Is Bill Bellcheck Reading an Article About the New England Patriots?

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When an aic talks about their own work, they're writing a it's like the way they would crutique a newspaper summary of their nobell prize. In general, academics are not good communicators, because they believe in caviots. That's the essence of theor often what we do. And so if you leave that out in your summary of their work,. they're going, i don't know, that's not what i meant. Bcause ecause it's so much richer and deeper than that. I think thats thatpenome on. It's kind of different thin what? So you've done an amazing public service by bringing so many economists into the e four

Author and economist Steven Levitt is the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago and host of the podcast "People I (Mostly) Admire." He is best known as the co-author, with Stephen Dubner, of Freakonomics. The book, published in 2005, became a phenomenon, selling more than 5 million copies in 40 languages. Levitt talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the book's surprising success, the controversy it generated, and how it shaped his career. Levitt says, for him, "economics is about going into the world and finding puzzles and thinking about how understanding incentives or markets might help us get a better grasp of what's really going on."