The "odd couple" of publishing is responsible for a new and distinctly quirky way of looking at human behavior, all of it done under the banner of the made-up word "Freakonomics": Martha Teichner now ...

The Freakonomics enterprise also includes an award-winning blog, a high-profile documentary film, and a public-radio project called Freakonomics Radio, which Dubner hosts. He has also appeared widely ...

Economists explore the secret side of ... everything. Aug. 27, 2009 — -- Author Steven Levitt is not your typical economist. Levitt studies the riddles of everyday life -- from cheating and crime ...

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 ...

First came the bestselling book, then the sequel, and now comes “Freakonomics” the movie, a kind of victory lap that both celebrates that success and demonstrates why the work of economist Steven D.

Four years ago, economist Steven Levitt and journalist Stephen Dubner produced a sensation. Their book, Freakonomics, described how Levitt and a few other scholars used the techniques of economics to ...

Freakonomics, which began life as a book, has turned into a brand. There is the Freakonomics movie, the Freakonomics radio show, the Freakonomics blog. You can hire the Freakonomics guys for business ...

A “rogue” economist and a journalist wrote a unique book together exploring the possible answers to some of life’s most vexing questions. Why did the crime rate fall so dramatically in the mid ’90s?

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Like its source material, "Freakonomics" is ultimately less than the sum of its parts -- an assemblage of moderately interesting human interest stories that don't carry much weight on the big screen.

Take the Freakonomics guys’ approach to problem solving and start thinking like a freak–you’ll be all the more productive for it. The phenomenally successful Freakonomics platform–two bestselling ...