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Return of the Freakonomists

Geoff Riley

13th October 2009

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This week marks the publication of the second edition of Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner. SuperFreaknomics poses yet more questions and offers the usual challenging answers. But have the freakonomists overreached themselves? This review in the Independent suggests that there are limits to the usefulness of the Levitt approach. I will add more reviews to this blog post in the days and weeks ahead. But at least we now know that a prostitute is more likely to have sex with a police officer than to get officially arrested by one…ground-breaking economics.

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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