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Economist Brad DeLong has received a DMCA takedown notice from HarperCollins, publisher of Steve Levitt and Steve Dubner’s SuperFreakonomics.
- Brad DeLong has received a DMCA takedown notice from HarperCollins.
- http://delong.typepad.com/files/superfreakonomics-chapter-5.pdf
- Is SuperFreakonomics author Levitt again denying the ‘unequivocal’ scientific evidence for global warming? New Yorker’s Kolbert calls book a form of “horseshit.”
- One error retracted, 99 to go. Superfreaknomics authors will, in future editions, correct their claim that Caldeira believes “carbon dioxide is [...]
Gawker blogger ridiculizes Super Freakonomics — and casts {Steve Levitt + Steve Dubner} as… “morons”.
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- “Steven Levitt is probably a Very Good Economist, but he has proven again and again and again that this Using Economics To Explain The World thing is utter bullshit. And he and Dubner invented this pop-econ trend that is the most annoying application of make-believe science since pop-psychology.”
- “In other words, like most pop [...]
Ken Caldeira about how his work was misrepresented in SuperFreakonomics —as well as the prospects (and pitfalls) of plans to engineer the planet’s climate system
“[Ken Caldeira] views geoengineering as a last resort, one fraught with risks and unintended consequences. What if, for example, industrialized nations decide to inject heat-reflecting dust into the stratosphere and set off a climate reaction that causes drought and famine in India and China? For this and many other reasons, [Ken] Caldeira argues that sharply [...]
Steve Levitt clearly has virtually no understanding of earth science.
Previously: Steve Levitt is attacked for not sticking to the scientific approach.
UPDATE: More from Climate Progress
Next: Ken Caldeira about how his work was misrepresented in SuperFreakonomics —as well as the prospects (and pitfalls) of plans to engineer the planet’s climate system
UPDATE: Steve Dubner apologizes.
UPDATE: The SuperFreakonomics Global-Warming Fact Quiz
UPDATE: Climate Progress + AP
UPDATE: Harvard Business [...]
Steve Levitt is attacked for not sticking to the scientific approach.
About the Super Freakonomics chapter on climate change:
Paul Klemencic:
Brad [DeLong], I agree with your assessment. This series of emails just made my brain explode as well.
I have spent a significant amount of time going through this information on SuperF, and my premise was that the authors did this either intentionally, or had bad luck in [...]
What Do Al Gore and Mount Pinatubo Have in Common?
Super Freakonomics — Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner – (co-authors of Freakonomics and SuperFreakonomics)
http://delong.typepad.com/files/superfreakonomics-chapter-5.pdf
UPDATE: Steve Dubner + Andrew Gelman + Brad DeLong
Next: Ken Caldeira about how his work was misrepresented in SuperFreakonomics —as well as the prospects (and pitfalls) of plans to engineer the planet’s climate system
UPDATE: Steve Dubner apologizes.
UPDATE: The SuperFreakonomics Global-Warming [...]
HarperCollins is preventing bloggers to criticize Super Freakonomics by cutting off free access to excerpts of the book via Amazon.com.
Brad DeLong has the damning story.
I like Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner very much, and I wish the polemique will end well for them.
Previously: Super Freakonomics — Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner — The Follow-Up On Freakonomics
Super Freakonomics — Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner – (co-authors of Freakonomics and SuperFreakonomics)
UPDATE: Steve Levitt responds.
Union [...]
You Bet: The BetFair Story — How Two Men Changed the World of Gambling — By Colin Cameron — HarperCollins
The Economist’ review of the book
The Economist on the European betting market
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