In a message dated 8/4/03 9:41:08 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The article discusses Levitt's research style: his tendency to ask odd
but
interesting questions and be clever enough to be able to test the
hypotheses with publically available data. It also has some discussions
of
his career path
I couldn't access the article. Could anyone either copy and paste it to me
(privately so as not to distrub others) or perhaps just give me a briefy
summary? Thank you.
David Levenstam
The article discusses Levitt's research style: his tendency to ask odd but
interesting questions and be
Along those lines, the following is a Paul Krugman article, which quite
humorously recaps a similar media event about a wunderkind economist --
probably a story only economists would find funny.
http://www.pkarchive.org/cranks/legend.html
At 09:51 PM 8/4/2003 -0500, you wrote:
The article
The article discusses Levitt's research style: his tendency to ask
odd but interesting questions and be clever enough to be able to
test the hypotheses with publically available data. It also has some
discussions of his career path and a little about his personal life.
Fabio
Thanks,
Here it is. Fabio, we expect better work from you next time! :-)
Alex
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/03/magazine/03LEVITT.html?pagewanted=printposition=
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George Mason University
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From: Alex Tabarrok [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 2:34 PM
Subject: Re: Levitt article
Here it is. Fabio, we expect better work from you next time! :-)
Alex
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/03/magazine/03LEVITT.html?pagewanted=printposition
What I found interesting is that in economics, like in many other fields,
there are problem solvers (people who figure out specific paradoxes,
empirical facts, etc) and theory builders. Levitt is a supremely
able problem solver, a niche that didn't exist 30-40 years ago in the
economics
In an earlier message, William Sjostrom suggested that Levitt's research
is typical of the economics field. I am very curious about this statement,
because it is at odds with my casual empiricism, and I would like to see
it backed by some concrete evidence. Perhaps this reflects my own
ignorance
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From: Dimitriy V. Masterov [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 3:52 PM
Subject: Re: Levitt article
In an earlier message, William Sjostrom suggested that Levitt's research
is typical of the economics field. I am very curious about this statement,
because
In an earlier message, William Sjostrom suggested that Levitt's research
is typical of the economics field. I am very curious about this statement,
because it is at odds with my casual empiricism, and I would like to see
it backed by some concrete evidence. Perhaps this reflects my own
and on (including work by ICES colleagues)... On balance I would argue that
Levitt is indeed unusually clever (in the sense that he comes up with good
questions and also finds interesting natural manipulations to study them),
but that his particular approach to economic science is not novel:
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