Freakonomics Quorum: Why, During a Bad Economy, Does Crime Continue to Fall?
…issue, it seemed like a good time to convene a Freakonomics Quorum. We put out the following question to a group of experts including some of the very academics whose…
…issue, it seemed like a good time to convene a Freakonomics Quorum. We put out the following question to a group of experts including some of the very academics whose…
…rise.” So it seemed a good time to put together a Freakonomics Quorum and ask a couple of straightforward questions: Just how prevalent is insider trading? And what, if anything,…
…out further. We’ve convened a Freakonomics Quorum on the topic, soliciting replies from a few folks with expertise in the realm. Thanks to all of them for participating. Douglas…
…conclusion to draw? For answers to these and related questions, we decided to convene a Freakonomics Quorum. We reached out to a handful of education researchers and experts, and asked…
…is there really more hacking than usual of late, or are we just more observant? To answer this question, we put together a Freakonomics Quorum of cyber-security and I.T. experts…
…people we know or tracked down, who might have particular insights to this particular problem. As such, we bring you the inaugural Freakonomics quorum, composed of the following group: the…
…answer these and related questions, we convened a Freakonomics Quorum and asked our participants the following: With Japan deciding not to expand its nuclear power base, and Germany and Switzerland…
…26,266 miles. Not to be left out, we decided it was a good time to convene a Freakonomics Quorum. We rounded up a handful of sports economists and asked them…
…our earlier Times columns are now available for free here.) In the meantime, we thought it would be a good idea to host a Freakonomics Quorum in which we asked…
…what will it look like in five or ten years? That’s the question we put to five smart people in our latest Freakonomics Quorum. I found their answers to be…
…This format has become known as the Freakonomics Quorum. (The first one we did was about strategies to save the African rhino.) This time the participants are: Arthur Brooks, who…
…a Freakonomics Quorum, with recent discussions on street charity and the housing market. Here are the participants for the discussion on obesity: J. Eric Oliver, a professor of political science…
…Severin Borenstein and Nancy L. Rose, called “How Airline Markets Work … or Do They?”) So in the tradition of past Freakonomics Quorums on the music industry, street charity, and…
…Several months ago, we ran a quorum here about urbanization, pegged to the fact that more than half of the world’s population now lives in cities. Given the economic changes…
…it can be fixed at all. Thanks to everyone in the Quorum for participating — and as always, let us know what you think in the comments section. Eric Morris,…
Photo: Alejandro Forero Cuervo Two years ago we ran a quorum debating the pros and cons of decriminalizing marijuana. Since then, a largely theoretical debate has moved quite substantially toward…
…Europe’s embattled banks. The fundamental question of whether the euro will survive remains, however. And so we’ve decided it’s high time for a Freakonomics quorum on the future of the…
…at the very beginning of SuperFreakonomics: As profitable as it might have been to pump out a quick follow-up – think “Freakonomics for Dummies” or “Chicken Soup for the Freakonomics…
The science of what works — and doesn’t work — in fundraising.
The science of what works — and doesn’t work — in fundraising
Over the past several weeks, we’ve hosted discussions on obesity, street charity, real estate, and environmental conservation. Here now is a quorum that lets people relive the just-about-gone summer. The…
Way back when in 2006, here’s what venture-capital legend John Doerr had to say about clean technology: “This field of greentech could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st…
Barton Silverman/The New York Times While the New York Yankees’ 2010 season came to a disappointing close, it would still appear inevitable that the team will want to re-sign Derek…
…past; today we present a quorum with a very narrow focus: what are some good ideas to cut gun deaths? Let’s put aside for a moment the standard discussions about…
Photo: hoggardb The Internal Revenue Service presumably never likes tax cheats, but when money is tight there is more pressure put on the I.R.S. to step up enforcement and collect…
…be thinking about this? We gathered a quorum of smart thinkers on this subject — James Howard Kunstler, Edward Glaeser, Robert Bruegmann, Dolores Hayden, and Alan Berube — and posed…
Following last week’s quorum about street charity, we’ve now brought in a half-dozen bright people to address a very different issue: Is it finally time to believe in the housing…
…that made me want to post a quorum on the subject. So we’ve gathered up some willing and able candidates — Dr. Stuart Apfel, Zola P. Horovitz, Dr. Harlan Krumholz,…
Iran’s citizens take to the streets en masse after a disputed election. Gay men in Salt Lake City hold a kissing protest. Members of the Westboro Baptist Church voice their…
The notion of micropayments — a pay-per-click/download web model — is hardly a new one. But as a business model it hasn’t exactly caught fire, or even generated more than…
