Stephen J. Dubner

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Stephen J. Dubner is an award-winning author, journalist, and radio and TV personality. He is best known for writing, along with the economist Steven D. Levitt, Freakonomics (2005) and SuperFreakonomics (2009), which have sold more than 5 million copies in 35 languages. Freakonomics, published in April 2005, was an instant international best-seller and cultural phenomenon. It made numerous "books of the year" lists and won a variety of awards. It was also named a Notable Book by the New York Times.

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Do More Expensive Wines Taste Better?
How Much Does the President of the U.S. Really Matter?
Why Cities Rock
Is Twitter a Two-Way Street?
To Catch a Fugitive
Millionaires vs. Billionaires
Bring on the Pain!
The Health of Nations
The Power of Poop
Freakonomics FAQ, No. 1

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Smarter Kids at 10 Bucks a Pop
Trashed
Gambling With Your Life
Death by Fire? Probably Not
Growing Up Buffett
Why Can’t We Predict Earthquakes?
The Suicide Paradox
Does College Still Matter? And Other Freaky Questions Answered …
Things Our Fathers Gave Us
Where Have All the Hitchhikers Gone?
Is America Ready for a “No-Lose Lottery”?
How American Food Got So Bad
Reading, Rockets, and ‘Rithmetic
Who Stole All the Runs in Major League Baseball?
The Decline and Fall of Violence
The Upside of Quitting
Waiter, There’s a Physicist in My Soup! (Part 2)
You Say Repugnant, I Say … Let’s Do It!
The Folly of Prediction
Exit Interview: Schools Chancellor, NYC
Misadventures in Baby-Making
Faking It
The NFL’s Best Real Estate Isn’t For Sale. Yet.
Waiter, There’s a Physicist in My Soup! (Part 1)
Weird Recycling
How Biased Is Your Media?
Why Is “I Don’t Know” So Hard to Say?
Those Cheating Teachers!
The Perils of Drunk Walking
The Dilbert Index?
The Truth Is Out There…Isn’t It?
Wildfires, Cops, and Keggers
It’s Not the President, Stupid
Save Me From Myself
Boo…Who?
What Do Hand-Washing and Financial Illiteracy Have in Common?
Does This Recession Make Me Look Fat?
The Dangers of Safety
Hey Baby, Is That a Prius You’re Driving?
You Eat What You Are, Part 1
Unnatural Turkeys
What Makes a Donor Donate?
Does Money Really Buy Elections?
Soul Possession
Live From St. Paul!
Playing the Nerd Card
What Would the World Look Like if Economists Were in Charge?
The Hidden Cost of False Alarms
A Cheap Employee Is … a Cheap Employee
The Days of Wine and Mouses
Please Steal My Car
Mouse in the Salad
The Patent Gap
Retirement Kills
Freakonomics Goes to College, Part 1
How Is a Bad Radio Station Like Our Public-School System?
Is Good Corporate Citizenship Also Good for the Bottom Line?
You Eat What You Are, Part 2
How Is a Bad Radio Station Like Our Public-School System? (Encore)
Eating and Tweeting
Riding the Herd Mentality
The Hidden Side of the Super Bowl
Legacy of a Jerk
Fear Thy Nature
There’s Cake in the Breakroom!
Show and Yell
How Deep Is the Shadow Economy?
Lottery Loopholes and Deadly Doctors
A Rose By Any Other Distance
Freakonomics Goes to College, Part 2
Star-Spangled Banter?
The Tale of the $15 Tomato
Can Selling Beer Cut Down on Public Drunkenness?
We the Sheeple
The Power of the President -- and the Thumb
Is America’s Obesity Epidemic For Real?
What's Wrong With Cash for Grades?
The Church of “Scionology”
Olympian Economics
The Season of Death
The Cobra Effect
Why America’s Economic Growth May Be (Shh!) Over
Why Online Poker Should Be Legal
Lying to Ourselves
I Consult, Therefore I Am
Two Book Authors and a Microphone
Mass Transit Hysteria
The Economist’s Guide to Parenting
A Burger a Day
The Things They Taught Me

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