Books Mentioned on Freakonomics Radio

Freakonomics Radio hosts have mentioned 24 books across their episodes. See the full list ranked by mention count.

  1. 1. Eat Your Ice Cream: Six Simple Rules for a Long and Healthy Life by Ezekiel Emanuel
  2. 2. A Giant Leap: How AI Is Transforming Healthcare and What That Means for Our Future by Bob Wachter
  3. 3. The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age by Bob Wachter
  4. 4. Confessions of a Hero-Worshiper by Stephen Dubner
  5. 5. The Rest of the Iceberg: An Insider’s View on the World of Sports and Celebrity by Robert Smith
  6. 6. Doping: A Sporting History by April Henning and Paul Dimeo
  7. 7. Cycle of Lies: The Fall of Lance Armstrong by Juliet Macur
  8. 8. Positively False: The Real Story of How I Won the Tour de France by Floyd Landis
  9. 9. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
  10. 10. Nudge: The Final Edition by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein
  11. 11. Sludge: What Stops Us from Getting Things Done and What to Do About It by Cass Sunstein
  12. 12. The Future of Truth by Werner Herzog
  13. 13. Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir by Werner Herzog
  14. 14. A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy by Joel Mokyr
  15. 15. Two Paths to Prosperity: Culture and Institutions in Europe and China, 1000–2000 by Avner Greif, Joel Mokyr, Guido Tabellini
  16. 16. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu, James Robinson
  17. 17. The World For Sale: Money, Power, and the Traders Who Barter the Earth's Resources by Javier Blas and Jack Farchy
  18. 18. The King of Oil: The Secret Lives of Marc Rich by Daniel Ammann
  19. 19. Chasing My Cure: A Doctor's Race to Turn Hope into Action; A Memoir by David Fajgenbaum
  20. 20. Strong Medicine: Creating Incentives for Pharmaceutical Research on Neglected Diseases by Michael Kremer and Rachel Glennerster
  21. 21. Run Ricky Run by null
  22. 22. Driven: The Race to Create the Autonomous Car by Alex Davies
  23. 23. The Technology Trap by Carl Benedikt Frey
  24. 24. Random Acts of Medicine by Bapu Jena and Christopher Worsham

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