The "odd couple" of publishing is responsible for a new and distinctly quirky way of looking at human behavior, all of it done under the banner of the made-up word "Freakonomics": Martha Teichner now ...

Economists explore the secret side of ... everything. Aug. 27, 2009 — -- Author Steven Levitt is not your typical economist. Levitt studies the riddles of everyday life -- from cheating and crime ...

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A “rogue” economist and a journalist wrote a unique book together exploring the possible answers to some of life’s most vexing questions. Why did the crime rate fall so dramatically in the mid ’90s?

The Freakonomics enterprise also includes an award-winning blog, a high-profile documentary film, and a public-radio project called Freakonomics Radio, which Dubner hosts. He has also appeared widely ...

Why sumo wrestlers cheat, why drug dealers are poor, the socioeconomic patterns of naming children — the book Freakonomics brought economic analysis to bear on unexpected and quirky issues and came up ...

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 ...

First came the bestselling book, then the sequel, and now comes “Freakonomics” the movie, a kind of victory lap that both celebrates that success and demonstrates why the work of economist Steven D.

Freakonomics Radio has been around for nearly nine years, and the popular podcast is downloaded hundreds of thousands of times each month in Southern California, but when host and creator Stephen J.

Like its source material, "Freakonomics" is ultimately less than the sum of its parts -- an assemblage of moderately interesting human interest stories that don't carry much weight on the big screen.

“Economics is a study of mankind in the ordinary business of life.” So starts Alfred Marshall’s “Principles of Economics”, a 19th-century textbook that helped create the common language economists ...