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John DiNardo’s 3(!) reviews of Freakonomics (1, 2, 3). I agree with most of the points DiNardo makes, though I must say that I never thought Freakonomics was meant as a ‘popularization’ book, to start with. I also think Tyler Cowen is right in saying that 3 reviews of the same work, by the same author, look somewhat… odd (though I do not agree with Cowen that DiNardo’s reviews are “unfair”: if this is unfair, what to think of Rubinstein’s or Rust‘s criticisms to Freakonomics :-))?
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On Sovereign Wealth Funds: Summers not shy at all at Davos; Gary Becker and Richard Posner also had some previous critical posts on SWFs.
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Bandiera, Barankay and Rasul received the IZA Young Labor Economist Award for 2007 for their very nice paper “Social Preferences and the Response to Incentives: Evidence from Personnel Data”
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Now, this is one way to raise public awareness concerning tax competition! And hey, Romania is one of the good fellows here (OECD is THE villain :-)). Read also Posner and respectively Becker on international tax burdens. And let’s not forget Landsburg’s interesting analysis on the desirability of a sales tax replacing the income tax. HT to Greg Mankiw for some of the links in this paragraph.
