The Freakonomics Radio Book Club

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  • From the podcast that explores the hidden side of everything, hear authors like you’ve never heard them before. Stephen Dubner and a stable of Freakonomics friends talk with the writers of mind-bending books, and we hear the best excerpts as well. You’ll learn about skill versus chance, the American discomfort with death, the secret life of dogs, and much more. To get every show in our network without ads and a monthly bonus episode of Freakonomics Radio, sign up for SiriusXM Podcasts+ on Apple Podcasts at http://apple.co/SiriusXM.
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From the podcast that explores the hidden side of everything, hear authors like you’ve never heard them before. Stephen Dubner and a stable of Freakonomics friends talk with the writers of mind-bending books, and we hear the best excerpts as well. You’ll learn about skill versus chance, the American discomfort with death, the secret life of dogs, and much more. To get every show in our network without ads and a monthly bonus episode of Freakonomics Radio, sign up for SiriusXM Podcasts+ on Apple Podcasts at http://apple.co/SiriusXM.
2024 All Rights Reserved
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  • 23. Confessions of a Black Conservative
    2024/05/16

    The economist and social critic Glenn Loury has led a remarkably turbulent life, both professionally and personally. In a new memoir, he has chosen to reveal just about everything. Why?

    • SOURCE:
      • Glenn Loury, professor of economics at Brown University and host of The Glenn Show.

    • RESOURCES:
      • Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative, by Glenn Loury (2024).
      • "Amy Wax – The DEI Witch Hunt at Penn Law," by Glenn Loury (The Glenn Show, 2024).
      • "The Conservative Line on Race," by Glenn Loury (The Atlantic, 1997).
      • "Will Affirmative-Action Policies Eliminate Negative Stereotypes?" by Stephen Coate and Glenn Loury (The American Economic Review, 1993).

    • EXTRAS:
      • "Roland Fryer Refuses to Lie to Black America," by Freakonomics Radio (2022).
      • "How Much Does Discrimination Hurt the Economy?" by Freakonomics Radio (2021).
      • "The Pros and Cons of Reparations," by Freakonomics Radio (2020).
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    57 分
  • 22. How Does the Lost World of Vienna Still Shape Our Lives?
    2024/05/02

    From politics and economics to psychology and the arts, many of the modern ideas we take for granted emerged a century ago from a single European capital. In this episode of the Freakonomics Radio Book Club, the historian Richard Cockett explores all those ideas — and how the arrival of fascism can ruin in a few years what took generations to build.

    • SOURCE:
      • Richard Cockett, author and senior editor at The Economist.

    • RESOURCES:
      • Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World, by Richard Cockett (2023).
      • "Birth, Death and Shopping," (The Economist, 2007).
      • The Hidden Persuaders, by Vance Packard (1957).
      • "An Economist's View of 'Planning,'" by Henry Hazlitt (The New York Times, 1944).
      • The World of Yesterday: Memoires of a European, by Stefan Zweig (1942).

    • EXTRA:
      • "Arnold Schwarzenegger Has Some Advice for You," by People I (Mostly) Admire (2024).
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    57 分
  • EXTRA: Remembering Daniel Kahneman
    2024/04/09

    Nobel laureate, bestselling author, and groundbreaking psychologist Daniel Kahneman died in March. In 2021 he talked with Steve Levitt — his friend and former business partner — about his book Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment (cowritten with Olivier Sibony and Cass Sunstein) and much more.

    • SOURCES:
      • Daniel Kahneman, professor emeritus of psychology and public affairs at Princeton University.

    • RESOURCES:
      • Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment, by Olivier Sibony, Daniel Kahneman, and Cass R. Sunstein (2021).
      • Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman (2011).

    • EXTRAS:
      • "What’s the Secret to Making a Great Prediction?" by No Stupid Questions (2021).
      • "The Men Who Started a Thinking Revolution," by Freakonomics Radio (2017).
      • "How to Be Less Terrible at Predicting the Future," by Freakonomics Radio (2016).
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    42 分

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