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Freakonomics Radio

Disciplines:
economics
journalism
analysis
behavior

Summary

Stephen Dubner's podcast — extending the Freakonomics franchise into audio — covering economics, behavior, and incentives through reporting and interviews — one of the longest-running and most successful non-fiction podcasts.

Core Contribution

Creates the economics journalism podcast format — Freakonomics Radio's approach (applying economic thinking and incentive analysis to unexpected topics — healthcare, education, crime) is the model for podcasts that use social science as an investigative lens.

Historical Influences

Freakonomics book NPR journalism tradition

Intellectual Lineage

Stephen DubnerLaunched 2010Based on Freakonomics book

Allied Works

Freakonomics No Stupid Questions

Contemporaries & Peers

No recorded contemporaries.

Minds Influenced

Economics journalism podcast genre

Intellectual Posterity

Freakonomics Radio Economics journalism podcast

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