Steven Levitt

Missing the SuperFreaking Point (and Ignoring the Business Case for Green)

Andrew Winston | Posted 10.28.2009 | Green

Read More: National Academy of Sciences, Eric Pooley, Superfreakonomics, Geoengineering, Union of Concerned Scientists, Carbon Emissions, Joe Romm, Steven Levitt, Robert Kennedy Jr, Climate Change, Stephen Dubner, Paul Krugman, Green News
Andrew Winston

The authors of SuperFreakonomics fail to mention that the process of shifting to a low-carbon economy has enormous upsides completely aside from the benefits to climate balance.

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No Boom In Black Teen Homicides: Freakonomics Author

Chicago Sun-Times | Frank Main | Posted 01.31.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Freakonomics, Black on Black Murders, Murdered African Americans, Black Teen Murder Rate, Black on Black Crime, Crime, Black on Black Homicides, Steven Levitt, James Alan Fox, Black Murder Rate, Chicago News

Freakonomics author Steven Levitt dismissed a new study that points to a sharp rise in homicides by black teens in recent years. The study's author, ...

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Jason Linkins

Freakonomics' Levitt Praises Obama Education Choice

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Steven Levitt, Freakonomics, Arne Duncan, Barack Obama, Politics News

Steven Levitt, author of Freakonomics, offers Arne Duncan, President-Elect Barack Obama's pick for Secretary of Education, his endorsement this mornin...

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Freakonomics: Interracial Sex Makes Us More Beautiful

Twanna A. Hines | Posted 09.19.2008 | Style

Read More: Mixed Race, Freakonomics, Sex, Dating, Steven Levitt, Race, Interracial Marriage, Interracial Sex, Style News
Twanna A. Hines

I was raised to be a strong black woman who stuck it to The Man, but I've spent the past decade sticking it with him. Several of them.

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