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The World Of SuperFreakonomics
Steve Levitt on Super Freakonomics:
Super Freakonomics: Steve Levitt and Steve Dubner on Charlie Rose
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John Stossel defends the Super Freakonomics authors, who are attacked by the Global Warming Church.
John Stossel on global warming as a scare tactic:
SuperFreakonomics: Steve Levitt and Steve Dubner on Charlie Rose
Super Freakonomics: Steve Levitt and Steve Dubner on Charlie Rose
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- Spot November 11’s show.
UPDATE: Steve Dubner on geo-engineering.
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 [...]
Although flawed, in SuperFreakonomics, Levitt and Dubner have done citizens and policymakers a real service by breaking the taboo on discussing the feasibility and risks of climate engineering in public.
Ron Bailey on SuperFreakonomics.
Intellectual Ventures wanna solve global warming via “stratoshield”.
“Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA) assailed the authors of SuperFreakonomics for participating in the effort to deceive the American public on the science of global warming, in particular for their “absolute deception” in their portrayal of the views of climate scientist Ken Caldeira. He criticized the book during a hearing of the House Committee on Energy [...]
Super Freakonomics: Steve Levitt on Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show
Super Freakonomics: Steve Levitt on Jon Stewart’s show (The Daily Show)
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The horse that Steve Levitt predicted would finish last… actually *won* the Kentucky Derby.
Thankfully, no one pays attention.
I would like to read what Nate Silver thinks of horse racing forecasting.
A documentary film is going to be made about the book “Freakonomics”. The problem is that the film won’t be made by one able and focused director —but rather by a bunch of folks, whose implication in the whole project will be ultra minimal. The expected result of that idiocy is that their documentary will be an uninteresting mosaic of short and superficial takes, and will surely tank at the box office, like all the Paris Hilton movies did. The Hollywood Stock Exchange traders are no idiots: they are sensing that that Freakonomics project is a stinking lemon, and they are selling the event derivative like it is bubonic plague.
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The “esteemed” economists are lining up, trying to second-guess the HSX traders, jotting down their favorite hypothesis about the possible reason for the upcoming disaster —but all smart that they are, they can’t see the obvious:
THE FREAKONOMICS DOCUMENTARY PROJECT IS A STINKING LEMON BECAUSE NO ONE OF VALUE IS IN CHARGE OF IT —FROM A [...]
Steve Levitt and Koleman Strumpf in the news
Via our good friend Caveat Bettor.
It’s a complicated affair. I can’t sum it up for you. Go scanning it, if you’re curious.
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Best wishes to Steve Levitt and Koleman Strumpf.
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