The Race to End Fire Deaths
A century ago, the Triangle Fire stunned the U.S. The death of 146 people, mostly young women working in a factory, led to outrage, which emboldened unions and changed labor laws. It also led to a profound change in how we work to prevent fires. Robert Solomon works for the National Fire Protection Association, a Read More »
Sugar Daddy Dating
A Freakonomics reader (we’ll call her “Sugar Baby”) is documenting her two-week experiment with online “Sugar Daddy Dating”: “beautiful women post pictures while wealthy men post their income and voilà! – the perfect Darwinian couple is created. Because the expectation is short term, it’s flirting with the title of an escort service, or worse, prostitution.” Read More »
Bad Combinations
I like Family Guy and I like watching TV with my kids, but I do not like watching Family Guy with my kids. What are your bad combinations? Read More »
What Are the Economic Consequences of the Japanese Disaster? A Guest Post by Anil Kashyap and Takeo Hoshi
From a loss-of-life standpoint, the Japanese earthquake/tsunami may well be at least five times more severe than 9/11. While natural disasters in the past have claimed more lives, it’s extremely rare for a developed country to suffer this kind of catastrophe. While the economic losses no doubt take a distant back seat to the human suffering, nonetheless there are many important economic questions to be answered. I can’t think of a better pair of people to do so than Anil Kashyap and Takeo Hoshi. Read More »
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. If you haven’t seen it yet, the movie features Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, and was made by a dream team of documentary directors. Paste Magazine named it one of the 