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Can Selling Beer Cut Down on Public Drunkenness? A New Marketplace Podcast

West Virginia University students drink cans of beer while tailgating outside Milan Puskar Stadium on Sept 1, 2012. (Photo: Chelsi Baker, All-Pro Photography) Our latest Freakonomics Radio on...

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Why Online Poker Should Be Legal: A New Marketplace Podcast

(Photo: Images Money) In our latest Freakonomics Radio podcast, Steve Levitt visits with Marketplace‘s Kai Ryssdal to discuss his poker research and his personal poker history. The episode is called...

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Why America’s Economic Growth May Be (Shh!) Over: a New Marketplace Podcast

With the Presidential debate finished, we are officially in the final lap of America’s second-favorite spectator sport. (Yes, football is better than politics.) Of all the talking that Barack Obama...

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Lying to Ourselves: a New Marketplace Podcast

Our latest Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace podcast is called “Lying to Ourselves.” (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen via the media player above, or read the transcript...

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How to Maximize Your Halloween Candy Haul: A New Marketplace Podcast

(Photo: Jeff Turner) A few weeks ago, we got an e-mail from a reader Vishal Dosanjh, who lives in St. Louis: My daughter asked me this morning why the fancy neighborhoods are the best places to go...

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Mass Transit Hysteria: A New Marketplace Podcast

(Photo: Philip Matarese) New York City’s subways and buses carry roughly seven million passengers a day, which goes a long way toward explaining why New Yorkers have one of the smallest carbon...

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Free-conomics: A New Marketplace Podcast

(Photo: Ken Hawkins) Our latest Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace podcast is called “Free-conomics.”  (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen via the media player above, or...

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Have a Very Homo Economicus Christmas: A New Marketplace Podcast

(Photo: ahenobarbus) Our latest Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace podcast is called “Have a Very Homo Economicus Christmas.” (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen via the...

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How Much Does a Good Boss Really Matter? A New Marketplace Podcast

(Photo: Ben Dalton, Creative Commons ) Our latest Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace podcast is called “How Much Does a Good Boss Really Matter?”  (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS...

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How to Live Longer: a New Marketplace Podcast

(Photo: Ethan Prater) Our latest Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace podcast is called “How to Live Longer.” (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen via the media player above,...

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Introducing “Freakonomics Experiments”: A New Marketplace Podcast

Our latest Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace podcast is called “Introducing ‘Freakonomics Experiments.’” (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen via the media player above, or...

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Sure, I Remember That: A New Marketplace Podcast

Do you remember this skeet-shooting outing with Stephen Dubner, Kai Ryssdal, Barack Obama, and John Boehner? Our latest Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace podcast is called “Sure, I Remember That.” (You...

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The Downside of More Miles Per Gallon: A New Marketplace Podcast

(Photo: Joel) Our latest Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace podcast is called “The Downside of More Miles Per Gallon.” (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen via the media...

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When Is a Negative a Positive? A New Marketplace Podcast

Our latest Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace podcast is called “When Is a Negative a Positive?”  (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen via the media player above, or read the...

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How Money Is March Madness? A New Marketplace Podcast

Our latest Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace podcast is called “How Money Is March Madness?”  (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen via the media player above, or read the...

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The Tax Man Nudgeth: A New Marketplace Podcast

Photo Credit: Our latest Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace podcast is called “The Tax Man Nudgeth.”  (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen via the media player above, or read...

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Help Wanted. No Smokers Need Apply: A New Marketplace Podcast

(Photo: Julie Bocchino) Our latest podcast is called “Help Wanted. No Smokers Need Apply.”  (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen via the media player above, or read the...

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It’s Crowded at the Top: A New Marketplace Podcast

(Photo: Metro Centric) Our latest podcast, “Crowded at the Top,” presents a surprising explanation for why the U.S. unemployment rate is still relatively high. (You can download/subscribe at iTunes,...

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Baby, You Can Program My Car: A New Marketplace Podcast

Out for a ride with Jarrod Snider of Carnegie-Mellon's autonomous-driving lab: "The throttle, the brake, the steering wheel, the turn signals -- everything is being controlled by a computer right now....

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Why Family and Business Don’t Mix: A New Marketplace Podcast

(Photo: Isabell Schulz) Our latest Freakonomics on Marketplace podcast is called “Why Family and Business Don’t Mix.” (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen via the media...

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