2 days ago · In this 2016 episode, we looked at what pencil-making can teach us about global manufacturing — and the proper role of government in the economy.

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Freakonomics Radio ferrets out connections between seemingly unrelated things. The program explores the riddles of everyday life and the weird wrinkles of human nature—from cheating …

by Freakonomics Radio (2011). A famous essay argues that “not a single person on the face of this earth” knows how to make a pencil. How true is that? In this 2016 episode, we looked at …

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