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Economics Freak

Monday, October 24, 2005

Stephen J. Dubner, writer for The New York Times and The New Yorker, and author, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores The Hidden Side of Everything (William Morrow, 2005)
- on the quirky economic explanations for a range of current trends and issues.

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Phil

Last year's Economics Nobel Laureate, Paul Krugman's highly negative opinion of Stephen J. Dubner's book:
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/16/a-counterintuitive-train-wreck/

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/17/superfreakonomics-on-climate-part-1/

Your donations at work.
Note that during the Bush Administration Lehrer frequently had Libertarian think tank guests making nonsensical opinions such as those of Mr. Dubner's.

Interestingly he has become slightly more rigorous and responsible when the political winds changed.
Let's see how Lehrer handles this guest.

Oct. 18 2009 07:11 PM
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