Stephen J. Dubner

Stephen J. Dubner reshaped how I think about everyday questions. A Columbia-educated journalist from New York, he teamed with an economist to turn Freakonomics into a phenomenon, linking sumo cheating, crime rates and incentives in ways no one had dared connect. What I value most is his talent for making rigorous ideas genuinely fun, never dumbing them down. His move into Freakonomics Radio proved he is as gifted a storyteller in audio as on the page. At heart he is a relentlessly curious mind who digs for the hidden human motives behind data, and his work quietly rewires how you see the world.

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Name (English)

Stephen J. Dubner

Name (Japanese)

スティーヴン・J・ダブナー

Reading

すてぃーゔん・J・だぶなー

Born

August 26, 1963 (age 63)

Origin

Duanesburg, New York, United States

Occupation

journalist / writer / podcaster

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Rabbit

High school

Duanesburg High School

University

Columbia University

• Official sitehttp://www.stephenjdubner.com/
• Xhttps://x.com/freakonomics
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20J.%20Dubner
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q454515

Tags

• New York
• journalist
• writer
• podcaster

Last updated

September 25, 2026

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