3.Freakonomics Radio

Freakonomics Radio is one of the most popular podcasts with over 8 million downloads per month. The podcast is hosted by Stephen J. Dubner, who is an award-winning author, journalist, and TV and radio personality. The podcast is essentially a continuation of the best-selling book Freakonomic,s Dubner authored with Steven. D. Levitt, Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago. Freakonomics explores the hidden side of everything," telling stories about cheating schoolteachers and eating champions while teaching us all to think a bit more creatively, rationally, and productively."

4..Revisionist History

Revisionist HistoryRevisionist History is the brain child of Malcolm Gladwell, the best-selling author who gave us the 10,000-hour rule and books such as The Tipping Point, Outliers, and Blink. With Revisionist History, he explores certain topics in a way that readers of his books may find surprising, as he devotes three episodes to ways he considers the United States' education system is failing low-income students.
"Revisionist History go back and reinterpret something from the past: an event, a person, an idea. Something overlooked, something misunderstood", says the website.

5..Planet Money

NPR's Planet Money is an American podcast that explains complex events and concepts in economics in the simplest way. Even though some of the topics explored on the podcast are unfamiliar for Indians, the hosts' exploration of some of the key theories in micro economics and macroeconomics will definitely make its listeners much smarter in understanding money and economy in general.

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