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Steve Levitt

64 lectures, interviews and podcast episodes featuring or about Steve Levitt, recommended by Freakonomics. The most-recommended is “Ninety-Eight Years of Economic Wisdom (Replay) | People I (Mostly) Admire”.

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Ninety-Eight Years of Economic Wisdom (Replay) | People I (Mostly) Admire

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172. A New Kind of University | People I (Mostly) Admire

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171. Measuring Pollution on Parallel Earths | People I (Mostly) Admire

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Suleika Jaouad’s Survival Mechanisms (Replay) | People I (Mostly) Admire

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Rick Rubin on How to Make Something Great (Update) | People I (Mostly) Admire

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160. How to Help Kids Succeed | People I (Mostly) Admire

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154. Can Robots Get a Grip? | People I (Mostly) Admire

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152. Hunting for the Origins of Life | People I (Mostly) Admire

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Reading Dostoevsky Behind Bars (Update) | People I (Mostly) Admire

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148. How to Have Good Ideas | People I (Mostly) Admire

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Jane Goodall Changed the Way We See Animals. She’s Not Done. (Replay) | People I (Mostly) Admire

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149. Stanford’s President Knows He Can’t Make Everyone Happy | People I (Mostly) Admire

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147. Is Your Gut a Second Brain? | People I (Mostly) Admire

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Why Numbers are Music to Our Ears (Update) | People I (Mostly) Admire

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143. Why Are Boys and Men in Trouble? | People I (Mostly) Admire

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146. Is There a Fair Way to Divide Us? | People I (Mostly) Admire

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Nobel Laureate Daron Acemoglu on Economics, Politics, and Power (REPLAY) | People I (Mostly) Admire

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144. Feeling Sound and Hearing Color | People I (Mostly) Admire

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Pete Docter: “What If Monsters Really Do Exist?” (UPDATE) | People I (Mostly) Admire

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EXTRA: Using Data to Win Gold | People I (Mostly) Admire

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137. Richard Dawkins on God, Genes, and Murderous Baby Cuckoos | People I (Mostly) Admire

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139. How PETA Made Radical Ideas Mainstream | People I (Mostly) Admire

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REPLAY Sue Bird: “You Have to Pay the Superstars.” | People I (Mostly) Admire

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135. How to Grow a White Rhino | People I (Mostly) Admire

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131. Getting Old, Adventurously | People I (Mostly) Admire

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EXTRA: Remembering Daniel Kahneman | People I (Mostly) Admire

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129. How to Fix Medical Research | People I (Mostly) Admire

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124. Daron Acemoglu on Economics, Politics, and Power | People I (Mostly) Admire

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Yuval Noah Harari Thinks Life Is Meaningless and Amazing | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 84

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Robert Sapolsky: “I Don’t Think We Have Any Free Will Whatsoever.” | People I (Mostly) Admire | 18

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121. Exploring Physics, from Eggshells to Oceans | People I (Mostly) Admire

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117. Nate Silver Says We're Bad at Making Predictions | People I (Mostly) Admire

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Avi Loeb: Do We Have Evidence of Alien Life? | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 113

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David Simon Is On Strike. Here's Why. | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 109

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Wendy MacNaughton: Drawing From Life (and Death) | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 110

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Reginald Dwayne Betts: Reading Dostoevsky Behind Bars | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 112

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Bringing Data to Life | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 107

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Jared Diamond on the Downfall of Civilizations — and His Optimism for Ours | Episode 55

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The Joy of Math With Sarah Hart | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 104

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Can Data Keep People Out of Prison? | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 105

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Professor Carl Hart Argues All Drugs Should Be Legal — Can He Convince Steve? | Episode 28

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John Green's Reluctant Rocket Ship Ride | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 92

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Annie Duke Thinks You Should Quit | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 93

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Suzanne Gluck: “I’m a Person Who Can Convince Other People to Do Things” | Episode 10

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America’s Math Curriculum Doesn’t Add Up | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 42

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Ken Jennings on How a Midlife Crisis Led Him to Jeopardy! | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 4

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Sendhil Mullainathan Explains How to Generate an Idea a Minute | People I (Mostly) Admire | Ep 38

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Sendhil Mullainathan Thinks Messing Around Is the Best Use of Your Time | Episode 37

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Amaryllis Fox: “What Does This New Version of Mutually Assured Destruction Look Like?”| Episode 24

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Yul Kwon: “Don’t Try to Change Yourself All at Once.” | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 13

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David Epstein Knows Something About Almost Everything | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 35

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Amanda & Lily Levitt Share What It’s Like to be Steve’s Daughters | People I (Mostly) Admire | 46

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Max Tegmark on Why Superhuman Artificial Intelligence Won’t be Our Slave | Episode 52

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We Can Play God Now | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 67

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Peter Leeson on Why Trial-by-Fire Wasn’t Barbaric and Why Pirates Were Democratic | Episode 31

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Leidy Klotz on Why the Best Solutions Involve Less— Not More | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 45

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Yul Kwon: “Hey, Do You Have Any Bright Ideas?” | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 14

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Marina Nitze: “If You Googled ‘Business Efficiency Consultant,’ I Was the Only Result.” | Episode 19

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Self-Help for Data Nerds | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 75

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Edward Miguel on Collecting Economic Data by Canoe and Correlating Conflict with Rainfall | Ep 50

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