Behold the weird entrepreneurial trajectory of Stephen Dubner. He starts out as a working journalist and profiles a brilliant, quirky economist named Steven Levitt for The New York Times Magazine, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stephen Dubner has spent 20 years proving that things aren’t what they seem—and now he’s not so sure that’s always true. The ...

A quartet of uneven TV pilots posing as a full-length documentary, Seth Gordon’s anthology Freakonomics pulls case studies from Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt’s best-selling book of pop math and ...

Superfreakonomics, the not-so-cleverly-titled sequel to Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner's best-selling book Freakonomics, is winning the authors few friends. (The Wire already covered the brouhaha ...

We all know, Stephen Dubner said, that drunk driving greatly increases the likelihood of a fatal car crash. But, Dubner and his business partner, economist Steven Levitt, found that you are eight ...

As a student of economics and statistics, it’s no surprise that I’m a big fan of Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything and, consequently, economist Steven Levitt and ...

The first Freakonomics book--which applied economic theory to sumo wrestlers, drug dealing, and the dynamics of naming babies--was not without controversy. (The discussion surrounding its release ...

Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, the authors behind Freakonomics, are back with a sequel, inevitably titled SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers ...

Should restaurants ban tipping? It’s a natural question for anyone who cares about economics, employment, cultural mores—or for anyone who’s ever eaten in a restaurant. The question got new life last ...

The keystone of Steven Levitt’s new book, Freakonomics (co-written by journalist Stephen Dubner), is incentives. If you can figure out what’s motivating a real estate agent, you can find ways to ...

When Stephen Dubner, the coauthor of Freakonomics, was 9, he watched Franco Harris, the Pittsburgh Steelers' quarterback, catch what came to be known as the "Immaculate Reception," snatching the ball ...