Reviews of Freakonomics

One review, but three versions. (why 3?)

There are actually 3 versions (or maybe 2.5) of one review.

  1. I began with a review of Freakonomics (see below "Original Version"). This version had 3 parts:
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. A revised version of the original "Part 2" was published by the American Law and Economics Review
  5. A revised version of the original "Part 3" is appeared Journal of Economics Literature
  6. 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!