Freakonomics Radio

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October 16, 2014 182. How Can Tiny Norway Afford to Buy So Many Teslas?
The Norwegian government parleys massive oil wealth into huge subsidies for electric cars. Is that carbon laundering or just pragmatic environmentalism?

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37 min
October 09, 2014 How to Raise Money Without Killing a Kitten (Rebroadcast)
The science of what works -- and doesn't work -- in fund-raising

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34 min
October 02, 2014 181. Fixing the World, Bang-for-the-Buck Edition
A team of economists has been running the numbers on the U.N.'s development goals. They have a different view of how those billions of dollars should be spent.

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42 min
September 25, 2014 180. Fitness Apartheid
Markets are hardly perfect, but the results can be ugly when you try to subvert them.

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31 min
September 18, 2014 179. Outsiders by Design
What does it mean to pursue something that everyone else thinks is nuts? And what does it take to succeed?

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41 min
September 11, 2014 178. How to Save $1 Billion Without Even Trying
Doctors, chefs, and other experts are much more likely than the rest of us to buy store-brand products. What do they know that we don’t?

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34 min
September 04, 2014 177. Regulate This!
Airbnb, Uber, Lyft, EatWith, and other companies in the “sharing economy” are practically daring government regulators to shut them down. The regulators are happy to comply.

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57 min
August 28, 2014 Who Runs the Internet? (Rebroadcast)
The online universe doesn't have nearly as many rules, or rulemakers, as the real world. Discuss.

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33 min
August 21, 2014 Parking Is Hell (Rebroadcast)
There ain't no such thing as a free parking spot. Somebody has to pay for it -- and that somebody is everybody.

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36 min
August 14, 2014 What Do Medieval Nuns and Bo Jackson Have in Common? (Rebroadcast)
A look at whether spite pays -- and if it even exists.

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40 min

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Freakonomics co-author Stephen J. Dubner uncovers the hidden side of everything. Why is it safer to fly in an airplane than drive a car? How do we decide whom to marry? Why is the media so full of bad news? Also: things you never knew you wanted to know about wolves, bananas, pollution, search engines, and the quirks of human behavior.