The Biggest Thing About Freakonomics

Freakonomics opened up options outside of academics. I would have written an extra 50 academic papers that almost no one would care about but you liked doing that work. You collaborated a lot with people outside of economics which a lot of economists don't do so I actually think that your worldview was pretty interesting to start with. If we'd never met and Freakonomics didn't exist oh you probably have a Nobel Prize by now if it weren't for me well I don't know that. Now I'm stunned at how good they are It's interesting because I think it is a difference between being the writer and in some sense being a bird standing on the shoulder of the writer who's writing