Podcast / The Time of Monsters / Mar 18, 2024 Farewell to Freakonomics On this episode of The Time of Monsters, Marshall Steinbaum on economics as a toxic discipline.

The book quickly became a hit and sold at least 4 million copies in its first four years. The book spawned a podcast and radio show and three sequels, "Superfreakonomics" (2009), "Think Like a ...

Just a month after the book’s release, he published a full-throated defense on the Freakonomics blog. I asked him about it, and he pointed me to a follow-up article he and Donohue published in 2020.

Go for It, Says Evidence From 20,000 Coin Flips Steven Levitt, an economist and the co-author of Freakonomics, studied what happened when people made major life decisions based on random chance.