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Levitt on the finer things in a celebrity economist’s life

There’s something extremly alluring about Steven Levitt–t
By Alec Brandon
July 26, 2006

There’s something extremly alluring about Steven Levitt–the brilliant economist whose research is what excites me about economics (here is a decent, but overdone bio of him)–writing a stream of conscience about his fame post-Freakonomics, his skill as a poker player, and his fear of breaking custom.

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