Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Blogs are Why I Don't Need to Write Book Reviews So Often
by Ken Houghton
So instead of the hundreds of words I would have had to write, I can write four: What Felix Salmon Said.
For his full-length piece, see here.
Felix Salmon posts a capsule description of Freakonomics:
[I]t's a largely substance-free hagiography of a highly respected Chicago economist, padded out with vast amounts of unreadable data, and liberally sprinkled with disingenuous and hidden agendas.
So instead of the hundreds of words I would have had to write, I can write four: What Felix Salmon Said.
For his full-length piece, see here.
Labels: cult of personality, Economics
