Extra The Men Who Started A Thinking Revolution Update Freakonomics Radio

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The psychologist Daniel Kahneman — a Nobel laureate and the author of “ From the Manhattan Project to the Challenger investigation, the physicist Richard Feynman loved to shoot down what he called ... An economist calls America's beef industry a “miracle.” An antitrust scholar calls it “broken.” Maybe they're both right? You can find ... Economists and politicians have turned him into a mascot for free-market ideology. Some on the left say the right has badly ... Stephen Dubner appears as a guest on "Fail Better," a new podcast hosted by David Duchovny. The two of them trade stories ... Former S.E.C. chair Gary Gensler has had a front-row seat to numerous financial booms and busts. How does he feel about ... Lewis got incredible access to Sam Bankman-Fried, the billionaire behind the spectacular FTX fraud. His book is a bestseller, but ... Just beneath the surface of the global economy, there is a hidden layer of dealmakers for whom war, chaos, and sanctions can be ... In his final years, Richard Feynman's curiosity took him to some surprising places. We hear from his companions on the trips he ... What happens when an existentially depressed and recently widowed young physicist from Queens gets a fresh America's top colleges are facing record demand. So why don't they increase supply? (Part 2 of our series from 2022, ... Museums are purging their collections of looted treasures. Can they also get something in return? And what does it mean to be a ... Organized labor hasn't had this much public support in 50 years, and yet the percentage of Americans in a union is near a record ...