Behold the weird entrepreneurial trajectory of Stephen Dubner. He starts out as a working journalist and profiles a brilliant, quirky economist named Steven Levitt for The New York Times Magazine, ...

A quartet of uneven TV pilots posing as a full-length documentary, Seth Gordon’s anthology Freakonomics pulls case studies from Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt’s best-selling book of pop math and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stephen Dubner has spent 20 years proving that things aren’t what they seem—and now he’s not so sure that’s always true. The ...

Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, the authors behind Freakonomics, are back with a sequel, inevitably titled SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers ...

"Economics is the study of incentives," Dubner began, but warned that determining which incentives work can be quite challenging, and requires "asking unpopular questions" to truly change behavior.

In the best-selling book Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt pick apart much of what could be called the conventional wisdom on a ...

Superfreakonomics, the not-so-cleverly-titled sequel to Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner's best-selling book Freakonomics, is winning the authors few friends. (The Wire already covered the brouhaha ...

Equal parts journalistic exposé and targeted anthropological dissection, the slick anthology production “Freakonomics” makes heavy ideas go down easy. That’s the point, of course: Based on Steven ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. Steven Levitt, the University of Chicago professor whose ...

Freakonomics co-author Stephen Dubner has entered into a production deal with American Public Media (APM) and New York Public Radio (NYPR) to launch Freakonomics Radio, announced Dean Cappello, Chief ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Stephen J. Dubner is an Author with two videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2006 Interview. The year with the highest average number of views per ...

Stephen Dubner is an award-winning writer and journalist whose work has appeared in numerous major publications over the years, including *The New York Times*, *The New Yorker*, and *The Washington ...