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User: "maff"
Date: 13 May 2005 02:25:57 AM
Object: OT: Steven D. Levitt
Curiouser and curiouser
http://www.economist.com/books/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3960469
May 12th 2005

From The Economist print edition

Many economists don't care whether sumo wrestling is fixed, or whether
drug dealers prefer to live with their mothers. It is their loss
WHAT a shame about that title. "Freakonomics" is bound to dampen
the spirits of any intelligent reader, suggesting an airport-ready,
dumbed-down romp-the back cover would inevitably call it a
romp-through the bogus theories of some semi-literate phoney
economist. But that is not this book at all. Steven Levitt is no
"rogue economist", still less a phoney one; and his book, praise
be, does not try to explore "the hidden side of everything". Far
more intelligent, modest and orthodox than it pretends, the book is a
delight; it educates, surprises and amuses. It shows, in fact, what
plain old-fashioned economics can do in the hands of a boundlessly
curious and superbly skilled practitioner.
Freakanomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
By Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
William Morrow; 256 pages; $25.95. To be published in Britain by
Penguin/Allen Lane in July
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