Twenty Years of Freakonomics (with Stephen Dubner)

Podcast: EconTalk (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: Twenty Years of Freakonomics (with Stephen Dubner)Pub date: 2025-10-20Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationQuantitative, contrarian, and nuanced: these are the hallmarks of the Freakonomics approach. Hear journalist and podcaster Stephen Dubner speak with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about the 20th anniversary of the popular-economics book Dubner co-authored with Steven Levitt. They discuss how the book came to be, how the journey changed Dubner's life, and how it changed his thinking about various economics issues. The conversation includes a lengthy discussion on the role of private equity in the American economy, and Roberts's claim that Dubner and co-author Steven Levitt's treatment of incentives overlooks the role of competition and markets.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Russ Roberts, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.