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climate change
Deep Trouble: Ski Resorts Try to Cope With Less Snow – Now and in the Long Run
What does a winter resort do when winter barely arrives?
A Non-Profit Car Loan is Still a Car Loan
The New York Times Opinionator blog has a rather doting feature on More Than Wheels, a New Hampshire-based non-profit that sets people with bad credit up with low-interest car loans.
The freakonomists vs. the world
Stephen Dubner and Nathan Myhrvold have now both written retorts to the many critiques of the chapter on global warming in the new book Superfreakonomics (which is co-authored by Dubner and economist Steven Levitt and stars, in its global warming segments, inventor-dude Myhrvold). They’re both mainly responding to the lengthy critique …
New column (and video): From macro to freako
My column this week is about Steven Levitt, who together with his co-conspirator Stephen Dubner has a sequel to Freakonomics coming out next Tuesday. It’s called Superfreakonomics. We’ve also put together this lovely video:
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