The Schenectady-born Freakonomics creator shares how upstate New York shaped his work ethic and inspired his latest project.

You’ll be able to get your freak on at the NAB Show this year. Stephen Dubner and Dr. Steven Levitt, co-authors of the “Freakonomics” book series and podcast hosts on the Freakonomics Radio Network, ...

In 2005, Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner's book Freakonomics brought a new perspective to everyday life through the lens of economic principles—shedding light on everything from parenting to crime ...

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Steve Dubner and Stephen Levitt don't really have much in common. Before they teamed-up to write the best-selling books "Freakonomics" and "Super Freakonomics," Dubner was a musician-turned writer for ...

NEW YORK, July 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Stephen Dubner, the journalist and bestselling author who built Freakonomics Radio into one of the biggest podcasts in the world, today launched Better in ...

Why does monogamy reduce the crime rate? How can we redesign cities to make growing old less unpleasant? And how was the body of a man dead fifty years found perfectly preserved in his houndstooth ...

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 ...

WORCESTER — As co-author of the best-selling "Freakonomics" book series, Stephen Dubner makes what has been called "the dismal science" — economics — less dismal for millions of readers. He brought a ...

AUSTIN - More than 10,000 books are banned from Texas prisons, but they might not be the ones you think. Alice Walker's The Color Purple, which won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for ...

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