The Economics of Everyday Things

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Who decides which snacks are in your office’s vending machine? How much is a suburban elm tree worth, and to whom? How did Girl Scout Cookies become a billion...

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Charts

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#116 Business · United States

🇵🇭 #5 · 🇮🇩 #12 · 🇨🇱 #14 · 🇨🇦 #18 · 🇳🇿 #20 · 🇦🇷 #21 · 🇿🇦 #28 · 🇫🇮 #35 · 🇰🇷 #43 · 🇮🇹 #45 · +20 more

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Activity

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8 episodes · last 30 days

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Episodes per week over the last six months.

About

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Who decides which snacks are in your office’s vending machine? How much is a suburban elm tree worth, and to whom? How did Girl Scout Cookies become a billion-dollar business? In bite-sized episodes, journalist Zachary Crockett looks at quotidian things and finds amazing stories. To get every show in the Freakonomics Radio Network without ads and a monthly bonus episode of Freakonomics Radio, s...

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Rankings

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As of 2026-09-20, The Economics of Everyday Things ranks #116 on Apple Podcasts in the Philippines, and appears on charts in 1 country.

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Overall chart position, last 90 days · lower is better

Where it charts

Current overall position by country · categories in 🇵🇭 Philippines as of 2026-09-20

🇵🇭 Philippines #116 Business #7 Apple

Chart records

First charted2025-08-22

Best ever#48 on Apple Podcasts (Philippines) · 2025-11-05

Days on chart198

Countries now1

CategoriesBusiness