The Economics of Book Publishing
Much as I admire Steven Levitt, I hated his meretricious book, Freakonomics, and I've made a conscious decision not to put the Freakonomics blog in my blogroll. The huge success of the book, however, has meant that a lot of other social scientists have tried to replicate its success by using pseudo-provocative headings such as "What Bill Gates and Paul McCartney have in common with criminals".
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