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3 days ago · There’s a 15 percent approval rating for U.S. Congress today, and a 94 percent reelect rate for incumbent House members. So the fiction we’ve been sold is, our leaders have to make 51 percent of us happy to stay in office. That’s actually not true for 9 out of 10 seats.
1 day ago · Mondays, 12:00 – 1:00pm From WNYC Studios: Discover the hidden side of everything with Stephen J. Dubner, co-author of the Freakonomics books. Each week, Freakonomics Radio tells you things you always thought you knew (but didn’t) and things you never thought you wanted to know (but do) — from the economics of sleep to how...
2 days ago · 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 …
3 days ago · 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 engin…
15 hours ago · Andrew Yang (born January 13, 1975) is an American businessman, attorney, lobbyist, author, and politician. Yang was a candidate in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries and the 2021 New York City Democratic mayoral primary. He founded the political party and action committee Forward Party in 2021, for which he serves as co-chair ...
5 days ago · The latest Freakonomics Radio episode is called “ Your Brand’s Spokesperson Just Got Arrested — Now What? ” (Apple, Spotify)It was inspired by a new research paper from the Cornell economist John Cawley and five co-authors, called “ The Role of Repugnance in Markets: How the Jared Fogle Scandal Affected Patronage of Subway.”
3 days ago · The debate within the field of economics often centers on Nobel-prize winner David Card's ground-breaking paper, "The Impact of the Mariel Boatlift on the Miami Labor Market." Today on the show: the fight over that paper, and what it tells us about the debate over immigration.
