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  • Daily Blogwatch: What happened the last time we hit 10% unemployment?


    DailyFinanceAuthority Authority: 790
    Filed under: Company News , Technology , Columns , Economy , Investing , Amazon.com, Inc. Michael Milken thinks the next big crisis is in sovereign debt . _________________ Freakonomics is curious why flight attendants dont get tips . _________________ Wow. Amazon ( AMZN ) is upgraded again. Heres ...
    11 hours ago
  • Competition:Win a copy of SuperFreakonomics!


    Abha MalpaniAuthority Authority: 108
    If you haven’t read, or at least heard of Freakonomics — shame on you. In a nutshell, as put perfectly by the AP , Freakonomics is a book where the authors “crunch numbers about mundane topics to reveal interesting, unexpected conclusions”. For example: What do school teachers and sumo wrestlers have in ...
    2 days ago
  • London Calling


    FreakonomicsAuthority Authority: 767
    Just announced: Levitt and Dubners sold-out lecture at Londons Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) will be webcast live on Tuesday, November 10, 2009, at 13:00 GMT (thats 8 a.m. Eastern -- or use this handy calculator to find the time where you live). One day earlier, they ...
    3 days ago
  • London Calling


    Fuck BankersAuthority Authority: 166
    Just announced: Levitt and Dubner’s sold-out lecture at London’s Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) will be webcast live on Tuesday, November 10, 2009, at 13:00 GMT (that’s 8 a.m. Eastern — or use this handy calculator to find the time where you live). One day ...
    3 days ago
  • Late-Night Liberty: Freaky Factoids Edition


    Mother TalkersAuthority Authority: 139
    Yesterday I was at a bookstore in downtown Berkeley and spotted the sequel to the book Freakonomics , titled SuperFreakonomics . I merely thumbed through the original Freakonomics , which was filled with all kinds of eye-opening -- and controversial -- facts and statistics like the decline of crime following ...
    3 days ago
  • Super Freakonomics – Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance


    Simple ComplexityAuthority Authority: 565
    I’m about halfway through an excellent new book from Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance . The book is fantastic. From the Introduction: Many of life’s decisions are hard. . . . For one, the stakes are ...
    4 days ago
  • The morning coffee is shopping the Terminator


    Mr. Topp and the Big Bad BlogAuthority Authority: 130
    Would you like a Terminator of your own? A certain governor of California, Batman, or Summer Glau to call your own? Then you’re in luck! The Terminator is up for auction! (by Jason Barnhart ) Want to join the US Military? Chances are you’re too fat. Or sick. Or dumb. Sorry. In their new book ...
    4 days ago
  • Statisticians reject global cooling


    World Change CafeAuthority Authority: 117
    By SETH BORENSTEIN The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Have you heard that the world is now cooling instead of warming? You may have seen some news reports on the Internet or heard about it from a provocative new book.  Only one problem: It’s not true, according to an analysis of the numbers done by several ...
    4 days ago
  • Ken Caldeiras Carbon Solution


    FreakonomicsAuthority Authority: 767
    Theres been a brouhaha over whether we "misrepresented" the research and views of the climate scientist Ken Caldeira, whom we write about in the global-warming chapter of SuperFreakonomics. Weve been in constant touch with him over the past few weeks, since we wanted to amend future printings of our book if indeed ...
    5 days ago
  • Ken Caldeira’s Carbon Solution


    Fuck BankersAuthority Authority: 166
    There’s been a brouhaha over whether we “misrepresented” the research and views of the climate scientist Ken Caldeira, whom we write about in the global-warming chapter of SuperFreakonomics. We’ve been in constant touch with him over the past few weeks, since we wanted to amend future printings of our book if ...
    5 days ago
  • Ken Caldeira’s Carbon Solution


    Gulag BlogAuthority Authority: 167
    There’s been a brouhaha over whether we “misrepresented” the research and views of the climate scientist Ken Caldeira, whom we write about in the global-warming chapter of SuperFreakonomics. We’ve been in constant touch with him over the past few weeks, since we wanted to amend future printings of our book if ...
    5 days ago
  • The State of Geoengineering Research


    FreakonomicsAuthority Authority: 767
    As noted earlier , Congress today is holding its first-ever hearings on geoengineering as a potential means to fight global warming.
    5 days ago
  • Moral panic? What moral panic?


    skepticlawyerAuthority Authority: 511
    Being of a libertarian cast of mind, I’ve often been of the view that all the campaigns about smoking, drugs and obesity are more than a little overdone. It’s not that I think these things are unhealthy — they plainly are. It’s more that I suspect the moral panic is made worse not because we are genuinely ...
    6 days ago
  • SuperFreaks: Smart, arrogant, ill-informed


    DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate ScienceAuthority Authority: 578
    SuperFreakonomics.jpg At the risk of piling on, wed like to add our voice to those who are disappointed by the clumsy unprofessionalism of Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubners new book, SuperFreakonomics - at least in regard to its handling of climate change. Assuming that Levitt and Dubners ...
    1 week ago
  • Answer to the SuperFreakonomics Quiz: Name This University of Chicago Alum


    Fuck BankersAuthority Authority: 166
    There were many good guesses (Ashcroft, Bork, Corzine, etc.). There were also some really awful guesses, like my colleagues Robert Lucas and Gary Becker, who fit many of the criteria, but obviously I was not meeting for the first time last week.
    1 week ago
  • Answer to the SuperFreakonomics Quiz: Name This University of Chicago Alum


    Gulag BlogAuthority Authority: 167
    There were many good guesses (Ashcroft, Bork, Corzine, etc.). There were also some really awful guesses, like my colleagues Robert Lucas and Gary Becker, who fit many of the criteria, but obviously I was not meeting for the first time last week.
    1 week ago
  • Answer to the SuperFreakonomics Quiz: Name This University of Chicago Alum


    FreakonomicsAuthority Authority: 767
    There were many good guesses (Ashcroft, Bork, Corzine, etc.). There were also some really awful guesses, like my colleagues Robert Lucas and Gary Becker, who fit many of the criteria, but obviously I was not meeting for the first time last week.
    1 week ago
  • Introducing the SuperFreakonomics Virtual Book Club: Meet Emily Oster


    FreakonomicsAuthority Authority: 767
    Welcome to the first installment of the SuperFreakonomics Book Club. We know youre all busy, and scattered around the globe too. So it wouldnt be convenient for all of us to regularly gather in someones living room and talk about the book while sharing bean dip. So lets harness this Internet thingy and try something ...
    1 week ago
  • Introducing the SuperFreakonomics Virtual Book Club: Meet Emily Oster


    Fuck BankersAuthority Authority: 166
    Welcome to the first installment of the SuperFreakonomics Book Club. We know you’re all busy, and scattered around the globe too. So it wouldn’t be convenient for all of us to regularly gather in someone’s living room and talk about the book while sharing bean dip. So let’s harness this Internet thingy and ...
    1 week ago
  • Freakonomics etc


    Geary Behavioural Economics BlogAuthority Authority: 507
    This little piece from the U.Chicago Magazine has a nice little discussion of the Freakonomics approach centering on Jim Heckmans [critical] view. I have read some really good pieces in that publication. Shame we dont have anything remotely equivalent. ...
    1 week ago

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