Freakonomics Radio

It's a centerpiece of U.S. climate policy and a sacred cow among environmentalists. Does it work?

Economists preach the gospel of "creative destruction," whereby new industries -- and jobs -- replace the old ones. But has creative destruction become too destructive?

As Kevin Kelly tells it, the hippie revolution and the computer revolution are nearly one and the same.

Verbal tic or strategic rejoinder? Whatever the case: it’s rare to come across an interview these days where at least one question isn’t a “great” one.

Influenza kills, but you’d never know it by how few of us get the vaccine.

Most people blame lack of time for being out of shape. So maybe the solution is to exercise more efficiently.

Imagine that both substances were undiscovered until today. How would we think about their relative risks?

Public bathrooms are noisy, poorly designed, and often nonexistent. What to do?

We spend billions on our pets, and one of the fastest-growing costs is pet "aftercare." But are those cremated remains you got back really from your pet?

Okay, maybe the steps aren’t so easy. But a program run out of a Toronto housing project has had great success in turning around kids who were headed for trouble.

If U.S. schoolteachers are indeed “just a little bit below average,” it’s not really their fault. So what should be done about it?

Boris Johnson -- mayor of London, biographer of Churchill, cheese-box painter and tennis-racket collector -- answers our FREAK-quently Asked Questions.

Even a brutal natural disaster doesn’t diminish our appetite for procreating. This surely means we’re heading toward massive overpopulation, right? Probably not.

Corporations around the world are consolidating like never before. If it’s good enough for companies, why not countries? Welcome to Amexico!

A lot! “The Economics of the Undead” is a book about dating strategy, job creation, and whether there should be a legal market for blood.

The debut of a live game show from Freakonomics Radio, with judges Malcolm Gladwell, Ana Gasteyer, and David Paterson.

The Norwegian government parleys massive oil wealth into huge subsidies for electric cars. Is that carbon laundering or just pragmatic environmentalism?

The science of what works -- and doesn't work -- in fund-raising

A team of economists has been running the numbers on the U.N.'s development goals. They have a different view of how those billions of dollars should be spent.

Markets are hardly perfect, but the results can be ugly when you try to subvert them.