Episode · Freakonomics Radio · 2023-01-03
Books mentioned on Can the Big Bad Wolf Save Your Life? | Freakonomics Radio | Episode 497
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Aesop's Fables
Aesop's Fables is a timeless collection of credited traditional tales utilizing animal characters to convey enduring moral lessons and fundamental truths about human nature.
Discussed“But the big bad wolf also shows up in German folk tales like Little Red Riding Hood by The Brothers Grimm, and in the Russian musical story, Peter and the Wolf by Sergey Prokofiev, and centuries earlier too, in one of Aesop's Fables, The Boy Who Cried Wolf.”
