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J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles: Levitt and Dubner Disarm Themselves in Their Battle of Wits with Joe Romm...
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PKrugman: How did Superfreakonomists get it so wrong? http://bit.ly/3pj2qc http://bit.ly/zqKej http://bit.ly/41o3bt http://bit.ly/2u8tQZ 21 days ago |
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@santini73 Did you catch this? http://tinyurl.com/yjes59s 10/22/2009 |
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Must attend Superfreakanomic lecture @ LSE now, RT @friendsofdave: Paul Krugman-- A counterintuitive train wreck. http://tinyurl.com/yjes59s 10/16/2009 |
Levitt and Dubner Disarm Themselves in Their Battle of Wits with Joe Romm...
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles —
... A counterintuitive train wreck - Paul Krugman Blog: Uh oh. I trust Joe Romm on climate — and his verdict on Superfreakonomics is pretty damning. I’ll get to work on the book myself, but it doesn’t look good. ...
links for 2009-10-16
Economist's View —
... Don’t give up on quantitative easing: We can have our cake and eat it too - Roger Farmer
A counterintuitive train wreck - Paul Krugman ...
"Superfreakonomics on Climate"
Economist's View —
... Denial Are Greatly Exaggerated, by
Steven D. Levitt: SuperFreakonomics isn’t even
on sale yet, and the attacks on our chapter about global warming are already
underway.
A prominent environmental blogger has
attacked us. A well-known
environmental-advocacy group pressured NPR into reading a statement critical
of the book at the end of an interview I had given on Scott Simon’s
Weekend
Edition show. Even
Paul Krugman and
Brad DeLong got in on the action before they’d even read the ...
The Importance of Being Earnest: How Superfreakonomics killed contrarianism
Crooked Timber —
... the fuss over the global cooling chapter in Levitt and Dubner’s new book is the first occasion, I think, where the refutation of specific errors has taken a back seat (partly because, in this case, it’s so easy) to an attack on contrarianism, as such. The general point is that contrarianism is a cheap way of allowing ideological hacks to think of themselves as fearless, independent thinkers, while never thinking (in fact reinforcing) the status quo. Here’s Krugman and ...
Why Levitt and Dubner like geo-engineering and why they are wrong
RealClimate —
... chapter for yourself here (via Brad DeLong). However, instead of simply listing errors already found by others, I’ll focus on why this chapter was possibly written in the first place. (For some background on geo-engineering, read our previous pieces: Climate Change methadone? and Geo-engineering in vogue, Also the Atlantic Monthly “Re-Engineering the Earth” article had a lot of quotes from our own Raypierre).
Paul Krugman probably has the main issue right:
…it looks like is that ...
