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Re:Freakonomics: Yes, This Blog Is Leaving NYTimes.com by Isamu on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @03:58PM (#2117359)
Didn't anybody tell these guys that economics is boring? You can't sell many books about that. Or a DVD (available today).

Inspiring to me.

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Re:Freakonomics: Yes, This Blog Is Leaving NYTimes.com by mynameishere on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @04:23PM (#2117461)
They're really writing sociology for the most part.
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Re:Freakonomics: Yes, This Blog Is Leaving NYTimes.com by kingkilr on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @07:13PM (#2117995)
Isn't that the point of their book (and also books by guys like Steven Landsburg), what we call economics is really just sociology applied to buying and selling things.
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Re:Freakonomics: Yes, This Blog Is Leaving NYTimes.com by rhizome on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @07:20PM (#2118020)
You're right, there's a lot (if not the vast majority) of applied sociology that masquerades as philosophy and/or economics.
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