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24 alternatives to Freakonomics Radio & A tiny behavioral-sciences startup

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Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Freakonomics Radio & A tiny behavioral-sciences startup launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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Freakonomics Radio - Fixing the World, Bang-for-the-buck▲58
A team of economists running the numbers on the UN's goals
2015 · feedproxy.google.com · its alternatives →
2
Planet Money▲153
A podcast covering the global economy
2014 · its alternatives →
3
Think Like a Freak▲81
The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain
2014 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
4
Freakonomics▲97
A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
5
Tell Me Something I Don’t Know▲56
A new trivia-like series from the Freakonomics folks
2016 · freakonomics.com · its alternatives →
6
When To Rob a Bank▲165
New book from the authors of Freakonomics
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
7
Building Nexcast Part 1: Schooled by Silicon Valley▲74
Part 1 of the journey building the podcast app and platform
2016 · its alternatives →
8
Prehype Podcast▲107
Entrepreneurs speaking to people they think are interesting
2015 · podcasts.apple.com · its alternatives →
9
Freakonomics - This Is Your Brain on Podcasts▲60
Scientific evidence that podcasts are good for your brain
2016 · freakonomics.com · its alternatives →
10
Data Skeptic Podcast▲64
Data/Stats/ML podcast with a great Mini series
2015 · dataskeptic.com · its alternatives →
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This Week In Startups - Episode 578 Tim O'Reilly▲62
WTF Economy takes on how tech is transforming the workforce…
2015 · thisweekinstartups.com · its alternatives →
12
Reboot podcast▲205
CEO's discuss psychological challenges w/ Jerry Colonna
2015 · reboot.io · its alternatives →
13
Interviewed▲189
A growing database of podcast interviews about startups
2015 · interviewed.io · its alternatives →
14
Chaos Monkeys▲72
An exposé of life inside the tech bubble
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
15
Dash Radio ▲95
A curator-led digital broadcasting MCN, redefining radio
2015 · dashradio.com · its alternatives →
16
Everything Is Bullshit▲86
A Book by Priceonomics: The greatest scams on Earth revealed
2014 · priceonomics.com · its alternatives →
17
Radiolab - The Trust Engineers▲70
Inside Facebook's lab of human behavior
2015 · radiolab.org · its alternatives →
18
Freakonomics: Why Uber Is an Economist’s Dream▲60
$7 bil: the consumer surplus Uber created.
2016 · its alternatives →
19
Zero to Scale - Nailing the Launch and Email List Building with Bryan Harris▲59
A podcast about going from zero to $20k/mo and beyond
2015 · zerotoscale.com · its alternatives →
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Freakonomics Radio: What Are You Waiting For?▲56
Why haven't we found a better way to get what we want?
2016 · its alternatives →
21
Chaos Monkeys▲94
Obscene fortune and random failure in Silicon Valley
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
22
Full Stack Radio▲128
A podcast for devs interested in building great products.
2015 · fullstackradio.com · its alternatives →
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a16z - Talking Humans and Machines with NYT’s John Markoff▲71
Our changing relationship with technology and machines
2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
24
Hit Reply – Episode 0: Yet Another Startup Podcast?▲80
How we went from 0 launches in 5 years to 9 in the last 2
2016 · hitreply.co · its alternatives →

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