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March 1, 2010
Super Freak, Super Freak...
It's hard to believe it's been so long since I read Freakonomics. The other day I grabbed the follow-up - suitably called SuperFreakonomics - as an ebook from kcls.
Why, in the name of all things right, did my high school insist on teaching macro economics (which is, generally speaking, utter bullshit) rather than micro economics? Seriously, if I had realized there was a whole discipline focused on the study of how people respond to incentives, I might not be writing software for a living.
Or, given the relative incentive structures in play, perhaps I would...
Anyway, the book is definitely worth a read. And if you haven't read it's predecessor, give that a whirl, too.
Posted by dberger at March 1, 2010 8:59 PM
Comments
We just had one of the university economicists give a talk here on Freakonomics. He was very skeptical of many of the author's wilder claims, asking whether the methodology was enough to prove the causality the author claimed.
Speaking of incentives, did you see the TED talk by Pink? http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html
Posted by: Dru Pagliassotti at March 2, 2010 12:28 PM