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Steven Levitt and Freakonomics can go to hell!
Ruling Imagination: Law and Creativity —
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On Veterans Day I expressed my disgust and contempt for Steven Levitt (he of Freakonomics fame) because his devotion to intellectual abstraction divorced from any connection to reality is, well, disgusting and contemptuous. The specific reason for my post on that day was Levitt’s proposition that a military ...1 week ago -
Trust us – we’re smarter than you: climate and Superfreakonomics
Scholars and Rogues —
Authority: 595
Back in 2005, self-described “rogue economist” Steven D. Levitt teamed up with journalist Stephen J. Dubner to write Freakonomics , a book that rose to #2 on the NY Times Nonfiction Bestseller List based largely on the controversial topics within its covers. Some of those topics included analyses of cheating ...2 weeks ago -
The Nature Of Science
1115.org —
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If you’re a fan of The Daily Show , you probably remember Jon Stewart being unaccountably super-sympathetic to SuperFreakonomics co-author Steven Levitt on October 27. Levitt, of course, is an economist-turned-amateur-climatologist. And Jon Stewart was being super-sympathetic about the book’s ...3 weeks ago -
The Predictioneer’s Game: Using the Logic of Brazen Self-Interest to See and Shape the Future
Through Your Body: —
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Bruce Bueno de Mesquita wants you to buy his book. He wants royalties and he wants fame. He wants the book to promote his consulting business. The text may well be full of self-promotional tall tales and calumny — unless the author calculated that the costs of dishonesty (potential intellectual disrepute) outweighed ...3 weeks ago -
Both sides of the abortion divide
The Collegian Online —
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An article praising H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, appeared in Monday’s opinion section of The Collegian.4 weeks ago -
2 GenX thinkers have new books out
junkdrawer67 —
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Malcolm Gladwell (b. 1963) and Steven Levitt (b. 1967 [same year as me, which of course makes me feel like a loser, because what have I done, right?]) both have new books out. Both are GenXer and both are innovative thinkers. Indicative of the GenX mindset they think quite differently than most others in their ...4 weeks ago -
SuperFreakonomics authors: we are not climate change deniers
Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk —
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Steven Levitt explains to Robert Miller why spraying sulphur dioxide into the stratosphere to diminish solar radiation makes economic and environmental sense.4 weeks ago -
Geoengineering and Super Freakonomics
The Personal Finance Playbook —
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This guy is just hoping someone does something. “While there is a lot of room for a lot of legitimate debate about many aspects of global warming, let us say one thing here: we believe that anyone who reads our chapter without an agenda wouldn’t even find it particularly controversial.” The quote above was ...4 weeks ago
