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- Why We'll All Benefit from Meltdown '08
- The Find: What good could come from the carnage on Wall Street? A more productive spreading of brain power amongst a variety of industries argues one prominent economist. The Source: Freakonomics co-author Stephen Dubner writing on the NYT Freakonomics blog . The Takeaway: With...
- Blog posts 2008-11-11
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- SuperFreak Dubner embraces ClimateGate conspiracy theories
- by Brad Johnson Cross-posted from the Wonk Room . Stephen J. Dubner, co-author of SuperFreakonomics , has embraced charges by the right wing that a handful of illegally obtained private emails means that the scientific consensus on climate change is actually a dangerous conspiracy....
- News items 2009-11-24
- The New York Times Magazine Introduces ``Freakonomics''; New Monthly Column Will Be Written by National Best-Selling Authors Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt
- NEW YORK -- On Sunday, June 5, The New York Times Magazine will introduce a new column called "Freakonomics" that will be co-written by national best-selling authors Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt. The column will examine human behavior from an economic perspective. "Freakonomics" will be published once each...
- Research articles 2005-06-01
- SuperFreakonomics Screws Up Climate Change
- Photo via the Globe and Mail SuperFreakonomics' Super Climate FailYou can't believe everything you read--anyone who goes online in this information-addled age surely has learned that lesson by now. But there seems to be a special rule for books. People tend to give them more respect than an errant blog...
- News items 2009-10-19
- New York Times best sellers
- FICTION Last week/Weeks on list 1. The 5th Horseman, 1/4 by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro 2. The Tenth Circle, 2/1 by Jodi Picoult 3. The Da Vinci Code, 3/155 by Dan...
- Research articles 2006-03-26
- The Science of Greatness, Talent, and Giftedness
- David Schenk, the author of The Immortal Game see my review, has launched a blog called The Genius in All of Us based around a new book hes writing on "How science is unveiling a rich new understanding of talent, "giftedness," and brilliance -- and the lessons we can all...
- Blog posts 2007-01-26
- Monkey Business
- In a June New York Times column, Freakonomics authors Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt asserted that "economics is increasingly being recognized as a science" that can offer insight on "nearly any aspect of modern life." Their evidence? That Yale economist Keith Chen has taught monkeys to use money, and his...
- Research articles 2006-09-01
- Dow Tops 9,000 as Home Sales Rise -- Really?
- I love the media! This piece from the AP notes the reason why the Dow is currently surging! It explains: The National Association of Realtors said [home] sales came in at 4.89 million last month, above the 4.84 million analysts had been expecting. Seems to make sense until...
- Blog posts 2009-07-23
- Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
- HB74 2004-065478 0-06-073132-X Freakonomics; a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything. Levitt, Steven D. and Stephen J. Dubner. William Morrow & Co., [c]2005 242 p. $25.95 Levitt (economics, U. of Chicago) and writing collaborator Dubner (a writer for the New...
- Research articles 2005-08-01
- Competitive Research- Freakonomics Style
- Yesterday the blog Freakonomics.com, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner authors of the wildly popular book of the same name, moved to a new home at the New York Times. Unless you've been living in a cardboard box in Siberia the last few years, you know that the...
- Blog posts 2007-08-08
- 10 Underrated Business Books
- They are hardly traditional, but by challenging conventional wisdom, these books explain the big ideas that are essential to business success. Economics ...
- Articles 2007-08-24
- NYTimes.com to Be Exclusive Host of Freakonomics Blog
- NEW YORK -- NYTimes.com today announced that it is now the exclusive host of the popular Freakonomics blog (www.nytimes.com/freakonomics), bringing best-selling Freakonomics authors Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt to the online Opinion section of The Times. Melissa Lafsky, previously of The Huffington Post, is the blog's newly appointed...
- Research articles 2007-08-08
- The Five Books You Need to Understand the Future of Global Investing
- I'm reading Mohamed El-Erian's guide to the future of global markets, "When Markets Collide." He has in it a few of the books he seems to have found most inspirational for his own well-regarded look at what's going on in world business. He cites "Freakonomics" by Steven...
- Blog posts 2008-10-28
- Turbulent Souls: A Catholic Son's Return to His Jewish Family. (book reviews)
- TURBULENT SOULS: A CATHOLIC SON'S RETURN TO HIS JEWISH FAMILY. By STEPHEN J. DUBNER. William Morrow. 288 pp. $24. The author is an editor at the New York Times Magazine and a couple of years ago wrote a much discussed article which he has expanded into ...
- Research articles 1998-11-01
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