William Leith

Having a moral compass just gets in the way of being smart

A review of Think Like a Freak: How to Think Smarter About Almost Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. The authors of Freakonomics want to teach you to think less like the kind of people who read books

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issue 28 June 2014
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