Stephen J. Dubner

...ahead with the change, presumably now generating a Pareto improvement for my class. Freak Week continues on WNYC's The Takeaway, as Dubner returns to talk about altruism. Elsewhere, The Onion's A.V. Club features an interview with Levitt...

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If you missed Levitt and Dubner on their U.K. SuperFreakonomics tour, a podcast of their lecture at the London School of Economics is now online. So are their interviews with Reuters TV, Channel 4, and Telegraph TV, as is the BBC's piece on...

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In the latest of many fawning interviews promoting SuperFreakonomics, author Stephen J. Dubner claimed the critics of his "global cooling" chapter have issued a "fatwa for entertaining alternate theories. " On Public Radio International's...

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...Report has an interesting take on SuperFreakonomics's chapter on prostitution, and City A.M. has a profile of Dubner. Stephen J. Dubner is an author and journalist who lives in New York City. Steven D. Levitt is a professor of...

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..."I'm going in a plane," he said. "Any cloud that crosses me, I'll zap it so that it rains. " It's Freak Week on WNYC's The Takeaway, as Dubner joins hosts John Hockenberry and Celeste Headlee every morning this week. The first appearance is...

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"A sinister cabal of superior writers." Book Review: Superfreakonomics, by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner Did I sleep write this book or something? I had heard about both Superfreakonomics and it's prequel, Freakonomics; their...

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...Chicago economics professor Steven Levitt poses with his book, "Freakonomics," the book that spawned another book with co-author Stephen J. Dubner , SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy...

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Levitt and Dubner are scheduled to appear on the Charlie Rose show tonight, talking about the importance of applying economics to "trivial" subjects; how Levitt learned to stop fearing death; and about SuperFreakonomics in general. The show...

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...the gap. "The HCZ model demonstrates," the authors conclude, "that the right cocktail of investments can be successful. " Levitt and Dubner gave a joint lecture a the RSA in London on Nov. 10. While in the UK, Dubner appeared on Channel...

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