Freakonomics Radio | 21 September 2023 | 1h 02m | Listen Later 
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Interview with Melissa Kearney about her book The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind. Describes the problem of changing marriage patterns and the benefits of growing up in a two-parent household – and argues that it’s time for liberals to face these facts.
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Why Is the U.S. So Good at Killing Pedestrians?
Freakonomics Radio | 6 july 2023 | 0h 44m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interviews experts to distil the factors behind the increasing rate of killing pedestrians per mile driven in the United States and why the US is so much worse than many other high-income countries.
New Zealand also has a rising road toll, with increasing pedestrian and cycling fatalities, and an increasing penchant for SUVs and automatic transmissions.
Can Adam Smith Fix Our Economy?
Freakonomics Radio | 22 December 2022 | 0h 48m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
The final episode of the series on Adam Smith turns to “the father of economics” for solutions to such things as labour exploitation, corporate profiteering and Government corruption.
Was Adam Smith Really a Right-Winger?
Freakonomics Radio | 15 December 2022 | 1h 11m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Part 2 of a series on Adam Smith. Economists and politicians have turned Adam Smith into a mascot for free-market ideology. Some on the left say the right has badly misread him. Prepare for a very Smithy tug of war.
In Search of the Real Adam Smith
Freakonomics Radio | 8 December 2022 | 0h 46m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Freakonomics travels to Adam Smith’s hometown in Scotland to uncover the man behind the myth. Explores how an affable 18th-century “moral philosopher” become the patron saint of cutthroat capitalism and whether “the invisible hand” means what everyone thinks it does. (Part 1 of a series.)
Did Michael Lewis Just Get Lucky with “Moneyball”?
Freakonomics Radio | 24 November 2022 | 0h 54m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with Michael Lewis about his book Moneyball on the twentieth anniversary of its publication. Discusses stories from the background of writing the book, and the role of luck in Lewis’s success.
Why Are There So Many Bad Bosses?
Freakonomics Radio | 3 March 2022 | 0h 48m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Backgrounds the Peter Principle: the tendency to promote people in hierarchies until they reach their level of incompetence. Considers the evidence on whether managers matter, explains why firms keep producing incompetent managers, and why that’s unlikely to change.
Why Do Most Ideas Fail to Scale?
Freakonomics Radio | 24 February 2022 | 0h 48m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with John List about his book The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale. Discusses the factors to get right to ensure that promising trial results can successfully be replicated at scale.
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