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“I love being the person who doesn’t know anything” - Why Steven Levitt has swapped …

4/11/2025 • 40 min

20 years ago, a book called Freakonomics became an instant bestseller and worldwide sensation. Tim Harford got his hands on the first copy that Steve Levitt ever signed... and promptly sold it on eBay. In this Cautionary Conversation, the pair are reunited to discuss the Freakonomics phenomenon, why Levitt left the hostile world of academia, and how simple chang… Play episode

The Old Man and the Wrecking Crew
Houdini: The Phone Call from the Coffin (Part 3)
Houdini's Detective and her 1500 Dead Husbands (Part 2)
Houdini: A Message from the Spirits (Part 1)
Would You Trust a Gangster Nanny? - Cautionary Questions with Rachel Botsm…
Lights, Camera, Tax Break
The Nursery Rhyme That Ruined a Rock Band
The Widow Who Disrupted Champagne (with Ben Walter)
The Thrill and the Drop: A First Date Rollercoaster
Dr. Brinkley's Miracle Cure For Impotence (with Betwixt The Sheets)
The Night of the Mugger
Missing on "Dead Mountain": A Cold War Cold Case
Frozen in a Burning 747 (Tenerife Air Disaster 2)
Cleared For Take-Off? (Tenerife Air Disaster 1)
Do NOT Pass GO! (Classic)
Demonizing Dungeons & Dragons (Classic)
Captain Coward and the Blame Game
Get Happier, Help Others: Some Good Ideas About Giving
RoboPod and the Perpetual Money Machine - Cautionary Questions 2
Darwin's Grandpa and the Art of Sex Appeal
The Edinburgh Body Snatchers: Murder at Halloween
Cautionary Tales Presents: Death Fraud and Other Risky Business
The Poet Who Toppled The British Empire
Reason, Wrath and Rebellion on the High Seas
Steel and Kindness: Clash of the Skyscrapers
The Nice Guy, the Bully and the Kiss
Tim's Tolkien Obsession & Amazon Prime's The Rings of Power
The Human Guinea Pigs of Camp Lazear
Embracing the Escape Fire (with Adam Grant)
Cautionary Tales Presents Vultures from Lost Hills: Dark Canyon
Flying Too High: AI and Air France Flight 447
Run, Switzer, Run: The Women Who Broke the Marathon Taboo
Adidas v Puma: A Battle of Boots and Brothers
The Revenge of the Whales
When the Robots Take Over... - Cautionary Questions
WW2: How Britain Ignored the Mother of All Secrets
The Fraudster's Guide to Magic Money
Blood and Gold (with Dan Snow)
The Rise and Fall of a Megalomaniac
Inside the Bizarre World of Dictators
Do Nothing, Then Do Less
Buried Evil: V2 Rocket (Part 3)
Into the Black Lair: V2 Rocket (Part 2)
Supersonic Nazi Vengeance: V2 Rocket (Part 1)
Tenerife: The Most Deadly Air Disaster
Martin Luther King, the Jewelry Genius, and the Art of Public Speaking (Cl…
DANGER: Rocks Ahead! (Classic)
When Stalin Killed the Weekend (with The Happiness Lab)
How the Radium Girls Fought Back

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