I awoke yesterday to the happy news that two of my friends won the Nobel Prize in economics .* GENE FAMA was one of the three recipients. He and I share two important beliefs about the world...
https://freakonomics.com/2013/10/the-nobel-prize-goes-to-an-odd-but-worthy-economic-trio/
JOSHUA GANS is an economist at the University of Toronto. He has appeared on this blog before and, as the author of Parentonomics: An Economist Dad Looks at Parenting , was featured in our podc...
https://freakonomics.com/2013/08/should-candidates-for-aea-elections-tell-us-what-theyre-thinking/
The statistician ANDREW GELMAN has asked us to publicize what sounds like a nifty project : a Year-in-the-Life look at what data hounds and statisticians actually do: > So here’s the pla...
https://freakonomics.com/2013/01/calling-all-data-memoirists/
I was walking outside the American Economic Association meetings this past Sunday when a man stopped me and asked what all the university professors were doing in one place. I told him that it...
https://freakonomics.com/2013/01/when-the-economists-arrive-do-the-prostitutes-leave/
Today is the last day on the Mayan calendar, which, according to some, means the world is going to end . This seems about as likely to occur as any economic forecast. And so in preparation, ...
https://freakonomics.com/2012/12/economists-making-their-end-of-the-world-confessions/
Our latest Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace podcast is called "Have a Very Homo Economicus Christmas." (You can download/subscribe at iTunes , get the RSS feed , listen via the media playe...
https://freakonomics.com/2012/12/have-a-very-homo-economicus-christmas-a-new-marketplace-podcast/
Our latest Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace podcast is called “Free-conomics.” (You can download/subscribe at iTunes , get the RSS feed , listen via the media player above, or read the ...
https://freakonomics.com/2012/11/free-conomics-a-new-marketplace-podcast/
A few weeks back, we posted a query from a young economist who, before heading for the job market, was looking to pick up freelance work . She (yes, she) promised to report back with her progre...
https://freakonomics.com/2012/10/the-return-of-the-freelance-economist/
From the mail: > Hi there, > > I am a recent graduate of an economics Ph.D. program. I had what I > thought was a successful trip through the adventure that is th...
https://freakonomics.com/2012/09/freelance-economist-for-rent/
From the Onion , "Nation's Economists Quietly Evacuating Their Families": > As employment stagnates, manufacturing continues its slump, and > overall confidence in the U.S. financ...
All nine nominees for office in the American Economic Association are from private universities, all from states on an ocean. (All but one member of the Nominating Committee was also on a coast.)...
https://freakonomics.com/2012/08/are-economists-as-biased-as-everyone-else/
If you follow the economic policy debate in the popular press, you would be excused for missing one of our best-kept secrets: There’s remarkable agreement among economists on most policy questi...
https://freakonomics.com/2012/07/the-secret-consensus-among-economists/
A reader named MARK KOZEL writes to say: > I heard that Chicago will be pouring up to $14 million into police > overtime to prevent murder and violent crime. > > It go...
https://freakonomics.com/2012/07/question-of-the-day-should-we-just-let-murderers-do-their-thing/
I am not an avid runner but I do it pretty regularly because it is good, cheap, easy exercise. I often run in Central Park. The other day on my run there, it was hotter than usual and I ran furth...
EVA VIVALT , an economist, is looking for financial backers to fund her book on Kickstarter . Along with a group of students from Georgetown and GWU, Vivalt is conducting meta-analyses of vari...
https://freakonomics.com/2012/04/how-to-crowd-fund-an-economics-book/
My latest Bloomberg View column with BETSEY STEVENSON is now online : > Here’s something you don’t often hear an economist admit: We > have very little idea where the...
https://freakonomics.com/2012/04/in-defense-of-two-handed-economists/
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...
https://freakonomics.com/2012/03/does-studying-economics-teach-you-to-lie/
Thousands of economics majors head off to industry each year to work as analysts. They’re lured by the promise that they’ll learn a lot, work hard, play hard and get ahead. But is it true?�...
https://freakonomics.com/2012/02/the-life-of-the-number-crunching-analyst/
1. Why people hate economists (HT: IAN MCKAY) 2. The Planet Money crew holds a live literary event, "Money Greed and Power .” 3. Excellent article by HOWARD BECK on JEREMY LIN's improvement...
You might think that the dismal science has very little to offer on matters of the heart. But I disagree. And so does Elisabeth Fosslien . She’s a brilliant young analyst interested in d...
https://freakonomics.com/2012/02/happy-valentines-day-economist-edition/