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.

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 62)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Rabbit

Origin

Duanesburg, New York, United States

Occupation

journalist / writer / podcaster

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

2026-06-24

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.