Steven Levitt isn’t like other economists. At least, that’s what he wants you to think. The 57-year-old finished his doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1994 and burst into the ...

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Steven D. Levitt, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago and co-author of the best-selling book Freakonomics, was accused of defamation on Monday in a federal lawsuit filed by John R.

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. Steven Levitt, the University of Chicago professor whose ...

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When John R. Lott Jr. filed a defamation lawsuit against his fellow economist Steven D. Levitt last year, he charged that in the best-selling book Freakonomics and elsewhere, Mr. Levitt had damaged Mr ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Steven D. Levitt is a Professor for Economics in the University of Chicago with two videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2005 Speech. Steven Levitt ...

Not long after Freakonomics came out, Steven Levitt and I had a public debate at a salon in downtown Manhattan. The subject was crime. In my book The Tipping Point, I had argued that the cluster of ...