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Dates: during 2000-2009
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For the past couple of years, though, economics hasn't been fun. It's been scary. The quirky topics in which Levitt specializes have been pushed aside by the big questions of how to halt a financial crisis and fix an ailing global economy. Macroeconomics has overwhelmed microeconomics. Not that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is the World Ready for Freakonomics Again? | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

Such “evidenced-based” training has been a boon for medical care in a technical sense. But Samuels and colleagues like Medical School associate professor Katharine K. Treadway, who teaches a class at the Medical School called “Introduction to the Profession,?...

Author: By Alissa M D'gama, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Putting the Patient Back Into Medicine | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

“The innumeracy of Americans really makes this possible,” Ian says about his poker profession. The “over-inflated self-esteem” of the country, combined with the seeming “disdain for math,” has made the environment...

Author: By Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Playing for Keeps | 10/22/2009 | See Source »

But as a society, as you've pointed out, we're not very good at making these predictions. We use measurements like IQ or the SAT or the Wonderlic test, and we're unable to determine if a budding lawyer or a budding quarterback is going to be any good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Author Malcolm Gladwell | 10/20/2009 | See Source »

What do you think of bloggers? Everyone with a laptop thinks they're a journalist. Everyone with a cell phone thinks they're a photographer. So our profession is sidelined in a way. There's no turning back. It's frightening because you can ruin lives and reputations willy-nilly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: White House Legend Helen Thomas | 10/15/2009 | See Source »

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