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

Freakonomics at 20: why AI makes better questions, sharper incentives, and disciplined curiosity the new leadership edge.

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

New York Times journalist Stephen J. Dubner. In 2005 economist Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner wrote the book "Freakonomics; a rogue Economist explores the hidden side of everything". (Photo by ...