Steven Levitt

...Freak Week on WNYC's The Takeaway with a segment about how football helmets could be making player injuries worse. Meanwhile, a video from Levitt and Dubner's talk at the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce...

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...Board's recommended height for using adult seat belts. Not everyone believes that child car seats are safer than regular seat belts. Steven Levitt, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago and a coauthor of "Freakonomics," has...

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...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 economics at the University of Chicago. Their book Freakonomics has sold 4 million...

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The Business: The Superfreakonomics of climate change Self-styled 'rogue economist' Steven Levitt talks to us about the controversial theories he puts forward in his new book Superfreakonomics. Plus, UCLA's professor of urban planning...

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by Gregg LaGambina November 18, 2009 University Of Chicago professor Steven D. Levitt is probably the only economist who can also lay claim to being a genuine worldwide pop-culture phenomenon. His book Freakonomics (written in...

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Steven Levitt, the economist and co-author of SuperFreakonomics, explains to Robert Miller why spraying sulphur dioxide into the stratosphere to diminish solar radiation makes economic and environmental sense. Published: 5:42PM GMT 17 Nov...

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...who live with their mothers. The results, predictably, were surprising. University of Chicago economics professor Steven Levitt poses with his book, "Freakonomics," the book that spawned another book with co-author Stephen J. Dubner ,...

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...still claims a place on the 'economics' shelf." 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 book Freakonomics has sold 4...

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Steven Levitt, the economist and co-author of SuperFreakonomics tells Robert Miller why the study of global cooling, patriotic prostitutes and drug dealers can make for better economic policy. Published: 5:12PM GMT 12 Nov 2009 Mr Levitt...

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...the segment will be posted to the Charlie Rose website, where it will be available for streaming. What do E. O. Wilson and Steven Levitt have in common? What has sumo wrestling got to do with terrorism? Find out Nov. 11, as Charlie Rose...

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