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Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
11 Apr 2005
Now Levitt and Dubner are out with a new book called Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Nearly Everything, an overview of Levitt's work and collaborations with other economists. ...
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Interesting gallery of Freakonomics book covers from
17 Mar 2008 by jason@kottke.org  
Interesting gallery of Freakonomics book covers from. Interesting gallery of Freakonomics book covers from around the world. I enjoyed the Turkish version -- "just put a hot chick on the cover" -- and the Penguin UK version. ...
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interesting gallery of freakonomics book covers from around the ...
17 Mar 2008 by jason@kottke.org  
interesting gallery of freakonomics book covers from around the world. i enjoyed the turkish version -- "just put a hot chick on the cover" -- and the penguin uk version. (link)
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stephen dubner and steven levitt (aka the freakonomics guys) on <a...
9 May 2007
stephen dubner and steven levitt (aka the freakonomics guys) on the first-world phenomenon of doing menial labor as a hobby. examples: knitting, cooking, gardening, lawn care. more on the freakonomics site. (link)
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Blog search still sucks (a little)
21 Dec 2005
The other 8 times, I either linked to a post on the Freakonomics blog that was unrelated to the book, had the entry tagged with "freakonomics" (tags are not yet exposed on my site and can't be crawled by search engines), ...
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Jessica Hagy
30 Oct 2007
JT: Your cards are a run-away hit on the blogosphere, including their regular feature in the Freakonomics blog: did it take a while to build up? What other opportunities have grown out of your blog? Are you a full-time 3x5-er now? ...
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Creating talent
11 May 2006
This would not be the first time (see http://www.freakonomics.com/blog/2006/03/09/malcolm-gladwell-on-the-freakonomics-paradox) these groups of authors have sparred with each other. I wonder if Gladwell and those two will ever see eye ...
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I don't read books anymore
6 Nov 2009 by Jason Kottke  
It's well-reviewed; the NY Times, WSJ, and the Freakonomics guys gave it favorable ratings. My son calls it his "pig book" for the porcine version of the Wall Street Bull on the dust jacket. Ritholtz blogs about economic and financial ...
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The new liberal arts
2 Feb 2009 by jason@kottke.org  
Graphic design, freakonomics, photography, programming, film, remixing, video games, food, advertising, internet life skills, journalism, fashion. The developing thread already contains many more interesting ideas than those, ...
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The Eliot Spitzer affair and the business of sex
13 Mar 2008 by jason@kottke.org  
On the Freakonomics blog, an interview with a "high-end call girl" named Allie about the Spitzer affair. Almost all of my clients are married. I would say easily over 90 percent. I'm not trying to justify this business, but these are ...
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nathan myhrvold in the north
24 Jul 2008 by jason@kottke.org  
nathan myhrvold, billionaire polymath, recently wrote a series of three posts for the freakonomics blog about his trips to iceland and greenland. i'd like to say that global warming was evident during my visit, but that is not really ...
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superfreakonomics
13 Jul 2009 by jason@kottke.org  
how do you follow up a kooky-titled bestseller like freakonomics? with a book called superfreakonomics. it's due out on october 20 and has a subtitle of "tales of altruism, terrorism, and poorly paid prostitutes". ...
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how to order food in a restaurant
18 May 2005
freakonomics by steven levitt and stephen j. dubner the key to ordering a good meal in a restaurant is understanding the economic incentives involved. ask the server what they recommend and order something else...they are probably ...
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the president and the economy
15 Jun 2009 by jason@kottke.org  
on the freakonomics blog, dmitri leybman tells us about the three main ways that the president's political party can have an impact on the economy. this tendency of republican presidents to preside over growth that occurs so close to ...
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2005 favorites
3 Jan 2006
freakonomics, steven levitt, stephen dubner. i read a ton of non-fiction but always enjoy the small amount of fiction i do read more. favorite weblogs. compare with last year's list. waxy. despite a year-end yahoo! slowdown/hangover, ...
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Why Does New York Perform So Many Abortions Per Person?
18 Jan 2008 by choire@choiresicha.com  
I think I read in "Freakonomics" that there are more abortions conducted in locations that have more involved parents in schools, even though that seems very counterintuitive. Either way, politics and abortion is so intermingled, ...
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Search correlations with StateStats
3 Dec 2008 by jason@kottke.org  
ramki • Dec 04 2008 • 4:07AM. This point is not something new, but has been repeatedly hammered at in the book 'Freakonomics' by Levitt and Dubner. This thread is closed to new comments. Thanks to everyone who responded. ...
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