I'm Not an Expert, but I've Written a Book on Our National Trade

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The incentives and feedback loops thay would normally protect consumers from agregious over diagnosis and over sting other things. I think emotionally, we have a trust of that person as scientist, doctor, that it's being eroded through the intern at another bad behavior. Really, it's a crazy system. If people knew more about it, i don't think they'd be u theyre open to that systai.

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."