Steven Levitt on Freakonomics and the State of Economics 11/9/20

Author and economist Steven Levitt is the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago and host of the podcast People I (mostly) Admire. But he is best-known as the co-author, with Stephen Dubner, of "Freakonomics." The book, published in 2005, became a phenomenon, selling more than 5 million copies in 40 languages. Levitt talks with Econtalk host Russ Roberts about the book's surprising success, the controversy it generated, and how it shaped his career. Levitt says, for him, "economics is about going into the world and finding puzzles and thinking about how understanding incentives or markets might help us get a better grasp of what's really going on."
Links and transcript for this episode: https://www.econtalk.org/steven-levit...
Subscribe to EconTalk on YouTube:    / @econtalkwithruss  
Subscribe to the audio episodes:
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...
Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/econ...
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4M5Gb71...
and wherever you listen to podcasts.