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		barry-cotter on Feb 26, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What I've Learned from Hacker News I love Freakonomics, it's a large part of the reason I'm studying economics but that chapter is a catastrophic pile of wrong. Two articles picking it to pieces http://www.bos.frb.org/economic/wp/wp2005/wp0515.pdf http://islandia.law.yale.edu/donohue/Joyce%20%282004%29.pdf)

albertcardona on Feb 26, 2009 [–]

Interesting, had no idea their point had been put to such a scrutiny. Thanks for the very interesting links.

bodhi on Feb 27, 2009 | [–]

I was interested as well, I discovered this:

http://www.law.yale.edu/documents/pdf/Faculty/Donohue_Measur...

Down the rabbit-hole we go!

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