John List

John List, economist at the University of Chicago.

academic economist

John List has been a guest on 6 podcasts across 10 episodes, most recently Freakonomics Radio in August 2025. Each show is judged on its own.

Appearances

Freakonomics Radio
Why Does Tipping Still Exist? (Update) · Aug 2025

494. Why Do Most Ideas Fail to Scale? · Feb 2022

51. What Makes a Donor Donate? · Nov 2011

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Hidden Brain
Success 2.0: Taking the Leap · May 2023

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People I (Mostly) Admire
94. The Price of Doing Business with John List · Dec 2022

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The Tim Ferriss Show
#566: John List — A Master Economist on Strategic Quitting, How to Practice Theory of Mind, Learnings from Uber, Optimizations to Boost Donations, the Primitives of Decision-Making, and How Field Experiments Reveal Hidden Realities · Jan 2022

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EconTalk
John List on Scale, Uber, and the Voltage Effect · Jul 2022

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Big Brains
Why Big Ideas Fail To Scale—And How To Fix It With John List · Feb 2022

Getting Out Of The Lab With John List · Dec 2020

Revolutionizing Economics By Studying People In The Real World With John List · Aug 2019

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Others on Freakonomics Radio

Others on Hidden Brain

Others on People I (Mostly) Admire

Others on The Tim Ferriss Show

Others on EconTalk

Others on Big Brains