Co-author of Freakonomics & Podcast Host
by Betty Smith
“I read it over and over in part because I felt it was describing to me what my parents’ life was like when they were kids.”
— Stephen Dubner Recommended Books
by Ben Macintyre
“In the latest edition of the Freakonomics Radio Book Club, guest host @sarahlyall talks to @BenMacintyre1 about his book, Agent Sonya: Moscow’s Most Daring Wartime.”
— Freakonomics Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
by Steven D. Levitt
“These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist.”
— Books - Freakonomics
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by Steven D. Levitt
“It explores the idea that cheating is a prominent feature in every human endeavor and explores why it shouldn't be surprising even among scientific researchers.”
— Freakonomics Radio Book Recommendations
by Sudhir Venkatesh
“Gang Leader for a Day”
— Stephen Dubner's Book Recommendations (updated 2025)
“Robert Cialdini, pioneer in the science of persuasion, just published an expanded edition of his classic 1984 book 'Influence'.”
— Freakonomics Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
by Unknown
“In 'It’s On You: How Corporations and Behavioral Scientists have Convinced Us that We're to Blame for Society's Deepest Problems', the authors argue.”
— How economists use their subject's frameworks to unravel our messy lives
by John McPhee
“One of my very, very favorite books ever.”
— Stephen Dubner Recommended Books
“I’d never read a biography of an author that was so warts and all.”
— Stephen Dubner Recommended Books
“Did Michael Lewis just get lucky with 'Moneyball'? No — but he does have a knack for stumbling into the perfect moment, including the recent @FTX_Official debacle.”
— Freakonomics Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
“SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance”
— Books Recommended by Stephen J. Dubner - The CEO Library
by Demi
“One of Stephen Dubner's most-gifted or recommended books.”
— Stephen Dubner Recommended Books
by John a. List
“Economist John List’s [@Econ_4_Everyone] new book The Voltage Effect is trying to start a scaling revolution.”
— Freakonomics Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
“In this major national bestseller and follow-up to Superfreakonomics, the Freakonomics authors are back to take us behind the phenomenon and unveil the tools for thinking like a freak.”
— Think Like a Freak - Freakonomics
by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein
by Jonathan Yardley
by Charles Duhigg
by Michael Lewis
by Daniel Kahneman