308. How Can I Do the Most Social Good With $100? And Other FREAK-quently Asked Questions

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🗓️ 9 November 2017

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Dubner and his Freakonomics co-author Steve Levitt answer your questions about crime, traffic, real-estate agents, the Ph.D. glut, and how to not get eaten by a bear.

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0:00.0	You ready?
0:01.6	Okay, we're real. We're live.
0:03.6	We're live.
0:04.6	You love radio, don't you love it?
0:06.6	I do, especially when it's taped.
0:12.6	So it's been a while since we've taken, um,
0:15.0	listener questions on a scale of 1 to 10.
0:17.6	How much should we miss it?
0:19.1	It's about two and a half, three.
0:23.1	That's my Frekenomics friend and co-author Steve Lebit.
0:25.6	He's an economist at the University of Chicago.
0:28.1	I guess he doesn't love radio quite as much as I thought,
0:30.6	but still we wound up having a great time on today's episode,
0:33.9	answering your questions.
0:35.5	Questions about crime and punishment?
0:38.2	As you take the knife and think about
0:39.9	where you're going to stab the person,
0:41.2	whether you're not thinking about what's going to happen 15 years later
0:44.3	when I apply for a job and I have to check the box.
0:46.5	Questions about how to do the most social good?
0:49.8	So that is one of the weirdest definitions of social good
0:52.0	that it's ever heard in my entire life.
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