freakanomics started the 'rogue' x thing and it's incredibly funny because these guys were all, like, tenured professors entirely in the mainstream.
How would you not embarrassed to have the subtitle of your book be "A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets"?
August 27, 2026 at 4:47 PM
freakanomics started the 'rogue' x thing and it's incredibly funny because these guys were all, like, tenured professors entirely in the mainstream.
i have a confession i thought freakanomics was a sex thing
April 22, 2025 at 2:16 AM
i have a confession i thought freakanomics was a sex thing
One thing I learned back in the days of Freakanomics is to discount anyone who writes extended passages claiming that Nobody Else Would Think To Do what the hero author has done.
May 4, 2026 at 9:06 PM
One thing I learned back in the days of Freakanomics is to discount anyone who writes extended passages claiming that Nobody Else Would Think To Do what the hero author has done.
i wonder what the freakanomics guys think about pussy surgery
November 23, 2025 at 6:44 AM
i wonder what the freakanomics guys think about pussy surgery
i think the demiurge's behavior can be modeled economically. i think we can do freakanomics for gnosticism
June 19, 2026 at 3:52 AM
i think the demiurge's behavior can be modeled economically. i think we can do freakanomics for gnosticism
Freakanomics is interviewing the CEO of Kalshi lol. Awful show.
October 3, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Freakanomics is interviewing the CEO of Kalshi lol. Awful show.
i was gonna make a joke abt like “professor of freakanomics” but i googled freakanomics and turns out that’s not a joke its just real
April 22, 2025 at 2:21 AM
i was gonna make a joke abt like “professor of freakanomics” but i googled freakanomics and turns out that’s not a joke its just real
a lot of 1990s internet stuff was obsessed with Ebonics and black language in general. I was reminded of this by @michaelhobbes.bsky.social's Freakanomics episode where the book's section on black names is just a repeat of racist myths.
The weirdest racist email joke I remember was one where someone translated the entirety of Ovid’s Metamorphosis into Ebonics
June 30, 2026 at 4:48 AM
a lot of 1990s internet stuff was obsessed with Ebonics and black language in general. I was reminded of this by @michaelhobbes.bsky.social's Freakanomics episode where the book's section on black names is just a repeat of racist myths.
(This is also how I feel about Bullshit Jobs, Freakanomics and most other pop-politics/economcs/philosophy type texts you mind find in an airport bookstore)
August 11, 2025 at 1:12 AM
(This is also how I feel about Bullshit Jobs, Freakanomics and most other pop-politics/economcs/philosophy type texts you mind find in an airport bookstore)
If they publish another freakanomics you know we’re getting this
July 16, 2026 at 12:32 PM
If they publish another freakanomics you know we’re getting this
Freakanomics but for infant mortality
September 6, 2024 at 4:57 AM
Freakanomics but for infant mortality
Heh heh heh Freakanomics, tho.
August 16, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Heh heh heh Freakanomics, tho.
You talk like the Timecube guy read freakanomics.
May 3, 2025 at 7:10 PM
You talk like the Timecube guy read freakanomics.
Hedge funds are buying up vet clinics and forcing others out of business. #Freakanomics did an episode about it. It’s tragic. I think vets have very high suicide rates too
February 13, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Hedge funds are buying up vet clinics and forcing others out of business. #Freakanomics did an episode about it. It’s tragic. I think vets have very high suicide rates too
Yeah the grotesquely incorrect stuff (alcohol consumption) aside, her freakanomics-for-moms presents a genuinely more compelling vision of motherhood than the typical one on offer (sacrifice everything to give your child any possible advantage). That’s why she’s popular!
August 11, 2026 at 6:14 PM
Yeah the grotesquely incorrect stuff (alcohol consumption) aside, her freakanomics-for-moms presents a genuinely more compelling vision of motherhood than the typical one on offer (sacrifice everything to give your child any possible advantage). That’s why she’s popular!
Steven Levy has been a huge disappointment since Freakanomics. He is enshittification personified.
October 19, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Steven Levy has been a huge disappointment since Freakanomics. He is enshittification personified.
nothing weird about it to me, at least. it’s very malcolm gladwell or freakanomics-esque
September 26, 2026 at 2:53 AM
nothing weird about it to me, at least. it’s very malcolm gladwell or freakanomics-esque
also, Freakanomics linked abortion to lower crime rates.
November 20, 2024 at 3:38 AM
also, Freakanomics linked abortion to lower crime rates.
She’s not just an economist. And that’s part of why she’s able to do this .
She’s famous for Freakanomics. And also one who was famous for claiming we needed to open up schools during COVID
mostly because she settled white moms fears
She’s “rational” when rational just means contemptuous
She’s famous for Freakanomics. And also one who was famous for claiming we needed to open up schools during COVID
mostly because she settled white moms fears
She’s “rational” when rational just means contemptuous
Emily Oster, an *checks notes* economist, on public health crisis, social media, risk, and evolutionary psychology.
Can I have a national column on economics?
Can I have a national column on economics?
July 16, 2026 at 3:55 PM
She’s not just an economist. And that’s part of why she’s able to do this .
She’s famous for Freakanomics. And also one who was famous for claiming we needed to open up schools during COVID
mostly because she settled white moms fears
She’s “rational” when rational just means contemptuous
She’s famous for Freakanomics. And also one who was famous for claiming we needed to open up schools during COVID
mostly because she settled white moms fears
She’s “rational” when rational just means contemptuous
You do realize that New York City is ostensibly the modern equivalent of Venice when it was run by a Doge, right?
Of course not. That would require you to read a fucning book that wasnt recommended by an Amazon sidebar like Freakanomics.
Of course not. That would require you to read a fucning book that wasnt recommended by an Amazon sidebar like Freakanomics.
It's a capitalist country you Muppet.
Fuck me.
It's literally written into the Federal Central Banking System. 1913 Federal Reserve Act ensures the US stays Capitalist.
Not sure how you expect a NY Mayor to bring down the US Capitalist system.
Needs done.
But he's never doing it. Be realistic.
Fuck me.
It's literally written into the Federal Central Banking System. 1913 Federal Reserve Act ensures the US stays Capitalist.
Not sure how you expect a NY Mayor to bring down the US Capitalist system.
Needs done.
But he's never doing it. Be realistic.
July 27, 2025 at 12:15 PM
You do realize that New York City is ostensibly the modern equivalent of Venice when it was run by a Doge, right?
Of course not. That would require you to read a fucning book that wasnt recommended by an Amazon sidebar like Freakanomics.
Of course not. That would require you to read a fucning book that wasnt recommended by an Amazon sidebar like Freakanomics.
one man, one jar
freakanomics?
freakanomics?
The question of if a country could fuck itself harder than the UK did with Brexit has today been answered.
April 3, 2025 at 11:27 PM
one man, one jar
freakanomics?
freakanomics?
This is the kind of Freakanomics/ Nudge thinking that will get me a cushy government job
October 26, 2023 at 5:08 PM
This is the kind of Freakanomics/ Nudge thinking that will get me a cushy government job