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Ogden distinguished service professor of economics at the university of chicago as well as the faculty. As of fall 2009, it had sold over 4 million copies worldwide. Levitt, an awardwinning professor of economics at the university of chicago, and stephen j. This book is a new york times bestseller and nominated as distinguished book for that year.
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Levitt, a heralded young economist at the university of chicago. It was published on april 12, 2005, by william morrow. Stephen dubner, the host of freakonomics radio, and angela duckworth, the psychologist and author of grit, explore the weird and wonderful ways in which humans behave. Thus the new field of study contained in this book. Steven david levitt born may 29, 1967 is an american economist and coauthor of the bestselling book freakonomics and its sequels along with stephen j. Upon meeting levitt, dubner extended the twohour interview to three days.
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