I'm So Stunned by the Observation, Look Like I Was Frozen

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Ficinom interviews people who are innovative, rule break s and trying to do the right thing. He calls them 'youna' because it's a litt of the whole things ta little bit tongue and cheek. "I was surprised at how hard interviewing is compared to being interviewed," he says.

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."