Everyone is all mad at Seven Levitt and Stephen Dubner for including a hilariously wrong chapter on climate change in the sequel to their famous book Freakonomics , but some of us have been on the hating-those-dudes train forever. Steven Levitt is probably a Very Good Economist, but he has proven again and again and again that this Using Economics To Explain The World thing is utter bullshit. And he and Dubner invented this pop-econ trend that is the most annoying application of make-believe science since pop-psychology.
Originally posted here:
Freakonomics Has Always Been Dumb
