Talk:Steven Levitt

message: Someone erased the footnotes section!!  Put it back.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by TCO (talk • contribs) 15:56, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Footnotes?? 

message: I made a revision in the content of this section. The original article was confusing and misleading; for example, there was no way that an uninformed reader could know that the "two Fed economists" were Foote and Goetz themselves. Also, it contained some erroneous word choices, such as using "showed" instead of "argued". Finally, the original article contained a couple of sentences with broken grammar and some ambiguous, unspecific wordings ("regression was done"), which seem to be in part due to lack of knowledge. I changed it so that now the article uses more specific, correct terms. Hychu 18:01, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime 

message: It seems that this "material" is spread over a bunch of different sections. Can this be "cleaned up" under one section, ect? TIA --Tom 14:04, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Abortion "material"

message: The quote ""I just don't know very much about the field of economics. I'm not good at math, I don't know a lot of econometrics, and I also don't know how to do theory.""
sourced to Stephen J. Dubner, "The Probability That a Real-Estate Agent Is Cheating You (and Other Riddles of Modern Life)", The New York Times, 3 Aug 2003,
was removed 08:02 24 Dec 2010 by LyingLikeAMumRa with the comment (Removed incorrectly attributed quotation - )
Source for the quote is Levitt's co-author Dubner who says "he says".
Quote Dubner: "But if you were to ask Levitt his opinion of some standard economic matter, he would probably swipe the hair from his eyes and plead ignorance. "I gave up a long time ago pretending that I knew stuff I didn't know," he says. "I mean, I just -- I just don't know very much about the field of economics. I'm not good at math, I don't know a lot of econometrics, and I also don't know how to do theory. If you ask me about whether the stock market's going to go up or down, if you ask me whether the economy's going to grow or shrink, if you ask me whether deflation's good or bad, if you ask me about taxes -- I mean, it would be total fakery if I said I knew anything about any of those things." " http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C01EFD61E3FF930A3575BC0A9659C8B63
Now, either Levitt's Freakonomics co-author Stephen Dubner is misrepresenting what "he says" or the quote is 
correctly attributed. Naaman Brown (talk) 18:00, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  ♪ ♫ don't know much about...... 

message: *CV on his website: "Editor, Journal of Political Economy (August 1999-present)"
*index to volume 115 (2007), still listed 
*index to Volume 116 (2008), no longer listed Knopffabrik (talk) 00:18, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  How come his online CV still says he is co-editor of the ''[[Journal of Political Economy]]'' although the journal does not list him since December 2007? 

message: I notice the quote sectiom was removed, citing WP:Quotefarm. However, one of the notable products of Levitt and Dubner "Freakonomics" has been the prolifieration of quotes attributed to Levitt. I'll park the text and cited sources in Talk for now. Question I have, does the widespread quoting of "Freakonomics" in one-liners or sound bites justify a quotes section in the Levitt article? -- Naaman Brown (talk) 14:14, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quote farm 

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message: @Spintendo added the Third Party template in June and it seems like it applies to the entire "Work" section. This page reads like an advert for Freakonomics more than a biography of an individual. I think we need to get rid of basically all the summaries of papers published by Levitt unless there was some media coverage of it, or unless it was part of a particularly notable academic dispute between Levitt and someone else. I realise that this means jettisoning the majority of this page, which is why I've opened this talk page section, so if anyone comes across my edits and thinks I'm on the wrong track and wants me to pull back, let me know. Samuelshraga (talk) 11:14, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Replacing "Work" Section