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Mar 23, 2022 · Jack Zipes knows about wolves, he cares about wolves, but the animal he’s been obsessing over would seem to be far less “treacherous” than the wolf. Zipes recently published a new translation of a 1922 novel by the Austrian author Felix Salten. The novel is called The Original Bambi: The Story of a Life in the Forest.
May 19, 2020 · He is also a founder of The Greatest Good, which applies Freakonomics-style thinking to business and philanthropy. Stephen J. Dubner, an award-winning journalist and radio and TV personality, has worked for the New York Times and published three non-Freakonomics books. He is the host of Freakonomics Radio and Tell Me Something I Don't Know.
Oct 5, 2006 · “Freakonomics is politically incorrect in the best, most essential way.... This is bracing fun of the highest order.” — Kurt Andersen, host of public radio's Studio 360 and author of Turn of the Century “Freakonomics was the ‘It’ book of 2005.” — Fort Worth Star-Telegram “An eye-opening, and most interesting, approach to the ...
Nov 1, 2023 · Today on Freakonomics Radio, the final episode of our series “ How to Succeed at Failing .”. We’ll hear about another counterintuitive way to fight off failure: Gary KLEIN: The pre-mortem is designed to help you do better rather than to shut off innovation.
Jan 18, 2011 · FREAKONOMICS is the highly anticipated film version of the phenomenally bestselling book about incentives-based thinking by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner. Like the ...
Feb 1, 2023 · A couple years ago, in the early months of the Covid pandemic, a lot of people were rethinking the very model of a modern major economy. And we talked to some of those people, for an episode called “Is Economic Growth the Wrong Goal?”. We’re revisiting that episode today, with some updated information.
Aug 31, 2022 · Freakonomics, M.D. has been downloaded more than five million times since it launched — so what are you waiting for? You can get Freakonomics, M.D. wherever you get your podcasts. * * * A few years ago, the economist Roland Fryer started a firm called E.O. Ventures; the E.O. stands for “Equal Opportunity.” When he got a two-year ...
