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Unintended Consequences
By Patrick
Every weekday, one true story of good intentions gone sideways. From cobra bounties in colonial Delhi to recommendation algorithms, each episode follows a single case through the original idea, how it... more
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How many episodes does Unintended Consequences have?
The podcast currently has 29 episodes available.
Unintended Consequences episodes:
June 12, 2026Ep 29: Congress set stricter fuel economy rules for cars than light trucks in 1975, and automakers responded by selling millions of SUVs instead. 
June 11, 2026Ep 28: Daylight Saving Time was introduced to conserve coal and oil, yet modern evidence shows it saves almost no energy while raising heart attacks and crashes. June 10, 2026Ep 27: Western aid meant to build self-sufficient African economies instead left many governments dependent on the next foreign transfer to stay afloat. June 09, 2026Ep 26: The No Child Left Behind Act tied federal funding to test scores to help every child succeed and instead narrowed what millions of students were taught. June 08, 2026Ep 25: Rent control was meant to shield tenants from unaffordable rents, yet it repeatedly reduced the supply of rental housing and raised prices for everyone else. June 05, 2026Ep 24: China's one-child policy aimed to ease population pressure but instead produced a 30-million-person gender imbalance and a shrinking workforce that will shape the country for decades. June 04, 2026Ep 23: Cash for Clunkers paid Americans to destroy nearly 700,000 old cars in 2009 to revive the economy, but it left low-income buyers facing higher used-car prices for years. June 03, 2026Ep 21: California's three-strikes law promised to lock up dangerous repeat offenders — and instead gave life sentences for stealing pizza and videotapes. June 03, 2026Ep 22: Nixon declared the War on Drugs in 1971 to protect families by treating addiction as crime; five decades later the U.S. prison population had grown sixfold while drug-use rates stayed roughly unchanged. June 02, 2026Ep 20: Algorithms built to personalize the internet for every user instead narrowed each person’s view to what they had already clicked.
FAQs about Unintended Consequences:
How many episodes does Unintended Consequences have?
The podcast currently has 29 episodes available.