In their blockbuster book, "Freakonomics," Levitt and co-author Stephen Dubner show that economics is, at the root, the study of incentives -- how people get what they want or need, especially ...

Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner’s “Freakonomics,” published in 2005, has sold more than 7 million copies. The pair’s follow-up, “SuperFreakonomics,” was a bestseller, too. Both ...

'Super Freakonomics' by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner ...

Noah Smith at noahpinion reports on how those bestselling “Freakonomics” authors/entrepreneurs Steven D. Levitt (an economist) and Stephen J. Dubner (a wordsmith) revealed the limits of their ...

Freakonomics authors Stephen J Dubner and Steven D Levitt reveal some of the 'magic' of their problem-solving techniques in new book. Think Like A Freak explains how the average non-economist ...

For Dubner and Levitt, data is the magic word, their answer to even their most provocative assertion, that legalization of abortion was the big reason serious crime has dropped dramatically since ...

Yesterday the blog Freakonomics.com, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner authors of the wildly popular book of the same name, moved to a new home at the New York Times. Unless you've been ...

May 19, 2006 Freakonomics. Stephen Dubner was interviewed about the book he co-wrote with Steve Levitt, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hid… ...

Journalist Stephen Dubner and economist Steven Levitt are the duo behind the popular “Freakonomics” books and podcast, crunching numbers and telling stories that explore the “hidden side of ...

Why did their wages decline? Levitt and Dubner point to the fact that demand for sexual services declined. The liberalization of sexual mores meant that men no longer found a need to pay for sex ...

The authors of the 2005 bestseller 'Freakonomics' return with more eclectic, unexpected lessons in why we need to parse the economics of everyday life. 'Super Freakonomics' by Steven D. Levitt and ...