Monkey Business in the N.Y. Times
Here is the beginning of our first “Freakonomics” column in the New York Times Magazine: Adam Smith, the founder of classical economics, was certain that humankind’s knack for monetary exchange...
View ArticleWho Gets Better With Age?
An article in today’s Wall Street Journal asserts that, while various life skills seem to deteriorate as people get older, our skill at making personal-finance decisions doesn’t peak until the ripe age...
View ArticleFor $25 Million, No Way, But for $50 Million I’ll Think About It
At least for me, there are not too many questions that would lead me to respond, “For $25 million, no way, but for $50 million I’ll think about it.” Twenty-five million dollars is so much money that...
View ArticleDoes Studying Economics Teach You to Lie?
A new paper by Raúl López-Pérez and Eli Spiegelman investigates “truth preferences” — i.e., preferences for being honest versus lying. Their goal was to study whether economics students lie more as a...
View ArticleFREAK-est Links
How well does government work? Economists call for evaluations. UMass Amherst grad student Thomas Herndon finds coding errors in key debt-load paper by Reinhart and Rogoff. Price dives: gold,...
View ArticleShould We Really Behave Like Economists Say We Do? A New Freakonomics Radio...
Our latest Freakonomics Radio episode is called “Should We Really Behave Like Economists Say We Do?” (You can subscribe to the podcast at iTunes or elsewhere, get the RSS feed, or listen via the media...
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