Aar Suma, Wrestlers, Cheaters, It's All So True

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Themaam: You did some unbelievably clever and provocative takes on all issues. And yet, in recent years, you've had some kind of change of heart. We're oing to talk about your podcast in a minute, called people i mostly admire. But as part of that, what i sense is a transition for you. A radical innovation for social change, r a s c risk at the university of chicago.

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."