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Fun fact: Robo-advisor startup Betterment has a book club. Recently, they read Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt’s “Think Like A Freak.” So when Betterment founder and CEO Jon Stein interviewed Dubner, he asked how investors could think like freaks about their money. Of all the insights in the book, Dubner […]
University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt and journalist Stephen Dubner turned heads with their hit book “Freakonomics” in 2005 and its 2009 sequel “SuperFreakonomics,” which use economics to explain why people do what they do. The authors have returned with a new book, “Think Like a Freak,” which lays out […]
If a magician’s life depended on fooling either an audience of adults or an audience of kids, every magician would rather perform for the adults, says Alex Stone, a lifelong magician and author of “Fooling Houdini.” In “Think Like A Freak,” the new book from “Freakonomics” authors Steven Levitt and […]
Luckily for our wallets — and our taste buds — the authors of “Think Like A Freak” present an experiment that shows one thing: Even if expensive wine is better, most of us won’t be able to tell. The book, a follow-up to the popular “Freakonomics,” tells the story of […]
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