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		122. How Much Does Your Name Matter? (Rebroadcast)
		1. The Dangers of Safety
		2. Is America's Obesity Epidemic For Real?
		323. Here’s Why All Your Projects Are Always Late — and What to Do About It (Rebroadcast)
		358. Yes, the Open Office Is Terrible — But It Doesn’t Have to Be
		359. Should America Be Run by … Trader Joe’s?
		362. Why Is This Man Running for President?
		372. Freakonomics Radio Live: “Would You Eat a Piece of Chocolate Shaped Like Dog Poop?”
		373. Why Rent Control Doesn’t Work
		374. How Spotify Saved the Music Industry (But Not Necessarily Musicians)
		389. How to Make Meetings Less Terrible
		3. What Would the World Look Like if Economists Were in Charge?
		408. Does Anyone Really Know What Socialism Is?
		409. The Side Effects of Social Distancing
		410. What Does COVID-19 Mean for Cities (and Marriages)?
		411. Is $2 Trillion the Right Medicine for a Sick Economy?
		412. What Happens When Everyone Stays Home to Eat?
		413. Who Gets the Ventilator?
		415. How Rahm Emanuel Would Run the World
		420. Which Jobs Will Come Back, and When?
		422. Introducing "No Stupid Questions"
		424. How to Make Your Own Luck
		426. Should America (and FIFA) Pay Reparations?
		429. Is Economic Growth the Wrong Goal?
		434. Is New York City Over?
		439. Please Get Your Noise Out of My Ears
		448. The Downside of Disgust
		451. Can I Ask You a Ridiculously Personal Question?
		452. Jeff Immelt Knows He Let You Down
		455. Are You Ready for a Fresh Start?
		458. How to Manage Your Goal Hierarchy
		463. How to Get Anyone to Do Anything
		477. Why Is U.S. Media So Negative?
		480. How Much Does Discrimination Hurt the Economy?
		481. Is the U.S. Really Less Corrupt Than China?
		482. Is Venture Capital the Secret Sauce of the American Economy?
		483. What’s Wrong With Shortcuts?
		484. “A Fascinating, Sexy, Intellectually Compelling, Unregulated Global Market.”
		485. “I’ve Been Working My Ass Off for You to Make that Profit?”
		486. “The Art Market Is in Massive Disruption.”
		487. Is It Okay to Have a Party Yet?
		488. Does Death Have to Be a Death Sentence?
		489. Is “Toxic Positivity” a Thing?
		492. How Did a Hayfield Become One of America’s Hottest Cities?
		493. Why Does the Most Monotonous Job in the World Pay $1 Million?
		4. Faking It
		508. Does the Crypto Crash Mean the Blockchain Is Over?
		514. Roland Fryer Refuses to Lie to Black America
		516. Nuclear Power Isn’t Perfect. Is It Good Enough?
		517. Are M.B.A.s to Blame for Wage Stagnation?
		518. Are Personal Finance Gurus Giving You Bad Advice?
		519. Has Globalization Failed?
		521. I’m Your Biggest Fan!
		522. Is Google Getting Worse?
		523. Did Michael Lewis Just Get Lucky with “Moneyball”?
		527. Can Adam Smith Fix Our Economy?
		534. Air Travel Is a Miracle. Why Do We Hate It?
		535. Why Is Flying Safer Than Driving?
		536. Is Your Plane Ticket Too Expensive — or Too Cheap?
		537. “Insurance Is Sexy.” Discuss.
		538. A Radically Simple Way to Boost a Neighborhood
		539. Why Does One Tiny State Set the Rules for Everyone?
		541. The Case of the $4 Million Gold Coffin
		542. Is a Museum Just a Trophy Case?
		548. Why Is the U.S. So Good at Killing Pedestrians?
		549. The First Great American Industry
		550. Why Do People Still Hunt Whales?
		556. A.I. Is Changing Everything. Does That Include You?
		557. When Is a Superstar Just Another Employee?
		558. When Did Marriage Become a Luxury Good?
		559. Are Two C.E.O.s Better Than One?
		560. Is This “the Worst Job in Corporate America” — or Maybe the Best?
		566. Why Is It So Hard (and Expensive) to Build Anything in America?
		568. Why Are People So Mad at Michael Lewis?
		574. “A Low Moment in Higher Education”
		582. Why Is Everyone Moving to Canada?
		5. How Is a Bad Radio Station Like Our Public-School System?
		5 Psychology Terms You’re Probably Misusing
		5 Psychology Terms You’re Probably Misusing (Ep. 334 Rebroadcast)
		6. Why the World Cup Is an Economist's Dream
		7. Two Book Authors and a Microphone
		8. Who Stole All the Runs in Major League Baseball?
		9. Reading, Rockets, and 'Rithmetic
		A Better Way to Eat
		A Better Way to Eat (Rebroadcast)
		A Burger a Day
		A Cheap Employee Is … a Cheap Employee
		A Conversation With PepsiCo C.E.O. Indra Nooyi (Ep. 316 Update)
		A Free-Trade Democrat in the Trump White House
		America’s Hidden Duopoly
		America’s Math Curriculum Doesn’t Add Up
		Am I Boring You?
		Am I Boring You? (Ep. 225 Rebroadcast)
		An Astronaut, a Catalan, and Two Linguists Walk Into a Bar…
		Are Gay Men Really Rich?
		Are Payday Loans Really as Evil as People Say?
		Are the Rich Really Less Generous Than the Poor?
		Are We Running Out of Ideas?
		Are You Ready for a Fresh Start?
		Are You Ready for a Glorious Sunset?
		A Rose By Any Other Distance
		Ask Not What Your Podcast Can Do for You
		A Sneak Peek at Biden’s Top Economist
		Aziz Ansari Needs Another Toothbrush
		Baby, You Can Program My Car
		Bad Medicine, Part 1: The Story of 98.6
		Bad Medicine, Part 2: (Drug) Trials and Tribulations
		Bad Medicine, Part 3: Death by Diagnosis
		Bad Medicine, Part 3: Death by Diagnosis (Rebroadcast)
		Ben Bernanke Gives Himself a Grade
		BONUS EPISODE: Being Malcolm Gladwell
		BONUS EPISODE: How Much Does the President Really Matter? (Rebroadcast)
		BONUS EPISODE: Introducing Stephen J. Dubner's new podcast, "Tell Me Something I Don't Know"
		Bring on the Pain!
		Can an Industrial Giant Become a Tech Darling?
		Can Britain Get Its “Great” Back?
		Can I Ask You a Ridiculously Personal Question?
		Can Selling Beer Cut Down on Public Drunkenness?
		Can This Man Stop a Trade War? (Ep. 352)
		Can You Be Too Smart for Your Own Good? And Other FREAK-quently Asked Questions
		Can You Hear Me Now?
		Confessions of a Pothole Politician
		Could the Next Brooklyn Be ... Las Vegas?!
		Diamonds Are a Marriage Counselor’s Best Friend
		Did China Eat America’s Jobs?
		Do Baby Girls Cause Divorce?
		Do Boycotts Work?
		Does Anyone Really Know What Socialism Is?
		Does “Early Education” Come Way Too Late?
		Does Hollywood Still Have a Princess Problem?
		Does Money Really Buy Elections?
		Does Religion Make You Happy?
		Does the President Matter as Much as You Think?
		Does This Recession Make Me Look Fat?
		Do More Expensive Wines Taste Better?
		“Don’t Neglect the Thing That Makes You Weird” \| People I (Mostly) Admire: Ken Jennings
		Do You Really Want to Know Your Future?
		Everybody Gossips (and That’s a Good Thing)
		Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Money (But Were Afraid to Ask)
		Exit Interview: Schools Chancellor, NYC
		Extra: Elvis Costello Full Interview
		Extra: How Much Do You Know About Immigration?
		Extra: Mark Teixeira Full Interview
		Extra: Mr. Feynman Takes a Trip — But Doesn’t Fall
		Extra: Shawn Johnson Full Interview
		Failure Is Your Friend
		Failure Is Your Friend (Rebroadcast)
		Faking It
		Fear Thy Nature (Rebroadcast)
		Fed Up
		Fighting Poverty With Actual Evidence
		Fitness Apartheid
		Fixing the World, Bang-for-the-Buck Edition
		Fixing the World, Bang-for-the-Buck Edition (Rebroadcast)
		Food + Science = Victory!
		Freakonomics FAQ, No. 1
		Freakonomics Radio Live: “The World’s a Mess. But Oysters, They Hold it Down.”
		Freakonomics Radio Live: “We Thought of a Way to Manipulate Your Perception of Time.”
		Freakonomics Radio Live: “Where Does Fear Live in the Brain?”
		Freakonomics Radio Live: “Would You Eat a Piece of Chocolate Shaped Like Dog Poop?”
		Free-conomics
		Government Employees Gone Wild
		Hacking the World Bank
		Hacking the World Bank (Ep. 197 Update)
		Has the U.S. Presidency Become a Dictatorship?
		Help Wanted. No Smokers Need Apply
		Here’s Why You’re Not an Elite Athlete (Ep. 351)
		He’s One of the Most Famous Political Operatives in America. America Just Doesn’t Know It Yet.
		Hoopers! Hoopers! Hoopers!
		How American Food Got So Bad
		How Are Psychedelics and Other Party Drugs Changing Psychiatry?
		How Big is My Penis? (And Other Things We Ask Google)
		How Can This Possibly Be True?
		How Can Tiny Norway Afford to Buy So Many Teslas?
		How Did the Belt Win?
		How Do We Know What Really Works in Healthcare?
		How Do You Cure a Compassion Crisis? (Ep. 444 Replay)
		How Efficient Is Energy Efficiency?
		How Is a Bad Radio Station Like Our Public-School System?
		How Many Doctors Does It Take to Start a Healthcare Revolution?
		How Many Prince Charleses Can There Be in One Room?
		How Money Is March Madness?
		"How Much Brain Damage Do I Have?"
		How Much Does the President of the U.S. Really Matter?
		How Much Does the President Really Matter? (Rebroadcast)
		How Much Does Your Name Matter? (Rebroadcast)
		How Much Do We Really Care About Children?
		How Safe Is Your Job?
		How Safe Is Your Job? (Rebroadcast)
		How Sports Became Us (Ep. 349)
		How Stupid Is Our Obsession With Lawns?
		How Stupid Is Our Obsession With Lawns? (Ep. 289 Rebroadcast)
		How to Be Better at Death
		How to Become Great at Just About Anything (Rebroadcast)
		How to Be Creative
		How to Be Happy (Ep. 345)
		How to Be Less Terrible at Predicting the Future
		How to Be More Productive
		How to Change Your Mind (Ep. 379 Rebroadcast)
		How to Create Suspense
		How to Fail Like a Pro
		How to Fix a Broken High Schooler, in Four Easy Steps
		How to Fix a Broken High Schooler, in Four Easy Steps (Rebroadcast)
		How to Get Anyone to Do Anything
		How to Get More Grit in Your Life
		How to Get More Grit in Your Life (Rebroadcast)
		How to Hate Taxes a Little Bit Less (Ep. 400 Replay)
		How to Live Longer
		How to Make a Bad Decision
		How to Make a Smart TV Ad
		How to Make People Quit Smoking
		How to Make Your Own Luck
		How to Manage Your Goal Hierarchy
		How to Maximize Your Halloween Candy Haul
		How to Optimize Your Apology (Ep. 353)
		How to Raise Money Without Killing a Kitten (Rebroadcast)
		How to Save $1 Billion Without Even Trying
		How to Save $1 Billion Without Even Trying (Rebroadcast)
		How to Save $32 Million in One Hour
		How to Screen Job Applicants, Act Your Age, and Get Your Brain Off Autopilot
		How to Stop Being a Loser (Ep. 350)
		How to Stop Worrying and Love the Robot Apocalypse
		How to Succeed by Being Authentic (Hint: Carefully)
		How to Think Like a Freak -- and Other FREAK-quently Asked Questions
		How To Win A Nobel Prize
		“I Don't Know What You've Done With My Husband, But He's a Changed Man.”
		“If Mayors Ruled the World”
		In Praise of Incrementalism
		In Praise of Maintenance
		Introducing a New “Freakonomics of Medicine” Podcast
		Introducing “Freakonomics Experiments”
		Is America Ready for a "No-Lose Lottery"?
		Is America Ready for a “No-Lose Lottery”? (Update)
		Is America’s Education Problem Really Just a Teacher Problem?
		Is America’s Education Problem Really Just a Teacher Problem? (Rebroadcast)
		Is America's Obesity Epidemic For Real?
		Is Dialysis a Test Case of Medicare for All?
		Is Good Corporate Citizenship Also Good for the Bottom Line?
		Is Google Getting Worse? (Update)
		Is It Okay for Restaurants to Racially Profile Their Employees?
		Is It Okay for Restaurants to Racially Profile Their Employees? (Rebroadcast)
		Is Learning a Foreign Language Really Worth It?
		Is Migration a Basic Human Right?
		Is the American Dream Really Dead?
		Is the Future of Farming in the Ocean?
		Is the Government More Entrepreneurial Than You Think? (Ep. 348)
		Is the Protestant Work Ethic Real?
		Is There a Better Way to Fight Terrorism?
		Is There Really a “Loneliness Epidemic”?
		Is the World Ready for a Guaranteed Basic Income?
		Is Twitter a Two-Way Street?
		It’s Crowded at the Top
		“It’s Fun to Smoke Marijuana”
		It’s Not the President, Stupid
		Jane Austen, Game Theorist
		Jeff Immelt Knows He Let You Down
		Let’s Be Blunt: Marijuana Is a Boon for Older Workers
		Lying to Ourselves
		Make Me a Match
		Make Me a Match (Rebroadcast)
		Making Sex Offenders Pay -- and Pay and Pay and Pay
		Mass Transit Hysteria
		Meet the Woman Who Said Women Can’t Have It All
		Millionaires vs. Billionaires
		Nate Silver Says: “Everyone Is Kind of Weird”
		No Hollywood Ending for the Visual-Effects Industry
		Olympian Economics
		“One Does Not Know Where an Insight Will Come From” \| People I (Mostly) Admire: Kerwin Charles
		Our 100th Episode!
		Outsiders by Design
		Parking Is Hell (Rebroadcast)
		People Aren’t Dumb. The World Is Hard.
		Pick of the Week: Does Religion Make You Happy? (Ep. 176)
		Pick of the Week: How to Get More Grit in Your Life (Ep. 246)
		Pick of the Week: Is America Ready for a “No-Lose Lottery”? (Ep. 309)
		Playing the Nerd Card
		Please Get Your Noise Out of My Ears (Ep. 439 Update)
		Policymaking Is Not a Science (Yet)
		Preventing Crime for Pennies on the Dollar
		Professor Hendryx vs. Big Coal
		Reading, Rockets, and 'Rithmetic
		Reasons to Not Be Ugly
		REBROADCAST: Legacy of a Jerk
		REBROADCAST: The Hidden Cost of False Alarms
		REBROADCAST: The Upside of Quitting
		Regulate This!
		Retirement Kills
		She’s From the Government, and She’s Here to Help
		Should America Be Run by … Trader Joe’s?
		Should Everyone Be in a Rock Band?
		Should Kids Pay Back Their Parents for Raising Them?
		Should the U.S. Merge With Mexico?
		Should Tipping be Banned?
		Should Tipping be Banned? (Rebroadcast)
		Should Traffic Lights Be Abolished?
		Should Traffic Lights Be Abolished? (Ep. 454 Replay)
		Should We Really Behave Like Economists Say We Do?
		Someone Else’s Acid Trip
		Speak Softly and Carry Big Data
		Star-Spangled Banter?
		Sure, I Remember That
		“Tell Me Something I Don’t Know”
		Tell Me Something I Don’t Know (Rebroadcast)
		Ten Ideas to Make Politics Less Rotten
		Ten Signs You Might Be a Libertarian
		Ten Years of Freakonomics
		That’s a Great Question!
		That’s a Great Question! (Ep. 192 Rebroadcast)
		The Brilliant Mr. Feynman
		The Cheeseburger Diet
		The Church of "Scionology" (Rebroadcast)
		The Dangers of Safety
		The Dangers of Safety (Rebroadcast)
		The Decline and Fall of Violence
		The Dilbert Index?
		The Downside of More Miles Per Gallon
		The Economics of Sleep, Part 1
		The Economics of Sleep, Part 1 (Rebroadcast)
		The Economics of Sleep, Part 2
		The Economics of Sleep, Part 2 (Rebroadcast)
		The Economics of Sports Gambling (Ep. 388 Rebroadcast)
		The Economist’s Guide to Parenting (Rebroadcast)
		The Folly of Prediction (Rebroadcast)
		The Future of Freakonomics Radio
		The Future of New York City Is in Question. Could Andrew Yang Be the Answer?
		The Future (Probably) Isn’t as Scary as You Think
		The Harvard President Will See You Now
		The Harvard President Will See You Now (Rebroadcast)
		The Health of Nations
		The Hidden Cost of False Alarms
		The Hidden Side of the Super Bowl
		The Maddest Men of All
		The Man Who Would Be Everything
		The Men Who Started a Thinking Revolution
		The Middle of Everywhere
		The Most Dangerous Machine
		The Most Interesting Fruit in the World (Ep. 375 Update)
		The Most Vilified Industry in America Is Also the Most Charitable
		The NFL's Best Real Estate Isn't For Sale. Yet.
		The "No-Lose Lottery," Part 2
		The No-Tipping Point
		The No-Tipping Point (Rebroadcast)
		The Opioid Tragedy, Part 1: “We’ve Addicted an Entire Generation”
		The Opioid Tragedy, Part 2: “It’s Not a Death Sentence”
		The Patent Gap
		The Perfect Crime
		The Perfect Crime (Rebroadcast)
		The Perils of Drunk Walking
		The Power of Poop
		The Prime Minister Who Cried Brexit
		The Pros and Cons of America’s (Extreme) Individualism
		There’s a War on Sugar. Is It Justified? (Ep. 285 Rebroadcast)
		There’s Cake in the Breakroom!
		There’s No Such Thing as a Free Appetizer
		The Season of Death
		These Shoes Are Killing Me!
		These Shoes Are Killing Me! (Ep. 296 Rebroadcast)
		The Stupidest Thing You Can Do With Your Money
		The Suicide Paradox (Rebroadcast)
		The Taboo Trifecta
		The Tale of the $15 Tomato
		The Three Hardest Words in the English Language
		The Troubled Cremation of Stevie the Cat (Rebroadcast)
		The True Story of the Gender Pay Gap
		The True Story of the Minimum-Wage Fight
		The Truth About the Vaping Crisis
		The United States of Cory Booker
		The Upside of Quitting (Rebroadcast)
		The U.S. Is Just Different — So Let’s Stop Pretending We’re Not
		The Vanishing Mr. Feynman
		The White House Gets Into the Nudge Business
		The Zero-Minute Workout (Ep. 383 Rebroadcast)
		Think Like a Child
		Think Like a Child (Rebroadcast)
		“This Didn't End the Way It’s Supposed to End.” (Bonus)
		This Idea Must Die
		Those Cheating Teachers!
		Time to Take Back the Toilet
		Trashed
		Trevor Noah Has a Lot to Say
		Trust Me
		Trust Me (Ep. 266 Rebroadcast)
		Two Book Authors and a Microphone
		Two (Totally Opposite) Ways to Save the Planet (Ep. 346)
		Unnatural Turkeys
		Waiter, There’s a Physicist in My Soup! (Part 1)
		Waiter, There’s a Physicist in My Soup! (Part 2)
		“We Get All Our Great Stuff from Europe — Including Witch Hunting.”
		What Are Gender Barriers Made Of?
		What Can Vampires Teach Us About Economics?
		What Do King Solomon and David Lee Roth Have in Common?
		What Do Medieval Nuns and Bo Jackson Have in Common?
		What Do Medieval Nuns and Bo Jackson Have in Common? (Rebroadcast)
		Whatever Happened to the Carpal Tunnel Epidemic?
		What if Your Company Had No Rules?
		What’s More Dangerous: Marijuana or Alcohol?
		What’s More Dangerous: Marijuana or Alcohol? (Rebroadcast)
		What’s the “Best” Exercise? (Rebroadcast)
		What's Wrong With Cash for Grades?
		What Would Be the Best Universal Language? (Earth 2.0 Series)
		What Would the World Look Like if Economists Were in Charge?
		What You Don’t Know About Online Dating
		When Helping Hurts
		When Is a Negative a Positive?
		When Willpower Isn’t Enough
		When Willpower Isn’t Enough (Rebroadcast)
		Where Does Creativity Come From (and Why Do Schools Kill It Off)?
		Where Have All the Hitchhikers Gone?
		Where to Find Every Episode of Freakonomics Radio
		Which Came First, the Chicken or the Avocado?
		Who Decides How Much a Life Is Worth?
		Who Needs Handwriting?
		Who Runs the Internet? (Rebroadcast)
		Who Stole All the Runs in Major League Baseball?
		Why America Doesn’t Love Soccer (Yet)
		Why America’s Economic Growth May Be (Shh!) Over
		Why Are Japanese Homes Disposable?
		Why Are We Still Using Cash?
		Why Bad Environmentalism Is Such an Easy Sell
		Why Did You Marry That Person? (Ep. 511 Replay)
		Why Doesn’t Everyone Get the Flu Vaccine?
		Why Does the Most Monotonous Job in the World Pay $1 Million? (Ep. 493 Update)
		Why Does the Richest Country in the World Have So Many Poor Kids? (Ep. 475 Update)
		Why Does Tipping Still Exist?
		Why Don’t We All Speak the Same Language? (Earth 2.0 Series)
		Why Do People Keep Having Children?
		Why Do People Keep Having Children? (Rebroadcast)
		Why Do We Really Follow the News?
		Why Do We Really Follow the News? (Rebroadcast)
		Why Do We Seek Comfort in the Familiar?
		Why Everybody Who Doesn’t Hate Bitcoin Loves It
		Why Family and Business Don’t Mix
		Why Is This Man Running for President? (Ep. 362 Update)
		Why Larry Summers Is the Economist Everyone Hates to Love
		Why Learn Esperanto? (Special Feature)
		Why Marry? (Part 1)
		Why Marry? (Part 2)
		Why Online Poker Should Be Legal
		Why Rent Control Doesn’t Work
		Why Rent Control Doesn’t Work (Ep. 373 Rebroadcast)
		Why the Left Had to Steal the Right’s Dark-Money Playbook
		Why the World Cup Is an Economist's Dream
		Why Uber Is an Economist’s Dream
		Why We Choke Under Pressure (and How Not To)
		Why You Should Bribe Your Kids
		Why You Shouldn’t Open a Restaurant (Ep. 347)
		Why You Shouldn’t Open a Restaurant (Ep. 347 Update)
		Wildfires, Cops, and Keggers
		Will Work-from-Home Work Forever?
		Women Are Not Men (Rebroadcast)
		Yes, the American Economy Is in a Funk -- But Not for the Reasons You Think
		Yes, the Open Office Is Terrible — But It Doesn’t Have to Be
		Yes, the Open Office Is Terrible — But It Doesn’t Have to Be (Rebroadcast)
		You Say Repugnant, I Say … Let's Do It!