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Podcast: Freakonomics Radio
Episode: 572. Why Is There So Much Fraud in Academia? | Freakonomics Radio
Published on January 12, 2024
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Think Like a Freak (Republish)
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I rarely do this, but today I'm going to start by reading a couple of sentences from Freakonomics, which Steve Levitt and I published in 2005: 'Cheating, we wrote, may or may not be human nature, but it's certainly a prominent feature in just about every human endeavor. Cheating is a primordial economic act, getting more for less.'
In this episode, host Stephen Dubner introduces the topic of cheating by quoting a passage from 'Freakonomics', the book he coauthored with Steve Levitt in 2005. He emphasizes that cheating is deeply ingrained in many aspects of human behavior.