Reviews of Freakonomics
One review, but three versions. (why 3?)
There are actually 3 versions (or maybe 2.5) of one review.
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I began with a review of Freakonomics (see below "Original
Version"). This version had 3 parts:
- "Part 1" discussed the aims
of "scientific popularization".
- "Part 2" discussed the limitations
of Freakonomics as account of the actual research.
- "Part 3"
discussed the more general question of "what makes for an
interesting question in Freakonomics."
- The web-site of "No Apparent Motive" (a.k.a. John Schmitt an economist at the Center For Economic Policy
and Research ) was kind enough to host a "bootleg" copy of the
original first draft.
- At some point after that "Original
Version" it was decided that it would be better to divide the
review into two parts and published in two different venues.
- A revised version of the original "Part 2" was
published by the American Law and Economics Review
- A revised version of the original "Part 3" is
appeared Journal of Economics Literature
- The original "Part 1" on the aims of popularization will
apparently never find a home but lives on "virtually" in the
first part of the "Original Version."
Thanks to the American Law and Economics Review and
the Journal of Economic Literature for agreeing to publish
some of it!