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delong.typepad.com - 10/23/2009
Levitt and Dubner Disarm Themselves in Their Battle of Wits with Joe Romm...
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Joe Romm writes: Error-riddled ‘Superfreakonomics’: New book pushes global cooling myths, sheer illogic, and “patent nonsense” — and the primary climatologist it relies on, Ken Caldeira, says “it is an inaccurate portrayal of me” and ...
angrybear.blogspot.com - 10/20/2009
More on Dubner and Levitt II
— angrybear.blogspot.com — It has long been a standard claim of economics—iirc, Robert Lucas was the first to say it... aloud, though it may have been Gary Becker*—that a man who marries his housekeeper lowers GDP. Apparently, Dubner and Levitt have taken this claim&along; with their Rick James title**—to ... (more) More on Dubner and Levitt II
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angrybear.blogspot.com - 10/18/2009
What Dubner and Levitt couldn't do in four years...
— angrybear.blogspot.com — Brad DeLong does in less than a weekend . He agrees with Robert: My personal favorite is... a giant parasol 18,000 miles in diameter at L1 to absorb and then reradiate a chunk of sunlight in other bands. but notes the reality as well: But I have never been able to find anyone here at Berkeley who ... (more) What Dubner and Levitt couldn't do in four years...

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Six Questions for Levitt and Dubner (More Superfreakonomics Blogging)
delong.typepad.com - 10/20/2009
Six Questions for Levitt and Dubner (More Superfreakonomics Blogging)
— delong.typepad.com — Aha. A friend has sent me a scan of what he calls the "particularly egregious" pages 186-7... of Steve Levitt's and Steve Dubner's Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance :  ... (more) Six Questions for Levitt and Dubner (More ...

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Opinionator — ... them, as to avoid any appearance of conflict of interest. If however, you want to catch up, one involved Rush Limbaugh ( him again ) and Times reporter Andrew C. Revkin (see here and here ); the other pitted Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner of my sister blog Freakonomics against enviro-blogger Joe Romm, the Union of Concerned Scientists and the economist J. Bradford DeLong (see here and here and here and here and here ).

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