I've Never Taught a Course on Economics With John List

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Taugt is like, these are powerful ideasd, and you should have them in your tool kit as you approach life. We've never been part of the de corps. Economics is chos not to be part of the corps first year classes. So when that happend, john nd i said, well, why don't we teach a course that'll be really popular among non economists? And so we did that. I think the first year we had something like 500 students signed up,. fort which turned out to be worth a lot to the department. But it's not really a freconomic course in the sense that we're giving away free versions of reconomics or

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." 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."