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...Levitt??s speech elicited diverse reactions from the audience. Diego Ibarra, a Ph.D. student at the Graduate School of Design, said he thought Levitt??s solutions for climate change presented moral problems because, he said, they would increase carbon emissions, which are the root cause of climate change...
...Steven Levitt??s “Freakonomics,” which tells about the application of economic studies to real life problems, found success with critics and the bestsellers list. Or consider the wild popularity of the Malcolm Gladwell books “The Tipping Point” and “Blink...
...Dinner discussions were a lot I think like his classrooms in that he loved to debate issues, argue about issues of the day,” said Professor Levitt??s son, Peter Levitt. “His interests really went across the gamut...
...donation was a helpful boost to buy all the food needed for Saturday’s event. “We’re so appreciative of what they’ve done,” she said. When members of the fraternity showed up at Levitt??s office on Thursday with their check, “I must have run around the office telling everyone about it,” she recalled. Levitt said most funds for the Thankgiving Project came from individual donors who support United Way’s annual campaign. Sigma...
...Levitt??s most famous papers—on the link between legalized abortion and crime reduction—generated a torrent of indignant criticism that perhaps Summers would be familiar with. In the early 1980s, crime rates reached an all time high—and then dramatically dropped. One explanation for the drop, argues Levitt, is that the legalization of abortion in the 1970s kept a whole generation of unwanted babies from being born—babies who could have grown into a generation of street criminals 15 to 20 years later. Sounds like a pretty edgy hypothesis...