees meer
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321. Extra: Richard Branson Full Interview
26 februari 2018 · 54 min
Stephen Dubner's conversation with the Virgin Group founder, recorded for the Freakonomics Radio series “The Secret Life of a C.E.O.” Lees meer
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320. Letting Go
22 februari 2018 · 45 min
If you're a C.E.O., there are a lot of ways to leave your job, from abrupt firing to carefully planned succession (which may still go spectacularly wrong). In this final episode of our "Secret Life of a C.E.O." series, we hear those stories and many more. Also: what happens when you no longer have a corner office to go to — and how will you spend all that money? Lees meer
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319. After the Glass Ceiling, a Glass Cliff
15 februari 2018 · 52 min
Only 5 percent of Fortune 500 companies are run by women. Why? Research shows that female executives are more likely to be put in charge of firms that are already in crisis. Are they being set up to fail? (Part 5 of a special series, "The Secret Life of C.E.O.'s.") Lees meer
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318. It’s Your Problem Now
8 februari 2018 · 44 min
No, it's not your fault the economy crashed. Or that consumer preferences changed. Or that new technologies have blown apart your business model. But if you're the C.E.O., it is your problem. So what are you going to do about it? First-hand stories of disaster (and triumph) from Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Ballmer, Satya Nadella, Jack Welch, Ellen Pao, Richard Branson, and more. (Part 4 of a special series, "The Secret Life of C.E.O.'s.") Lees meer
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317. What Can Uber Teach Us About the Gender Pay Gap?
6 februari 2018 · 43 min
The gig economy offers the ultimate flexibility to set your own hours. That's why economists thought it would help eliminate the gender pay gap. A new study, using data from over a million Uber drivers, finds the story isn't so simple. Lees meer
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An Egghead’s Guide to the Super Bowl (Rebroadcast)
3 februari 2018 · 28 min
We assembled a panel of smart dudes -- a two-time Super Bowl champ; a couple of N.F.L. linemen, including one who's getting a math Ph.D. at MIT; and our resident economist -- to tell you what to watch for, whether you're a football fanatic or a total newbie. Lees meer
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316. “I Wasn’t Stupid Enough to Say This Could Be Done Overnight”
1 februari 2018 · 48 min
Indra Nooyi became C.E.O. of PepsiCo just in time for a global financial meltdown. She also had a portfolio full of junk food just as the world decided that junk food is borderline toxic. Here's the story of how she overhauled that portfolio, stared down activist investors, and learned to "leave the crown in the garage." (Part 3 of a special series, "The Secret Life of C.E.O.'s") Lees meer
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315. How to Become a C.E.O.
25 januari 2018 · 44 min
Mark Zuckerberg's dentist dad was an early adopter of digital x-rays. Jack Welch blew the roof off a factory. Carol Bartz was a Wisconsin farm girl who got into computers. No two C.E.O.'s have the same origin story — so we tell them all! How the leaders of Facebook, G.E., Yahoo!, PepsiCo, Microsoft, Virgin, the Carlyle Group, Reddit, and Bridgewater Associates made it to the top. (Part 2 of a special series, "The Secret Life of C.E.O.'s.") Lees meer
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What Does a C.E.O. Actually Do?
18 januari 2018 · 39 min
They're paid a fortune — but for what, exactly? What makes a good C.E.O. — and how can you even tell? Is "leadership science" a real thing — or just airport-bookstore mumbo jumbo? We put these questions to Mark Zuckerberg, Richard Branson, Indra Nooyi, Satya Nadella, Jack Welch, Ray Dalio, Carol Bartz, David Rubenstein, and Ellen Pao. (Part 1 of a special series, "The Secret Life of C.E.O.'s.") Lees meer
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313. How to Be a Modern Democrat — and Win
11 januari 2018 · 38 min
Gina Raimondo, the governor of tiny Rhode Island, has taken on unions, boosted big business, and made friends with Republicans. She is also one of just 15 Democratic governors in the country. Would there be more of them if there were more like her? Lees meer
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Why Is My Life So Hard? (Rebroadcast)
4 januari 2018 · 30 min
Most of us feel we face more headwinds and obstacles than everyone else — which breeds resentment. We also undervalue the tailwinds that help us — which leaves us ungrateful and unhappy. How can we avoid this trap? Lees meer
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Trust Me (Rebroadcast)
28 december 2017 · 30 min
Societies where people trust one another are healthier and wealthier. In the U.S. (and the U.K. and elsewhere), social trust has been falling for decades — in part because our populations are more diverse. What can we do to fix it? Lees meer
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Make Me a Match (Rebroadcast)
21 december 2017 · 53 min
Sure, markets generally work well. But for some transactions — like school admissions and organ transplants — money alone can't solve the problem. That's when you need a market-design wizard like Al Roth. Lees meer
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312. Not Your Grandmother’s I.M.F.
14 december 2017 · 38 min
The International Monetary Fund has long been the "lender of last resort" for economies in crisis. Christine Lagarde, who runs the institution, would like to prevent those crises from ever happening. She tells us her plans. Lees meer
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311. Why Is the Live-Event Ticket Market So Screwed Up?
7 december 2017 · 48 min
The public has almost no chance to buy good tickets to the best events. Ticket brokers, meanwhile, make huge profits on the secondary markets. Here's the story of how this market got so dysfunctional, how it can be fixed – and why it probably won't be. Lees meer
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310. Are We Running Out of Ideas?
30 november 2017 · 37 min
Economists have a hard time explaining why productivity growth has been shrinking. One theory: true innovation has gotten much harder – and much more expensive. So what should we do next? Lees meer
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Is America Ready for a “No-Lose Lottery”? (Update)
23 november 2017 · 45 min
Most people don't enjoy the simple, boring act of putting money in a savings account. But we do love to play the lottery. So what if you combine the two, creating a new kind of savings account with a lottery payout? Lees meer
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309. Nurses to the Rescue!
16 november 2017 · 58 min
They are the most-trusted profession in America (and with good reason). They are critical to patient outcomes (especially in primary care). Could the growing army of nurse practitioners be an answer to the doctor shortage? The data say yes but — big surprise — doctors' associations say no. Lees meer
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308. How Can I Do the Most Social Good With $100? And Other FREAK-quently Asked Questions
9 november 2017 · 43 min
Dubner and his Freakonomics co-author Steve Levitt answer your questions about crime, traffic, real-estate agents, the Ph.D. glut, and how to not get eaten by a bear. Lees meer
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Why Is There So Much Ground Beef in the World? (Special Feature)
7 november 2017 · 43 min
In this live episode of "Tell Me Something I Don't Know," you'll learn about carcass balancing, teen sleeping, and brand naming. Joining Stephen J. Dubner as co-host is Alex Wagner (CBS This Morning Saturday); author A.J. Jacobs (It's All Relative) is the live fact-checker. Lees meer
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307. Thinking Is Expensive. Who’s Supposed to Pay for It?
2 november 2017 · 39 min
Corporations and rich people donate billions to their favorite think tanks and foundations. Should we be grateful for their generosity — or suspicious of their motives? Lees meer
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306. How to Launch a Behavior-Change Revolution
26 oktober 2017 · 45 min
Academic studies are nice, and so are Nobel Prizes. But to truly prove the value of a new idea, you have to unleash it to the masses. That's what a dream team of social scientists is doing — and we sat in as they drew up their game plan. Lees meer
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305. The Demonization of Gluten
19 oktober 2017 · 44 min
Celiac disease is thought to affect roughly one percent of the population. The good news: it can be treated by quitting gluten. The bad news: many celiac patients haven't been diagnosed. The weird news: millions of people without celiac disease have quit gluten – which may be a big mistake. Lees meer
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304. What Are the Secrets of the German Economy — and Should We Steal Them?
12 oktober 2017 · 57 min
Smart government policies, good industrial relations, and high-end products have helped German manufacturing beat back the threats of globalization. Lees meer
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“Tell Me Something I Don't Know” on the topic of Behavior Change (Special Feature)
1 oktober 2017 · 54 min
Stephen J. Dubner hosts an episode full of the world's most renowned behavior change experts, including Colin Camerer, Ayelet Fishbach, David Laibson, Max Bazerman, Katy Milkman, and Kevin Volpp. Angela Duckworth (psychologist and author of Grit) is our special guest co-host, with Mike Maughan (head of global insights at Qualtrics) as real-time fact-checker. Lees meer
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303. Why Larry Summers Is the Economist Everyone Hates to Love
28 september 2017 · 50 min
He's been U.S. Treasury Secretary, a chief economist for the Obama White House and the World Bank, and president of Harvard. He's one of the most brilliant economists of his generation (and perhaps the most irascible). And he thinks the Trump Administration is wrong on just about everything. Lees meer
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302. Why Learn Esperanto?
26 september 2017 · 31 min
A language invented in the 19th century, and meant to be universal, it never really caught on. So why does a group of Esperantists from around the world gather once a year to celebrate their bond? Lees meer
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301. What Would Be the Best Universal Language? (Earth 2.0 Series)
21 september 2017 · 41 min
We explore votes for English, Indonesian, and … Esperanto! The search for a common language goes back millennia, but so much still gets lost in translation. Will technology finally solve that? Lees meer
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300. Why Don’t We All Speak the Same Language? (Earth 2.0 Series)
14 september 2017 · 43 min
There are 7,000 languages spoken on Earth. What are the costs — and benefits — of our modern-day Tower of Babel? Lees meer
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299. "How Much Brain Damage Do I Have?"
7 september 2017 · 47 min
John Urschel was the only player in the N.F.L. simultaneously getting a math Ph.D. at M.I.T. But after a new study came out linking football to brain damage, he abruptly retired. Here's the inside story — and a look at how we make decisions in the face of risk versus uncertainty. Lees meer
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Bad Medicine, Part 3: Death by Diagnosis (Rebroadcast)
31 augustus 2017 · 49 min
By some estimates, medical error is the third-leading cause of death in the U.S. How can that be? And what's to be done? Our third and final episode in this series offers some encouraging answers. Lees meer
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Bad Medicine, Part 2: (Drug) Trials and Tribulations (Rebroadcast)
24 augustus 2017 · 46 min
How do so many ineffective and even dangerous drugs make it to market? One reason is that clinical trials are often run on "dream patients" who aren't representative of a larger population. On the other hand, sometimes the only thing worse than being excluded from a drug trial is being included. Lees meer
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Bad Medicine, Part 1: The Story of 98.6 (Rebroadcast)
17 augustus 2017 · 44 min
We tend to think of medicine as a science, but for most of human history it has been scientific-ish at best. In the first episode of a three-part series, we look at the grotesque mistakes produced by centuries of trial-and-error, and ask whether the new era of evidence-based medicine is the solution. Lees meer
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What Are You Waiting For? (Rebroadcast)
10 augustus 2017 · 36 min
Standing in line represents a particularly sloppy — and frustrating — way for supply and demand to meet. Why haven't we found a better way to get what we want? Is it possible that we secretly enjoy waiting in line? And might it even be (gulp) good for us? Lees meer
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298. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Money (But Were Afraid to Ask)
3 augustus 2017 · 44 min
The bad news: roughly 70 percent of Americans are financially illiterate. The good news: all the important stuff can fit on one index card. Here's how to become your own financial superhero. Lees meer
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297. The Stupidest Thing You Can Do With Your Money
27 juli 2017 · 48 min
It's hard enough to save for a house, tuition, or retirement. So why are we willing to pay big fees for subpar investment returns? Enter the low-cost index fund. The revolution will not be monetized. Lees meer
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296. These Shoes Are Killing Me!
20 juli 2017 · 39 min
The human foot is an evolutionary masterpiece, far more functional than we give it credit for. So why do we encase it in "a coffin" (as one foot scholar calls it) that stymies so much of its ability — and may create more problems than it solves? Lees meer
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295. When Helping Hurts
13 juli 2017 · 51 min
Good intentions are nice, but with so many resources poured into social programs, wouldn't it be even nicer to know what actually works? Lees meer
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294. The Fracking Boom, a Baby Boom, and the Retreat From Marriage
6 juli 2017 · 44 min
Over 40 percent of U.S. births are to unmarried mothers, and the numbers are especially high among the less-educated. Why? One argument is that the decline in good manufacturing jobs led to a decline in "marriageable" men. Surely the fracking boom reversed that trend, right? Lees meer
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The Harvard President Will See You Now (Rebroadcast)
29 juni 2017 · 39 min
How a pain-in-the-neck girl from rural Virginia came to run the most powerful university in the world. Lees meer
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293. Why Hate the Koch Brothers? (Part 2)
23 juni 2017 · 37 min
Charles Koch, the mega-billionaire CEO of Koch Industries and half of the infamous political machine, sees himself as a classical liberal. So why do most Democrats hate him so much? In a rare series of interviews, he explains his political awakening, his management philosophy, and why he supports legislation that goes against his self-interest. Lees meer
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292. Why Hate the Koch Brothers? (Part 1)
22 juni 2017 · 45 min
Charles Koch, the mega-billionaire CEO of Koch Industries and half of the infamous political machine, sees himself as a classical liberal. So why do most Democrats hate him so much? In a rare series of interviews, he explains his political awakening, his management philosophy and why he supports legislation that goes against his self-interest. Lees meer
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"Tell Me Something I Don't Know" on the topic of Rivalry
20 juni 2017 · 57 min
Steve Levitt, Scott Turow and Bridget Gainer are panelists. For the "Freakonomics" co-author, the attorney and novelist, and the Cook County commissioner it's "game on!" as they tackle competition of all kinds: athletic, sexual, geopolitical, and the little-known battle between butter and margarine that landed in the Supreme Court. WBEZ's Tricia Bobeda, co-host of the "Nerdette" podcast, is fact-checker. Lees meer
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