Stephen Dubner, co-author of the best-selling "Freakonomics" series of books, has helped analyze hundreds of problems between four books (and an upcoming fifth, on golf), a blog and his podcast radio ...

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 ...

Reading or listening to any of the Freakonomics phenomenon of 20 years ago felt like standing at the top of a three-legged fire tower: The perspective was interesting, but you felt as if it could ...

The New York Times is preparing to erect a pay gate around its website, but Freakonomics, the popular blog started by economist Steven Levitt and journalist Stephen J. Dubner, won't be behind it. That ...

Equal parts journalistic exposé and targeted anthropological dissection, the slick anthology production “Freakonomics” makes heavy ideas go down easy. That’s the point, of course: Based on Steven ...

In the spirit of the best-selling book Freakonomics, the producers of the film by the same name at first gave viewers the choice of paying very little or a lot to download the movie on iTunes. The ...

Stephen Dubner, the journalist, podcaster and bestselling author behind the Freakonomics franchise, is getting in front of the camera with a self-financed TV-style talk show. Dubner, host of the ...

The author and radio host Stephen J. Dubner launched his second podcast, "Question of the Day," on Monday through Midroll. Audrey S. Bernstein/Midroll Earlier this month, the podcast advertising ...

A decade ago, the first Freakonomics book tied together a number of bright ideas about economics and the modern world in a quirky, accessible way, and sold in vast numbers. Now, as the fifth volume ...

Steven Levitt, the University of Chicago economist who co-authored the book Freakonomics: The Hidden Side of Everything, says he’s long been fascinated by the social pressure against quitting, whether ...