Tag: If Books Could Kill

Looking forward to the “Outliers” episode (there will be one, right?)

This is classic economics-guy thing, where they act like the narratives that they map onto the data, are themselves just as infallible as the data…The idea that there is always something hidden, right, seems to be lurking here… Peter Shamshiri, “Freakonomics,” If Books Could Kill I’ve read enough college composition history to know that there is a long stretch of time in the academy where …