Stephen J. Dubner

...(and maybe yachting). He'll be followed by economist Steven Levitt and co-author Stephen Dubner, whose freakonomics solution to global warming, involving helium balloons and a garden hose, has set the likes of Paul Krugman's hair on fire.

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...et al, countering the arguments just meant dusting off old rebuttals. Or to put it another way, Levitt and Dubner erred in choosing a subject that was actually important. As Paul Krugman puts it: This is a serious issue. We're not talking...

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...are fighting words, of course. Mr. Krugman, in a particularly unguarded, nasty moment, writes that "Dubner and Levitt are in the process of finding out" what happens when you annoy liberal environmentalists. Former Clinton Treasury...

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...most notably Paul Krugman, the Nobel prize-winning darling of the American Left. "Levitt and Dubner have fallen into the trap of counterintuitiveness," he writes. "If you're going to get into issues that are both important and the subject of...

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...show include Paul Krugman, who has a very different view of stimulus than I have. Stephen J. Dubner is an author and journalist who lives in New York City. Steven D. Levitt is a professor of economics at the University of Chicago. Their...

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...Source of Misinformation Next, Dubner wrote a lengthy post on his New York Times blog defending his quotations and attacking Joe Romm--but he failed to defend a single one of his books' untruthful proclamations. I, of course, haven't read...

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...are Paul Krugman, Brad DeLong , and The Guardian.. In response, Levitt and Dubner have stated on their Freakonomics blog that global warming is man-made and an important issue. Joseph Romm said that Superfreakonomics had seriously...

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...large scale side effects. And Levitt and Dubner seem to have jumped to conclusions to justify the solution they prefer--and Paul Krugman says they even got the economics wrong while doing so. Also, by naming their chapter 'Global...

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