My attention was caught this morning by the opening lines of
Paul Seabright's review of the recent book FREAKONOMICS: A
ROGUE ECONOMIST EXPLORES THE HIDDEN SIDE OF EVERYTHING (by
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner), in the TIMES
LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (5 Augusut 2005):
"This book should be read at a single sitting: it is written
with great fluency and brio, and the real substance of the
earlier chapters will generate enough momentum to compensate
for the light weight of the book's second half. At its best,
it has the pace and the mock hard-boiled charm of a
collection of Hammett or Chandler detective stories. Steven
D. Levitt is an economist, not a gumshoe, but he looks out
from his office in Chicago with the same curious eye for a
puzzle, the same disinclination to believe the pious
self-descriptions of the ambitious and the greedy, that move
Philip Marlowe in Los Angeles."
Bill
-- William Denton : Toronto, Canada : www.miskatonic.org : www.frbr.org
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