Thursday, March 09, 2006

Freakonomics vs. Blink

Malcom Gladwell (author of “Blink”) posted a response to "Freakonomics" on his blog today, particularly why “the advent of the Pill in the 1960's didn’t cause the same reduction in crime eighteen years later. In fact, that generation saw a massive increase in crime.”

Of course, now I feel like I have to read Gladwell’s "The Tipping Point." Part of me thinks these authors are cross-marketing their not-so-different audiences just trying to sell more books. True or not, it’s working on me!

What’s even stranger is that I found out about this posting on Steven Johnson’s blog, author of “Everything Bad For You is Good.” And the circle continues…

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