What Did You Get For Christmas Last Year? Introducing the Freakonomics...
We need your help for an upcoming Freakonomics Radio segment. It’s about deadweight loss — the economic inefficiency that comes about when, for instance, someone buys you a $50 gift that you value at,...
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‘Tis the Season to Get What You Don’t Want
Kai Ryssdal gets a present from Stephen Dubner. Picture this: Christmas morning, tchotchke-free. This week on the Freakonomics Radio Marketplace segment, Stephen Dubner proposes an idea that might...
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Christmas Gift Spending by Country
The Economist features an interesting chart this week, showing the correlation between a country’s wealth, and the average amount its citizens spend on Christmas gifts. Note the two outliers, the...
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Calculating Santa’s Workload
(Photo: Bart Fields) Philip Bump at The Atlantic attempts to answer an important question: what exactly is Santa’s Christmas Eve workload? He considered both the number of Christian children in the...
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NBA Fans Give the League a Predictable Present on Christmas
The following is a guest post by David Berri, a Professor of Economics at Southern Utah University. He is also the lead author of Stumbling On Wins: Two Economists Expose the Pitfalls on the Road to...
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Have a Very Homo Economicus Christmas: A New Marketplace Podcast
(Photo: ahenobarbus) Our latest Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace podcast is called “Have a Very Homo Economicus Christmas.” (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen via the...
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FREAK-Shot: Christmas Ornament Edition
Reader Tim Kelly sends in photo from a store in Lombard, Illinois: As Tim writes: I spotted an interesting sign while out Christmas shopping the other day. The sign stated the company’s “breakage...
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