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Freakonomics 2.0
1. Dubner describes the forthcoming revised edition of the book.
2. Commentary on the recent and apparently pro-market Swedish elections.
3. The World Chess championship match starts Saturday in Kalmykia, Europe's only Buddhist republic. Here is one very good analysis of the players.
4. Hal Varian on the county-specific theory of American income inequality; the high-tech boom seems to play a big role.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on September 21, 2006 at 12:23 PM in Books | Permalink
Comments
On the Hal Varian article. When Jane Galt said she was going to do a series on income inequality I suggest one of the series address the question if rising income inequaltiy was an inherent part of the creative destruction process of new industries emerging.
Of course she hasn't done the series yet but I still think it is a good research question.
Posted by: spencer at Sep 21, 2006 5:45:27 PM
I wonder if the underhanded attack (his work can't be "replicated") on John Lott's gun-control studies has been removed or (underhandedly) modified? This is the matter, of course, that Lott is suing Levitt about. I won't be buying a copy to check. Freakonomics is a much more apt title than the authors intended it to be.
Posted by: N. Joseph Potts at Sep 21, 2006 6:45:03 PM
I mean, seriously.
Posted by: Mary Rosh at Sep 22, 2006 5:58:14 AM
Hal Varian article: I would like to see the the data extended past 2000. Galbraith and Hale were interested in showing the effect of the bubble in the stock market on income inequality so they stopped when the bubble broke. I wonder if there was any echo when the economy recovered in 2003.
Posted by: joan at Sep 22, 2006 7:31:02 AM
It's a bit misleading to call Kalmykia a "republic". It has that name, but it's just another part of Russia, much like the "Jewish autonomous Republic" in siberia, but we'd not say that's the second Jewish republic, or that Alabama is one of the few explicitly Christian States in the world.
Posted by: Matt at Sep 22, 2006 11:24:09 AM
Interesting article on chess and Kalmykia from the New Yorker:
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060424fa_fact4
Posted by: Andrew at Sep 22, 2006 12:26:13 PM
Live coverage of the World Chess Championship
begins at 11:30 GMT (7:30am EDT) Tuesday,
September 23, 2006 on Chess Live Radio.
http://www.chess-live-radio.com/
Posted by: wgd at Sep 22, 2006 10:25:26 PM
