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.

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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.

To narrow down which episodes would make the cut, the book’s editor, Chronicle’s Juliette Capra, went through episode transcripts to determine which would best translate into written form. “There are ...