From APM, American Public Media, and WNYC,

this is Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace.

Here's the host of Marketplace, Tess Biglin.

It is Freakonomics time.

Every couple of weeks we are talking with Stephen Dubner,

co-author of the books and the blog about the hidden side of everything.

Hello, Stephen.

Hey, Tess.

Is this a calm, peaceful, productive day at the office today?

It's a newsroom, Stephen.

No such thing, right?

Although we are in the dog days of summer.

Let me ask you this, Tess.

You ever fancised about just working from home instead,

maybe setting up a little radio studio in your living room,

and you could look at your scripts from your favourite easy chair?

No, with my cat on my lap.

Well, just between us, because nobody's listening.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, I think about it all the time,

but I don't think it's going to happen.

Well, bosses tend to have a kind of standard line of thinking here

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