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24 alternatives to Freakonomics

A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Freakonomics launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1
Naked Economics▲103
A book about economics that won’t put you to sleep
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
2
Tell Me Something I Don’t Know▲56
A new trivia-like series from the Freakonomics folks
2016 · freakonomics.com · its alternatives →
3
When To Rob a Bank▲165
New book from the authors of Freakonomics
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
4
Everything Is Bullshit▲86
A Book by Priceonomics: The greatest scams on Earth revealed
2014 · priceonomics.com · its alternatives →
5
Predictably Irrational▲96
The hidden forces that shape our decisions
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
6
The Misfit Economy▲81
Innovation on the fringe...
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
7
Misbehaving▲62
The making of behavioral economics
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
8
Think Like a Freak▲81
The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain
2014 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
9
The Misfit Economy▲68
Lessons in creativity from pirates & hackers
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
10
Cool▲67
How the brain's hidden quest for cool drives our economy
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
11
The Rational Optimist▲77
How prosperity evolves
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
12
Truth, Errors, and Lies: Politics and Economics in a Volatil▲56
Politics and Economics of the Future
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
13
The Misbehavior of Markets▲57
A fractal view of financial turbulence
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
14
The Zero-Sum Society▲61
Distribution and the possibilities for economic change
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
15
Fooled By Randomness ▲105
The hidden role of chance in life and markets
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
16
Hidden Brain - Misbehaving▲54
Why most economists might as well be studying unicorns
2016 · its alternatives →
17
Sacred Economics ▲60
"No longer is money an exception to impermanence"
2016 · sacred-economics.com · its alternatives →
18
Soft Control: Leaks from an Information Broker▲61
A new book on surviving the knowledge economy
2016 · softcontrol.us · its alternatives →
19
Freakonomics: Why Uber Is an Economist’s Dream▲60
$7 bil: the consumer surplus Uber created.
2016 · its alternatives →
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Thinking like a Freak▲15
The authors of Freakonomics offer to retrain your brain
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
21
Planet Money▲153
A podcast covering the global economy
2014 · its alternatives →
22
Chaos Monkeys▲72
An exposé of life inside the tech bubble
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
23
Freakonomics - How to Fix a Broken High-Schooler, in Four Easy Steps▲66
The demand side of the education equation.
2016 · freakonomics.com · its alternatives →
24
Dark Money▲67
The hidden history of the billionaires behind...
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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