Freakonomics

• “Unfortunately this post, much like the associated chapter in Freakonomics is inherently flawed.”

  Does Campaign Spending Matter? Ask Mitt Romney - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com

• “What I am curious to learn, especially after reading about the financial situation and foresight of the majority of gang members in Freakonomics, is how Shine, Orlando, Tony-T and all those others feel about improving their lives; i.e. what is or would be, to them, the single most important thing to improve their chances on a safer, healthier and more prosperous life?”

  What Do Real Thugs Think of The Wire? Part Nine - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com

• “Yup, because serious policy wonks know that Freakonomics is a credible work of policy and analysis.”

  Matthew Yglesias » World Gone Mad

• “I thought that a lot of the questions asked in Freakonomics were not terribly interesting to me as an economist.”

  Defending Freakonomics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

• “Personally, I find Levitt's section in Freakonomics on the effect of campaign financing convincing.”

  A Confession: What I Was Thinking the Morning of November 3, 2004, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

• “The new documentary based on Freakonomics is a very clever, entertaining, seemingly random, fact-loaded commentary on the workings of our world.”

  The Huffington Post: Regina Weinreich: Dream Team Documentarians Make Freakonomics

• “El Bruce, sounds kind of like a chapter in Freakonomics which compared drug dealers to WalMart employees.”

  Think Progress » Coburn: Blocking Unemployment Benefits Is Fine Because It Only Affects A ‘Small Amount Of People’

• “As anthology films go, Freakonomics is an entertaining - if occasionally scattershot - documentary.”

  The Huffington Post: Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Freakonomics

• “Q: The “cheating teacher” analysis in Freakonomics was an elegant piece of work.”

  The Freakonomics Q&A: Part One - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com

• “Every teenager needing a little S.A.T. score boost would make a trip to the bookstore and see that Freakonomics is 207 pages long and Crime and Punishment is over 700 pages.”

  What Do Lolita and Freakonomics Have in Common? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com

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