There is going to be a U.S. paperback edition of Freakonomics someday, and when there is, the publisher wishes to include a Q&A with the authors.
Such Q&A’s have great potential but often fail because of the canned and bland questions fed to the authors by the publishers — or, worse, fawning questions invented by the authors themselves.
So let’s put an end to that!
In the comments below, please pose some questions that you would like to see answered in the paperback Q&A. They can concern anything you’d like: material in the book, modes of collaboration, the price of tea in China, material in the upcoming SuperFreakonomics, etc. We will probably use 8 or 10 or 15, but the more we have to choose from, the better off we’ll be.
Thanks!
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Which of the following do you view as your strongest competitor? Your weakest competitor?
Thomas Friedman, Michael Lewis, Malcolm Gladwell
Comments on this site over time seem to be skewed with an anti-union point of view. Why?
The thing I like best about “Freakonomics” is that on controversial topics it presents data and shows how conclusions were drawn from it, requiring anyone who would dispute your data to bring their own to the table and anyone who would dispute your conclusions to present a contrary reading of your data. This approach takes the political correctness and ignorant opinion out of topics, which is very refreshing.
My question, then, is this: what conflicting data and alternate readings of your data have you found most compelling, why, and how would you change your own conclusions as a result?
Tell us about the types of criticisms that you have received from your traditional/academic economics colleagues over your Freakonomics work. And how have you respnonded to such criticisms?
What types of unintended consequences have you seen arise from your Freakonomics work?
Why do you think that the US Mint is still producing pennies if the cost of physically producing a penny is much greater than the value of the resulting penny?
It seems that the traditional model for writing and publishing books is outdated, as the Internet should continue to force certain business models to adapt. When’s the expiration date for traditional book publishers?
Since Freakanomics was first published, has additional research been done that refutes any claims in the book? if so, which claims and what does the research disclose?
This is guaranteed not to make the list fo questions. I don’t see the publisher wanting to state pout front that the book is wrong.