Steven Levitt, the University of Chicago professor whose fun, contemporary take on economics launched the popular Freakonomics books and podcast, sold the Hyde Park house that he put through its ...

Reading or listening to any of the Freakonomics phenomenon of 20 years ago felt like standing at the top of a three-legged fire tower: The perspective was interesting, but you felt as if it could ...

Our paper created much controversy, which was further stoked by a chapter on the topic in the best-selling book “Freakonomics”, written by one of us with Stephen Dubner, published in 2005.

Mr Levitt and the article’s author, Stephen Dubner, would go on to write “Freakonomics” together. In their book there was little about the ordinary business of life. Through vignettes ...

Levitt, best known for cowriting the best-selling 2005 book Freakonomics, is retiring from the University of Chicago with a bang. On the Capitalism and Freedom podcast, Levitt gave a farewell ...

The three-year battle over California’s new math framework has produced calamity and confusion on all fronts. As fighting raged across op-ed pages and X (formerly known asTwitter), the fog of ...

“If you read history, it’s so interesting to me the technology that we were scared of in the past,” said Stephen Dubner, bestselling author of several “Freakonomics” books and host of ...

Jared Bernstein, President Biden's new top economic adviser, says that Bidenomics is "about getting things that are pretty granular done." And... Remember Reaganomics? Freakonomics? Now there's ...

We've got exciting new additions to the WBUR lineup. And there's even more on Sunday. Tune in at 1 p.m. for the weekend debut of Radio Boston, also on air weekdays at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. The ...

The comments were made on a recent Freakonomics podcast episode that looked at whether the quality of Google search has declined over the years. The episode also featured comments from former ...

Freakonomics Radio delved into the topic, and as with most seemingly simple things, the idea of free fare comes with a lot of unexpected side effects. In the latest Freakonomics episode ...