Steve Levitt and Stephen Dubner have written Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything. I can't imagine who chose the title. It is unfortunate in a number of ways, not the least of which is that the title will serve as a pejorative term for those who profess economics. (Indeed, it has already been gleefully so used by one of my dear colleagues.) More than that Steve Levitt, if it is he who is referred to as a "rogue economist," is not a rogue. He is the most recent winner of the John Bates Clark Medal, awarded every two years since 1948 by the American Economics Association to the best economist under the age of 40.
The book will be available Tuesday, April 12, and can be pre-ordered from Amazon.com here. Happily for those of us who want more than the book, the authors have a blog, available here.
I'll write a short review in the next couple of weeks.
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