It still looks the same as the old one, but now you can download just about all of my papers if you click on the “Curriculum Vitae and Downloadable Papers” link.
So, if you want to see how much better the writing is in Freakonomics than in my academic papers, I encourage you to check out my new web page.
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Maybe Dubner should write a book with (or at least about) this guy. Definitely an interesting character, has a few crazy ideas, undeniably a rogue.
Thanks. I’ll definitely be taking a look
in case you need more proof that the stevens love to toot each other’s horns.
we know that each steve thinks the other is the most brilliant, exciting person he’s ever met.
Why do you think it is interesting for us to be reminded that each steve thinks the other is the cat’s meow? Do you really not see how narcissistic and homoerotic (not to mention boring) you sound (steve luvs steve!)?
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Can’t you see that I was just trying to tell people I had a new home page while knocking myself down a few pegs?
If you don’t like our tone, why do you visit?
Steve Levitt
Levitt: Can’t you see that I was just trying to tell people I had a new home page while knocking myself down a few pegs?
Frisch: I find your constant, pseudo-self-deprecation to be tiresome and juvenile. Like your shtick about being the dumbest guy in the room when you were with a bunch of fauxbel prize winners.
You note that you are not as smart as a nobel prize winner. You call attention to the fact that you are not as good a writer as a journalist for the New York Times. To you, this is self-deprecating.
But of course, the subtext is that you are a Master John Bates Clark Medal winner, and New York Times Best Seller List author. And saying “I’m not as great as the upper echelon” isn’t self-deprecating in most people’s book. A boxer who says “I am DEFINITELY not as good as Mohammed Ali” is not humble. You do understand that, don’t you Steve?
Your incessant self-deprecation is really a scantily clad form of narcissistic egotistical self-aggrandizement. It’s a PHONY self-deprecation.
Also, I think your research is lame. You relentlessly pursue inanely trivial topics (poker, baseball, sumu wrestling). When you stumble across a real topic (abortion), you pathologically reject the obvious policy implications of it.
Your refusal to acknowledge that your results are pro-liberal shows that you are either a republican or a wimp. I’ve heard from a mutual acquaintance (an mba student at chicago) that you are not a republican so i deduce that you’re a wimp. (Personally, I don’t think your data are ammo for the pro-choice crowd. I don’t think you showed that legalization of abortion CAUSES a decrease in crime, but that’s another story.)
It seems like your goal in life is to titilate adolescent boys and men whose interests are similar to theirs rather than shed light on issues of societal importance.
Levitt: If you don’t like our tone, why do you visit?
Frisch: Good question. I’ll think about it and get back to you.
Deborah Frisch, Ph.D.
http://www.debfrisch.com
Does anyone else here think like I do that Frisch is a tired old shrink who can’t shut up but should?
Obviously Deborah Frisch don’t see eye-to-eye on some things. But, I give her credit for signing her post. There is so much anonymous flamethrowing that goes on here, it is refreshing to see real names attached.
I also like her answer to my question about why if I’m so lame and inane she keeps coming back. It’s an honest answer. I hope that she will think about it and get back to us, because I am curious.
Her blog that she mentioned was quite interesting and worth a read. (Although I can see why, given the other people she doesn’t like, she wouldn’t like my research either.)
Steve Levitt
Levitt, you are being way too nice to Frisch. She IS the Anonymous flamethrower on this site. She has nothing to say but fourth-grade taunts.