Freakonomics Radio

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.

What does it mean to pursue something that everyone else thinks is nuts? And what does it take to succeed?

Doctors, chefs, and other experts are much more likely than the rest of us to buy store-brand products. What do they know that we don’t?

Airbnb, Uber, Lyft, EatWith, and other companies in the “sharing economy” are practically daring government regulators to shut them down. The regulators are happy to comply.

The online universe doesn't have nearly as many rules, or rulemakers, as the real world. Discuss.

There ain't no such thing as a free parking spot. Somebody has to pay for it -- and that somebody is everybody.

A look at whether spite pays -- and if it even exists.

It's awkward, random, confusing -- and probably discriminatory too.

A kid's name can tell us something about his parents -- their race, social standing, even their politics. But is your name really your destiny?