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Law schools face increasing pressures to reduce the costs of legal education. While few people like to talk about it, tenure must be a key component of any cost assessment. In many law schools, salaries comprise a large portion of the annual budget. Tenu Full Article at ProfessorBainbridge.com
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The Saskatoon Integrated Drug Unit, involving city police and the RCMP, executed two search warrants in Mayfair on May 2 stemming from an investigation of a dial-a-dope operation, and arrested six men from Toronto and seized seven ounces of cocaine and c Full Article at Saskatoon Star-Phoenix
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Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner’s best-seller “Freakonomics” is one of my favorite gems. Here’s a great lesson they passed on about the effectiveness of incentives they learned by potty training. The contents of this site are protected under copyright b Full Article at BusinessPundit
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Tania Pilon had barely started hammering the For Sale By Owner sign into the front lawn when she caught the eye of a driver on his way home from work. One U-turn later, the two were amicably chatting about the man’s son, who was looking to enter the real Full Article at Canadian Business Online
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Dan McLaughlin’s dream is to play on the PGA Tour. Unlike a lot of golf’s dreamers, though, McLaughlin has only played regularly for two years, has never shot lower than 80 for 18 holes and has never played in an official tournament. Maybe he’s crazy, bu Full Article at Ottawa Citizen
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In the days after life started unraveling for Tiger Woods, it was hard to ever see the light. Hard to believe that he didn't alienate the masses. Hard to believe that he'd ever be marketable again. Seven months after the scandal that saw woman after woma Full Article at CNBC
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A kaleidoscope of responses to Dubner’s criticisms of our criticisms of Freaknomics
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social ScienceJonathan Cantor pointed me to a new blog post by Stephen Dubner in which he expresses disagreement with what Kaiser and I wrote in our American Scientist article, “Freakonomics: What Went Wrong?”. In response, I thought it would be interesting to go “met Full Article at Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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In their book, Freakonomics, Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner argue that economics is, at root, the study of incentives. American Public Media's new series, "Freakonomics," takes that argument and further explores how seemingly disparate things are actua Full Article at VPR | Vermont Public Radio
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Steven David "Steve" Levitt (born May 29, 1967) is a prominent American economist best known for his work on crime, in particular on the link between legalized abortion and crime rates. Winner of the 2003 John Bates Clark Medal, he is currently the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago,... Full Article At Wikipedia.org
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